Rome was sacked repeatedly by foreign barbarians. Given the geography, I figure that is either going to be Canada or Mexico.
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gramie@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US47·8 days agoJust to point out, the province of Alberta has more measles case than the entire us, with a population of under 5 million people.
Coincidentally, the area where is this spreading most is the least vaccinated part of the province.
I found the first season superb. The characters weren’t as well defined as later on, but some of the plots were amazing and brutal!
gramie@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•$440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage ScannerEnglish51·16 days agoI have had nicks in my windshield due to gravel thrown up by vehicles traveling in the opposite direction.
gramie@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos81·24 days agoI recently learned that leaded gas is still used for aviation. Some small planes like Cessnas can be 80 years old and still flying, but do not have engines that are certified to run on leaded gas. So they have leaded.
gramie@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•What California governor Newsom said after an Alabama senator called LA ‘a third world country’36·1 month agoDon’t be coy, admit that she’s your sister.
It’s even better than that. In WordPress, you can select a plug-in from within your WordPress administration, and install it directly. You receive update notifications by email, and can upgrade within the administration panel as well. You don’t have to download and then upload anything.
In both Drupal and WordPress, you can upgrade the site and plugins/modules from CPanel.
I find Drupal just as easy to set up as wordpress. Most shared web hosts have a script to do everything for you, including installing updates. In fact, I find Drupal’s administration more logical and easier to manage. (I may be biased, since I spent 10 years developing Drupal sites.)
The other advantage is that, unlike WordPress, Drupal themes and plugins (the Drupal term is “modules”) are almost all open source and free. I find that WordPress has lots of plugins that give you the basic version for free, but then want to upsell you to a paid version.
gramie@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internetEnglish11·2 months agoNot only that, but many of his books are freely available epubs with no DRM. You can read them and decide if you like his style before going on to buy the others.
gramie@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internetEnglish1·2 months agodeleted by creator
gramie@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, failsEnglish32·2 months agoMy recommendation is Language Transfer, a freely-available system for multiple languages that, in my opinion, helps you to think in another language better than any other system I have tried.
I like Jitsi, but when I record a session it always silently aborts after about 40 minutes.
gramie@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished3·2 months agoI would bet good money that Trump cares just as little about white children.
He actually wrote a manual on his method, where it came from, and how it works. I’m not sure if it is still available for download. I got a copy a couple of years ago.
Are you have to do is get past the first lesson, and then it’s all language training.
It’s an interactive lesson. You listen to the teacher explaining something to the student, then you pause the audio and try to answer your self, then you continue and listen to the student’s response. If you try it, you’ll find that it’s very natural and effective.
One of those superlatives may well have been mine. I speak English natively, and have learned French, German, Sesotho, and Japanese (with a combination of classroom and immersion). Learning Spanish with Language Transfer immediately felt right and natural, and I wish I had it for those other languages. I really have never found a better system.
It’s not a miracle, and the teacher emphasizes the need for practicing the newfound skills (conversations with native speakers, watching TV or videos, etc.) in order to truly embed it in your brain. But this course really does give you the tools to understand grammar and the connections between the different languages.
The problem is that the introduction for each of the courses is simply a description of his teaching method. go to the second lesson, and you all find the meat of the course starting.
In 1996 I got a copy of Yggdrasil Linux as a CD in the back of a large book, about 1,000 pages. I believe that it was simply a printout of all the man pages, although it might have had instructions on installing and basic Linux usage.