ithinkso

24 ms·

211.
by ithinkso 5y ago
Celebrating incorrectness, eh? Nothing wrong with being wrong, but not willing to learn... I don't know. > If you speak any non-English language, you will know that this obsession with getting English-language speakers to pronounce
212.
by ithinkso 5y ago
> and I always feel bad for not knowing how to start pronouncing their names No worries, give it your best approximation and if it's way off or if someone cares a bit too much they will correct you, use the corrected version since t
213.
by ithinkso 5y ago
Lol, first time I'm seeing this. But the very top recommendation from yt was 'Jeż kurwa - czeska parodia!'. I love how memes travel. I think the last very popular Czech meme in Poland was Jožin z bažin
214.
by ithinkso 5y ago
Yeah, that's why you can hear 'polish/slavic accent' because it's hard for us to say it differently
215.
by ithinkso 5y ago
I think I rarely use polish letters when I write on whatsapp/signal etc. and I don't think I often see them written. I don't pay that much attention though so it may be that I'm the only one
216.
by ithinkso 5y ago
I'll be honest, I'm very interested in knowing how that polish phrase entered a Scotsman's, living in Czech Republic, canon and what it means
217.
by ithinkso 5y ago
Yup, thanks, that's the rule. I think I should change the 99.99% in my original post to 98%
218.
by ithinkso 5y ago
>There actually are exceptions, but they are regular as well - w before last syllable is often devoiced to f. Levandofski. But even most Polish speakers doesn't know that it's the rule, they just speak that way without thinking
219.
by ithinkso 5y ago
That's interesting, could you elaborate on the difference in 'w' between 'wise' and 'when'? I'd say 'Wookash' as in star-wars 'Wookie' is a good way (way, hehe) to say Łukasz. I&#x
220.
by ithinkso 5y ago
Do you guys also have the open/closed u distinction?
221.
by ithinkso 5y ago
Yeah, Łukasz is the same name as Lucas and because ASCII and internet it's very common to just write it as Lukasz because no matter if you're talking to the native or not, they will know what you mean (it is very common for polish
222.
by ithinkso 5y ago
People are giving pronunciation tips for other languages in the comments, here are tips for polish. Polish often seems incomprehensible for english speakers because of the sheer amount of consonants though it actually flows quite nicely if
223.
by ithinkso 5y ago
I think it comes down to 'I work to have what I have, why others should have things for free'. Even though the things you get for working are good and you have a great life, and the free things are shit but let you at least surviv
224.
by ithinkso 5y ago
They also sued polish company a.pl a few years ago because they said it sounds like 'apple' when you read it in english (.pl being of course polish TLD and it is read very differently than 'apple'). Not sure how this was
225.
by ithinkso 5y ago
> There is no possible experiment you could in principle do to verify that the universe stays the same when you're not looking. And then people invented video cameras to trick the universe to stay the same when they go to sleep
226.
by ithinkso 5y ago
> Why would a company rather have a guy that can solve binary search in five seconds, than one that has showed continuous progress with several finished projects over the years? They probably only interview people that have showed contin
227.
by ithinkso 5y ago
I think that was the case when Universities offered only 5year Master's degree programs but it changed after the Bologna process and you have Bachelor's 3years (3.5 for engineering) + 2years (1.5 eng) Master's. Bachelor'
228.
by ithinkso 5y ago
Sounds like 'you are in your right to opt out of our policies if you disagree with an upgrade, it will immediately terminate all of your mining' And then saying that most people support you because only small percent of people opt
229.
by ithinkso 5y ago
So it's not up to the miners and the consensus to decide what's best for the network? The leadership can decide the rules of a new fork unless everyone else coordinate to oppose it? Edit: What prohibits the leadership to do an arb
230.
by ithinkso 5y ago
This is what I think people often miss in those discussions. There is an assumption that everything shared/'hosted' online is someone's opinion and thus should be allowed to be shared. This was never a case on the intern
231.
by ithinkso 5y ago
I'm always using 1000003 and 1000000009 if I need a big prime in code. Million 3, billion 9 - very easy to remember
232.
by ithinkso 5y ago
Ok, yeah. We obviously can't get rid of a curvature. I think SE answer [1] explains what I assumed incorrectly to mean 'locally flat'. I meant it so that you can make a metric look like Minkowski metric at a point p, basicall
233.
by ithinkso 5y ago
Why not? (to the first sentence, locally is locally) But I think I have found the source of my confusion in my original post, I was thinking about manifolds only in the topological sense and for some reason forgot that when there is a metri
234.
by ithinkso 5y ago
That's why I asked about GR specifically, to have a common framework to work with. Without it you can say words like experimentally, practical and talking about differences between different pis whatever that means but this will only l
235.
by ithinkso 5y ago
I don't think this works in GR the way you think it works (regardless of what 'physical circle' means), aren't you always able to change coordinates for the space to be locally flat? (This always confuses me, can someone
236.
by ithinkso 5y ago
This assumes he wouldn't impress Cesar later on a different occasion or that it was the first time he was trying to convince his mother to let him go.
237.
by ithinkso 5y ago
Not on a piece of paper, no. Of course I had to at some point but in those instances I was at a computer anyway so I just used excel/python/matlab what have you, not a calculator like a Neanderthal
238.
by ithinkso 5y ago
Not sure about Japan but in Poland the variables in problems are either symbolic and you solve it symbolically, or if they are given as values then they are usually chosen just right to not make arithmetic much of a bother (that actually re
239.
by ithinkso 5y ago
The same way as pi, e and other constants, log(17) is just that. I never had to convert them to some decimal approximation in calculus classes Edit: Ok, I remember now there was a statistics exam when we had something like Student's t-
240.
by ithinkso 5y ago
Why? I've done calculus and analysis in college and no one has ever used a calculator, I'm not even sure what you would need one for, can you give me an example (seriously curious) The only time I remember needing a calculator in

More ›