cwnyth

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by cwnyth 5mo ago
Maybe I'm just too old for the kinds of activities you're looking to get into, but I haven't had a Facebook since 2014, and had an IG account for just a month or two during the pandemic, and I've had zero qualms finding
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
Did the title get updated? It says 'race', not 'war'.
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I suspect this might be a case of Poe's Law.
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But it's not talking about people like you. It's like getting mad at someone suggesting selling their car for a self-driving car, but you ride a bike everywhere. Take a breather and recognize that not every article is personally m
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
Did you read the article? I think you're arguing against a strawman.
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Here's an em-dash in an article from 2013. https://www.quantamagazine.org/biology-confronts-data-comple... The presence of an em-dash is not a smoking gun.
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
That's not relevant to this particular case, but sure, it's hard to disagree with that general statement.
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
God forbid people actually have to do work and fact-check the hallucination machines!
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
Heck, some of us haven't even given up on Perl.
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The kind of work Latinists do also require a high degree of expertise in grammatical nuances. Latin isn't taught for the sake of reading modern works translated into Latin.
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
Sure, Ørberg coupled with other books is fine enough. I do think his basic idea (a text that gets progressively more grammatically complex) is important and good, but not without exercises, grammatical elucidation, drills, etc. Also, you&#x
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
For Classical works, TheLatinLibrary is serviceable, but it's better to use PHI's database, which has the added benefit of being searchable: https://latin.packhum.org/ There are more Christian and Medieval works o
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
I think the direct method is essential for speaking fluency, but in that case, you're thrown into a living language. There are more constraints with dead languages.
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
I've considered picking up a class here or there, but no, I left academia years ago. I have tutored in Latin afterwards, and I also answer questions on StackExchange's Latin site.
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Do avoid.[1] 1: https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/11413/is-duolingo-...
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
As a former Latin instructor with literally decades of experience, I strongly recommend not relying solely on Ørberg. The outcomes of those who refused to supplement it with a proper grammar and dictionary were far, far behind those who use
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
Yep! Time was the biggest factor. I could have created that one tool I had for years been wanting to make, but tech moves fast, and I have a job and a family and a passion for music and yadda yadda yadda. AI has been a game changer for actu
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
Precisely why is this hard to square away?
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I'd love to see a write-up of this if you ever get the chance.
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
I went a-looking and found a very old website of mine: https://web.archive.org/web/20060328114842/http://neonostalg... You can see all the C fora I frequented. A later snapshot of this website pointed to
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
I truly miss those days. Programming forums from the turn of the millennium were very exciting places. I still have my account on Linux Forums from 2004, but it seems the rest are long gone. And no one will ever convince me that Discord is
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
Going for a run helped formulate so many of my best ideas and solved so many tricky problems I was facing. It was always one of three places: on a run, in the shower, or right before falling asleep.
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
The paper says that influencer marketing was new in Gymshark's case. It doesn't claim that this works repeatedly. Was it lightning in a bottle, i.e. Gymshark got lucky because it was early, or is it a consistently smart strategy?
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
The fact that they have online ads does not mean that they became big because of them. That's that the original claim was.
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by cwnyth 5mo ago
I've never seen an internet ad for any of these. I saw a physical ad for Casper once. I think it's safe to ask for a citation for this claim.
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by cwnyth 6mo ago
Some other countries have products with less sugar than the US's version. Fanta is a noticeable one. I just want a late afternoon beverage that isn't alcohol, doesn't have a crap ton of sugar, has no sugar substitutes, and is
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by cwnyth 6mo ago
Their opinion is also behind on LibreOffice, too. I won't defend GIMP's monstrosity, but I finished a whole dissertation, do all my regular spreadsheet work (that isn't done via R), and have created plenty of visual mockups w
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by cwnyth 6mo ago
I've wondered this myself. The aftertaste on some of them is vile. The disappointing thing is that so many products use them when they reduce sugar, but sometimes I just want a reduced sugar product without any additional sweeteners. T
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by cwnyth 6mo ago
I've never experienced any compatibility issues with XLS(X) in LibreOffice Calc, and I've been Windows-free for over a decade. Sure, some spreadsheets might have unique functions in it, but I doubt that's the case for the maj
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by cwnyth 6mo ago
Coleoidea is a technical word, though, and ปลาหมึก isn't. Ordinary people use ปลาหมึก to refer to all of them, but they might not use that same word to describe e.g. nautiloids. It doesn't map neatly on our technical language.

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