This is really cool! When I was learning numbers in another language, I would say license plate numbers out loud (or in my head) each time I saw one. This would have been nice at that time!
My fiancée is Finnish, and she's very patient with me trying to speak Finnish, but my progress is slow (due to lack of structured effort). Do any of you HN Finns or language connoisseurs have any good language-learning resources? I have been unable to find something good online paid or otherwise.
memrise warning: the quality of the decks is very variable and more than a few of them will teach you total nonsense. I'm not remotely qualified to evaluate the Finnish-English decks (I know exactly two words of Finnish) but I just made a huge 'ignore' list for one particular English-Dutch deck that would happily teach you absolute nonsense.
I'm certain I've seen clocks which pause on the minute like the stop-to-go ones sold in rail enthusiast magazines, railway museum gift shops etc. many years ago. Obviously, they don't include an actual stop-to-go master/slave system, they just fake it.
They used to make stoptogo versions back in 2001 but discontinued them because it loose or gain 20s a day.
The real ones get a pulse over the power line from a master clock every minute setting the time. The rotation of the seconds is just a motor using the electric grid's 50 Hz.
Yeah, I saw the ones in the paper, just commenting on the impression others will get. Given the big picture at the top on only a note at the bottom of the article that it is an artists impression.
By now you may recognize that each hint uses letters preceding the current letter, therefore use that to guide you on a new answer. After all, it's a hint for a reason :). So for dad, what can you do with the "d" to make it somehow an "e"?
Perhaps it's for the same reason as why we like to help others in an area we're knowledgeable about. We are experts of ourselves, we love to talk authoritatively on subjects we know lots about. It'd be interesting to see if we get the same "pleasure sensation" from teaching/helping.
That’s probably the case. Teachers certainly seem to find it pleasurable to teach, and I’ve found it immensely rewarding to tutor CS and SE students while in college. It’s useful practice as a writer to have someone constantly challenging you to explain yourself succinctly and clearly.
On the other hand, it’s also great to talk with someone who’s knowledgeable about your interests. That seems to have less to do with pleasing oneself by speaking as an authority, and more to do with sharing and collaboration. My major is not in computing, so it was a breath of fresh air to discover CS professors and graduate students with whom I could speak freely.
Getting a visa in Switzerland is extremely difficult (for non-EU nationals). The employer needs to first prove that they cannot find an adequate candidate in Switzerland, then they must prove that no adequate candidate can be found in EU countries. Once that's proven, they're free to choose from the "rest of the world".
That's step one. Then there are (naturally) plenty of other factors that go into the acceptance process, but those are generally easy.
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