kiscica

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How does Amazon Alexa know my cat's name?
4 points by kiscica 5y ago|1 comments
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by kiscica 5y ago
>Agglutinative languages, like Finnish or Hungarian, where word order is largely irrelevant and conjugations, not word order, determine meaning. I'd argue that word order is just as relevant (and indeed constrained by meaning) in Hu
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by kiscica 6y ago
I absolutely agree that people should be able to choose how they use pronouns (or in fact any component of language). Communication is a mutual endeavour, and I will always make my best good-faith effort to understand what an interlocutor
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by kiscica 6y ago
The problem with "they" is that it is in fact a very bad translation for "ő" in a sentence like "ő mosogat." We typically find gender-neutral "they" in English when there is an indefinite antecedent
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by kiscica 6y ago
I was amused to find that "ő orvos. ő sebész. ő agysebész. ő kardiológus. ő pszichiater. ő radiológus. ő bőrgyógyász. ő nőgyógyász. ő szülész. ő fogorvos." was translated as "she is a doctor. she is a surgeon. he is a brain s
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by kiscica 8y ago
Pronounced, originally, to rhyme with "honey" and "money". The obvious vulgar homophony explains why the word is obsolete today and, when it is used (as, for example, in the toponym "Coney Island"), is invariab
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by kiscica 9y ago
>any semantic similarity to the K2 GUI system is probably coincidental. Hardly coincidental! I very much had the K gui in mind when I originally architected it (and I'm not sure I'd describe it as a "reasonably convention
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by kiscica 10y ago
That is odd. Maybe it's an in-joke alluding to database triggers or something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_trigger
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by kiscica 10y ago
iambic keying is clever, and fun, but of very little practical value. True. Also, amateur radio is clever, and fun, but of very little practical value. I've been a ham for almost 30 years. I like to compare it to sailing. If yo
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by kiscica 12y ago
Well, at least he will know to go to that level of detail next time! Once burned, twice shy. I guess my point is that being "100% convinced that the property had the [feature] of interest" based solely on a phone call is pretty r
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by kiscica 12y ago
In a situation like this, the key is to get a contingency in the house purchase contract -- and have the work done before the closing. We bought a house that didn't have cable or DSL in a somewhat rural area -- the sellers were using 3
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by kiscica 16y ago
A number of employees have one or more kids. Off the top of my head, they live in New Jersey (commute on NJ Transit), Long Island (LIRR), upstate (Metro North), i.e. the traditional NY suburbs, as well as in Manhattan and Brooklyn; that is
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by kiscica 16y ago
1010data is hiring in NYC. Standard black-and-white descriptions of the current job openings are at http://www.1010data.com/company/careers/current-job-openings (warning: links on that page are to PDFs) and you can find out what we do at