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Betelgeuse Will Briefly Disappear in Once-in-a-Lifetime Coincidence(scientificamerican.com)
10 points by Umofomia 3y ago|4 comments
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Why Wikipedia's Highway Editors Took the Exit Ramp(slate.com)
9 points by Umofomia 3y ago|3 comments
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Twitch Will Shut Down Its Streaming Platform in South Korea(nytimes.com)
5 points by Umofomia 3y ago|1 comments
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'Walk on water' or return to the office, Broadcom CEO says amid layoffs(sfgate.com)
8 points by Umofomia 3y ago|6 comments
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IBM to end 401(k) match, offering a hybrid plan(cnbc.com)
27 points by Umofomia 3y ago|16 comments
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Apple pulls its ads from X after Musk's antisemitic posts(theverge.com)
81 points by Umofomia 3y ago|40 comments
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Web3 game project allegedly hired actors to pose as execs in $1.6M exit scam(cointelegraph.com)
37 points by Umofomia 3y ago|18 comments
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by Umofomia 3y ago
Green (綠) in Chinese also came later. In Old Chinese, 青 was generally used to represent both blue and green colors. While the word 綠 to mean green has been attested as far back as 1000 BC, the idea that it was a separate color rather than
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by Umofomia 3y ago
https://archive.ph/GxPx
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One court case changed how West Coast cities deal with homeless encampments(seattletimes.com)
1 points by Umofomia 3y ago|2 comments
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by Umofomia 3y ago
It looks like some of the omissions you mentioned are instead included on a separate page for the OEM Service Release 2 version of Windows 95: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win95osr2
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by Umofomia 3y ago
> This is the first and only Windows to denote the current time zone on the map. Surprisingly, in the next editions of Windows, the world map simply occupies space and the highlight is nowhere to be seen. Explained here: https:/&#x
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Why Every Car in China Hangs a Rockstar Logo(superpixel.com)
4 points by Umofomia 3y ago|0 comments
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The evolution of typing Chinese characters(technologyreview.com)
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by Umofomia 3y ago
No, this is a false cognate. Chinese bāo (包) is short for miànbāo (麵包), literally meaning "flour wrap/package", and its use has been attested since the Song Dynasty (ca. 11th century), whereas the Portuguese didn't have
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by Umofomia 3y ago
I'm not affiliated nor do I personally have any experience with this service, but have heard good things about the Canto To Mando Blueprint: https://www.thecmblueprint.com/
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by Umofomia 3y ago
ChatGPT seems to fare much better: > Translate "please give me his book" to Cantonese. > > "請俾我佢嘅書" is the Cantonese translation for "please give me his book". This appears generally fine though stylis
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by Umofomia 3y ago
I just tried Bing Translate, and even though it nominally supports "Cantonese (Traditional)", their translations don't seem to be much better for the example sentence I gave. "Please give me his book" is translated
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by Umofomia 3y ago
Evidence that Chinese can be perfectly understandable written without the use of characters can be seen in the Dungan language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_language ), which can be considered a dialect of Manda
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by Umofomia 3y ago
No, "Chinese Traditional" refers to the character set used to write each character[1], but the actual text is still written according with the vocabulary and grammar of Standard Written Chinese, which is based on spoken Mandarin.
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by Umofomia 3y ago
> Mandarin is a newer language than Cantonese Both languages descended from a common ancestor, so you can't necessarily say that one is newer than the other. However, it is the case that Cantonese preserves several features that Man
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by Umofomia 3y ago
Interestingly, Cantonese songs tend to preserve tone better than songs sung in Mandarin. The paper "Tone and Melody in Cantonese" by Marjorie K.M. Chan [1] mentions the following: > For Chinese, modern songs in Mandarin and Ca
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by Umofomia 3y ago
Note that while Cantonese has the phenomenon of changed tones (變音 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changed_tone ), it is not actually considered tone sandhi ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_sandhi
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by Umofomia 3y ago
The code in that image [1] is written in wenyang-lang [2], a programming language based on Classical Chinese. It was previously featured on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22213406 [1] https://visua
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by Umofomia 3y ago
Yes and no. Cantonese has 9 tone categories that have 6 distinct tone contours. The 3 additional tones fall under the checked tone category ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checked_tone ) for historical purposes, but thei
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by Umofomia 3y ago
Mandarin definitely has many characters with multiple pronunciations. One large class come from literary vs. colloquial reading differences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_and_colloquial_readin... Another large
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by Umofomia 3y ago
The font annotates each character using the Jyutping system for Cantonese pronunciation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyutping
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by Umofomia 4y ago
https://archive.is/VThw8
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Stranded on a mountain, he tied his phone to a drone to text for help(washingtonpost.com)
13 points by Umofomia 4y ago|6 comments
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Whatever Happened to Ruby?(infoworld.com)
5 points by Umofomia 4y ago|2 comments

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