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> Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles". This has to do with a Serbian word and not the Nvidia GPU programming language.
by rememberlenny 5y ago
> Disclaimer: word "cuda" is taken from Serbian language, it means "miracles".
This has to do with a Serbian word and not the Nvidia GPU programming language.
- brundolf 5y agoYeah, I went in thinking I'd see some kind of wild text editor implemented entirely on the GPU
- mrweasel 5y agoOr an editor that somehow makes Cuda programming easier.
- kernelsanderz 5y agoI clicked thinking it was some NLP project that ran on the GPU.
- inb4_cancelled 5y agoWeird, the actual serbian word is "čuda", pronounced "chuda", and they're completely ignoring the diacritics.
- desi_ninja 5y agoIt hindi language, chuda means 'get f*ckd'.
- Symbiote 5y agoWriting ČudaText rather than CudaText would help clarify it's nothing to do with Nvidia.
- puszczyk 5y agoIn Polish it’s actually “cuda”, without diacritics (same meaning). Regardless, one often ignores diacritics in writing in English/Western context. My last name has “ń”, though all the airlines insist to put “n” there; same with Western European banks. While for some words they maybe ambiguities if you skip the diacritics they are usually resolved by the context. Polish ppl are def used to read a text without diacritics and not surprised by this. (Of course a larger body text is a bit harder/slower to read, but it happens often when text messaging or in a Western context). I don’t know for sure, but I suspect that Serbian is similar.
- codetrotter 5y ago> Regardless, one often ignores diacritics in writing in English/Western context For example I think most people will write the name of the car make Škoda as Skoda.
- Symbiote 5y agoI think a lot of this is because, especially historically, people outside Czechia etc didn't know how to type Š. It's an effect of English-speaking countries defining global standards for computers, aviation and so on. Hypothetically, and with a little exaggeration to make the point, if Sweden had somehow had that global influence in the mid-20th century, the American actress "Raquel Welch" might have been stuck with "Rakuel Velch" in her passport, and Swedish people would wonder why she was annoyed by this.
- rollcat 5y agoAnd that's how, (in my head,) we ended up with the international spelling of "Česko" using the Polish "cz".
- shakow 5y agoThe “international” spelling is actually the English one. E.g. France and Germany respectively use “tch” and “tsch”, which correspond to the pronunciation in their languages.
- Ballas 5y agoCuda is a trademark of Nvidia. I expect the outcome to be the same as if it was named NvidiaText.
- thewakalix 5y agoNvidia doesn’t have any connection to text editors. Can Apple sue people for selling fruit under the name “apple”?
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- 411111111111111 5y agoThey've essentially done that and won, so.... Yeah? There was a smallish apple producer (the fruit) that used a red apple with a bite taken out that lost the right to their logo. More recently there was another recipee startup with a pear logo that apple sued
- Hallucinaut 5y agoWhat a broken system. The new blasphemies of the modern age are corporations overstretching into ownership of words representing things older than the language itself. At least Google had the decency to invent a word (itself a derivative of a word invented by a child). In the UK the cloud IaaS vendor Skyscape was forced to change name by a certain media company for only part of their name, in an unrelated field. How about if you want to protect a trademark you don't use a word with real world meaning? What benefit does it give society to give these protections to extant words?
- petepete 5y agoAlso Microsoft OneDrive used to be known as Microsoft Skydrive and the same company objected. Wouldn't be so bad if Sky had contributed anything useful to the world in the last twenty years.
- dsego 5y agoAs a croat, I don't think this works. It didn't even cross my mind that it would be miracles, a) because it's plural, b) it's combined with the english word "text", c) would be more correct to spell it with 'ch' and not just drop the diacritic d) it's a noun and not an adjective which would be more suitable.