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by cyphar 4y ago
> It does appear that computerizing CJK languages has made them very different from handwriting them; native Chinese speakers now constantly forget how to write hanzi. This is separate to the question of encoding -- phonetic-based input
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by cyphar 4y ago
> But copying how every Chinese dictionary renders characters as trees of simpler characters seems like a much better approach than the arbitrary letter to number mapping of unicode. Then why does every natively-developed encoding system
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by cyphar 4y ago
Literally all forms of money ever invented are based on faith. Even the importance of debt (which existed before money) is based on faith. You can't eat gold, you can't grow food with the wasted energy underlying Bitcoin. You need
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by cyphar 4y ago
Unfortunately it wouldn't have been workable for the reasons outlined in this thread's responses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32098359 .
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by cyphar 4y ago
JIS, Big5, UHC, and GB all use a codepoint-to-character approach. You're right to point out that many aspects of "multilingual" support are written by people who do not know another language and so end up being hopelessly mis
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by cyphar 4y ago
In addition to the problems mentions by yongjik, even with the current system, very little software is even aware that the same codepoint should be rendered differently in different languages (返す needs to be rendered differently in every CJ
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by cyphar 4y ago
The 常用漢字 (Japanese Common Use Kanji) list does not include many kanji that native speakers can read and newspapers don't always follow the rule that they only should use characters from the list. In addition, you need to include the 人名
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by cyphar 4y ago
All of my drives have FDE. I wouldn't have shipped the drives if that wasn't the case (also luckily the issue was that writes only failed on part of the disk so I could wipe the luks metadata section).
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by cyphar 4y ago
I had a series of WD drives that failed, and I managed to get them all replaced under warranty since they died within 3-5 years. I don't buy WD drives anymore but it wasn't the end of the world since I had spares while I waited fo
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by cyphar 4y ago
My solution is to use a different manufacturer for each drive in a mirror. The prices are usually pretty similar and you get to make sure that one firmware bug doesn't kill your entire pool.
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by cyphar 4y ago
That isn't the case for every language, I'm just trying to come up with an equivalent explanation of why wishing for languages to die out is a bad thing.
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by cyphar 4y ago
Yeah I just saw the photo. I guess that was just the first impression they had when they were asked by the news?
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by cyphar 4y ago
You're quite right, though the police said that he was still conscious and responsive when he was put into the ambulance and the government is only saying his condition is "severe and he's lost consciousness": > 警察当局に
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by cyphar 4y ago
He hasn't been pronounced dead, but they are saying it seems he has no vital signs (心肺停止か).
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by cyphar 4y ago
It was in Nara which is a reasonably big city but has lots of surrounding rural areas. According to NHK, police are saying it may have been a shotgun (the article has been edited multiple times and it's even less sure of that then when
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by cyphar 4y ago
Would you not feel even slightly unhappy that your children (or grandchildren) would not be able to read the original versions of Shakespeare, Dickens, or Austen or that they wouldn't be able to watch the original versions of movies an
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by cyphar 4y ago
I could not think of a more obvious way of telling everyone that you are monolingual than implying that knowing another language is a burden. Children are not burdened by being multilingual. It is true that social pressures kill off local l
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by cyphar 4y ago
(I guess we've skipped over the discussion about whether language death can occur without genocide.) > it's a bit of a mistake to say latin disappeared but I digress Latin is a dead language. It's not extinct (because it&#
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by cyphar 4y ago
There are several reasons a language can go extinct, and while the reasons you mentioned are included there are several other reasons that you didn't consider. The most common way language death occurs is through contact with a prestig
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by cyphar 4y ago
Aside from the fact that being able to generalise a model with very little training data is an important AI research problem to solve, language death is a serious concern and is being accelerated due to the fact that many languages are not
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by cyphar 4y ago
On the other hand, as a non-native Japanese learner, it is very obvious when Japanese text has been DeepL-translated because it often makes 敬語/register and context mistakes (and translating Japanese to English it does even worse becaus
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by cyphar 4y ago
Are you using Cloudflare DNS? I couldn't access it either during the outage and I just came to the realisation it might be because I switched to 1.1.1.1 a while ago.
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by cyphar 4y ago
Having companies be employee-owned (which is commonly referred to as a worker co-op) is absolutely a political topic -- implementing policies to allow more companies to become worker-owned was part of the UK Labour Party's manifesto in
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by cyphar 4y ago
Sure, it's easy unless: * You are dependent on your employer for your work visa; * You are dependent on your employer for your health insurance (US-specific problem); * You have don't have much experience in industry and thus wi
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by cyphar 4y ago
So what you're saying with that example is that even with the backing of many governments that have a vested interest in doing anything to stop the bubble from bursting (something Bitcoin doesn't have), the greater fool theory ult
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by cyphar 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
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by cyphar 4y ago
Unfortunately, they stopped doing this after Android 9 Pie (2018). All subsequent Android versions are just referred to by version number.
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by cyphar 4y ago
Aside from finding the premise questionable, I do find it incredible how US-centric this is: > Printed on a synthetic paper that can’t easily be ripped or torn like fiat, Bitcoin notes are designed to be durable for years to come. Severa
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by cyphar 4y ago
You cannot have a "fully open" license which disallows commercial usage. Both the OSI and FSF definitions of "open source" and "free software" licenses would exclude such a license. Of course you can create a p
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by cyphar 4y ago
I agree that anti-nuclear sentiment has killed millions of people, but the comparison being made here is how different forms of power kill people. In that comparison, including fossil fuel deaths as "deaths caused by Chernobyl" is

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