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by frooxie 11y ago
That article is so naive and misinformed that I was seriously wondering if it was a prank. I suppose it's a nice read if you want to see someone obliviously ramble about things entirely unrelated to the actual arguments for AI risk sce
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by frooxie 11y ago
English is my third language; I've read and written English almost every day for 30 years, but I've only ever spent two weeks in English-speaking countries. I sometimes find myself unable to pronounce words that I've used for
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by frooxie 11y ago
I'm glad that Germany now has the option of stellarating the monsters they capture. EDIT: On reading further, it turns out I may have misinterpreted the article.
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by frooxie 11y ago
Ok, you made me count. I have exactly 50(!) windows open, and the three first windows I checked had 34, 7, and 15 tabs. I know at least two of the windows have about 100 tabs each. Altogether, I estimate maybe 700-800 tabs? I wish I were jo
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by frooxie 11y ago
> The "book internet" still exists Amanda Palmer recently wrote this about her and Neil Gaiman: neil and i, and many other bloggers, have discussed this with more and more worry lately. we used to have blogs, on our websites.
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by frooxie 11y ago
According to other articles I've read about the devices, they were advertised as "running on the body's static electricity", and able to detect not only bombs, but also "illegal immigrants, truffles, contraband ivor
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by frooxie 12y ago
The 4096 color HAM mode was always part of the spec.
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by frooxie 12y ago
Generalizing from a single case can be tricky. I read this somewhere: "I had a friend growing up whose mom is white and dad is black. Apparently when he was little, he asked his mother why white people had vaginas."
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by frooxie 12y ago
I know a tiny bit of Mandarin and listened to the first couple of minutes. The first three big laughs seem to be when he looks unsure when asked why he decided to study Chinese, when he says that his wife's grandmother was shocked to h
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by frooxie 12y ago
The first question they ask is why he studied Mandarin, and (as the first of three reasons) Mark replies that his wife is Chinese.
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by frooxie 12y ago
I just realized it's made for use with a scroll wheel. I use a Wacom pen, not a mouse, so the instructions were confusing to me.
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by frooxie 12y ago
I think that's the way my browser is set up, but there's still a huge spike in internet connections whenever I restart it. Maybe Firefox doesn't load every tab, but still loads one page per open browser window, and it feels s
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by frooxie 12y ago
> What popped out immediately when learning the Finnish numbers was how long the words are. Interestingly, the Estonian numbers are basically the Finnish ones with the last syllable chopped off: üks, kaks, kolm, neli, viis, kuus, seitse,
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by frooxie 12y ago
I also keep several hundreds of tabs open for months on end. I use Firefox and have simply accepted that it will crash about four times per day, requiring me to wait a few minutes while it restarts and reloads the tabs.
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by frooxie 12y ago
It could be a different tree, or the person might just have moved closer to it (the radioactive stuff isn't there anymore, which supports this reading). But I think you could create some more unambiguously unidirectional sequence; perh
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by frooxie 12y ago
I'm just worried that the pen (N-Trig this time instead of industry standard Wacom) won't be good enough for serious art creation. If the reviews are good, I'll buy it, but many illustrators are apprehensive and angry that Mi
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by frooxie 12y ago
The number depends on the dialect. Wikipedia describes it as "at least six pronunciations in North American English and over ten in British English", listing ten of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_%28
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by frooxie 12y ago
Personally, my main reasons for not buying a Nexus 5 were the battery, the camera, and that I wanted a slightly bigger phone. The OnePlus One seems to take care of all three (although I'm still waiting for in-depth reviews).
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by frooxie 12y ago
Basically, you get 90% of the features of the best Android smartphones at half the price.
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by frooxie 12y ago
Really? I'd be curious to hear what French words are as bad as the 11 pronunciations of "ough" in English ("Though the tough cough and hiccough plough him through)". Or, the other way around, there's the /
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by frooxie 12y ago
I heard an anecdote about some guy telling his Japanese girlfriend, who had made him dinner, "Kore wa oishii!". Turns out he should have said "ga", as "wa" is often used to emphasize contrast, so what the girlf
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by frooxie 12y ago
What's hard about Dutch? I haven't studied Dutch at all, but because I speak English, German and Swedish, I understand 75% of written Dutch anyway. I'd have thought it was one of the easiest languages to learn if you already
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by frooxie 12y ago
> I also don’t know how “bad heart” can mean nausea It's the same in many other languages. In French, having "mal au cœur" — pain in the heart — can mean that you're nauseous. In Estonian, to "have the heart bad&
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by frooxie 12y ago
Well, some Swedish words are differentiated by pitch accent, which isn't all that different. (Like the difference in pronunciation between tomten (the gnome) and tomten (the plot of land), or anden (the spirit) and anden (the duck).
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by frooxie 12y ago
Well, then there's Finnish with its noun cases, etc: http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Perkele_ddd3f7_5063375.jpg
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by frooxie 12y ago
I've heard of many situations where East Asian students of English cause confusion by answering "Yes. Yes, I don't agree." — which doesn't sound natural in English.
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by frooxie 13y ago
Not a chance. The only party that seems to care is the Pirate Party, and they've basically only been on the news when the party leader was locked into her bathroom by her cat.
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by frooxie 13y ago
Here's a great analysis of what made The Simpsons good and why it started to decline after season eight: http://deadhomersociety.com/zombiesimpsons/
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by frooxie 13y ago
> otherwise I don't see how they are more than just shallow strawmen. Both examples seem really common to me, although slightly exaggerated for comic effect. It's extremely easy to find people who dismiss everything said after
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by frooxie 13y ago
From what I've heard, at least a higher resolution, 90 Hz display.

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