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by dhosek 1y ago
What I find interesting is that it seems that folks from the UK tend to focus on consonants in distinguishing accents while in the US we distinguish more on vowels.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Or the classic scene in Mrs Doubtfire where Pierce Brosnan attempts to locate the origin of Robin Williams’s fake English accent.
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by dhosek 1y ago
I’ve seen some online quizzes that based on regional variations in accent (does root rhyme with foot or boot?) and vocabulary (what do you call a sweet fizzy beverage) that did a great job of locating where my Facebook friends back in the d
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by dhosek 1y ago
Generalizing from my own experience, it’s easier for me to understand a non-native Spanish speaker than a native Spanish speaker and I would guess that the same applies with ESL speakers. One thing I found really fascinating is that even th
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by dhosek 1y ago
EXCEPT that the legacy Cyrillic codepages had separate codepoints for Latin a and Cyrillic а. You’re also making assumptions about the roundtrip preservation that are invalid. The idea is that if a string is encodable in the legacy codepage
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by dhosek 1y ago
I thought that the terms of the entitlement to be able to link to an external purchase point was that you still needed to offer IAP under Apple’s terms. Did I misunderstand that?
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by dhosek 1y ago
Thai, as a result of its legacy encoding has you write, e,g., โ + อ = โอ even though the vowel โ is pronounced after the consonant อ. And in cases where vowel markings surround the consonant, โ◌ะ, it’s entered as three separate glyphs in d
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by dhosek 1y ago
Because just because something is in Turkish doesn’t mean it doesn’t also include non-Turkish text. So you end up with weird edge cases when translating mixed text back and forth since it would be a single glyph in legacy Turkish 8-bit text
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by dhosek 1y ago
I was wondering if anyone else remembered this issue.
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by dhosek 1y ago
The legacy Turkish encoding used ASCII i but a character in the 128–255 range for İ. Remember that not all documents are monolingual so you might have a document with, e.g., both English and Turkish text and in the legacy code page these wo
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by dhosek 1y ago
Rust also has an ASCII-specific casefolding function.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Nope, it’s because of how the legacy encodings were handled. See my sibling comment to yours.
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by dhosek 1y ago
One of the design goals of Unicode was lossless roundtrip conversions to and from legacy encodings. Legacy Turkish used the ASCII i for lowercase and a character in the 128–255 range for İ. In contrast, Greek encoded its entire alphabet in
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by dhosek 1y ago
It’s a kind of nice feature, but I’ve been a solid magic trackpad user instead since they first introduced the whole magic keyboard/trackpad/mouse set of accessories.
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by dhosek 1y ago
Maybe it’s because I’m just recovering from attending my 35-year college reunion, but I had a memory return of being in the college computer lab and telling someone to use the mouse to move the cursor, so they picked it up and waved it in t
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by dhosek 1y ago
I’ve noticed this when trying to book a flight with American Airlines earlier this year. Their website booking was essentially broken, insisting that one of my flight segments was fully booked but giving no indication of which one and attem
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by dhosek 1y ago
A lot of it comes down to set theory and the idea of mappings between sets. So countably infinite sets are those for which there exists a bijective (one-to-one and onto) mapping f :ℤ→ X which is an extension of the idea of counting a fini
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by dhosek 1y ago
My Shakespeare class in college was based around performing a play at the end of the semester. We read about half a dozen plays, but the bulk of our work was based around preparing to perform Hamlet (each semester, a different play was pe
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by dhosek 1y ago
I’ve read 53 of the fiction, 10 of the non-fiction (which tracks with my being an English major).
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by dhosek 1y ago
I actually did your Dewey Decimal project: https://www.dahosek.com/category/dewey-decimal-project/ I read one book out of each “decade” of the Dewey catalog from my local library (which is reasonably well stocked)
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by dhosek 2y ago
Illinois has traditionally done the plate stays with the owner, not the car for plates, but I think might be switching to California-style plating now, but I don’t know. They seemed to have relatively random issuance of plate numbers but ha
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by dhosek 2y ago
So the thing I’m wondering is does it go 000AAA0, 000AAA1, … 000AAB0, … or does it go 000AAA0, 001AAA0, … 999AAA0, … 000AAB0, etc.? I first lived in California during the waning days of the 1XYZ123 plates and while I occasionally saw older
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by dhosek 2y ago
My very first computer was a Spectravideo MSX computer which I got in exchange for writing some demo programs for the midwest distributor for the company. Fun little machine, although I still preferred Apple in general.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I’d never been there, but there seem to at least be multiple Lithuanian restaurants in the Chicago area. Sadly, while there were literally dozens of Czech restaurants when I was a kid, now there are three.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Even so, Francis lived most of his life in Argentina and could be excused for not knowing about the cuisine of a neighboring country. Certainly most of the press was ignorant, with many reporters thinking Francis said “pizza” and not “potic
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by dhosek 2y ago
As an American, it’s always a bit startling to realize that “German,” “French,” “Italian,” etc. are in many ways hugely diverse language families with dialects that are often not intelligible by all speakers (as opposed to English where, wi
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by dhosek 2y ago
I suspect many Americans would have trouble identifying all the American states. I wouldn’t use Americans as a model of geographic awareness.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Indeed. I grew up in a cultural milieu that was overwhelmingly Slavic (Chicago suburbs, mostly Czech and Polish but smaller numbers of Slovaks, Slovenes, Croats and Serbs) and even within that, the lack of understanding of distinctions was
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by dhosek 2y ago
As the child of Italian immigrants to Argentina, Francis was quite fluent in Italian. He’s old enough that his formation would have included significant Latin instruction as well. I would guess that Benedict’s Latin skills were superior, bu
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by dhosek 2y ago
Illinois has RAILS which is similar (without the cards). The problem is that these programs are funded by federal money which Trump/Musk are cutting off.

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