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by BalinKing 9mo ago
That’s insanely impressive—did you do nothing but grind kanji for 10 months straight, or something?
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by BalinKing 9mo ago
Admittedly I only know (a little) Japanese and no Korean, but I get the superficial impression that kana are generally much more phonetically faithful than Hangul (namely, because of the post-WWII spelling reform that updated all the kana s
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by BalinKing 9mo ago
The parent comment is correct—the ich-laut isn't its own phoneme in English, but (at least in many dialects) it does exist as an allophone of /h/.
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by BalinKing 9mo ago
There's an ethos among certain circles (especially on HN, I feel) that basically boils down to "tools don't matter" (perhaps manifesting as "a tool isn't bad if it's ubiquitous" (e.g. Bash or CSS), or
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by BalinKing 9mo ago
FWIW I think 言う is a different phenomenon entirely, because おう is pronounced as two vowels when it has grammatical meaning (in this case, as the verb ending), or between different words/morphemes. But my (non-native) understanding wa
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by BalinKing 9mo ago
Could you elaborate on the last sentence? Wiktionary claims they're pronounced the same modulo pitch accent, but Wiktionary's phonetic transcriptions are (mostly?) auto-generated AFAIK.
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by BalinKing 9mo ago
I'm having trouble finding anything concrete online (other than people simply repeating the folk wisdom) other than control flow operators, which are implemented as normal functions in Haskell (i.e. including custom control flow operat
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by BalinKing 9mo ago
Another argument I've often heard is that laziness largely obviates macros. Personally, I agree that this is often true—but not always, and that last bit is where Lisp-style macros would be really nice. (^^ edited based on one of the r
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by BalinKing 10mo ago
There is an easy shortcut for em dashes on macOS, Opt+Shift+-. This makes it really easy to use them, which I do all the time in casual settings (indeed, more often than in formal settings).
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by BalinKing 10mo ago
FWIW I’m not quite convinced there’s that much of a dialectical divide: “Not bad,” “he’s not wrong,” etc. sound entirely natural to me in American English.
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by BalinKing 10mo ago
Honestly, the SCP wiki might scratch this itch for you—it's sci-fi but with a lot of fantasy elements, and I'd put it on the "hard" side of the spectrum. Also, I think Greg Egan's books are pretty out there (the two
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by BalinKing 10mo ago
To echo the sibling comment, that answer is specifically referring to the type theory behind Lean (which I’ve heard is pretty weird in a lot of ways, albeit usually in service of usability). Many type theories are weaker than ZFC, or even Z
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by BalinKing 10mo ago
https://news.ysimulator.run/item/1292 > Give it a few more hours and this will devolve into a pedantic grammar autopsy, three parallel threads arguing about whether the title is “technically correct,” and someone li
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by BalinKing 11mo ago
"Premisis" is not an English word, as far as I can tell.
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by BalinKing 11mo ago
The OED says that the "house or building..." use of "premise" actually comes from an earlier legal meaning ("The subject of a conveyance or bequest..."). Even for those who (inaccurately) think etymology determ
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by BalinKing 1y ago
I’d guess that the sibilants, consonant clusters, and/or vowel reduction would play a big role.
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by BalinKing 1y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response! Not necessarily trying to debate or anything—clearly you've put a lot of intellectual effort into this over the years already—but I find one point you made particularly interesting. (Disclaimer: I am
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by BalinKing 1y ago
But the immediate next two sentences say: When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (M
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by BalinKing 1y ago
Obviously it’s a very broad question, but could I ask you to elaborate on why “a double major in science and philosophy killed all of that”?
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by BalinKing 1y ago
Titanfall was one of my favorite games ever, largely because of the movement. (I even hated using the eponymous Titans, because they take away your ability to run on walls!)
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by BalinKing 1y ago
I disagree, because with an instrument you actually get music out at the end, which is enjoyable in its own right on top of the satisfaction of executing the technical challenge of playing it. A more akin analogy, in my opinion, would be
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by BalinKing 1y ago
I want to push back on this, because the Christian conception of God definitely includes the idea that God created all good and comforting things, and is indeed their ultimate source. Like, just because God is transcendent[0] does not mea
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by BalinKing 1y ago
AFAIK it would take an infinite amount of time to measure something to infinite precision, at least by the usual ways we’d think to do so…. I suppose one could assume a universe where that somehow isn’t the case, but (to my knowledge) that’
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by BalinKing 1y ago
I can confirm it's grey on both sides on the website.
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by BalinKing 1y ago
Isn't the general advice that if malware has been installed specifically due to physical access, then the entire machine should be considered permanently compromised? That is to say, if someone has access to your unlocked machine, I&#x
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by BalinKing 1y ago
I think the parent commenter was pointing out that, instead of installing Claude Code, they could just install actual malware. It's like that phrase Raymond Chen always uses: "you're already on the other side of the airtigh
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by BalinKing 1y ago
There's very little content here—it's basically just an ad.
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by BalinKing 1y ago
That example isn’t a contradictory worldview though, just “people being people, and therefore failing to be as good as the ideal they claim to strive for.”
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by BalinKing 1y ago
And don’t forget all the Sino-Japanese loanwords ( kango , 漢語), which has made up a huge chunk of the vocabulary for centuries, long before the current influx of English loanwords.
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by BalinKing 1y ago
With the exception of one or two sentences, it sounded pretty neutral to me... maybe I just didn't read it closely enough? The "dogmatism" of the technical criticism (assuming the post is accurate) really does seem justified

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