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by klodolph 4mo ago
> In general, I find your attitude a bit condescending. Yeah—I can understand why I’d come across as condescending. There’s a balance here—I want to be clear when I say that I have problems with the article, but I don’t want to be hurtfu
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by klodolph 4mo ago
The online spaces can be really discouraging, true—but it can also be really discouraging to be in a classroom or in a foreign country, struggling to use a language you barely know. Meanwhile, there are also a lot of ways to spend effort tr
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by klodolph 4mo ago
> I think the reader would just read the next section where I use your argument to critique my own approach? And then make up their own mind whether it’s defensible to do something in the article, to raise pros/cons for why I did it
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by klodolph 4mo ago
That note isn’t much to go on. I think the choice is not a good one, whether it is deliberate or by accident, it is not a good choice either way. The main caveat to Hepburn is that it’s unsuitable for explaining how Japanese works and it’s
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by klodolph 4mo ago
The systems are obviously not isomorphic—Japanese kana are not entirely phonetic (they are just mostly so) and the different romanization systems choose differently whether to follow orthography or phonetics more closely. > hanas* + (i
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by klodolph 4mo ago
First, As a basic part of Japanese language education, students are expected to be familiar with different romanization systems. If you ask a student where “si” is in the table, they should be able to find it. If a student says “it’s not in
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by klodolph 4mo ago
That’s just false, “si” is in the hiragana table as し. The romanization “si” is /si/ which is pronounced [ɕi] (or [ɕi̥] or some other possibility). This is basic Japanese phonetics. If you fix all the errors that are in the articl
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by klodolph 4mo ago
I think it’s probably a mistake to use Hepburn if you’re learning Japanese, it kinda gets in the way. Either learn kana (which takes what, a week?) or use one of the other romanization systems which maps more cleanly to Japanese orthography
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by klodolph 4mo ago
Because the author of the article hasn’t internalized that si is pronounced “shi”, is my guess.
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by klodolph 4mo ago
They’re sometimes called “semi-irregular” because they are mostly regular with, like, one deviation. The list is not long and it is quick to memorize.
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by klodolph 4mo ago
hanasimasu = 話します
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by klodolph 4mo ago
:( Romaji are great, and in some ways more instructive because they reveal patterns which are otherwise a little hidden. You just have to realize that S+I is shi, T+U is tsu, etc. I don’t want to get too deep into it but there is a regulari
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by klodolph 4mo ago
I would encourage people who have the pragmatic bent to read about JSON-LD from the Google documentation for web sites; https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structu... You’ll also notice that
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by klodolph 4mo ago
I think if you are using Dublin Core, it’s because you’re a library. Maybe I am off the mark, but that is the sense I get from this—not all these standards should be used for all pages on the web. I think you should just think about what me
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by klodolph 4mo ago
IMO this is going overboard. Any time you are duplicating data from HTML into JSON-LD, consider just omitting that data from JSON-LD, unless the data isn’t consistently present in HTML (because it is a bitch to be consistent about this stuf
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by klodolph 4mo ago
I have used JSON-LD in my own websites and found that it fills a separate need from semantic HTML. Your semantic HTML will specify things that the browser processes, like the title and headings. The JSON-LD data is metadata, like date creat
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by klodolph 4mo ago
> Just like the difference between 'him' and 'her' is inscrutable taken out of context, The context is pretty flexible, like "Do you know Jim? I saw him at the store." Or, "Do you know Jim? Fifteen days
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by klodolph 4mo ago
> I'm evaluating them using an objective metric, I don’t think the metric is at all reasonable, and the fact that it’s “objective” doesn’t make up for its other shortcomings. I don’t think we have a basis for agreement here—I think
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by klodolph 4mo ago
> Calculus is definitely the harder task, You’re only evaluating “harder” or “easier” based on the perspective of somebody who has a mammalian brain with millions of years of selective pressure to make it suitable for solving inverse kin
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by klodolph 4mo ago
No, I don’t think so. LLMs are good at a lot of simple tasks, but bad at certain simple tasks. Moravec’s paradox in a new iteration. It applies to humans too. Calculus is “simple” but it takes something like sixteen years to train a human t
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by klodolph 4mo ago
I think the idea that AOT is inherently faster than JIT, or vice versa, is a thoroughly debunked idea. You can have LLMs help you optimize code but I don’t think you can do this unattended for non-trivial code.
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by klodolph 4mo ago
> I don't see why that's the case. LLM trained on binary would totally see it, not? It would not. You find the correct version by counting the number of bytes to the destination. LLMs are famously bad at this kind of problem (c
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by klodolph 4mo ago
On the off chance that you’re serious, that would result in disastrously bad output. The difference between “jmp $+15” and “jmp $+16” is inscrutable and the LLM would not be able to pick the right one without tooling. That tooling is a comp
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by klodolph 4mo ago
IMO this is just garden variety effects of being a programming influencer. It’s a weird position to be in. I think being influential just does that to people, with high regularity.
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by klodolph 4mo ago
Back in the 2000s I think a much larger fraction of the web was running out Chad’s garage. You got a Pentium III and a DSL connection? Run a website! Run an IRC server!
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by klodolph 4mo ago
I think it’s pretty rare for files to be unbuffered like that. AFAIK it’s mostly stderr that ends up unbuffered, at least on Unix-like systems.
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by klodolph 4mo ago
I am, like, two minutes away from getting my configuration back on a fresh Mac or Linux system without Nix, so configuration management is just irrelevant to me. I am evaluating it as a package manager and a way to setup development environ
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by klodolph 4mo ago
I’m not sure what I would get out of nix-Darwin. It looks like it does not solve any of the problems I am trying to solve? I don’t need or want configuration management on my personal systems, except for the web servers, which I manage usin
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by klodolph 4mo ago
I recently switched back to Homebrew from Nix, and the three big factors in that switch are: - Brew seems to have better support for the packages it has, compared to Nix where it seems a percentage of packages are not as well maintained,
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by klodolph 4mo ago
(I know you didn’t ask me) I think a willingness to listen to unfamiliar albums and unfamiliar genres is all you really need. I look for “best of X” lists, which get posted everywhere from actual newspapers to niche sites nline forums, Twit

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