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Txoko: Basques' traditional feast a gastronomic peek into a delicious culture

Posted by jxub on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:37PM
from the johnhendersontravel.com dept.

https://johnhendersontravel.com/txoko/

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Szczecin Paprikash

Posted by jxub on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:41AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szczecin_paprikash

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Book of Proof by Richard Hammack [pdf]

Posted by jxub on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:32PM
from the richardhammack.github.io dept.

https://richardhammack.github.io/BookOfProof/Main.pdf

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Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon: An Indonesian Magic System

Posted by jxub on Sunday September 06, 2026 @07:39AM
from the afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev dept.

https://afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/indonesian-ttrpg-blogwagon-an-indonesian-magic-system/

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Cascading pipelines with DSPy are kind of good

Posted by jxub on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:52AM
from the martnquesada.github.io dept.

https://martnquesada.github.io/blog/2026/01/cascading-pipelines-with-dspy-are-kind-of-good/

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Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @05:57AM (#49359299)

And one of them, "Trampa", means "trap" or "cheating" in Spanish

London Beer Flood

Posted by jxub on Monday August 10, 2026 @07:34AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood

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Degrees of Wealth

Posted by jxub on Thursday August 06, 2026 @10:23AM
from the jaapgrolleman.com dept.

https://jaapgrolleman.com/degrees-of-wealth/

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The resurgence of fortified landscapes in West Africa

Posted by jxub on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @04:44AM
from the anl.geog.ufl.edu dept.

https://anl.geog.ufl.edu/fortified-landscapes/

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The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan

Posted by jxub on Friday July 24, 2026 @10:43AM
from the aramcoworld.com dept.

https://www.aramcoworld.com/articles/2015/the-fabled-flatbreads-of-uzbekistan

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Kremlin Tunnels: The Secret of Moscow's Underworld (1989)

Posted by jxub on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:17PM
from the latimes.com dept.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-28-mn-4159-story.html

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The Pale

Posted by jxub on Sunday September 14, 2025 @03:38PM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale

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Problem Solving vs. Problem Picking

Posted by jxub on Thursday October 31, 2024 @08:04AM
from the gkk.dev dept.

https://gkk.dev/posts/problem-solving-vs-problem-picking/

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Shanghai Before the Foreigners

Posted by jxub on Saturday October 19, 2024 @04:42PM
from the jaapgrolleman.com dept.

https://jaapgrolleman.com/shanghai-before-the-foreigners/

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Eating Through the Chinese Far North East

Posted by jxub on Monday October 14, 2024 @12:36PM
from the stickystories.net dept.

https://stickystories.net/2020/05/16/eatingthroughharbin/

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Re:I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs on Friday July 05, 2024 @08:53AM (#40882285)

Apologies - it didn’t cross my mind!

I was at AMD in the mid-late 2000s helping design CPU/APU/GPUs

Posted by jxub on Friday July 05, 2024 @08:23AM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/mohapatrahemant/status/1809135345683841050

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Taking a Look at (Some) Tokenizers

Posted by jxub on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @07:06AM
from the martnquesada.github.io dept.

https://martnquesada.github.io/blog/2023/05/taking-a-look-at-some-tokenizers/

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How to Do the Jhanas

Posted by jxub on Monday June 17, 2024 @10:12AM
from the nadia.xyz dept.

https://nadia.xyz/jhanas

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Pu Erh Tea Market Crash: The Boom and Bust Revisited (2017)

Posted by jxub on Saturday June 08, 2024 @11:47AM
from the teasenz.com dept.

https://www.teasenz.com/chinese-tea/2007-pu-erh-tea-market-crash-boom-bust-crisis-recession.html

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China's tiered city system explained (2016)

Posted by jxub on Thursday January 18, 2024 @11:00AM
from the multimedia.scmp.com dept.

https://multimedia.scmp.com/2016/cities/

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In China, what you eat tells who you are (2011)

Posted by jxub on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @08:58AM
from the latimes.com dept.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-xpm-2011-sep-16-la-fg-china-elite-farm-20110917-story.html

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The Strange Survival of Guinness World Records

Posted by jxub on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @09:20AM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/may/25/guinness-world-records-norris-mcwhirter-ashrita-furman

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Notes on Nigeria

Posted by jxub on Thursday May 11, 2023 @03:20AM
from the mattlakeman.org dept.

https://mattlakeman.org/2023/05/09/notes-on-nigeria/

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Accent Addition: Prosody and Perception Facilitate Second Language Learning

Posted by jxub on Sunday July 24, 2022 @04:27PM
from the olle-kjellin.com dept.

http://olle-kjellin.com/SpeechDoctor/ProcLP98.html

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Wages and Prices in the Soviet Union (1936)

Posted by jxub on Thursday June 23, 2022 @06:05PM
from the marxists.org dept.

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/ni/vol03/no03/wollenberg.htm

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English Is Not Normal

Posted by jxub on Monday June 06, 2022 @01:22PM
from the aeon.co dept.

https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-english-so-weirdly-different-from-other-languages

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Re:What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world? on Sunday April 17, 2022 @03:28PM (#31063574)

Anywhere in Southern or Eastern Europe that’s pretty much always the case.

Explaining the Brilliance and Insanity of the Russian Language

Posted by jxub on Sunday April 10, 2022 @06:07AM
from the slavadoesamerica.com dept.

https://www.slavadoesamerica.com/not-to-be-penis-like-explaining-the-brilliance-and-insanity-of-the-russian-language/

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Re:Zas Editor on Friday April 08, 2022 @07:42AM (#30955735)

And "dependancies" on the landing page.