qalmakka

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by qalmakka 5y ago
Just stick with TAI and convert times to UTC when displaying them is required. The real crap here is the C and POSIX time_t type and its related functions, which are massively out of date (like the 70% of the C standard library). The ISO C
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Italian phonology is clear - approximants like /j/ and /w/ always appear in diphthongs, unless in very rare occurrences; i.e. ài, èi, éi, òi, ói, ùi; àu, èu, éu -> /aj/, /εj/, /ej/, &#x2F
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I think you're mistaken about the 'y' part; what the author is trying to convey is that [i] in Italian is both the vowel /i/ and the consonant /j/ depending on the context. /j/ is typically rende
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by qalmakka 5y ago
This. I've studied the IPA once, and now it's way easier to learn new words in languages I don't know. It kinda gets messy when representing strange sounds full of diacritics though, but I guess there's no good way aroun
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I like how despite all the efforts from RIAA and Hollywood Pirate Bay is still there after all these years, unsinkable, always coming back from death. It's a stern reminder to the music and entertainment industry that piracy can't
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by qalmakka 5y ago
In Italy a 1Gbps/200Mbps FTTH connection is around €25-30/mo, without any upfront setup cost. Some ISPs even gives out Fritzboxes as their free router, and even include a landline number with unlimited phone calls.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I also cook eggs and omelettes in cast iron and they basically never stick, even when I use little oil. The most important thing is learning to regulate heat. A cold or scorching hot pan can easily lead to avoidable disasters.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
If only ISPs actually bothered giving out IPv6 addresses to their customers. It's 2021, I have a 1 Gbps FTTH connection and still no trace of IPv6. This is a complete disgrace.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I personally like Okular a lot, I also like to use it on Windows (it's in the Windows store).
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by qalmakka 5y ago
I think one big reason for this is how disappointing on the shelves ARM chips are compared with Apple's offering, and the lack of a standardized platform like the PC was for x86. UEFI on AArch64 is a good start, but we really need to
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Sure certain sounds can definitely be picked by non-native speakers. I'm not an English or German native speaker, but I've learned to pronounce /x/, /ç/, /θ/, /ð/ and the guttural Rs just fi
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by qalmakka 5y ago
> if your name is “ Friedrich” you should accept that it’s unpronounceable for an Italian and that “fredrik” I think that the only unpronounceable things in "Freidrich" for an Italian speaker are the guttural Rs and the /ç
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by qalmakka 5y ago
My personal theory is that it's mostly due to exposure and cultural influence. The English speaking world is mostly refractory towards the non-English speaking world, i.e., books and movies published in Italian will almost always never
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by qalmakka 5y ago
> You don't see how running any code you want on a device is less secure than restricting the kind of code that you can run? Who's Apple to decide what I consider to be secure or not in my own free will, on my device? It's
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Because an array is a list of scalar, and an hash a map of scalars. If you want to access a scalar inside the list, you write $a[1], which means "the scalar at the first position of list @a". If it was @a[1] it would have been inc
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by qalmakka 5y ago
That's right, I had never realized those existed. They could be a good way to teach people how to pronounce geminated sounds.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Without counting all those circumstances where A is still /a/, u is /a/ or a similar vowel, and so on. Basically, there's nothing that's still pronounced as it should :)
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Italian is somewhat simple to pronounce (probably it is not, but I like believing that). - The cardinal rule is that EVERY SINGLE LETTER MUST BE READ. We don't write unnecessary stuff, we don't eat letters like in French. - The on
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by qalmakka 5y ago
This, exactly. I also saw a quite big difference between monolingual English speakers and Italian speakers. The average monolingual Italian speaker that has had a basic exposure to certain English words through TV or media in general WILL d
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Also known as "pronouncing Latin alphabet vowels as in Latin" :) I like how English managed to offset for his relatively simple grammar by totally destroying its spelling. The whole fact that things like "spelling bees"
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by qalmakka 5y ago
It always puzzles me how little knowledge of foreign languages the average English native speaker has. Every time I hear an English speaker trying to pronounce Italian or Spanish words it generally ends up in a complete disaster (especially
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by qalmakka 5y ago
This, exactly. The rolled r is only r in IPA, but way too often people reach out for the wrong symbols when representing English pronunciation. Often I also see ◌ʰ being often left out when a consonant is usually aspirated, and so on.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Well, the IBM MicroDrive already existed in 2000 with sizes up to 1GB. Apple itself used them for the iPod after a certain year, so the technology for tiny drives weren't that exclusive or hard to get - I think the mindset was really t
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by qalmakka 5y ago
This is an unfortunate consequence of the poor choice of keeping UCS-2 alive as UTF-16 for way too long. The plug in 16 bit encodings should have been pulled a long time ago, but some people were and still are so focused on backwards compat
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Perl might be weird, but it's logic and it makes sense. References are not automagical, but explicit, so you don't get an inconsistent function calling model. If you call a sub like `something(%h)`, it will get a copy of the hash.
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by qalmakka 5y ago
In my heart, Perl has won a long time ago. Python is nice and all, but it's too much of a jack of all trades language, that doesn't neither suck nor shine at anything. Also, the fact you can write a Perl script, run it everywhere
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The main issue I have with Hack is that it is a big PITA to install. Like, there's no HHVM in ArchLinux repositories (or in no other distro's repositories either), and building it is super messy. That's also why I think almos
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by qalmakka 5y ago
Given that Raku's design originally stems from the "strict" subset of Perl 5, this would never work. This only works when Perl runs in non-strict pre-5 mode (which is the default before 7.0).
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by qalmakka 5y ago
That's the very reason I've been buying from "someone else" for almost a decade. Still, in certain markets they are not a "minor" player, and even then that still doesn't give them an excuse to abuse the p
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by qalmakka 5y ago
The desire of maintaining compatibility with C at all cost is both the main selling point of C++ and the source of almost all of its madness. C was full of weird quirks (null terminated strings, enums that decayed to int, char* that could r

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