thomasfoster96

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by thomasfoster96 5y ago
I’ve definitely heard Araucaria araucana called “monkey puzzle” quite often in English, and many people in Australia mistakenly call the bunya pine ( Araucaria bidwillii ) “monkey puzzle” as well because they are closely related species a
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by thomasfoster96 5y ago
I’m not sure if you’re joking (sorry), but a ‘crowned republic’ [0] is definitely a common way to characterise the effective political system of many constitutional monarchies today — in particular the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand
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The Divergent Association Task(datcreativity.com)
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Australia Talks National Survey 2021(australiatalks.abc.net.au)
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“Nothing ever works!” – LinusTechTips and an IoT Garage Door [Video](youtube.com)
2 points by thomasfoster96 5y ago|0 comments
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How Motherboards Work – Turbo Nerd Edition [video](youtube.com)
1 points by thomasfoster96 5y ago|0 comments
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by thomasfoster96 5y ago
This will happen in most browsers (I’m on Safari 14, macOS 11.2). The popup-blockers in most browsers will allow a popup if it is opened directly because of user input, such as a button click — a fairly simple measure which can be implement
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Facebook has banned Facebook's own Facebook page in Australia(twitter.com)
19 points by thomasfoster96 6y ago|4 comments
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Average lifespan differs by up to 19 years between suburbs in Sydney(smh.com.au)
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An intro to useless AFL stats using R(crowdatascience.com)
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by thomasfoster96 6y ago
You’re right, I was mistaken (and too late to edit my comment). Out of interest, is there a page anywhere explaining the difference between RustEnhanced and Sublime-LSP + Rust Analyzer? I’ve got both installed, but when I enable Sublime-LSP
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by thomasfoster96 6y ago
You can use rust-analyzer from within Sublime Text: https://rust-analyzer.github.io/manual.html#sublime-text-3 If you’re using Sublime Text 3, it’s essentially an alternative to RustEnhanced[0]. [0] https://githu
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by thomasfoster96 6y ago
I would assume that’s entirely possible, but something like this could be done using the HTML5 <video> or <audio> elements for video or audio codecs (there’s even a DOM API to do it! [0]), and some browsers advertised WebP suppo
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by thomasfoster96 6y ago
> I'd like to support it in my own websites, but I literally can't since a huge chunk of visitors use Safari. Wouldn’t using the <picture> element[0] allow this this? It’s pretty widely supported (every browser that suppo
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by thomasfoster96 6y ago
I’d say compared to other languages there’s been two big issues: 1. A not insignificant number of packages are either polyfilling things in browsers, or providing a consistent (or ‘isomorphic') API for certain things across both browse
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by thomasfoster96 6y ago
Sadly it seems to be out of print, but Bob Woolmer’s posthumously published Art and Science of Cricket [0] is an incredibly expansive and throughly researched study of cricket as a sport. It seems to have been really difficult to translate
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Fear and Loathing of the English Passive [pdf](lel.ed.ac.uk)
3 points by thomasfoster96 7y ago|0 comments
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by thomasfoster96 7y ago
This map seems to use a very variable and at times generous definition of both “company” and “still in business”. Sure, Australia Post is one of Australia’s oldest institutions if you count from the date of the establishment of its oldest p
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by thomasfoster96 7y ago
> [...] MyFireWatch shows exactly where those active fires are. I didn’t link to MyFireWatch precisely because it is showing ‘hotspots’ from the past 72 hours, which is not necessarily the same thing as mapping actual reported fires, h
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by thomasfoster96 7y ago
As the BBC article suggests, generally the most accurate maps of where recent fires are and how much they’ve burnt are the state government fire or emergency services websites. Unfortunately they are state-by-state (which isn’t usually a pr
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Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide(nytimes.com)
55 points by thomasfoster96 7y ago|34 comments
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by thomasfoster96 7y ago
Whoops, you’re right, my explanation missed that!
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by thomasfoster96 7y ago
The diaeresis and umlaut are literally exactly the same Unicode character and the symbol or diacritic itself can be called either. The difference is what it does to the vowel — it’s a diaeresis if it indicates a repeated vowel, and an umlau
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by thomasfoster96 7y ago
The New Yorker is kind of well known for being virtually the only significant English publication which uses a diaeresis (the ¨) where almost everyone else uses a hyphen or just two repeated letters [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedi
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by thomasfoster96 7y ago
That’s weird — something else must be influencing the translations. I’m aware that “condescendiente” doesn’t mean “condescending”, but I’m taking it as evidence that Google Translate interpreted “patronize” with the “to condescend” sense ra
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by thomasfoster96 7y ago
Yep, I’d put money on Google Translate interpreting the English wrong in the first place. I’ve just tried a bunch of variations on “don’t patronise me.” and these are the results: "Don't patronise me.” -> "No me patrocines
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by thomasfoster96 7y ago
> Translate "patronize" and it will give you "patrocinar", which means "to sponsor”. That translation is pretty accurate for at least one of the senses of patronise, though. Word-sense disambiguation is what’s
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Australian National University hit by data breach(theguardian.com)
1 points by thomasfoster96 7y ago|0 comments
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
Well, as the linked post says in the first paragraph, almost 90% of the 554 new characters aren’t emoji, and include four new scripts (used by several different languages) and additions for several other scripts. Emoji are only mentioned on
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by thomasfoster96 8y ago
The article is by David Marr.

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