fenomas

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by fenomas 7y ago
This whole thread misses the point - the "correct", natural-sounding text for the situation was simply "INSERT COIN". That's what ~every other machine of the era used, and what players expected.
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by fenomas 7y ago
It's not so much a matter of ease or difficulty; rhyming just isn't really a thing in Japanese. I mean, there's a term for it, which I've heard people use when discussing haiku (to refer to internal rhyme or even consona
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by fenomas 7y ago
FYI, google translate for Japanese is pretty unreliable for lone uncommon words. It seems to rely heavily on internet-trained ML, and does pretty well with phrases and sentences, but for single words I see it return nonsense fairly often. A
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by fenomas 7y ago
The dialog in question is being said in a fit of rage, to someone that the speaker believes has seduced and stolen his daughter, leading to her death. Using a comically archaic term for "unduly sentimental" in a spot like that is
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by fenomas 7y ago
The "shout the name of the move" thing is neither here nor there, I think. Overwatch isn't a fighting game, and voice lines like that aren't common in shooters (Japanese or otherwise). For the rest, I'd guess it&#x2
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by fenomas 7y ago
This reminds me of an interview I read with the guy who did the Japanese localization of Overwatch (a game that I imagine this article would mention if it was updated). The interviewer asks what the localizer thought about all the weird Jap
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by fenomas 7y ago
I don't have a specific source but I believe that masculine names shifting to become feminine, but not the reverse, is a common thing going back at least a few centuries. E.g. Leslie, Allison, Meredith, Lauren, Stacey were all predomin
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by fenomas 7y ago
Different thing. "American" coffee in Japan refers to light-roast drip coffee.
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by fenomas 7y ago
> In the context of a game or simulation, such classes can absolutely do all these things Sure, but the point of TFA is that even then it still doesn't (necessarily) make sense to give them an OO hierarchy similar to their real-wo
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by fenomas 7y ago
Not at all. The author isn't talking about constructing the story per se, he's talking about constructing the underlying "problem of logic and deduction" (as Chandler called it) that's demanded by the mystery genre.
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by fenomas 7y ago
Interestingly, it's quite similar to how Raymond Chandler taught himself to write - he took a popular short story (by Erle Stanley Gardner I think), wrote an outline of its plot, and then wrote his own story from the outline and compar
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by fenomas 7y ago
Yep - in fact it would make more sense to me if SO not only allowed duplicate questions, but also added a decay such that even highly-rated Q/A pairs would eventually get overtaken by newer content. Questions and answers just aren&#x
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by fenomas 7y ago
I think much of what feels bad about StackOverflow now stems from the surprisingly braindead way it treats duplicate questions. Currently, moderators close the question with a link to the question they think it's a dupe of. Why not ins
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by fenomas 7y ago
Apparently, the issue here is that SE removed a respected moderator but isn't telling the community what happened, why, what the removal process was or will be in the future, etc. Pronouns is what was being discussed at the time, but i
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by fenomas 7y ago
"I don't know what's going on here and I don't intend to learn, but everybody upset about it should just go do something else" is never a useful take.
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by fenomas 7y ago
> we can also be descriptive when we label such people as ignorant That position is normally termed prescriptivism, and AFAIK it's widely rejected by lexicographers and linguists and whatnot.
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by fenomas 7y ago
They're not in order, they're just in a data structure where the largest remaining element can be extracted in O(1) time. One can't say anything useful about any other elements of the list.
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by fenomas 7y ago
I got a weird reverse one a few years back, to the effect of "your result is great, best I've seen, but the code is awful and I think you're not a good developer". What can you do? I just said something like "thanks
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by fenomas 7y ago
Of course, in real-world discourse delaying the high-order bits often just means they're never reached. > A: There's a thing I don't like. It's coarse, rough, and it gets... > B: Many coarse and rough things are vi
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by fenomas 7y ago
One suspects the author is a big fan of Gödel Escher Bach .
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by fenomas 7y ago
> Why judge an article or opinion on what it's not instead of what it is? I think that's an uncharitable take. We all get that TFA is trying to be poetic, but poetic sentiments can be profound or shallow, and if someone finds t
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by fenomas 7y ago
Indeed. One wonders what the author would make of the reverse case, where someone counted up all the ways "think" can be translated into Japanese. One suspects he'd draw the exact same conclusion - how marvelously exotic that
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by fenomas 7y ago
To be fair, earlier submissions all got flagged off the front page fairly quickly, so later submitters may well not have known about them.
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by fenomas 7y ago
The site hosting that letter is called "Gary Larson comic of the week".
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by fenomas 7y ago
The point of an analogy is to be similar in some single illustrative way, not to be similar in all ways. If someone finds themselves "in love" then they could make some kind of argument based on that, but it wouldn't make the
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by fenomas 7y ago
> He made a point about how statutory rape wouldn't be considered rape if it happened in a different location (e.g. Italy) or if the person's birthday were slightly adjusted. I understand what RMS is trying to say, but this str
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by fenomas 7y ago
> If you know that parking in the garage will lead to a 50% probability of.. 50% is GP's after-the-fact description of how often the car failed to start. It's not an actual failure rate that GP knew about before they parked.
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by fenomas 7y ago
The author doesn't examine that question. They comment that one can run a large number of trials to estimate the 18.9 given the 5+5, and my post is how to get that answer analytically for any sequence of probabilities. For the reverse
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by fenomas 7y ago
An easy way to do the odds analytically is to calculate the average expected number of trials needed for a success, and then note that the overall average success rate is the inverse of that. E.g. in the author's example, where the rat
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by fenomas 7y ago
The thread was about how words' characters and meanings relate, and with ateji that relation is highly atypical, is the basic point.

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