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by pif 1y ago
Being upset at the world is not a valid justification for terrorism, either.
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by pif 1y ago
> She said that she is afraid of the world where a state can decide [...] and nobody is willing to do anything about that. You may explain her that this is a different face of the same world where a state has been targeted by hatred and
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by pif 1y ago
That's good news, fake products need to die. We already have real meat and real vegetables, and both are wonderful things. We don't need this idiot fad of eating one of them while conving us that we are eating the other.
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by pif 1y ago
> correct, performant, maintainable, business logic That's the requirement for 100% if professional software development.
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by pif 1y ago
Typical of the dark side of HN, thinking that web programming represents software development, instead of being just one kind of information systems, which are a subset of software applications.
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by pif 1y ago
You are wrong on several levels. 1 - Being fluent in the national language does not prevent people from maintaining their dialects in parallel. 2 - Whether a language is phonetic has no relation to political issues concerning dialects. 3 -
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by pif 1y ago
The issue at the start of the conversation is not about speaking or gesturing. It is about using the Latin alphabet properly (i.e. phonetically, as it was designed) or "with some imagination" as the English does.
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by pif 1y ago
> but not regular. There is "not being regular" and there is "not even trying, and getting it right by a stroke of luck from time to time".
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by pif 1y ago
I have to agree with you. With respect to emojis, English is phonetic. But this statement is as stretched as considering a diesel guzzling truck green because the fuel it burns was indeed created using solar energy.
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by pif 1y ago
There's something you speakers of non-phonetic languages cannot fully grasp, I'm afraid! We Italians, when we were children, we were taught to read based on the written letters, and we were able to read any word. It was normal,
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by pif 1y ago
I'm not stating that English is anything like that. Just that it is not phonetic, in the sense that the written form of a word is not sufficient to pronounce it correctly.
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by pif 1y ago
> I think you're trying to to argue something like: I'm arguing exactly what I wrote: a phonetic language is one when you can see a written word and pronounce it correctly, without knowing what it means and without having e
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by pif 1y ago
Whoever thinks an LLM could replace a professional therapist is affected by idiocy, not mental health.
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by pif 1y ago
> English is not a phonetic language. Whoever says that English is a phonetic language does not know what a phonetic language is. The property that characterizes a phonetic language is that you can properly pronounce a written word that
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by pif 1y ago
If only you had written an example that is not a French word! You have actually reinforced the thesis you were trying to dispute: English does not use accents.
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by pif 1y ago
I had been working at CERN for a bit less than a year, when my Russo-Israelian coworker, who had never visited Italy, erupted in a perfect "Porca puttana!" that made me question my manners in the office.
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by pif 1y ago
> Everything that came before is prehistoric. Hi, Wikipedia doesn't agree with you: > Prehistory [...] is the period of _human_ history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the begin
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by pif 1y ago
Cars have much more functionality these days, and it is good. But too much of that functionality is mandatory, and this is bad.
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by pif 1y ago
Are you talking about real cars or toy cars? As an example, any vehicle with less than 4 places is a toy car. And anything as uncomfortable as a Toyota Prius is a stupid toy car.
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by pif 1y ago
Regulations have made simple cars unlawful, as simple as that. Tons of electronics are needed to respect arbitrary constraints.
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by pif 1y ago
> prehistoric trees I suppose you are actually talking of a time preceding prehistory by a fair lot!
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by pif 1y ago
This is old news in Scandinavia.
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by pif 1y ago
> the CSB is an independent federal agency Keyword: "independent". They investigate before talking. They narrate the fact instead of reading the official narrative. Those pesky wokes must go.
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by pif 1y ago
Emissions are the most important thing in a car, just after its responsiveness. I'll never be able to forgive the EU for making modern cars so less responsive than they used to be. Drive-be-wire killed it all.
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by pif 1y ago
The role of the university is to show that calling AI "AI" is just for idiots. Intelligence has nothing to do with AI.
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by pif 1y ago
Unfortunately, among all the wonders the European Union has brought to us, the cars is where it failed in my opinion. Cheap cars are not permitted any more in the EU. Lots and lots of non-essential electronics are required to satisfy Europe
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by pif 1y ago
> Probably one of the most important metrics is “relevance to, and effect on, the state of the world as it is right now.” Actually, no! It's more of “relevance to the state of the world as it was right then, and as it is right now,
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by pif 1y ago
This post displays the same ignorance as that joke about Kissinger complaining that Europe didn't have a phone number. Open source is a movement: it's neither an individual nor a committee. And people join it because it is a mov
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by pif 1y ago
> There’s no single entity that can coordinate the API, in contrast to Windows and MacOS. > > But then, how can Linux exist? How does that square with “never break the user space?” The “never break the user space” philosophy is li
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by pif 1y ago
> The problem with strlcat and strlcpy is that they assume that it's okay to arbitrarily discard data for the sake of preventing a buffer overflow. The buffer overflow may be prevented, but because data may have been discarded, the

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