CrystalLangUser

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by CrystalLangUser 8y ago
No, languages are indeed different. Providing elementary grammar or vocabulary is next to useless in real conversation with natives. I highly doubt anyone is SOLELY learning English or Spanish through Duolingo. It's important to look a
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by CrystalLangUser 8y ago
The short version is that Anki’s spaced repetition is very good for retaining and learning vocabulary. My background is that I’ve used it while studying Korean. I’m at about 2,000 korean words now, of which Anki has helped me a lot. Each da
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by CrystalLangUser 8y ago
Right, when I’m learning mathematics I hate how they force you to learn math notation. Learning a romanized version of a language is not learning a language. Sounds in one language don’t map neatly to English sounds, and beginner language l
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Sky, sun, flowers, fruits, trees, vegetables, animals, grass, dirt, etc.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
> red, pink, blue, yellow, green colour scheme Is there an actual explanation for this? Those are everyday colors... or have I been living on planet earth as an unwitting MKUltra subject?
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
I was sorely confused as I thought Samba was legitimately doing this at first. It's literally Samba's name with .tv appended, and one can play files using sambda + VLC..
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Fair enough, as with most things in life, it's context dependent. I'm speaking from an American perspective, and even in an endearing manner I would never use `babe` because that's something you'd call your significant o
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
At least with Korean and Japanese, they are highly formal as they have different conjugations depending on the level of the person you're speaking to. With Korean, spoken language among roughly same-age friends is informal, of course.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
I didn't introduce the specification of a man calling a woman. The parent comment did. Specifically, when a man calls a woman a `babe` or a pet name like that, in my opinion it's a tad sexist, unless they have a friendship close e
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
I cannot think of any office situation where a man calling a woman a `babe` is acceptable. It’s patronizing at best, and sexist at worst. Note that parent comment specifically said calling a woman that. Not merely using the word itself
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
No, I don’t think most people think of it in the same sense that we do. I lived in Korea, not Japan, but they also have a word for foreigner—외국인. I never got the sense that a Korean person found the term offensive to us and still used the w
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Programming functionally forces you to approach programming in a fundamentally different way than what you’re used to. It’s not a magic bullet. But what you learn can be used in other languages, especially things like Map, Filter, and Reduc
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
I agree with your comment, but isn’t it “thin red line”? Or am I thinking of something else?
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
That’s not a metaphor. A dumpster fire is an idiom meaning a situation where something is FUBAR. It’s not a literal dumpster fire... Idioms are extremely common in English, and they’re common in other languages as well. Try talking fo
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
That doesn’t make any sense. Descriptivism describes usage, not whether people think it’s prescriptivist or not. Each dictionary has their own standards for what constitutes enough usage to be considered a word. Otherwise we’d have infinite
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Those are two completely different situations, and it's intellectually lazy to consider them the same just because they're both words that people occasionally mix up. First, who & whom are more rare in speech than its &
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
"To whom did you give it", ignoring the "whom", sounds like something that might be generated by a robot trying to imitate the English language. That contortion of a sentence comes from the old Prescriptivist rule "
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
One thing that comes to mind is when muslims raised concerns about Switzerland's flag.[0] This is a different sort of case than described in the article, but pushback here is inevitable. [0]: https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch&#
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
That sentiment comes from the Confucianism, Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism which shaped Korea. I think that sits alongside with the points the article is making. Similar to the McDonalds in Milan example in the article, Korea has LotteMart
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
> not to be burned and buried in a waste disposal field (where they'd be in their most secure state) This is just a simple strawman. It's not that hard to have a middle ground, just disallow apps from using things like your web
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
TwinGalaxies had quite the extensive writeup on Todd's various cheating [1]. There was a staggering amount of evidence, including TAS (Tool Assisted Speedruns) proving that Todd's time is physically impossible . That blew up in a
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Essentially, this is impossible for anything that’s not easily explainable all at once- so it’s useless for any advanced domain. You can’t just give people a firehose of information. When you learn acoustic engineering, you have to first le
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Not necessarily. If said refactoring requires very little work, then sure. But, as it often is the case, refactoring often takes a fair bit of work and probably more than expected. Thus, it is out of scope of the original PR/branch.
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
You can see this manifest itself in games too. Stardew Valley became extraordinarily popular. It's just a game where you explicitly give up your corporate cubicle job to take over your grandfather's farm in a small village town. I
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Why do you think a public ledger will be the medium for illegal transactions? How exactly do you plan on converting fiat to btc and then paying for transactions? Every step of the way is going to be on the. public. ledger. Forever. Linked
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Because of vaporware promises from the developers of BTC. Don't worry, in 18 months^, Lightning Network (TM) will come out and fix everything by adding a second layer to bitcoin, nevermind that the first layer will be ignored ^ Not acc
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Well, they could but the entire community can just fork. Miners are under no obligation to stick with a crazy change like that. The core developers would only shoot themselves in the foot and make themselves never to be trusted again. And
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
You totally misread the parent comment. Nowhere did they state they only wanted a store of value. They were talking about the blockchain and its public recordkeeping. There's nothing like Wells Fargo doing shady things and charging y
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
Illegal transactions? On a public ledger system? BTC was always about reducing control from a few centralized parties. I don't want my bank or paypal account being arbitrarily frozen. Nowadays BTC is not very good at transactions due t
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by CrystalLangUser 9y ago
I agree, but not with all of reddit. You can follow only helpful subs just like you can only follow helpful people or read HN.. there's a difference between normal reddit and say /r/clojure, etc.

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