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by mayd 2y ago
"Hundreds of delivery riders injured as food app boom creates 'deadly cocktail'" https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/hundreds-of-deli...
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"I have no spoon." Correct in a situation where exactly one spoon is expected. "There are no spoons here." Correct in a situation where there could be zero, one or more spoons.
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by mayd 2y ago
The obvious answer is: because zero is not one. Singular means one. Plural means not one.
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This example does sound wrong to a native English speaker. It contains a subjunctive mood construct and the correct version would be: "What if there were no stars in the sky?"
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David Hilbert and Stefan Cohn-Vossen.
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Hardy's "A course of Pure Mathematics" has been highly regarded since it was first published in 1908 because it was an innovative text: rigorous, modern, well-written. Its intended readership was always first year "honou
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by mayd 2y ago
Apart from the Tk and Expect extensions, one of the best parts of Tcl its general extensibility through the Tcl C API. Unfortunately, this is one of Tcl's less well-documented features. Most books and online tutorials either ignore it
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by mayd 2y ago
John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation .
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by mayd 2y ago
> In the same way Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand’s prime ministers > serve at the King’s pleasure. It’s ceremonial, much like the monarchy itself. This is incorrect: the British monarchy is not ceremonial. Australia, Brita
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by mayd 2y ago
For all the pontificating in this thread about the need to follow safety advice regarding the wearing of seat belts (and bicycle helmets!) at all times, please note the following from the BBC report: > the London-Singapore flight suffer
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Your counterexample is not even close to being accurate. Italy and Switzerland have much more in common than China and Japan. Italian is even one of the official languages of Switzerland. Switzerland and Italy are both essentially federat
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It is called Pythagoras's Theorem precisely because Pythagoras, according to legend, first proved the statement of the theorem within the framework of Greek geometry. Proof matters to mathematicians, and Pythagoras is justly famous fo
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by mayd 2y ago
I can confirm this is 100% correct. Anyone who doubts it just needs to compare quality of old editions of SciAm from before 2000 and those after 2000. The decline in quality is stark.
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by mayd 2y ago
I watched the first episode the Sympathiser last week. It occurs to me that South Korea is the only Asian country that has produced significant modern-era (i.e. Cold War and later) espionage dramas that have been widely distributed in the
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by mayd 2y ago
I do agree that the "Deutschland 83/86/89" TV series was great espionage drama, but I also think your Eurocentric bias is showing. I have often wondered why Asia has been continuously overlooked in the espionage TV dram
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by mayd 2y ago
I am English, and old enough to have seen "Sandbaggers". I don't know how I never heard of this show until I found the complete series on Youtube a few months ago. Now I am enjoying viewing it for the first time.
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by mayd 2y ago
A.k.a. "Le bureau des légendes": criminally underrated. Was available to view in Australia on SBS On Demand, where I serendipitously encountered it. It is right up there with the best of John LeCarré's film and television ada
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by mayd 2y ago
> ... some terse typewritten notice from the 70s Personally, I rather like these these; they have a certain retro-appeal, in particular old Springer mathematics publications. We are so spoilt with LaTex.
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Some possible counterarguments: 1. Mathematics is a lot more abstract than it used to be. 2. Mathematics is a lot more specialised than it used to be. 3. Non-mathematical content is inaccessible to those who don't read English. 4. Spac
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I read Silicon Snake Oil soon after it was published (1996) and I felt Cliff Stoll's views were excessively pessimistic at the time. He was definitely out of tune with the Dot Com Zeitgeist. But a quarter of a century later he might
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I thought that a good Bayesian model was supposed to be demonstrably robust under a range of prior distributions?
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Affair is the wrong word: Affair: a sexual relationship between two people, one or both of whom are married to or in a long-term relationship with someone else. "his wife is having an affair". (Google)
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by mayd 2y ago
Do read Dune Messiah , the sequel to Dune . I believe it was written specifically for those who failed to get the negative implication from Dune . Hence, it was not so well received. It is my favourite in the series (well, maybe after
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by mayd 2y ago
It is not even slightly weird. Consumption of alcohol by women has always been frowned upon, especially in public houses, not least by women, and survives today in the shaming of pregnant women who drink even the smallest drop of alcohol at
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The cities are clean and free of pollution too.
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Not so much. Australian coal-fired generators are gradually being phased out and replaced by gas-fired generators, or by renewable sources in some jurisdictions. Australia is still a large coal producer, most of which is exported to China a
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You saved me writing a comment (almost). The map show huge countries such as Canada, Russia, China, and most countries in South America as not having the highest air quality rating even though the air pollution is specific to certain relat
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From the article: "Pyxis Ocean reportedly saved an average of 3.3 tons of fuel each day."
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I still have mine and it has even grown a little.
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by mayd 3y ago
If Roman numerals are printed around the perimeter of the clock face with the base of each numeral on the same circle, as opposed to printing the numerals horizontally, then the numerals towards the bottom are harder to read because they ar

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