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by henrikschroder 2y ago
There are many ways of representing vowel sounds, umlauts is one way of doing that, but it's just one way of many. Swedish has 18 monophthongs, Standard German has 14, RP English has 13, so although there's some correlation be
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Because they're not letters of the German alphabet, by definition, and they're not German vowels, by definition. They're characters that represent vowel sounds, sure. It's kinda the same thing as how in the English alpha
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Yes, both the Swedish Ä and the German A-umlaut came from the desire to have more vowels in the language and wanting to write AE in a more compact way, but no-one in Sweden thinks of Ä as "some kind of A". They're not related
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Ha, I get to do an ackshually! > The umlaut symbol originated in German but has been borrowed into other languages, including Swedish Actually, no. In Swedish, Ä is not an A with an umlaut, Ä is a distinct letter of the Swedish alphabet.
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
TikTok is outcompeting its US rivals Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts because their algorithm for choosing which videos to put in front of users is simply superior. Divesting means that they would need to sell that algorithm as well, whic
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
> rage-inducing profit seekers That pretty accurately describes Twitter and Facebook these days. TikTok, not so much, which you would know if you had used the platform. (Or, you have used the platform, and you prefer rage-inducing crap
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
You forgot this: /s
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
"I could do better if I had more space" "Nah, the art form is dying" Absolutely hilarious meta-commentary!
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
To be fair, we do have a couple of hundred years of history where Russia was always the big bad. Pretty much the only large-scale scenario the Swedish military trains and prepares for is a Russian invasion. The enemy always comes from the e
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Alfred Nobel was the only donor, and his will spells out the rules: https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobels-will/ In 1968, the Nobel Foundation accepted a donation from the Swedish central bank to es
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Trusted? The will of Alfred Nobel states that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is the body that selects the winner, you can't change that. Also, I think the process looks fairly decent: https://www.nobelprize.org&#x2F
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Philipp Lenard had a patent on cathode ray tubes, Marconi on wireless telegraphy, Dalén had plenty of patents on the automatic lighthouse regulator he got the prize for, and many others. You can continue looking yourself: https:/&#x2F
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Maybe read the announcement? "With their breakthroughs, that stand on the foundations of physical science, they have showed a completely new way for us to use computers to aid and to guide us to tackle many of the challenges our societ
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
When I went to high school, I'd walk through an allotment garden to get to school. Always great for a snack on the way home, someone had amazing raspberries! Some lovely cherry trees as well as several varieties of apples. Public? Free
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Ok, cool, but would you pay a monthly subscription fee for the ability to talk out loud to get lights to turn on, instead of hitting the existing light switches? Because that's what they're asking.
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
One of the most enlightening courses I took in university back in the day was digital electronics. Not because I ever wanted to muck about with it, but because we actually got to build our own super-simple physical 8-bit CPU. We had registe
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Every single time an article about aphantasia gets posted, there's always people like you in the comments going "wait, what, when people say they see things they're imagining, they actually do that?" Yes. Most people d
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
> do people actually see the red star in their head in the same way that I'm hearing Hell's Bells in my head? Yes, that's a very good description of what the experience is like. When you're auralizing(?) a song, you c
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
One of the original overpromises from Musk was that you could definitely totally summon your car from NY to LA and it would magically drive all the way, next year, for sure. Yeah, because if it understands hand gestures, it totally won&#x27
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Machine-learning of any kind has this uncanny ability to get you really far with very little work, which gives this illusion of rapid progress. I remember watching George Hotz' first demo of his self-driving thing, it's absolu
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
> The fact they are so convincing at it is a different, but definitely new and horrific problem on its own. I tried one to help me get the syntax right for the config file for a program. It started by generating a config file for the lat
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
The norm in Sweden is that every position is "probationary" for the first six months, which then automatically converts to a permanent position. What it means is that the employer can terminate the employment without cause during
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
I saw a crow use a slippery metal roof as a slide one time. It would hop up to the top, step out on the slippery part, slide down while carefully keeping balance with the wings, rattle with joy at the bottom, and repeat. Wheeee! Clever litt
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
The economics for rental cars relies on resale value after one to two years, frequency of damage, and cost of repair. All of these things suck for EVs in general, and Teslas in particular. The recent price cuts have demolished the resale va
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
On a serious note, it's so amusing to me to read the comments of people who hate TikTok, but who clearly haven't used it. They simply have no idea what it looks like and the kind of content that is popular on it. But they're
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
> idealizes "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and increases division in Western countries. You're right, everyone I know now buys their glycine from Donghua Jinlong instead of using domestic manufacturers. This is c
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
Is this the year when this scam conglomerate finally goes belly-up? Halving happened, and there is zero hype around future use cases, the people who are in are just hoping that the value magically goes up. The one thing pushing the value up
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
If this is true, you should expect results to be the same across countries, and the measurable drops in IQ should correlate to infection rates. Five bucks says you won't find that.
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by henrikschroder 2y ago
That doesn't matter for this discussion, because the average American spends way more on healthcare as a percentage of their income than the average European. ~25% of the federal budget goes to medicare and medicaid, i.e. healthcare
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by henrikschroder 3y ago
> or voluntarily imposing self austerity The problem with this line of reasoning is that the only people who care are the anxious western upper-middle classes. Anyone poorer can't afford to care. You absolutely cannot solve the pr

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