bradrn

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by bradrn 5y ago
Thank you! When I read the title I only knew about https://hackage.haskell.org/package/parsec , and for a moment I was very confused …
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by bradrn 5y ago
One hundred and fifty tabs‽ Pff, that’s nothing. I currently have 400 — after closing ~4000. My problem is that I regularly check HN (and occasionally other sites as well), and I often end up opening ~20 tabs a day from that alone. Of c
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by bradrn 5y ago
I’ve heard this several times, but I looked into it in more detail, and it seems that there’s some controversy: e.g. https://www.pnas.org/content/113/9/2442 , https://academic.oup.com/femsre&#x
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by bradrn 5y ago
Huh, so it wasn’t just me who was confused when I tried to use pandas. I found pretty much anything non-trivial to be difficult at best and impossible at worst. (IIRC I needed to sum rows grouped by time period or something like that.) Then
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by bradrn 5y ago
Well, it has native speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers
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by bradrn 5y ago
It’s also trivial and easy in Haskell — you just need an instance of `Foldable` or `Traversable` on your collection, and then you can fold or traverse it in a configurable way. Or for recursive structures, use https://hackage.has
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by bradrn 5y ago
EDIT: Looks like the title’s been changed — it was previously ‘Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable?’. Put simply, the title question can be answered as follows: 500 years of sound change, plus analogy, plus borrowing from oth
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by bradrn 5y ago
Full video: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-13/uk-journalist-pranked...
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by bradrn 5y ago
They look pretty simple: unless I’m missing something, it’s just ‘stack install’, plus a couple more commands for each language you want to use with morloc.
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by bradrn 5y ago
This would be a bad idea, due to inter-dialectal variation. As I said in an earlier comment [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27070624 ]: > Phonetic spelling is useless when you’ve got more than one dialect. For insta
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by bradrn 5y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by this. In phonetic transcription, rolled r is unambiguously [r]. In phonemic transcription… well, /r/ can be ambiguous depending on what language you’re transcribing, but that’s OK because phonemic tra
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by bradrn 5y ago
For me, what really stood out were the rocks — real rocks just don’t have those sorts of textures.
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by bradrn 5y ago
The missing partition made it nearly unusable for me as well. Thankfully, I eventually found a solution at https://www.userchrome.org/firefox-89-styling-proton-ui.html... since then I’ve had no problems.
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by bradrn 5y ago
> In written Chinese and Japanese, the order of ideographs—which is what emoji are—can change the meaning. In Japanese, for example, 足下 means “near one’s feet; nearby” while 下足 means “footwear”; 行先 means “destination” while 先行 means “pre
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by bradrn 5y ago
IIRC it would actually have those phonetic components plus a picture of a cigarette or some other semantic determiner. I’m not sure if many Egyptian words were written purely phonetically, though I’m hardly an expert on this topic. [EDIT:
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by bradrn 5y ago
Sure, but in that case you’d need to have some sort of convention for what each combination represents, and at that point you’ve basically invented a whole new writing system based on emoji. As I said previously: > Of course, there’s not
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by bradrn 5y ago
Quite the converse, in fact I use vim mode whenever I can; I would struggle to think of a better way of editing text. (My current editor is Emacs+evil and I don’t anticipate changing it any time soon.) I strongly suspect GGP’s post was simp
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by bradrn 5y ago
Did you perhaps mean ‘d%’? IIRC ‘d$’ deletes to the end of the line.
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by bradrn 5y ago
> lol never thought I'd tutor Korean in HN, but why not... :) And I never thought I’d learn Korean on HN either! But I appreciate anyone willing to talk to me about a topic of interest. > It's a bit cheating, because 것 &quot
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by bradrn 5y ago
OK, this really did seem like complete gibberish at first, to a far greater extent than I was expecting. But after staring at it for a while (and reading through a Korean reference grammar I had lying around), I think I can mostly see h
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by bradrn 5y ago
> I’d be interested in a comparison between emoji & a character-based language like Chinese or a hieroglyphic language like ancient Egyptian… I don’t know of any articles, but from what I know of the subject there is no comparison.
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by bradrn 5y ago
> Can you give a specific example of a word in Kalam or Tariana that cannot be expressed with a short sentence in English? It would follow that a short sentence in Kalam or Tariana may translate to a long sentence or short paragraph in E
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by bradrn 5y ago
Ah, thanks for clarifying! A further question: which words did you ‘fix’?
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by bradrn 5y ago
I’m curious to know: which language is that a literal translation from? (Given the V-final word order, postpositions and use of ‘exist’, I’d guess either Korean or Japanese.)
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by bradrn 5y ago
> Maybe for some languages that are at the point of only having 2 speakers left. But at that point, you likely couldn't revive the language anyways. For this language, they absolutely should be able to record it in its current state
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by bradrn 5y ago
> It sounds like the main argument you're making is that having a record wouldn't catch every single edge case. But maybe that's okay? If you get 90% of the value of preserving the language and you miss the 10%, it's
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by bradrn 5y ago
The problem is that it’s not just words. For instance, if you speak Tariana, every grammatical sentence must have a marker expressing how you know the sentence is true (‘evidentiality’). In Kalam, you only have ~100 verbs, all of which have
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by bradrn 5y ago
Because you need to have native speakers in order to properly analyse the language. Let’s say you have a corpus and you’ve found two words that seem nearly synonymous: what’s the difference between them? A native speaker might be able to te
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by bradrn 5y ago
Wrt option (2), what do you think of other libraries like wxWidgets or GTK+? At least on Windows, the latter certainly doesn’t feel at all ‘nice to use’ (admittedly a subjective criterion), but I find I quite like programs made with wxWidge
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by bradrn 5y ago
> But I don't like how it sounds in the video, and those weird sound bits (no idea what you call them) is not very friendly for singing either. Could you describe in more detail which bits sound weird? Of course Old Chinese would so

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