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Non-native speaker here. To me in spoken language both "unicorn" and "hour" have a combination of 2 vowels in the beginning. Let me transcribe them as "ee-oo" and "aa-oo" here.

Why is the aa-oo combination at the beginning of "hour" considered a vowel but the ee-oo in "uniform" is a consonant?

As a German I wonder why was this treasure given away to a US museum? Also what is the legal status of ownership of all this? Would have been interesting to read more about this.

My main complaint with conventional commits always was that they don't include an issue number in the commit title. It's not even mentioned in their standards as optional or something.

To me this is almost the most important information in a commit message. I don't know how often in the last 15 years I was cross checking the issue description referenced by some old commit to get the full context of a change. I also felt that this habit is kind of standard - until i had to learn about "conventional commits".

I never got the hype.

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The Dream Machine: J.c.r. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop

Not really about a company, though.

Can someone explain what this is? The page has almost no information (on mobile) and I don't want to install just to find out.

Exactly this. In our case we went so far to cache all static assets. Putting them into a directory with a hash in the name made them still easy to bust.

  # Cache static files
  location ~* \.(ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png|svg|woff|woff2)$ {
    expires 365d;
    add_header Pragma public;
    add_header Cache-Control "public";
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9000;
  }

I wonder why the article doesn't mention utilizing the browser cache for your static CSS and JS assets instead of introducing a service worker as first measure.

Few years ago I built a shopping site MPA this way and the page transitions were almost not noticable.

As tmux can be extended with plugins I'd recommend to check through this list and see if you find something useful:

https://github.com/tmux-plugins/list

As a neovim user I can also very much recommend this vim plugin to seamlessly navigate between tmux panes and neovim windows:

https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator

Even if it's obvious: I was missing a "How to use" section in the README that demonstrates how this tool can be invoked.

EDIT: Ok, there's something in the "Working with STDIN and STDOUT" section. But TBH I'd find it more helpful to have the different use cases collected at the top. To me it wasn't even clear how the command is called.

Hmm, he lost me on page nine where "complete" is explained.

> Complete means that every sequence of vectors |a1>, |a2>, ... satisfying lim ...

How are the elements of this sequence related? And why are we only interested in the elements where the index n/m goes to infinity? What does that even mean if the sequence is arbitrary?

That's probably why I also can't make sense of this:

> Loosely speaking, saying that a Hilbert space is complete means that it contains all of its limits.

> We then ask the primary database for a snapshot, a list of all past primary database transactions whose effects are visible to our new transaction.

I wonder what happens for records with many changes during their lifetime. Wouldn't the size of such a snapshot grow infinetely for them?

Title is missing "(2003)".

This looks really nice but I'm missing specs on the format of the input data.

If you already know a programming language and prefer a more concise tutorial you might also like this site:

https://cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

It's way less verbose and more to the point.

Sorry to be nitpicking:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar

"Foobar

Not to be confused with FUBAR or Foobar2000."

It's linked from FUBAR but not under "disambiguation" but "See also".

This was very insightful, thanks.

I'm 49 and can literally watch (pun intended) how my capability to focus in the near field gets worse and worse. I've been using dark themes in the terminal for 25 years and for a couple of years tried to use dark mode also in other software as much as possible.

After reading this I really wonder if I did myself a disservice and if I shouldn't change to light mode again.

Does anyone know of more sources on this topic? And also if the effect can be reversed or at least slowed with going back to light again?

EDIT: This[1] answer on Stackexchange has some funded details.

[1]https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/53268

It's not only the ongoing war. Russia's leadership seems to be enganged in state terrorism for several decades now. Here's an interesting interview with Catherine Belton a journalist and author who did year long research on that matter:

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2022-07/catherine-belton-vlad...

Even if only half of the claims is true it's IMO quite justified to call Russia a terrorist state.

I've never seen this before and wonder how stable/fragile are those crystals? Are they very touch-sensitive or can you carry them around easily in your pocket?

For those that need a concise refresher on - or introduction to - linear equations there's an (as usual) excellent series of 15 short videos from 3blue1brown:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFit...

Maybe I've missed it but in the first setup (without roles) where on the server is defined as which user someone can ssh into the machine now? There's only this global setting:

  TrustedUserCAKeys /etc/ssh/ca.pub

Where can I define that a user can log in e.g. as "john" on a server? Is this the '-I USER_ID' part when creating the cert? If so that would mean that a certificate is bound to one username only and that every user needs his own account with exactly that name on every server he has access to, right?

I disagree. That's exactly the point: If you practice to achieve a constant typing rate (and start slow!) there will be no hard combinations anymore.

In fact it's exactly because of these "hard combinations" why your overall speed is slow, because you can't keep the high pace of the rest. So you have to master them first.

It's pretty much the same if you e.g. learn guitar: If you play a scale of notes you want to play it nice and smooth and not suddenly slow down at the hard part. If you can't play it smooth you're practicing to fast, so slow down until you mastered it.

I can only tell how we were taught 10 finger typing, some 30 years ago:

Don't aim for speed! Aim for typing without errors and - more importantly - a constant rhythm. Music helps. Start extremely slow and spell out each word letter by letter in your mind.

You should find many exercises out there for how to get started with all fingers. But the key is really to slow things down. It's very much like learning an instrument.

If you keep practicing this say 10-20 minutes per day you'll soon see progress. Speed then comes very naturally and without much effort.

German here who tries to learn Czech for some time now. Even as a novice I had no problems to identify many words that I know in czech. Awesome.

What some probably consider a privacy nightmare is a Chrome feature I like very much: It syncs all my history, bookmarks and passwords across devices via my Google account. That's especially convenient whenever I get a new device.

Is there something comparable for Firefox?

Reminded me of analytic vs synthetic languages:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_language

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language

Ah, thanks, I think I got it now. One problem for me was, that German der/die/das can actually translate to both, “the“ and “that“ depending on the emphasis.

Makes sense - still it feels odd, coming from the “other side“. I wonder when this split happened.

About dieser/diese/dieses, that would be tento/tato/toto (this/that here).

I'm a German learning czech and have the opposite problem: the czech (and probably other slavic languages) still have those articles but mostly leave them away. I'm never really sure, when you still need to use them:

* ten/ta/to = der/die/das (the)

* nějaký/nějaká/nějaké = (irgend-)ein/eine/ein (a, some)

In my course there's the example “nějaká paní se ptá na cestu" (A woman asks for the way). Not sure what is different if the nějaká is left out.

Even better: you can let your image server check the accepted formats in the request header and send webp content transparently instead of jpg. Then you don't have to change your markup at all.

Browser's don't really care about file extensions.

https://github.com/uhop/grunt-tight-sprite/wiki/Recipe:-serv...

Hmm, all I can see is a brownish blurry ... uhm ... something (Chrome, Desktop). Could someone explain what we are expected to see here?