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by fenomas 7y ago
Make ice cream? I haven't done it since college, but you basically put milk and sugar and vanilla in a big shallow pan, and then pour in liquid nitrogen and mix.
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by fenomas 7y ago
People talking fondly about flash are thinking of the way that it massively lowered the bar to creating interactive content on the web, ushering in an explosion of indie games, animations, videos, etc., the like of which the internet had ne
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by fenomas 7y ago
I don't think anyone at Adobe is against open-sourcing the whole player; the problem would be relicensing it. It's a massive, hugely complex project, with lots of chunks that were licensed or written by other parties. And the co
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by fenomas 7y ago
> Adobe should release the source, but probably doesn't due to all the security holes that probably are waiting to be found. Of course, that is speculation. The AS3 spec, compiler and runtime/VM are all open source, have been s
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by fenomas 7y ago
(A) In Japanese the meanings don't match that closely. The word didn't originally mean cute, but rather pathetic or pitiable, and evolved over time. More info: http://gogen-allguide.com/ka/kawaii.html (B) By
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by fenomas 7y ago
> the characters got arbitrarily attached to an existing word because they were similar in sound and meaning
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by fenomas 7y ago
> the characters where chosen at least partly because of their actual meaning Sure, didn't I say they were in my post? The point was, in a discussion of how well X predicts Y, it's not very useful to examine a test case where Y
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by fenomas 7y ago
> the meaning of 可爱 would be fairly straightforward to guess To be honest this whole thread about 可愛い is more or less bonkers, because it's an ateji. The word's meaning doesn't derive from the characters, the characters go
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by fenomas 7y ago
Presumably the same would be true of music in a film, so I'm not sure how it bears on my question.
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by fenomas 7y ago
> Why not romanizating all the Japanese literature? Surely almost all the reasoning in favor of getting rid of Hanzi can also apply here? The difference is that removing kanji from Japanese profoundly changes it, in that tons and tons of
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by fenomas 7y ago
> Even if you "know" all Kanji in a word you'll likely not understand the word's meaning unless it's something simple and concrete. I don't think anyone passingly familiar with Japanese thinks otherwise. Tha
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by fenomas 7y ago
Thanks for the link! It looks like the article author used the kanji from the research as a starting point, but then randomly added in words endings or compound characters, perhaps as their own study aid.
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by fenomas 7y ago
> 90% coverage is not that great ... when an uncommon word appears TFA muddles this somewhat, but the research referred to has to do with coverage of kanji characters in a corpus text, not words . Someone who can read 90% of the kanji
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by fenomas 7y ago
> second-most word is twice as common as the third-most, and so forth. Normally Zipf's law refers to the frequency being inversely proportional to rank - i.e. the 3rd most common element would be 1/3 as frequent as the first, n
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by fenomas 7y ago
Dumb question - when someone films outside in public, why is audio of music from a passing car considered a copyright issue but video of a passerby in a Mickey Mouse t-shirt isn't? Is it just because one industry lobbies YouTube and th
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by fenomas 7y ago
Ah cool, thanks, I'll definitely watch your engine as well!
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by fenomas 7y ago
Lots of HN upvotes ;) But no, they didn't contact me or anything. There was a thread on it, let me dig it up... Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19940349
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by fenomas 7y ago
Dunno, the engine in the article looks pretty impressive to me. And I say that as the author of a fair chunk of the "official" version (I'm not affiliated with Mojang, but they built minecraft classic on my JS voxel engine).
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by fenomas 7y ago
> I'm somewhat surprised that a jazz scholar would overlook the possibility that the tropes used to promote black music in the early 20th century could be deeply derogatory From the paragraph before the one you quoted, I think the a
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by fenomas 7y ago
> As in tipping service? The same. For whatever reason false etymologies based on acronyms abound, with "tip" and "posh" being among the better-known. There's also "for unlawful carnal knowledge" for fu
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by fenomas 7y ago
Evan Morris, author of "The Word Detective" column that used to run in papers and alt weeklies, used to perennially comment that acronyms in English were quite rare until roughly WW1-WW2, and as such etymologies involving them (&q
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by fenomas 7y ago
> Because violent felonies such as homicide proximity is the requisite factor in victimhood This doesn't stand up. Crime statistics are measured after the crimes happen; whatever effect might be due to proximity has already taken pl
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by fenomas 7y ago
If you wanted to track that you'd need to do the opposite of what GP is suggesting. That is, a dense urban area would have more face-to-face interactions than a sparse rural one. Given two areas with equal levels of per-capita violence
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by fenomas 7y ago
> I’m based in the UK .. We have a fair dealing clause here. I know, and I'm familiar with the distinction. I assumed you were as well, and would be using the term of art for whichever system you meant. > The existence of a cop
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by fenomas 7y ago
> You’re trying to argue that this is incidental I specifically said I'm not. > > I'm not claiming the arguments against your claim are correct - I haven't even watched the video. I'm saying that whether infri
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by fenomas 7y ago
You can search by genre, but the only way I noticed to do it is to click on a book with the genre you want, then there'll be a link to browse other books with the same genre tags.
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by fenomas 7y ago
I understand that you're trying to be constructive, but nothing here replies to anything in my comment. > He made money from his content. His content included a recording of a copyrighted work. Therefore he made money from that reco
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by fenomas 7y ago
> The guy is making money and the musical work has some part to play in that I understand that a lawyer for the music owner could conceivably argue that claim, and that a court could conceivably agree with it. I'm sure everyone in t
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by fenomas 7y ago
> if (foo = bar()) { // syntax error! That's already an error in strict mode (which would presumably be on for anyone writing bleeding-edge JS).
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by fenomas 7y ago
> The problem is that he is making money of the back of the recording of the musical work I don't follow. Can any reasonable person really suppose that a 30 minute travel video's ad revenue might be materially affected by the p

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