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I used Duolingo for about 1 month to learn Portuguese and was close to the end of the tree. I learned quite a lot, the grammar drills were useful introduction and basic vocabulary, however I stopped using it due to it requiring me to translate back into English which made it hard to think in the language. I bought other books, like side by side texts, and grammar books to continue and watch YouTube videos from Brazil to drill in the sound of the language.

I learned German at a University in a German speaking country, and the classes were completely in German from day one which I found helpful. I also bought quite a number of books and studied quite a lot before I become fluent.

So I don’t think an app is a one stop solution, it takes a lot of material, I’m not sure why people think any one system is enough, especially considering you never stop learning a language. Fluent just means you know enough to continue to learn in the language on your own.

How much UV light is emitted?

So they went off and implemented a brand new fancy service discovery tool for I bet a problem they didn’t have, but couldn’t do the basics of tracking 2kb of data for the CA. I don’t think that’s a age issues, that and there’s nothing that prevents companies of any size from self reflection on what they’re doing and what’s important.

Also what’s the point of transparency if you’re not getting critical feedback from it and learning?

> After looking everywhere, and asking everyone on the team, we got the definitive answer that the CA key we created a year ago for this self-signed certificate had been lost.

The GitLab outages always make the company seem disorganized and sloppy, and unable to reflect on how to improve how they work. So they don't have a central place to store their CA, and even after an outage, did they improve anything about how they work?

It's ironic that the post seems geared towards recruiting, though I guess it's honest, you know what you're getting into with that team.

No sense of humor?

These depictions of JS Bach as a rebel and a bad boy are from people who don’t recognize or connect with the timeless underlining genuineness of Bach. His goal in every writing was to make music for the glory of God, purely. Weather you’re religious or not, clearly his music is genuine. What’s missing from this article is why did he he do the things he did, and the back stories to each one is seeped in his struggle with those who are selfish or otherwise poor minded compared to him. You can recognize bits of Tibetan saints even in this stories.

Here’s a perfect example where a head master downplays a music ciriuclum at a school, and he reacts to what is right and the speaker in this video can’t believe why he would stick up for what’s right vs his own self interest only. And then seems to imply that saints are just nice and don’t stick up for what’s right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzCfB2gpAhw&t=5m

Works with plain old lemon juice too, the soybean process sounds over engineered.

Pictures of the cave:

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

That's the difference between working for a company vs. starting a company, the lower risk of being an employee comes at a high price unfortunately.

Ironically film tools have some of the most stringent copy protection systems, and big studios break the licenses agreements without hesitation when they need to get something done.

Dish is almost an archaic term a this point. So either someone's pretty old grandparents are working for MT, or people are translating a term from another language using an old dictionary.

> In short, to your point: AWS is for builders... who pay. And right now all the growth is in enterprise, where we don’t know how to make API calls from a command line.

Infact AWS's HSM devices intentionally don't have an API, as "security feature."

That's surprising since afaik it's a plug door that presses up against the airframe when under pressure. So sounds like a major failure of the door or the airframe itself.

I've seen that, and the opposite as well, where you have a huge team of people constantly working and yet mysteriously nothing gets done and managers aren't sure what people are doing on a day to day basis.

Because it discourages people from creating works then if they can't be free. Why would you want to write something valuable for humanity if in the end someone is going to steal it and put DRM on it? For me personally, I'd not write the work at all knowing that, since it goes against the spirit of making it for humanity to begin with.

Obviously at the time the texts were written, they were in circulation, but it predates modern copyright law. So maybe there's a loophole in the law they're exploiting, but regardless it's unethical, and Archive.org has the power to not accept works under those circumstances.

For the Buddhist texts, how could they own the rights to works written hundreds of years ago? They're simply digitizing the work, no translation. Here's an example: https://archive.org/details/bdrc-W1FPL194/page/n7

The problem is these work owners are using archive.org to play both sides of the argument, even worse consider the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Centern they digitized works they didn’t author, don’t own any rights to for the works that are 100s of years old, and then put them up on Archive.org under DRM. How is that in any way ethical to take someone’s work and do that?

https://archive.org/details/buddhist-digital-resource-center...

Here’s one example of DRM: https://archive.org/details/inlibrary?sort=-publicdate

They have collections they don’t let you download, they should just refuse those collections to force the platform to be free to download like the Gutenberg Project for example.

I can’t get past the DRM they allow, if they stopped doing that and raised the bar I’d likely support them.

Time to buy air filters for when the smoke drifts into your city and you have to close all your windows for a week.

Oh god, that web page is in the format of a ranting crazy person. Is there a quicker explanation somewhere?

I think it's also due to having a population that has nothing to lose.

They used to think black people don't feel pain too, it would be good to do a long term study to determine if they feel pain since they clearly can't determine if others do.

have you ever been in an earthquake? esp. outside? it's like trying to run on the swells of an ocean.

* don't run during an earthquake, you'll break your leg.

* bathrooms with plumbing in the walls are supposed to be a little stronger.

* blankets can help protect you from breaking windows.

* if you are outside, watch out for trees, powerlines, things falling off buildings (tile roofs, pots), esp. brick buildings

Northridge knocked me out of bed and I woke up on the floor.

Didn’t realize Paul saved Cinerama.

> “Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.”

Yep, exactly.

Anyone know what engine this is using?

I’d like to know why info sec has traditionally been anti-science to begin with, and if they are going to adopt data backed approaches to backup their theories, what other old wives tales will they’ll be addressing next?