- davidgayAnd then there's Bulgarian, with no cases and definite articles, to throw that scale off...
- > Quite the opposite. The benefits of rent control grow the longer you are in the same apartment without moving as the difference between what the tenant pays and the
You're assuming a form of rent control where new tenants pay market rate. That's not the only form, e.g., Berkeley's rent control used to continue "forever", until California forbade that (Costa Hawkins act in 1995).
- The GRE vocabulary is actually based on French, Latin and Greek, not English. Much less rare and unusual once you realise that.
- > Rent control in particular is an economic basket case policy
Switzerland has had rent control for a long time, and seems to have (rather successfully) avoided this economic basket case fate.
- > > History shows people are also very resilient at moving on from trauma
> i’m extremely skeptical that people move on
Historically, essentially everyone who lived long enough to have children had some of those children die [1]. So either:
- that wasn't traumatic
- they managed to deal with that trauma
- or they didn't move on, and everyone was somewhat traumatised
You can take your choice from the above, but on the whole this was the normal state of affairs for most of human history and prehistory.
[1]: from https://acoup.blog/2025/07/18/collections-life-work-death-an..., 50% of children died by age ~5
- I'd write code after work if I wasn't writing code at work ;) But...
- > ... memory and cpu performance have improved at completely different rates.
This is overly simplified. To a first approximation, bandwidth has kept track with CPU performance, and main memory latency is basically unchanged. My 1985 Amiga had 125ns main-memory latency, though the processor itself saw 250ns latency - current main memory latencies are in the 50-100ns range. Caches are what 'fix' this discrepancy.
You would need to clarify how manual memory management relates to this... (cache placement/control? copying GCs causing caching issues? something else?)
- The quote is referring to fights between people who already have tenure.
- > Are 'spelling bee' contests only (or mainly) a USA thing?
The French "dictée" is similar, but has you write down a spoken (coherent text). One that usually gets weekly practiced (and graded...) in primary school, but there's also spelling-bee-like events, e.g., https://dicteepourtous.fr/
French pronunciation is mostly consistent (more so than English at least), but there's several complications:
- multiple ways to spell the same sound (so you just need to know for that word)
- often silent terminal consonants (but they must be present, because they are pronounced in some contexts)
- the pronounced syllables don't always match word boundaries ("liaison")
The last two points also explain why a coherent text is a more useful test than just single complex words.
- > However, in many developed countries today’s pensions are mainly paid for by today’s workers, often through a combination of social contributions and taxes.
If one accepts this hypothesis, then raising the retirement age is good for all previously-working people, as they now have less people to support and more workers providing that support...
- Also still running, after more than 33 years: mume.org
Disclaimer: I used to help run this - my main contribution was an extension language, which started as a Scheme+Forth hybrid (everyone hated that...) and quickly morphed into sort-of-Scheme with "conventional" syntax.
- This description is misleading (as many of them seem to be), because you're only describing the first year.
After 5 years of constant expenses, the deductions match the costs. If expenses diminish, deductions exceed costs.
-> this is bad (in the short term) for companies that are growing.
- I'm of the opinion that
is more readable in the long-term... (less predefined methods/concepts to learn).var ageLookup = new Dictionary<AgeRange, List<Member>>(); foreach (var member in members) { ageLookup.getOrCreate(member.AgeRange, List::new).add(member); } - > Everything you said is supported by regular image formats. You can adjust white balance of any photo and you think image formats are only limited to 16-bit and sRGB?
No - the non-RAW image formats offered were traditionally JPG and 8-bit TIFF. Neither of those are suitable for good quality post-capture edits, irrespective of their colour space (in fact, too-wide a colour space is likely to make the initial capture worse because of the limited 8-bit-per-colour range).
These days there is HEIF/similar formats, which may be good enough. But support in 3rd party tools (including Adobe) is no better than RAW yet, i.e., you need to go through a conversion step. So...
- > Because I know I am definitely guilty of that, I can swear I remember bits from my family's trip to Pompeii when I Was 2 years old, not much but little bits here and there, and only when I was older I noticed that what I remember is suspiciously similar to what my mum has in the family album from that trip(which I most likely would have seen as a child too).
Maybe in a sense, both are true? When you saw the photos as a child, you did remember them then, but that's what reinforced those memories enough that you now remember them?
Similar to 'remembering that you remembered X', even though you don't directly remember X now.
- > At least we're not stuck with the Roman "inclusive counting" system that included one extra number in ranges* so that e.g. weeks have "8" days
French (and likely other Latin languages?) are not quite so lucky. "En 8" means in a week, "une quinzaine" (from 15) means two weeks...
- You can also do OPT "post-completion" of your degree - this also gives your (new) employer some time to apply for a longer-term work visa.
- > English has no 'correct' way to be written or spoken, nor does it need one, nor would it benefit from one, therefore, nor should it have one.
There may be no 'correct' way, but there are plenty of 'incomprehensible' ways. I once encountered a research paper that had clearly [0] been translated word-for-word from French into English and made no sense until I translated it word-for-word back to French...
[0]: actually it was only clear after I realised I should attempt the reverse translation ;)
- And for useful reference: I was in hospital last year for ~2 weeks, and my insurance was sent a bill for ~$580k. The insurance actually paid $32k.
Hospital bills are clearly works of fiction.
- The interview process for a place like Microsoft Research is essentially the same as for a faculty position - give a talk on your research, spend the day talking to researchers about your research, their research, convince them you have an interesting research agenda. Have dinner with more researchers, for a notionally more relaxed discussion :) [Tried, failed ;)]
As with university recruitment, this isn't a case of "you must come from specific pipelines", but of "you must have done interesting research, have an interesting plan". It's just that those two criteria are strongly correlated...