bradrn

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   by bradrn 3y ago

   I’m sure he is quite learned! But that doesn’t mean I can’t disagree with him on this.
2. 302.▲
   by bradrn 3y ago

   I can agree with that. Thanks for clarifying! (Maybe I’m just too used to people getting confused about this stuff…)
3. 303.▲
   by bradrn 3y ago

   > [ɴ] is a back nasal consonant Not quite! This is a peculiarity of Japanese transcription: the moraic nasal [0] is often transcribed as /ɴ/ or /N/ in phonemic representation, while its phonetic realisation varies bet
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   by bradrn 3y ago

   > The subject [of the word ‘like’] is not uninteresting, but it is trivial. Like is a hesitation phenomenon (to give it status, the term discourse marker has been used about it), and the speaker, to gain time, makes pauses and fills th
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   by bradrn 3y ago

   Ah, that would explain it. Thanks for finding that image!
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   by bradrn 3y ago

   A short explanation as to how this works: The voice can be modeled using two main components. The vocal chords are a periodic source of sound, which is then filtered by the mouth and tongue to produce vowel sounds [0]. The filter can be mod
7. 307.▲
   by bradrn 3y ago

   > the sound change doesn't have to be otherwise attested. Somewhat counterintuitively, historical evidence shows that most sound changes are regular! Which means they affect all words satisfying the same condition in the same way [0
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   by bradrn 3y ago

   > if /th/ is so unstable, why does it exist at all? You misunderstand me. I am saying that random, irregular change is unlikely to create the sound /th/ (or /θ/ in phonetic notation, which I’ll use from
9. 309.▲
   by bradrn 3y ago

   Aside from the other sibling comments, on why with and mid always were separate words, it’s worth noting that this sort of thing just doesn’t really happen in the first place. Words can get randomly corrupted, but there’s generally a cl
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    It’s homoiconic, so the quirkiness serves very similar goals to, say, Lisp.
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    There is a Linux GUI! I’ve used it — it seems to work fine.
12. 312.▲
    by bradrn 3y ago

    Also this: https://taylor.fausak.me/2022/11/18/haskell-survey-results/#...
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    Also has a text version (though of course the video illustrates the sounds better): https://woodgears.ca/physics/bell.html
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    Wikipedia has several other articles about interesting naming systems, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_names (traditionally exactly one syllable long) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene
15. 315.▲
    by bradrn 3y ago

    But that’s ⟨œ⟩, not ⟨æ⟩. They’re different letters.
16. 316.▲
    by bradrn 3y ago

    All I can say is that I’ve never seen this usage before.
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    > … forces use of ‘house style’ by adding dipthongs in words like ‘encyclopædia’ Nitpick: firstly, it’s spelled ‘diphthong’. Secondly, ⟨æ⟩ is a ligature, not a diphthong (at least in English). Diphthongs are sounds made up of a smooth tr
18. 318.▲
    by bradrn 3y ago

    Oh, I wouldn’t say that . Taste is subjective.
19. 319.▲
    by bradrn 3y ago

    I disagree. I’ve always quite liked it.
20. 320.▲
    by bradrn 3y ago

    Thunderbird is a mail client, just like the desktop version of Microsoft Outlook. Emails don’t have to be stored locally — I use Thunderbird with two Gmail accounts and it works great.
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    Note also: > Specifically, Harfbuzz is purely responsible for shaping ; although Harfbuzz does have APIs for accessing glyph outlines, typically other libraries in the free software text rendering stack are responsible for text segmenta
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    Paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06040-5
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    The documentation is itself fairly funny, for those who don’t care to click ahead: > This "function" has a superficial similarity to ‘unsafePerformIO’ but it is in fact a malevolent agent of chaos. It unpicks the seams of reali
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    Alas, Xfce doesn’t support Wayland yet… though it appears to be in progress: https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap
25. 325.▲
    by bradrn 3y ago

    Not ‘misread’, just ‘missed that bit entirely’. Testing it out, this is indeed the case.
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    Ohh, that makes complete sense… thanks for pointing this out!
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    Wait, how does that work? As far as I can see from the documentation, it can only serve on localhost, which to my understanding is only accessible from the single device it was launched on.
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    > Relatedly, differentials shouldn't be italicized. Its \int\mathrm{d}x, not \int dx. I like using https://www.ctan.org/pkg/diffcoeff for this.
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    > Avoid use of passive tense if at all possible. Example: "In each reservation request message, a refresh interval used by the sender is included." reads better and shorter as "Each ... message includes ..." To which
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    by bradrn 3y ago

    If anyone’s wondering: the letters on the piece of paper are from the Cherokee script [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary ]. I have no idea if it shows coherent writing or just random letters, though.