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 Discussion on question by WanderingLi…

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rexkogitans
Jul 2 02:28
... or "without user interaction"
rexkogitans
Jul 2 02:28
Your scenario also describes something which can be "corrected" to "without user intervention" - entirely different meaning, but in spelling similar word.
 

 Discussion on question by bdsl: Do an…

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rexkogitans
May 6 00:42
In Austria, there are many levels of administrative offence which range from 150 € upto losing driving license and confiscation of the car depending on the excess of speed. However, driving highly excessive speed in a city can be considered public endangerment, and this is a criminal offense. I can imagine that there are many countries with laws similar to these, especially in Europe.
 

 Discussion on answer by davidgo: Can …

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rexkogitans
Nov 26, 2024 19:28
@PeterCordes Well, but that does not answer the question contained in my comment. My comment was about improving the answer by mentioning how Windows behaves (sorry, after > 20 years of Linux I am a complete Windows-Noob).
rexkogitans
Nov 26, 2024 19:28
I know that this all is true because Linux/Unix holds a handle to an opened file, where the actual file can be unlinked in the meanwhile. But is this also true for Windows? AFAIK, Windows refuses to delete an opened file. Is a program file also prevented from being deleted as long as there is a process of this program file?
 

 Discussion on answer by Barmar: How t…

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rexkogitans
Jul 19, 2024 01:41
@phoog No, the Austrians can ask the whole world to pronounce them in their native language, "Österreich", to add both "Ö" and "ch" as impossible for English-speakers.
 

 Discussion on answer by Raffzahn: Why…

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rexkogitans
Jul 15, 2020 10:40
I think it should be considered that the PS/2 protocol is not limited to keyboards, but is also used for mice, graphic pens etc where a higher speed may be necessary.
 

 Discussion on question by Nordine Lot…

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rexkogitans
Jun 15, 2020 16:39
@Attie The OP wants to check if the truth is really 42.
 

 Discussion on question by rolinger: S…

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rexkogitans
Apr 27, 2020 08:18
@jsbillings dmesg in a container (LXC, OpenVZ) is usually empty. I am more concerned about the segfault of the client. This is a bug, and nothing else. No matter what the server does, the client should never cause a segfault.
rexkogitans
Apr 27, 2020 08:18
The ssh client should really not cause a segmentation fault, but that is what it does. Is this a cygwin environment in which some configuration or library is seriously broken? As far as I understand, the client is on Windows.
 

 Discussion on answer by Gregory Curri…

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rexkogitans
Jul 16, 2019 12:15
Whatever, needing photos of both sides as employer - esp. as bank - is more than strange. I think front is ok maybe to avoid typos in the IBAN.
rexkogitans
Jul 16, 2019 11:54
It is a so-called "debit card".
rexkogitans
Jul 16, 2019 11:53
@undefined However, this justifies, that my card is not a credit card but has a CVV.
rexkogitans
Jul 16, 2019 11:40
@undefined Your comment is wrong. I am Austrian, customer of an Austrian bank, I have a normal EC card (Bankomatkarte), not credit card, and it has a CVV. I admit that I do not know why it has it.
rexkogitans
Jul 16, 2019 11:40
The only thing I can think of is to lower the change of a typo in the IBAN. However, this would not explain why they want have photos of both sides. On the front side, there is only public information. On the backside, there is the CVV and other things which are secret.
 

 Discussion between rexkogitans and Da…

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rexkogitans
Jun 24, 2019 16:10
I just deleted my comments to not leave a mess in SE. Treat "intention" rather as: It should sound French, but it should be easy to pronounce for English-native speakers who do not speak French.
rexkogitans
Jun 24, 2019 15:57
I know that your mother tongue is German. If you speak German, you would pronounce "Spray" as [<sch>pre:], not exactly as [sprei], but also not as [<sch>prai], if you understand, what I mean.
rexkogitans
Jun 24, 2019 15:55
I find it misleading because these English words are pronounced like that to resemble the french pronounciation.
rexkogitans
Jun 24, 2019 15:55
Well, I agree with all of your answer but the one sentence: "Note that in some cases, English <qu> is pronounced [k] as in Modern French, e.g. antique (and others ending in -que)." This sounds misleading.
rexkogitans
Jun 24, 2019 15:41
How would you pronounce "e" at the end? Well, most of them are silent and just modify the prceding vowel, so for example the word "like" would have [li-] instead of [lai-] without the "e". But ['æntaik] does not make it any better.
rexkogitans
Jun 24, 2019 15:37
Take a look at the word "quick" which is not of French roots, you see "qui" as [kwi] in action. I can imagine acting the final "que" in word like "antique" similar if English pronounciation would apply.
rexkogitans
Jun 24, 2019 15:33
May be you are right that [kju] is not a good suggestion, [kwi] might fit better. "antique" to be pronounced ['æntikwi]
rexkogitans
Jun 24, 2019 15:31
@DavidVogt My point was the pronounciation of the ending -que as [k] rather than as [kju] in words like antique, physique, ..., which IMHO is of French origin.
rexkogitans
Jun 24, 2019 15:31
The list of English words ending with -que at thefreedictionary.com/words-that-end-in-que looks like nearly all of them are (old-)french.
rexkogitans
Jun 24, 2019 15:31
"English <qu> is pronounced [k] as in Modern French, e.g. antique" - this is a French loanword and hence its pronounciation is intended to be similar to the French pronounciation. Otherwise, it would be ['æntikju:]
 

 Discussion on question by Ane Sa: Why…

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rexkogitans
Apr 4, 2019 18:13
A piano is an instrument to play music with. Rap is not a music. This is why you can't play rap with a piano.
 

 Discussion on question by Joeri Hendr…

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rexkogitans
Oct 14, 2018 06:04
@JimmyB +1 This! Maybe you should turn this into an answer: "Also note that solar cells don't 'attract' energy to the planet; if the solar cell wasn't in place, the sun would just heat up the ground below"
 

 Discussion on answer by Alex Hajnal: …

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rexkogitans
Jun 29, 2018 16:04
This should be the accepted answer, as it hits the nail: A FAT12/16/32 file name consists of two fields: 8 characters (base) file name, and 3 characters file name extension.
 

 Discussion on answer by Neusser: Fren…

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rexkogitans
Apr 10, 2018 17:14
Can someone please delete my stupid comment?
 

 Discussion on question by safebookver…

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rexkogitans
Feb 8, 2018 14:58
"will" is a verb to make up the future tense. " I will to..." sounds ungrammatical.
 

 Discussion on question by Sander Scha…

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rexkogitans
Jan 3, 2018 20:17
Women's handbags always seem to contain more volume than their outer appearances suggest.
 

 Discussion on question by Will Njundo…

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rexkogitans
Jan 2, 2018 18:36
It is a counterposition of wry (a-wry), so why should the pronounciation be altered entirely? It is not like awesome, as there is no such word like wesome.
 

 Discussion on answer by quid: Is "Ass…

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rexkogitans
Dec 18, 2017 15:20
@quid +1 thanks for your post, this should be the correct answer. I could not remember the law text, but § 7 in Gleichberechtigung is exactly the statement about affirmative action. I also withdrew the edit of my post.
 

 Discussion on answer by IQV: Genitive…

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rexkogitans
Apr 27, 2017 17:01
I think the answer is pretty fair now, as it shows that two different theories yield the same effect. Upvoted it.
rexkogitans
Apr 27, 2017 17:01
@Matthias I changed the link, since the canoonet website dropped an important explanation and hence is misleading. The Duden clearly states that this is not an omission.
rexkogitans
Apr 27, 2017 17:01
@Matthias, No, this apostrophe does not do this, this is exactly what is stated in the website you cited.
rexkogitans
Apr 27, 2017 17:01
@IQV It is better to drop tofro's suggestion, as it is simply wrong.
 

 Discussion on question by Meitar : Wh…

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rexkogitans
Feb 15, 2017 02:08
@Muzer your translation does not account for the grammatical case. It is "wessen Schwester" - "der Kranken", so it is to be translated with "sister of the ill (people)".
 

 Discussion on question by Sam: What i…

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rexkogitans
Oct 28, 2016 17:25
Your answer is right; and oh, this excercise is bit wrong-placed in discrete maths, as discrete maths does not deal with real numbers.
 

 Discussion on answer by Oddthinking: …

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rexkogitans
Sep 14, 2016 09:16
@Jamiec, I think the point is that koalas are not bears and far from being as dangerous as bears, so the Australians reacted in the way of inventing the dropbear. I my mother tongue German, it is hard to tell people that this animal is called "Koala" (koala), not "Koalabär" (koala bear), I can image that this is true to many other languages too. Making fun of it is just the next step.