fenomas

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by fenomas 7y ago
An orchestra could be run that way, sure. But surely it's implicit that any orchestra that's interested in blind auditions is trying to do the exact opposite of what you've described.
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by fenomas 7y ago
> How many more of such studies and straw-grasping explanations will we have to go through I don't follow. If GP's comment had ended with the bit you quoted then it might just be a straw-grasping explanation, but the rest of th
873.
by fenomas 8y ago
"When art critics get together they discuss form and meaning; when artists get together they talk about where you can get cheap turpentine", as the expression goes. (Usually attributed to Picasso but seems to be apocryphal)
874.
by fenomas 8y ago
Still working through this, but want to comment before it drops off the front page. Anyone interested in Interactive Fiction (infocom and all that), read this! It's engaging and delightful, and covers considerable range (from Games As
875.
by fenomas 8y ago
Oh not in Utica, it's more of an Albany expression.
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by fenomas 8y ago
Can you remove (pdf) from the title please?
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by fenomas 8y ago
There was a great article some time back about the hisstory behind it. A lot of the episodes satirized the show's own network and specific network executives - some of which flew under the radar and some of which probably hastened the
878.
by fenomas 8y ago
Regarding where these files came from: > The source code was contributed anonymously and represents a snapshot of the Infocom development system at time of shutdown - there is no remaining way to compare it against any official version a
879.
by fenomas 8y ago
I meant a human as opposed to an algorithm. Point being: kanji words aren't always sorted phonetically, for the reasons described in the article, so a user may not be surprised if they aren't. But when a human is sorting kanji w
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by fenomas 8y ago
Standard school curriculum for a 12 year old covers 1000-1400 kanji, and I said "proficiently", not "fluently".
881.
by fenomas 8y ago
> Presumably the spoken Japanese language predates the writing system Its roots do, naturally, but the kanji compounds I mentioned don't. They're words made from kanji, not words that kanji were created to write down. It's
882.
by fenomas 8y ago
Yes, entering a name's kanji and kana separately is standard for most any form in Japan, whether digital or on paper.
883.
by fenomas 8y ago
I'm not sure it's even possible to get proficient at spoken Japanese without learning kanji, past some intermediate point. You either pick them up without intending to (enough to read anyway, if not write), or you don't get p
884.
by fenomas 8y ago
That sentence is just the author giving his impression of Assange before meeting him and spending years with him. The full article doesn't write off Assange at all, if anything it's quite sympathetic to him.
885.
by fenomas 8y ago
Cool work! But my experience with Google Translate is that nowadays it seems to be wholly focused on machine-learning translations of full sentences, so for single words the results can be almost entirely random. E.g. you type in the charac
886.
by fenomas 8y ago
I'm afraid I don't follow either. I meant that in Japanese spelling a word is just saying it, not anything about how words are romanized, etc. That is, you say the word たに by saying た and then に, and you say the word たんい by sayi
887.
by fenomas 8y ago
It doesn't mean much for a particular kanji/reading to not appear in your IME - there are just too many combinations, and sometimes a given reading will only be common in certain areas or even families. Plus people sometimes just
888.
by fenomas 8y ago
> The reason why it still exists is to create an educational hierarchy: the more kanjis you know, the more educated you are. Things are nowhere near this simple. If there was any value to abandoning kanji it could be done tomorrow, but t
889.
by fenomas 8y ago
> wildly different pronunciations for some spelled the same The fundamental point to understand is that those names aren't spelled the same, they're written the same. The writings and readings are essentially distinct thing
890.
by fenomas 8y ago
> Do Japanese users actually expect names to be sorted phonetically? Yes - or that's how a human would sort them, at any rate.
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by fenomas 8y ago
> It's really hard to know what to even believe You might check out this[0] extremely detailed write-up from Andrew O'Hagan, the author who was hired to ghost-write Assange's autobiography, and wound up hanging around his
892.
by fenomas 8y ago
For anyone interested in understanding Assange, check out this excellent article by Andrew O'Hagan from a few years ago: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting O'Hagan was hired to gho
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by fenomas 8y ago
It's both - dates through April 30 are Heisei 31, and dates from May 1 are Reiwa 1, is the official take.
894.
by fenomas 8y ago
I'm not competent to answer that, but the "merged glyph" versions of the other four modern era names date from older encodings like EUC and shift-JIS, and are presumably in unicode for compatibility. So the rationale for addi
895.
by fenomas 8y ago
Amusingly there's a pun here on "Zero-sum Era". This because "rei" is a common way to read the numeral zero, and "zero-wa" (using the same "wa" from the new era name) is the Japanese term for &qu
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by fenomas 8y ago
This is basically just a font difference. The angular version (in the text of your link) is the more typewritten style, while the version in the stroke order graph is the more handwritten style. It's roughly analogous to the way "
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by fenomas 8y ago
The new name just uses standard characters, but what you're probably referring to is the fact that Unicode 12.1 will have a character for the two of them compressed into one glyph. Details: http://blog.unicode.org/2018&
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by fenomas 8y ago
I don't know much about unicode but presumably it's analogous to characters like "㎏" or "㎒". There are quite a lot of code points for several characters compressed into one glyph.
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by fenomas 8y ago
To be clear there's no new kanji being created here, just a new unicode character with two existing kanji compacted into one glyph. So most typical use cases won't be affected either way, since era names are normally just written
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by fenomas 8y ago
It's not that Tone is more precise than setInterval, it's that the web audio APIs underneath are precisely scheduled, and Tone provides an interface to them. That is, if you set up a Tone transport to fire events every 100ms, it&#

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