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by lvxferre 5y ago
>The Pirahã tribe [...] /me rolls eyes What people need to understand is that most of our material regarding Pirahã comes from a single researcher, because those folks do not like outsiders. That means: take it with a grain of salt.
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by lvxferre 5y ago
TL;DR: of the article: "Don't do bugs. Bugs are bad mkay?" Now gib me a Nobel for the summary above, please. Preferably the one for Saving Mankind.
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by lvxferre 5y ago
They might have different ideas, but they're still the product of the same time and culture. They're bound to have similar world views.
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by lvxferre 5y ago
I've looked both of my surnames, as they're fairly regional in Europe. Seems accurate.
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by lvxferre 5y ago
It's the feminine because it refers to the family, and "família" is feminine. e.g. "João Ferreira" would be "John, [of the] blacksmith [family]". That's also the reason a few surnames include de/
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by lvxferre 5y ago
A lot* of the criticism against RSS/Atom that I've seen on the internet boils down to appeal to novelty; both are old, so assumed to be "bad". But hey, they work. They fill a purpose - they warn you about updates in a si
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by lvxferre 5y ago
>Google increasingly does not give you the results for what you typed in. It tries to be “smart” and figure out what you “really meant”, in addition to personalizing things for you. If you really meant exactly what you typed, then all be
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by lvxferre 5y ago
Got it - thanks for the info!
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by lvxferre 5y ago
The past participle is gendered in Spanish. And it works the way I described, even with "genderless" interrogative pronouns - you'll default to the masculine, unless some omitted word "forces" the feminine. Like thi
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by lvxferre 5y ago
Spanish blurs the line between non-personal pronouns and determiners, so two things might happen: either the word "defaults" to the masculine, or it's actually being used as a determiner, with the noun omitted - then it gets
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by lvxferre 5y ago
>I don't really see the big issue with Latinx... it seems to me an easy and correct way to refer to latinos and latinas, without saying both, or one or the other, or bringing in gender. I see two issues in Spanish, one in English, a
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by lvxferre 5y ago
Same deal with me, starting from my second year (8yo): write a short summary of a book of your choice every school month. On my third year however they tweaked the rules slightly, so the books must be from different series. More than a deca
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by lvxferre 5y ago
>that absent the ability to understand text, machines here are introducing novel prejudice where none existed prior. Kinda off-topic, but what haunts me is that this is equally true for people. People who don't understand what they
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by lvxferre 5y ago
For those who don't know: Mastodon is like Twitter, except decentralised and open source. Becoming a gGmbH means Eugen is seeking to expand it further.
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by lvxferre 5y ago
I love how similar the building is to a lot of bars you see in Latin America. I could easily picture a bunch of stools on one side of the S-shaped table/stove, with people chugging wine and snacking, while on the other side you had two
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by lvxferre 5y ago
Shoot the shooter before the shooter shoots you.
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by lvxferre 5y ago
Note to self: stop messing with telescopes and satellites, other people already noticed it. (The strongest area of the anomaly is right over my homeland.) Jokes apart. Given the geomagnetic field sometimes "flip" over, what would
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by lvxferre 5y ago
I've been doing something similar since I was, like, 10? Put some aluminium in water, add lye, and you got hydrogen. For me it worked because it was faster than electrolysis, enough to fill balloons with. [inb4 yes, my childhood was we
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by lvxferre 5y ago
It depends far more on the actual dialect than the country, as it's phonotactics-dependent; for example I'd still expect Alentejano dialect to add a short [ɪ], or Mineiro to skip it, even if it's the opposite direction of t
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by lvxferre 5y ago
I see - Apple is now gaslighting users.
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by lvxferre 5y ago
I've seen mostly ⟨bug⟩ in both Italian and Portuguese. Uncommonly ⟨erro de programação⟩ (PT) / ⟨errore di programmazione⟩ (IT). I pronounce it ['bu.ge] in both languages, although the pronunciation might vary quite a bi
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by lvxferre 5y ago
Guys. I'm not even a programmer, but even I could notice right off the bat this is satirical, when they claimed there's some "consensus" about major versions being over. That said I wish developers realised more often, h
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by lvxferre 5y ago
Ah, got it. I agree with you - more staff might be actually good for the site. Although I'm not sure if it'll be for the sake of a better site, or a more profitable site.
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by lvxferre 5y ago
>The company says funding will go toward building out community and advertising efforts and increasing headcount. "Increasing headcount" by alienating the older userbase, and "advertising efforts" by making the advert
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by lvxferre 5y ago
I was expecting some oddities for Portuguese, given an old chain shift*, but it looks surprisingly normal in comparison with Italian and Spanish. Also, someone should check the data for ⟨azul-marinho⟩, it's usually a deeper blue than ⟨
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by lvxferre 5y ago
Late Middle English was not a creole, and that is not a matter of perspective - it's just a descendant of Early Middle English. A bunch of Norman borrowings didn't change that. A creole is by definition the descendant of a pidgin,
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by lvxferre 5y ago
That's because the copycat, in the first interaction, works exactly the same as the cooperator. And the outcome of that first interaction becomes more important if there are less of them. The problem I see only pops up when there are m
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by lvxferre 5y ago
I'm sure it isn't mashrabiya, it looked differently - it was thin (almost a horizontal slit), and I think its purpose was to "conduct" the hot air without letting the rain to come in.
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by lvxferre 5y ago
>Why do we so easily jump to awful interpretations? I think the root cause is failure to assess certainty levels. For those people, "I know X" and "I don't know, but some weak evidence leads me to believe X" are
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by lvxferre 5y ago
I remember reading somewhere, that the Aztecs built small windows in a specific way, on the top of the walls, in order to cool their houses. Does anyone have further info on that?

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