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by akavi 2y ago
Pitch accent in Japanese is deterministic based on the mora that is "accented". While it's true the effect of this accent "spreads" across the entire word, you only need to mark a single mora to know the effects wor
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by akavi 2y ago
Tones can be written, and all human spoken communication involves conversational cues, Chinese is not special in this respect.
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by akavi 2y ago
> You would have to invent a system where pitch accent could be indicated for each word Really not hard to do. A symbol on the syllable bearing the pitch accent would solve the issue > And then there are the words with little or no pi
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by akavi 2y ago
Also isn't something that a (geo)sharded postgres DB with the appropriate indexes couldn't handle with aplomb. Number of orders to a given restaurant can't be more than a dozen a minute or so.
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by akavi 2y ago
Definitely TC
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by akavi 2y ago
Reminder that a mere 15 years ago, Walmart was the unfair monopolist whose market position rendered competition infeasible. Also unclear to me why "ecommerce" is a market unto itself that we should be concerned with level of conce
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by akavi 2y ago
I feel like every time COBOL is mentioned we get these stories about crazy high comp for COBOL developers, but anecdotally my aunt worked on COBOL projects in the mid 2010s and was paid a much more modest 45 $/hr. Good money for small
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by akavi 2y ago
Chances increase dramatically if we cooperate in testifying against the perceived "mastermind", as Ms. Ellison did.
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by akavi 2y ago
Can you make the Record class private to a module, and only export a static function that constructs them? (I know very little about Java)
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by akavi 2y ago
You can get strongly typed "shaped" data without objects[0], even in Java: Records[1]. ~Unfortunately, I believe they're mutable (and cannot be made immutable).~ Edit: I was wrong, they're immutable. [0]: I'm using
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by akavi 2y ago
The other thing is, is if there was demand for load-carrying, rough terrain compatible robots, why aren't legged robots like Boston Dynamics' making a dent in the market? They're strictly superior than the hoverbot on battery
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by akavi 2y ago
> We also had initial results from the FLOW trial, suggesting that Ozempic prevents diabetics with kidney disease from needing dialysis. Between this and the 2nd order decrease in renal disease from the reduction in diabetes and high blo
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by akavi 2y ago
> Definitely not visiting that spot ever again. Sounds like there's already a cap on it.
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by akavi 2y ago
> I should add that lots of states and some cities have their own minimum wage laws but they are all structured the same. Rule of thumb, there's _nothing_ in US law where you can say "things vary by state, but they're all
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by akavi 2y ago
That's going to be hard to do so long as we continue regarding someone who makes a billion from a new cancer drug as as a price-gouging murderer while regarding someone who makes a billion from starting an adtech company with mere indi
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by akavi 2y ago
Is embodied cognition not at least in part about interactivity? I perform action (emit tokens) and receive feedback (non-self-generated tokens)
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by akavi 2y ago
Ah, good point! But the model is downstream of the "patch" tokenization, so the cut-down in resolution (compression) of the image has already occurred prior to the point where the model can direct greater "attention".
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by akavi 2y ago
Speaking as someone with only a tenuous grasp of how VLMs work, this naïvely feels like a place where the "embodiement" folks might have a point: Humans have the ability to "refine" their perception of an image iterative
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by akavi 2y ago
I think I meant more fusional inflections. 们, 了, 着, 的, etc, don't affect the pronunciation of the root morpheme.
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by akavi 2y ago
Chinese has fewer inflections than English, but does have 儿 as a nominalizer (and one which is quite productive in northern dialects)
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by akavi 2y ago
> Why can't we have both multiple staircases and fire-retardant construction? Because that 1) that costs more money (if you object, "How dare we value money more than human lives?", replace "costs money" with &qu
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by akavi 2y ago
As you've demonstrated, you can always construct sum types in typescript with the use of explicit discriminants: T = {tag: "L", payload: L} | {tag: "R", payload: R} The real issue is typescript doesn&#x27
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by akavi 2y ago
I'm Indian-American, as I stated above, and the list of subcategories are my own ethnic taxonomy. I'm not sure what part of the Lingayat distinction bothers you. My grandparents would characterize it as "Lingayat" vs &qu
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by akavi 2y ago
As an Indian-American, "South Asian" is a perfectly reasonable ethnic grouping in the United States. Collectively, that represents ~1% of the US population, too small a grouping to reasonably split out when talking about ethnicity
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by akavi 2y ago
It's any of: Rust + (garbage collector) Swift + (cross platform support) Kotlin + (proper pattern matching) Unfortunately, none quite hit that central sweet spot, IMO
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by akavi 2y ago
That's not quite a sufficient rule. Eg, 1 Bahraini Dinar is 1_000 Bahraini Fils.
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by akavi 2y ago
It's a shame that along with the clause against bills of attainder, banning laws that are intended to solely harm a specific individual or group of individuals, the constitution didn't also ban bills of... abtainder (?) banning la
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by akavi 3y ago
I found this hard to believe, but confirmation bias is a hell of a drug, so I ran my own quick blinded experiment: 3 cups of hot water, one of which had a small pinch of saffron swirled around in it, one with a 1/4 tsp of turmeric, one
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by akavi 3y ago
Rents came down significantly during 2020 in San Francisco (I paid ~2500 $/mo in Nov 2020 for a place that rented for 3300 $/mo the year before)
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by akavi 3y ago
They rely on the incomes of family members, savings, or governmental transfer payments (social security, welfare, disability, etc). Not sure the percentages of each, but those categories probably about cover it.

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