knolax

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1. 661.▲
   by knolax 7y ago

   How about pre-Civil War and pre-WWII?
2. 662.▲
   by knolax 7y ago

   But it seems that the "where the sound is made" aspect is being described as discrete whereas the positioning approaches more of a spectrum. Even if it were discrete, the fact that most phonemes can be produced with multiple posit
3. 663.▲
   by knolax 7y ago

   TBF linguistics as a field doesn't seem to apply empiricism as strictly as the hard sciences. It seems that it was only relatively recently that descriptivism became the norm.
4. 664.▲
   by knolax 7y ago

   I'm not a linguist but it seems that most phonemes exist as areas (or multiple discontinuous areas as seen in TFA) in phonetic space while IPA attempts to describe only points in phonetic space[0]. Wouldn't it be better to instead
5. 665.▲
   by knolax 7y ago

   I've never taken a college compsci course before but I've written UTF-8 to UTF-32 converters before as a part of a project. Do Unicode/other character encodings really need to be explicitly taught in a class? Most of the comp
6. 666.▲
   by knolax 7y ago

   Says the person who didn't punctuate their sentence.
7. 667.▲
   by knolax 7y ago

   I'm not convinced at all by that paper, he gives only by my count ~180 examples to relate two language families that by themselves have 10s of thousands morphemes. Especially since the reconstructed Indo-European rootwords and Ancient
8. 668.▲
   by knolax 7y ago

   I think full size keyboards look ugly and take up too much desk space. That's just my personal opinion. I don't like how there's almost an inch of plastic along the borders of the keyboard that take up desk space while provid
9. 669.▲
   by knolax 7y ago

   TBF a lot of what he did sounds like work that would be done by the autorouter on most electronics CAD today.
10. 670.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    In my experience persistent exposure to either wears away at your sanity after a while.
11. 671.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    And it's equally irritating to see.
12. 672.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sea-thru-brings-c... Original article linked in current article, has more pictures/content.
13. 673.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    I want to live in your fantasy world where militaries meet up at pre-arranged times in empty fields to take turns shooting at eachother.
14. 674.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    Your example assumes that the AI isn't taking your 80/20 split and integrating that back into the test. Even if your ever so nebulous "biological differences" exist, you have already acknowledged that an objective measur
15. 675.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    What if it's a graphically/resource intensive game that would necessitate running it natively? Imagine trying to run an Unreal Engine equivalent in webgl for example.
16. 676.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    Exaggerated clickbait.
17. 677.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what you're getting at. I never claimed that you can't use an arbitrary name to convey information. You can call it Classical Mechanics "gleeebnok" and people will understand you long
18. 678.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    RIP.
19. 679.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    ensure
20. 680.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    You mean Classical Mechanics? Plus your example doesn't make sense because the term "Newtonian Mechanics" was likely coined only after Relativistic Mechanics were discovered[0][1], Newton himself referred to it as "Natur
21. 681.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    I use a tiking WM so all my terminals just expand to fill the screen or some integer fraction thereof.
22. 682.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    If the concept of Yakolevian Torque becomes obselete we'll just stop referring to it regardless of how it's named. If it only needs to be updated in a way that obseletes the older descriptional name we can just give it a newer mor
23. 683.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    How do they know that it's going to last 1000 years? What kind of properties do you have to control for to insure that?
24. 684.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    Goes to show how stupid the convention of naming scientific terms after people is. The name "Yakolevian Torque" is not at all descriptive of what the phenomenon is, is hard to spell, and is hard to pronounce. You could say that it
25. 685.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    She just needs to beat up a couple of the journal authors.
26. 686.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    > What does Belgium owe in terms of equipping it’s former colony to help themselves? Payback for the mass forced labor of Congolese to extract rubber? I don't even live in Belgium or the Congo and we learned about atrocities committ
27. 687.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    Sounds like a fun math excercise: For any trademark of color T(represented as a vector in RGB colorspace), the chance that a brand using color C can be successfully sued is equal to 1-k*||T-C||, where k is lesser than 1 divided by the maxim
28. 688.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    I feel like a manifest file is not that hard to write yourself. It's the same incentive as any other FLOSS work.
29. 689.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    If it's truly OSS what's there to prevent someone from simply forking it to make a version where the manifest file is distributed freely (in both senses of the word)?
30. 690.▲
    by knolax 7y ago

    Kamikaze by words.