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by lmm 4mo ago
Generally before you presume to teach (a term you've used repeatedly about this post) beginners you should be at least B2 level in the target language.
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by lmm 4mo ago
You're saying "romaji" when you mean "romanisation". Yes in Japanese it's called ヘボン式ローマ字, but when people use "romaji" as a loanword in English it's generally understood to mean the written char
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by lmm 4mo ago
> New upstairs neighbors are literally paying $2000/m more than we are for the same floor plan. > None of this seems egregious to me. Enough said. I wonder if it would feel egregious if you were the one paying $2000/m more.
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by lmm 4mo ago
> "Romaji" does not (in English) mean "romanisation" > This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as rōmaji See how there's not actually a contradiction there?
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by lmm 4mo ago
> there are many "free protections" that are taken for granted at our stage of civilizational development. Should fire departments be privatized? Police? I'd argue that housing security is even more important than those. W
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by lmm 4mo ago
> One wonders why the people who don't want to have to leave a city like San Fransisco just cause some other people have more money than them and want to raise their rents out of their reach are the ones who should move to Texas. Wh
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by lmm 4mo ago
I live in one of the most populous metropolitan areas on the planet because it's the best place to live in the world. Increasing density and population is working great so far; maybe it won't scale all the way to 8 billion, but as
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by lmm 4mo ago
Ah, you mean those sounds don't exist in (standard) Japanese? I got confused by you talking about "the English equivalent".
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by lmm 4mo ago
> At least for now, DeepSeek has no ties to the defense sector. Like every company based in China they are under the control of the Chinese state, which is an armed entity known to use violence.
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by lmm 4mo ago
This isn't about Trump. No 4th amendment rights at the border has been an issue for at least 20 years, but US citizens don't care because it doesn't affect citizens.
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by lmm 4mo ago
A 30 second search found me https://www.fire.org/news/he-spent-37-days-jail-facebook-pos... . You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride. (And you're pretty thoroughly proving my point about US citizens
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by lmm 4mo ago
> And, since the English equivalent of those sounds doesn't exist, there's no confusion the way there would be between "she" and "see" in english. Erm, wtf? The English "si" sound does exist and so
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by lmm 4mo ago
Theorycrafting efficient ways of learning Japanese while being barely conversational yourself is a completely different hobby from actually learning Japanese (or actually studying the teaching of Japanese), and sadly in online spaces the fo
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by lmm 4mo ago
> My main mistake seems to be meaning “[Hepburn] romaji” by writing “romaji”. I was obviously aware of other systems because that is what the sentence says but I thought it’s acceptable to refer to Hepburn as just “romaji” as a sort of t
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by lmm 4mo ago
> With all the issues in the US and generally wrong direction, I can’t remember them ever arresting people for mean tweets in the way that Germany and the UK have. Then you haven't been paying attention. The constitution prevents ci
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by lmm 4mo ago
> I feel like you’re going out of your way to misinterpret the article. Nope. You correct yourself after, sure, but what I wrote is how it came across at the time when reading. > Where is the factual mistake here? “si” is invalid roma
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by lmm 4mo ago
> I don’t know what you mean by “so much effort”. This is a pretty long blog post covering really not very much. > The te/ta-form is genuinely a separate system linguistically with its own heritage. So it makes sense to look at i
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by lmm 4mo ago
> There are lots of people in the comments somehow offended by the author's genuine excitement over the method that worked well enough for them that they wanted to share it. Did it work for them though? They apparently never got pas
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by lmm 4mo ago
If it's taking you this much effort to do the trivial conjugations (seriously, the whole page barely mentions the interesting ones 80% of the way down, and falls back on "yeah, you just have to memorize the patterns" for た&#x
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by lmm 4mo ago
The author is using an anglicised romaji system and evidently thinking in English, so they think writing 話します as "hanasimasu" is "wrong".
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Very similar with patterns. I've often read people protesting that juniors overuse design patterns, yet I've seldom seen a junior (mis)use anything more complex than a singleton, and when they use any pattern, it's usual
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by lmm 4mo ago
> is it necessary for the performance boost and de-fluffing the objects? Yes. The one part of the JVM GC that can't run concurrently is heap compaction; objects that can be moved by copying and then deleting would be a huge help for
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by lmm 4mo ago
> They have added proper algebraic data types to the language No they haven't. E.g. they added a class that superficially looks like Option but subtly breaks the rules that Option is meant to follow, ensuring that no-one can ever ma
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by lmm 4mo ago
> There are around 100 train companies in Japan. JR is 7 of those 100. The other 93 are NOT JR. Drawing any conclusions about Japanese trains from inspecting 7% of them is just wrong. JR is a whole lot more than 7% of trains (downthread
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by lmm 4mo ago
Criticising poor usability is fine, worthwhile even. Criticising unfashionable taste is just classism.
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by lmm 4mo ago
Honestly the writing was on the wall for the traditional VM business already. May as well squeeze out what you can where you can.
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by lmm 4mo ago
Walmart had already ruined ASDA to be fair, it's not like private equity is doing worse.
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by lmm 4mo ago
> it must hold that that a->m->t == b->t. So define a wrapper type that represents that invariant (it's not going to take up space at runtime), where the only constructor enforces it? > Integer x is representable using 1
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by lmm 4mo ago
> Handlebars/mustache was what early angular/react used for templating. Yeah and they migrated away from it for good reason.
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by lmm 4mo ago
What do you do about availability? AFAIK the choice is to pick one of 3 or 4 hacky difficult-to-administer clustering solutions, or have that single PostgreSQL database be a SPOF for your whole system.

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