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I think that reading this sentence as "lost" and "mislaid and abandoned" is not likely. I believe most people would not use comma when they're enumerating 2 categories. E.g. "banana and apple are fruits" vs "banana, apple are fruits".

Serial comma isn't really required [in all dialects], and its use is mostly mandated where it resolves some ambiguity.

Isn't Airplay just another proprietary network codec though?

WAV is the original lossless audio file. FLAC is just a compressed version of that file (think of it as .zip).

MP3 is more like an edited version of the original where "extra fluff" is removed from the audio in a way that you can still hear the important bits. And then compressed for further space savings.

Obviously, there is no point in converting MP3 to FLAC since when the original lossless audio track was MP3'd , it lost some of the audio information, so you'd only be changing the compression algorithm, I imagine.

There's a public ruleset for this: https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-stackoverflow-translatio...

As a non-native speaker, I don't think I've ever seen this expression, but one can easily guess what it means. Enumerating bits of the whole as a way to emphasize the wholeness, I think, might be common in many languages.

Regarding mainland Asia, I just understand it as "not island" Asia.

I believe that the difference IS obvious, but it's the "absolute" difference.

The relative difference may very well not exist between the two scenarios. If I can't just go to the beach with my wife, if I can't go walk the dog in the farther-away park, if I can't play an online game that lasts over 40 minutes per match, if I can't schedule a music lesson - then if the above is my definition of free time, then it's going to be difficult to convince me that there's a difference between "you can't do this because you're working" and "you can't do this because you're on-call". All it takes is that I take "can't do it" seriously enough.

If your typical day-off is filled with "short" activities, if you being on-call doesn't affect plans of other people close to you, if you plan your month so that you do all the housework & chores on your on-call days, then you'll probably be OK and will testify to the huge difference between the two.

The perception of this difference will thus vary from person to person, from circumstances to circumstances, from lifestyle to lifestyle.

I think a separate device isn't necessarily that bizarre. If I'm on call, I wouldn't want to now take every notification on my phone as something critical to check immediately. Just react promptly to a separate notification on a separate device. Now, of course, the company could just buy a separate phone, but I'm pretty sure it's cheaper to get a pager and the battery will last much longer too, making it impossible to "forget to charge" the device.

Just wanted to note that if you're talking about "personal development computer" and "developers loooking ... and comparing", then it's more like an "individual" license as opposed to the commercial one, which is meant to be evaluated by companies.

The individual-license pack for all of their IDEs would set you back $250 as opposed to $650 commercial license.

I used to use "IDEA Ultimate", which is 30% cheaper than the All-Pack and supports installation of most of the other language plugins, allowing me to use a single IDE for everything. Nowadays I'm using separate IDEs as that seems to work faster.

I personally find the price worth it, as even a simple "expand selection scope" operation which I use many times per day just doesn't feel right in VS Code.

Doesn't making "repairable" things imply having to add design constraints, which would translate to increased costs of research/development/production?

> You're wrong

Can I just say, on a rather unrelated note, that this just sounds very toxic and will trigger most people into "defense mode". I understand that "wrong" thoughts and opinions don't come out of nowhere, someone must have produced them, but it just reads so much nicer when the attack is explicitly targeting the opinion, and not the author.

In your other comments in this very thread you're using "Your comment goes in all directions...", "Your example is implemented in...". This is so much nicer! Thanks for going the extra mile! Let's keep the discussion going and reduce the chances of someone getting triggered and starting a flame war.

Until recently I was living in Russia, and I'm happy to have moved just now despite having to pay $12,000 more in taxes.

When I moved to Russia a few years ago, I was delighted to pay less tax, and dismissed the bad political situation as something that doesn't matter and just a way to save more money before moving somewhere else eventually (the famous "some time later").

Well, now that I've had to move because the said "political situation" has escalated quite rapidly, I can say that having to pay more is a good trade-off [in my eyes] for safety and sanity.

Another happy user of G14 here. I'm running the 2021 version with Ryzen 5900HS, 32Gb of RAM and 1440p screen. The screen is good, the laptop is quite light at ~1.6kg, the keyboard is OK too, but I tend to use an external one when at my desk.

I love the battery life, which is great when running on integrated graphics.

The CPU is great too, I'm satisfied with autocomplete speed in my IDE. I think the 5900HS is also quite power-efficient, maybe the Intel versions are more power-hungry, not sure. Another benefit is that the laptop stays completely silent, and only whirrs up when gaming or doing heavier workloads.

The GPU in my version is "just" the 3060 Mobile, but it's good enough for me, and there are costlier version with better GPUs.

The ports are good enough for me. There's one USB-C 3.2 Gen2 which I used to connect to a DisplayPort screen, and there's an HDMI port, which I use to drive a 4k@120Hz monitor. I also use one of the USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbps) ports with a hub to run all peripherals (mic, webcam, keyboard, mouse).

WiFi was giving me problems on Windows (I have the MediaTek card), but that was fixed at the end of 2021. Another smallish issue is that there's no webcam, but I use a standalone cam anyway.

I think that's the point GP is making with his sarcastic remark :)

I'd say this is only a part of the story. I remember when I was growing up I'd go to school if I'm having "just a cough/sneeze/running nose". I.e. if it's not impacting my functioning (like a fever or pain from a sore throat would), I'd be ready to dismiss it as "not serious enough". Now, this was in Russia, so my argument isn't about the culture in Europe, but rather about the presence of cultural differences.

Nowadays, working a remote job, I can work if it's just a cough, and it won't affect my co-workers. Never thought about this benefit of remote work!

Does US have different rules about intersections of "equal" roads?

In Europe you give way to the car to your right and that's it. In the rare case where there's a car going in every possible direction, you just honk it out or light signal until one goes first.

The bottom line, in my opinion, is whether you can fit the computing power you need into a certain size and budget. If you only browse reddit, you can. If you want to play new AAA games at 4k@120Hz, probably not.

If it fits, and you can take the typically higher price, then going for the theoretically "more optimal/efficient" would scratch the "optimizer itch", but is arguably of no importance. Just like getting a nice $200 chef knife gets you a nice blade that cuts better and is more maintainable than the one you can get for $5, but if you only cut tofu, all those benefits are pretty abstract.

Why would everybody be anti-abortion? Why are some people rooting for war, while others denounce military acts? Why does my grandma love eating fish heads but I think it's odd?

I think it's normal that different people think differently. I think this is a very flame-inviting question as it stands.

I was recently dealing with some React components at work, where the components would accept as an input the width or the height of the element.

Originally, the type signature was

    type Props = {height: number}

This naturally raises the question - number of what? Does "50" mean `50px`, `50vw`, `50em`, `50rem`, `50%`?

I've ended up changing the component to only accept pixels and changed the argument to be a string like this:

    type Props = {height: `${number}px`}

Of course, if passing a "0" makes sense, you could also allow that. If you want to also accept, say, `50em`, you could use a union-type for that.

I think this could actually work for other units as well. Instead of having `delay(200)`, you could instead have `delay("200ms")`, and have the "ms" validated by type system.

Maybe the future will see this getting more popular:

    type WeightUnit = 'g' | 'grams' | 'kg' | ...;
    type WeightString = `${number}${WeightUnit}`;
    function registerPackage(weight: WeightString): void;

Just this once, I want to contribute a "view from the inside" on how things work in Russia [in my opinion].

Sure, some people are hoodwinked by the propaganda. However, a weird misunderstanding is that "if they new what the Truth was, they would surely relent".

From what I've gathered growing up in Russia, that's not quite the case. I don't know why, but a lot of people here have a very apathetic view on politics. In that even if they knew all the "real truth", they wouldn't go into "fight mode", but would instead go into "man, same shit as usual, our life's about to get harder" mode.

I've just chatted with some friends who don't support the war effort in any way and are just as dismayed as your average European Joe (Giuseppe??) (and they have relatives in Ukraine too). What struck me really hard is that once again I had a glimpse of this weird mentality, whereby the person laments being in bad circumstances and start doing a lot of planning (and hoping) on how to deal with the coming misfortunes. Taking control of the change and nipping the said misfortune in the bud is just plain out of sight!

With this in mind, the problem that needs to be solved, in my opinion, is the "victim mentality" in the population, rather than the "misinformation", since "solving" misinformation would seem to push people into the usual victim loop.

Just my 2 cents, and I'm no one and my opinion is based solely on more than a decade of life in Russia.

As a single additional anecdotal data point, my body is the same way. With similar height, if I am at 150lb (around 68kg) then I have visible fat. 140 is much better.

I believe the poster didn't mean this as "denigrating", and were rather referring to the caloric contents, where "hot water" implies minimal amount of calories.

Of course, making a proper broth takes time and does put some nutritional value into said "hot water" (as do onions fried on oil/butter, sauces you add and potentially sugar), but that doesn't really change the fact that the will be minimal amount of calories in that.

When I don't have anything work-related to report, there are no concerns on either side, and there are no situational changes, we just chat with my manager for the whole half-hour about various life topics.

Sometimes it may bring to memory something related to work, which we can discuss. Sometimes it will be completely unrelated to work for the whole meeting, but I think there is still value in that. It helps us build a better relationship and reveals more about who we are and how we think and helps just generally "tune" ourselves to each other.

It's used quite often on Russian web-sites nowadays. A few years ago it was pretty rare, with most sites just using the abbreviation "руб." (rub.). As for physical locations, those tend to use the abbreviation, possibly because there's more space on the paper price tag than there is on your mobile screen, but could also be due to some law or some tag printers not supporting this symbol, not sure.

My take is that most people use VK instead of Facebook and Twitter isn't used much either. Sure, some people use it, but it's nowhere near the popularity of Telegram or Instagram.

Some friends, who lurk on Facebook more, do periodically share this or that post that seems to be bashing Russia, so no wonder they blocked Facebook. Same for Twitter. I think people might get more hurt by a ban of Instagram.

Another point is that people who care enough about free speech, democracy, etc. are more likely to be aware of and use VPN services, so they might still be able to access the content, but people who don't use VPN are unlikely to install it just to check some viral anti-regime post on Facebook, so maybe this is a move to prevent future growth of the audience reading news on Facebook.

Of course, take this all with a grain of salt, as I hardly use Facebook or Twitter, just Messenger sometimes. I'm mostly extrapolating from the usage by my friends and family.

For people like me, who have not heard about this: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-j...

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That's an option, but the big question is about "where it means sht".

Considering we're talking about constructed languages, whether "it's supposed to read `sh`" or "it's supposed to read `sht`" is defined by the author of the language.

On top of that, even coming to a conclusion on what it's supposed to read like means extrapolating it from present-day languages or from the now-dead languages. In a lot of cases, different languages will just have different readings. I.e. consider these words:

Group 1 - BG reads sht, RU reads shch

BG щипя - RU щипаю BG щастие - RU счастье BG ущърб - RU ущерб BG щит - RU щит BG вещ - RU вещь

Group 2 - BG reads sht, RU reads sht

BG нещо - RU нечто (Russian reads as "cht" here, but close enough) BG що - RU что (Russian reads "shto", at least in modern reading)

Group 3 - loaned words mostly try to mimic original

BG щора - RU штора BG поща - RU почта BG щанга - RU штанга

Plus there's the weird separate word [BG "sht" щателен - RU "tshch" тщательный].

Barring the loaned words from mostly Germanic origin, it looks like one language just sticks to "sht", while the other prefers "shch" and considers the "t" redundant. The interesting exception is the "що - что" pair, which is seems to preserve the T sound.

Щ is indeed read as "sht" in Bulgarian, but in Russian it would be read as a softer "sh" or mix between "sh" and "ch". If anything, maybe it can just be dropped in favour of plain "sh"?

As a speaker of Russian and Bulgarian, Interslavic seems to be easier to read. Slovio gets me to ponder on some words a bit more.

This is getting ridiculous (and pretty ironic, based on my understanding of the spirit of jacquesm comments).

Over the last couple of weeks, I've noted jacquesm as one the few really valuable people on HN. I don't agree with all of the opinions he expresses, but I like to dwell on them. Although he might say some uncomfortable things, he tends to ask you to think, really THINK. This reduction of more or less objective opinion to "Russian disinfo" just seems to go against that so much that I find it ironic.

No point beyond the above.

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