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·13 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Well, to some extent, yes. Of course the literal number of works you can write per minute is not, but:

- someone with a good understanding will often come to a concise, clear answer while someone struggling will produce a convoluted paragraph.

- the way to get to the result will vary depending on your understanding (e.g., are you blindly applying some method or understanding what's going on). For instance, "hey, this is a vector field, I don't need to evaluate this complex integral, I just need to compute the difference between the start and endpoint of the curve!". Both answers will be correct, but one denotes a much better actual understanding (and will take way less time).
kalenx
·17 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Not sure about that. Outside temperature above 37 were common in many highly populated areas, even before "high temperature summer" (e.g., India, Indonesia, most of Brazil, etc.). If there was an actual selection pressure, we would have seen its results by now.
kalenx
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It wasn't really necessary to have a special lineup of laptop CPUs because the base CPU power consumption was already low. 486 were using around 4-5W, if I recall correctly. Mobile CPUs really became necessary when the megahertz race started and power consumption increased to much higher levels.
kalenx
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Good point, I was trying to figure out how I would actually pronounce "féte". My main argument was that in any case, it wouldn't sound close to "fête" (or "fète"), which sound more like "faîte" in French -- as in "au faîte de sa popularité".
kalenx
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Ok, so what did I misunderstand in OP sentence "no differences, we pronounce them all é and we don't care."? "them" is not referring at all possible accentuation of the letter e?
kalenx
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
You pronounce "fête" as "féte" (basically, equivalent to the English "faith" without the "h" sound at the end)? To my hear these two sound very different.
kalenx
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Or "est" (he is) and "est" (the East) although English also has plenty of such "non-homophonic homographs"...
kalenx
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Considering air resistance is proportional to the cube of the speed, it would be highly surprising to not be the case.
kalenx
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Since when? I sincerely do not understand that point about snow. I've lived in Canada (not southern Ontario) for most of my life and everyone had (and still mostly has) FWD. 4x4 was only for people actually going off road... I don't get how this is now a "must".