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by aasasd 5y ago
> people across the world are more likely to know broken English than even a single word of Mandarin Several years ago I went to a resort town in Egypt, and all Egyptians working around the hotels there spoke Russian, because there wer
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by aasasd 5y ago
Afaik Chinese hieroglyphs also have hints for pronunciation. I seem to have read in this very thread that something around 2/3rds have them. Doesn't change the classification of the writing system, though.
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by aasasd 5y ago
PS2 emulation is such a pain that I still can't make any emuls work on my Mac. Meanwhile Flycast is being ported to PS Vita with decent FPS.
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by aasasd 5y ago
> synthesized speech is common enough I'm curious: where do you encounter much synthesized speech? In my ‘fairly general’ usage (if there is such a thing), I only hear it in YouTube tutorials when the author is totally reluctant t
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by aasasd 5y ago
From a linguistic podcast I learned that people don't notice how mangled their pronunciation is, in their native language. With phonemic languages, most people think ‘duh, I speak like it's written’ while swallowing half the vowel
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by aasasd 5y ago
My two biggest disappointments about English: - I've been told in school that English has spelling rules. Turns out that's bollocks. It's a logographic language. I can't wait for the US empire to fall so we can all switc
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by aasasd 5y ago
It's also definitely a ‘minced oath’ for ‘похуй’—which involves the dick and a prefix/preposition that is basically random, as usual for abstract idiomatic expressions in various languages. For general absence of fucks, there&#x27
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by aasasd 5y ago
These days you can also feed an image of a car to Google's image search, or to Yandex image search—the latter is more head-on about recognizing stuff in general, while Google still tends to suggest handwavy and useless descriptions lik
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by aasasd 5y ago
Yup, there's also the mark that it's a ‘background vehicle’ under the image. The site's UI could use some work, though—I'm saying that as an occasional user.
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by aasasd 5y ago
BTW, if anyone wants to experience the boredom of 18 km of turns among the trees, without actually going to NC/TN—there are custom circuits of Deals Gap/Tail of the Dragon for rFactor, Assetto Corsa and perhaps other sims. (Possib
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by aasasd 5y ago
A bunch of years ago, when Tesla and Google's car were only just starting and it was fashionable to discuss the implications of self-driving cars, one dude wrote (approximately): > People are discussing: if the car has to choose be
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by aasasd 5y ago
Well tape the microphone too. With thick soft tape.
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by aasasd 5y ago
IIRC FF puts the domain on the ‘blocklist’ after the first manual choice, at least if the user selects ‘block’ instead of one-time ‘deny’ (haven't seen the dialog in a while). Hopefully The Browser doesn't pester the user each t
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by aasasd 5y ago
> * The control panel was solved, so to speak, once they added a search interface. It doesn’t matter how complicated the hierarchy of modules is if what you want is only a search away.* Uh-huh... unless you don't know what the optio
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by aasasd 5y ago
This could be much more interesting if it included shots of the various windows listed in the panel, and perhaps also the ‘advanced’ interfaces available since Win2000 (iirc)—opened via ‘properties’ on the ‘My computer’ icon, though I think
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by aasasd 5y ago
My favorite example of an expansion chip is a 32-bit ARM V7 at 21.47 MHz on a cartridge for SNES, which itself had a 16-bit CPU that is an enhancement of 6502, at nominal 3.58 MHz. All for a game of shogi, a Japanese variant of chess: http
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by aasasd 5y ago
I'm just surprised to see that someone else knows about ‘Golden Boy’. It rides such a wacky edge between the mainstream and the weird that it's difficult to imagine an audience for it. Probably the only reason I've seen it is
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by aasasd 5y ago
More to the point, Hammerspoon itself has functions to control Spotify: http://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.spotify.html
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by aasasd 5y ago
> I got tired of the friction around opening Spotify, going into my work playlist, hitting play, waiting several moments for the playlist to load, etc, so I downloaded a bunch of mp3s from YouTube and put them in ~/Music/work&
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by aasasd 5y ago
I gotten off the frontend train ten years ago. Then just the other day I decided that generating some stuff for printing in HTML should be way easier than fussing around with spreadsheets (and was right)—so finally looked up how one positio
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by aasasd 5y ago
I mean, players' standard advice for modding and such is: download this executable mentioned in a forum post off some janky site or a filesharing service, disable the antivirus, run the thing with administrator privileges. Older people
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by aasasd 5y ago
I opened Wikipedia to see what you mean with the mention of the library, and there I read: > Despite the widespread modern belief that the Library of Alexandria was burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, the Library actually decline
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by aasasd 5y ago
It took me until the footnote to remember that this is Simom Tatham, who indeed also authored a fine no-nonsense collection of little puzzle games, which has been ported to a bunch of platforms. Here they are playable online on Tatham'
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by aasasd 5y ago
Six seconds =) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno#The_Microsoft_Sound
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by aasasd 5y ago
TIL Raskin actually got to kinda implement his ideas of a text-driven interface—of which Macintosh was pretty much the opposite (coincidentally it's said that Mac's interface was largely redesigned after Raskin left the project).
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by aasasd 5y ago
> Douche® furnitures Somehow that does have the cadence and sound of a ‘premium’ brand, or at least faux-premium. The ‘registered’ symbol really sells it, though. In these post-ironic times, I can easily see this name being used.
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by aasasd 5y ago
My dream of tab management is if the browser would suspend long-unused tabs into a tree-style list—i.e. a bunch of bookmarks in the same arrangement in which I opened the tabs, without overhead of actual tabs. Then, live tabs could also be
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by aasasd 5y ago
Good. Maybe some people will drop Chrome now.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Off-topic: with a bunch of vintage ‘booting a computer’ stuff lately on HN and in my YT recommendations, I keep remembering what I once read about an old trick for ‘faster booting’: on bootup, the computer displayed a static screenshot take
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by aasasd 5y ago
Pretty sure floating under giant balloons was a vaguely regular pastime of wealthy people in the nineteenth century, and perhaps earlier.

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