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What happens if AI unlocks communication with plants?

Anti-glare coatings are not very robust, would not hold up well and they are even worse than glare when they get damaged. I have a vague memory that the UV protection in glasses is either a quirk of t…

So other than not being plastered with ads how is it any different from most "news" sources?

>PhD graduates don't have magic in-depth knowledge about programming languages. No magic involved, they generally have a good understanding of how a computer functions which means they can rel…

>it doesn't seem to help them at all in day to day communications with people in other languages. Humanities sorts are terrible at communicating with those who are not humanities sorts, just a…

>Someone who understands python and C++ would be trivially able to understand a massive swath of modern programming languages. I see little that having some deeper theoretical background would help…

Sure, and if you learned linguistics you would have been able to pick up those languages more quickly with a better understanding. But like I already said, most should learn languages for pragmatic re…

The same way in that a CS PHD is going to be able to pickup programming languages better and more quickly than someone who has learned C++ and python, they understand the underlying mechanics of langu…

I would probably say if you are going to go to learning a third language than you would probably have been better off studying linguistics instead of that second language which will make all language …

>Sounds like these were some kind of raw cognitive tests. Absolutely. Outside some niche areas being bilingual is not going to make you better at general problem solving, will come in handy on occa…

It absolutely adds advantage to those interested in literature, it allows you to see your first language outside itself and generally increases your understanding of your first language. I would consi…

I think it is the reason given by the second response in OP link which I find dubious in the sense of film aging but makes sense for written documents.

I would have agreed with you if your post was not 20 minutes old, get with the times.

In what sense? For the preface/intro yes, and that is still common. Before the 1950s hyphenated page numbering was very common especially in technical/educational books and the preface/…

Just remembered that Roman numerals were and still are common in legal documents and I have a vague memory that they were the standard for dates in legal documents at one time in the US and a copyrigh…

I find it humorous that people think this is some sort of deception when it is probably simple tradition. Roman numerals used to be common and are still used in many places like for preface/intro…

I have been using slackware with ion/notion WM for about two decades now and little has changed which is why I stick with it, I have no interest in having to relearn my system every update. In al…

Years ago I got laughed at for saying Haiku would beat linux to the FOSS desktop and I still think that will happen. Have been enjoying watching them pick up steam recently as they near their first re…

I am currently reading George Mills by Stanley Elkin which is quite good so far, before that it was Freedom by Jonathan Franzen which surprised me and I am looking forward to rereading it eventually.

He seems to talk around the "Why," what role would these computers actually play beyond making the people capable of building and using them "very powerful" in some vague and unkno…

>And really slow to load. It seems to read a fair amount of data from the drive on startup and with a mechanical drive it really is very slow, with a SSD it is not bad and maybe a second for startu…

I don't see why you would need a visa, you are a US citizen working a job in the US. There could be some fun with your taxes depending how long you are out of the country but nothing major, mainl…

I got stuck with Vivaldi for the past few years, I really did not feel like dealing with browser configuration/installing addons and it gave me everything I wanted out of the box. No complaints, …

They could be had for like ~$100 back then so I parted it out to rescue other synths in need. Kept the CEMs since 3328's were looked down on and just about the only CEM that was still cheap back …

No, under that logic we would take the time to consider them before just taking what we want. Most of these problems are not massive things and can be worked around without kicking people onto their a…

If you want to reduce partisan thought too childish self serving behavior (which I do not think is accurate but am OK with) than yes, that would be centrist.

>Minimum wage will eventually will get adjusted for the workers in the service sector to have similar lifestyle. So they just have to suffer until that adjustment happens? the middle class needs th…

How many offices are going to give the person cleaning their toilets and emptying their trash a raise when they go to a 4 day week? Most of those janitors will just end up working 4 days a week for th…

That is great, makes me wish I still had a Mirage but mine died back around the turn of the century. Mirage was not great as a sampler but a great platform with all the software that got written for i…