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by lucb1e 1y ago
So... press the 'clone' button on the repository and swap the mapping from twitter.com -> nitter.net to nitter.net -> twitter.com?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
...care to elaborate why you can't visit a website on Android and how this is relevant to anyone else?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
(*anymore, as of late 2020 from a quick look. The parent comment may not have been wrong about that, just outdated info)
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> worse, essentially escaping Google's tracking just to give our data to random strangers I'd much rather send random tidbits of information, that are nearly useless in isolation, to strangers than to the central tracking corpo
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by lucb1e 1y ago
How could you ever prove that nobody is doing that? You can believe anything that way One can't prove god doesn't exist either, but as someone who made some privacy-friendly front-ends, I tend to expect honest intentions. If you f
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Manufacturing newer CPUs makes sense only if the device it's meant to replace is like 25 years old: "The emissions from production of computing devices far exceed the emissions from operating them" [...] "the European En
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I can't imagine that a timer wouldn't quickly drift and either drain it to zero or charge it fully
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by lucb1e 1y ago
From a quick lookup, aren't "newline-delimited json" and "json lines" identical? Different name for the same thing?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I thought everyone over there has an air conditioning system on electricity?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> I am glad that something is making us upgrade the grid A few big consumers in centralized locations isn't changing the grid as much as the energy transition from fuels to electricity is
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by lucb1e 1y ago
How so? They're talking about finding it hard to translate words, so then don't?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
TIL! Thanks for sharing
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> what else have they handed over to an LLM? A version in their own language or with lots of spelling mistakes that take people out of the story as well (Charitably, that is)
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Bromance does not sound like broromance in speech
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Can I refer to animals as 'them' instead of 'him' or 'her'? Die Katze draußen ist so Süß, ich möchte es unbedingt streicheln. I know that it's not considered correct but to me it feels even wronger to just
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> Everyone likes their mother tongue better Speak for your own mother (tongue)! I think there are (many) better languages than my mother tongue but I haven't been able to convince the natives of this yet. The oscillate between catch
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by lucb1e 1y ago
The first and the last are the same (nominative, accusative). Do they mean the same in German also? Surely you can't just swap one out for the other?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Writing is nothing but a translation of speech though. I'm afraid you'd need to have a leading example in speech that you want to encode before this has a chance of catching on even in a subculture :(
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by lucb1e 1y ago
If it's the English international keyboard variant that I'm familiar with on either Windows or Linux, it's not : that is turned into a dead key but " (Itś pretty annoying to write with if youŕe typing english, I can reco
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> the "ASCII" alternatives (ue, ae, oe, ss) Isn't that called romanization? Similar to turning 刘慈欣 into Liu Cixin because you can't make the characters I've found that germans take it for granted that it works th
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by lucb1e 1y ago
secondhand embarrassment, for anyone not speaking german here I'm not translating the post above that
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by lucb1e 1y ago
How is English then not a German dialect with pretensions? Is there a certain threshold in number of words that must originate from a different language family, or what's the logic here?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
RobWords' last month's "Is German as bad as people say?", for anyone wondering where that random ID goes Edit: same link posted 9 hours earlier in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44001765
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Impartial foreigner here who has no stake in the old or new spelling. If you're combining ship and port, you can't just write shiport. Of course it's shiff-fahrt / shifffahrt? By what logic does anyone argue anything e
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> I find it pretty tough to have a deep technical conversation in German ...loan words? Dutch doesn't have a word for computer other than computer, SSD is SSD, machine learning is machine learning, WiFi is WiFi (with a 50/50 sp
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Words like beamer for projector... but isn't that similar between all countries? Even within English-speaking countries? You don't know what some Australian-specific or AAVE word means until someone tells you, no matter where you&
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> It's very likely you are in the global 1%. Somewhere around the average income in the country you speak of is the global 1%. You don't need to additionally have a beach resort for that! I'm somewhere around that 1% globa
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by lucb1e 1y ago
How so?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
To be completely fair to the person you're responding to, they're talking about pages that take 20 seconds to load. On a regular website that hopes to get visitors from search engines, say, that is indeed insane and the fix is not
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Right... In case it helps to understand: compare it to something like weather models. You can't "just add indexes" to make it fast, but you can store the result of an hourly run and serve that to people in milliseconds. In my

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