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by haskellshill 1y ago
If you had one fewer leg, wouldn't you be a different person? Implication is not equivalence.
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by haskellshill 1y ago
> `nato bar` returns Bravo Alfa Romeo. I use this most often when talking to customer service and need to read out a long alphanumeric string, which has only happened a couple of times in my whole life. But it’s sometimes useful! Even mo
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by haskellshill 1y ago
That is nonsensical. You could make the same argument by taking any English word, tracing its origins to Greek or Latin, calling it a loan word, and therefore arguing that it doesn't matter if you spell it correctly or not. Clearly mis
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by haskellshill 1y ago
So you're saying that because the country was once colonized, their writing system is not "real" enough for you, and you only consider it a transliteration? That seems extremely disrespectful.
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by haskellshill 1y ago
> half of the tone marker diacritics don't correspond to the Pinyin tone markers Yeah, they are different languages. What'd you expect? First you didn't even know that the Vietnamese alphabet was their actual alphabet, and
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by haskellshill 1y ago
"I am so fascinated by language that I wish my newspapers would include less foreign languages"
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by haskellshill 1y ago
"We need to remove information from the text because perhaps the author (who clearly speaks Vietnamese) may have made a mistake". Do you also think that we should remove all algebraic symbols from mathematics papers, because perha
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by haskellshill 1y ago
That is a really dumb point. Then Finnish has no writing system either, because it was created by a swede in the 16th century. Strange how there exist languages without writing systems, yet people write them?
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by haskellshill 1y ago
Ridiculous opinion. If no country in the world has either a native alphabet nor a native language, then what is the point of the word "native"?
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by haskellshill 1y ago
That is a very weird and fringe definition of what a person is.
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by haskellshill 1y ago
Perhaps it can improve but it can't learn because that requires thought. Would you say that a PID regulator can "learn"?
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by haskellshill 1y ago
> try to figure out what went wrong LLMs don't do this. They can't think. If you just one for like five minutes it's obvious that just because the text on the screen says "Sorry, I made I mistake, there are actually 5
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by haskellshill 1y ago
> It deeply resembles how LLMs learn and think What? LLMs don't think nor learn in the sense humans do. They have absolutely no resemblance to a human being. This must be the most ridiculous statement I've read this year
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by haskellshill 1y ago
This really shouldn't be a problem for a newspaper with 2.5 billion USD revenue to figure out in 2025 though.
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by haskellshill 1y ago
I still don't understand this attitude of "I can't be bothered to try to understand it so it's useless". Vietnamese is actually one of the more easy tonal languages for westerners to understand, given that the tone
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by haskellshill 1y ago
Well, I disagree that simpler means better looking. It's akin to arguing that a commie block has better æsthetics than a gothic cathedral.
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by haskellshill 1y ago
so just ignore the "visual noise" or "random scribbles"? i dont get why youd want to remove meaning from an article simply because you dont undestand it.
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by haskellshill 1y ago
I disagree, but your opinion may come from your ignorance (sorry, lack of knowledge perhaps) of Vietnamese. First, it's not a transliteration, it's their native alphabet. And the diacritics mark tones, which is a very important pa
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by haskellshill 1y ago
Uh yeah they don't? Unless you also have problems with words such as über, façade, señor or crème brûlée. Rather, the removal of them affects readability in a similar way to removing accents, punctuation or writing in all lowercase.
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by haskellshill 1y ago
Yeah, very silly in an article specifically about language. But one may also ask, why do people still read NYT (and other newspapers) in 2025, given that they are just inferior versions of blogs, that you also have to pay for?
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by haskellshill 1y ago
How much did proton pay you to post that link again?
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by haskellshill 1y ago
Why does FF brag about adding yet another useless "feature"? Sure, it might be more worthwhile to fuck over google and the likes though
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by haskellshill 1y ago
Maybe ff will actually fix the problem then. They certainly have the money to, they just chose not to
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by haskellshill 1y ago
You connect to hotel WIFI from home and work?
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by haskellshill 1y ago
> I trust Mullvad more than I trust some random hotels WiFi For what exactly? All sites are HTTPS now anyway, so the only thing you're leaking is the hostnames / IPs you visit. I don't exactly see how the whole "hotel
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by haskellshill 1y ago
Proton are pretty shady. The Radware ties, the blocking of two journalists, etc. etc.
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by haskellshill 1y ago
People die of missed sepsis all the time, so if you want to lean on your "medical background" to claim this was not the case, you better elaborate what exactly that background is
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by haskellshill 1y ago
How's that relevant at all? Are you arguing that it's good to be ignorant of the views in other countries? Should we hide the fact that it's illegal to convert from Islam in Iran, because that might reflect poorly on them?
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by haskellshill 1y ago
What if drug dealers are good guys actually?
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by haskellshill 1y ago
I know nobody benefited from your comment either way, you're literally just stating somebody is dumb

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