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by sieve 1y ago
Sanskrit grammar is complicated enough for basic knowledge of the cases and the tenses/aspects/moods to be less useful than one would otherwise assume. You have sati-saptami prayogas, krdantas are often uses as adjectives while ba
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by sieve 1y ago
What sounds nice, and works, in poetry may not work when narrated in prose. So, I am avoiding the first four sargas of the Balakanda entirely in my guide. The story starts with a description of Ayodhya and then moves on to Dasharatha and hi
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by sieve 1y ago
It is possible, but requires serious, dedicated effort like anything else. I am attempting this with Sanskrit because I have not found anything remotely resembling this that is easily accessible.
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by sieve 1y ago
In my experience, knowledge of grammar gives you a false sense of knowledge of language. You might know what the form of the word is, but you may not grasp its meaning in context, or be able to use it in your own sentences. Grammar is the a
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by sieve 1y ago
This is generally because of a lack of definite purpose. If you were serious about reading ancient Latin literature, you would use YT to try to figure out a reasonable way to achieve the purpose and then put the theory into practise instea
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by sieve 1y ago
Things are much better today, I feel. If the publishers do not feel that there is a market, then the gap must be filled by enthusiasts. Some time for creating the content and $6/m on DO, and hundreds/thousands of people can benefi
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by sieve 1y ago
Yep!
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by sieve 1y ago
I have seen some people do this successfully. But I find the BG to be too complex as a learning tool. It is too dense for me to concentrate on the words rather than the content. I prefer short stories. I have acquired hundreds of laghukathā
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by sieve 1y ago
Fluency is a different topic. In the initial stages, I am more concerned about the size of my vocabulary and my ability to understand what is written than trying to speak or listen. This is where reading lots and lots of material in the tar
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by sieve 1y ago
> If you just keep sprinting through such exercises, in a sense, mindlessly, without asking yourself how each new sentence really differs from the ones you have already seen, then yes, IMHO you are likely to fail. This is where comprehen
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by sieve 1y ago
I completely agree with everything you have mentioned in the first paragraph. You NEED to consume tens of thousands of words repeatedly used in different contexts for the brain to make those automatic connections. Random sentences do not ma
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by sieve 1y ago
They might have found it useful enough to attempt their own spin on it, I guess. I don't think that Duolino is absolutely useless. But my reason for learning languages might be different from those of others. Some people want to be abl
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by sieve 1y ago
I am not sure about the names of the characters. But a Roman family is definitely involved in the first part (Familia Romana). > I like to think it's worked It works as long as you do some slow and steady work at it. I don't th
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by sieve 1y ago
Frankly, people do not have the time to deeply research this topic. You want to learn French or Spanish for fun. Duolingo claims that it can help you. So you join, try for a few days and give up. This happened to me about ten years ago. I t
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by sieve 1y ago
As someone who knows four languages[1] (picked every single one up during childhood) and is currently learning Sanskrit, I have to say that Krashen's input hypothesis and Orberg's Lingva Latina is probably the way to go if you are
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by sieve 2y ago
Anyone serious about democracy should think hard before they prevent people from standing for elections. The courts might think they are doing their job, but disqualifying a major political figure from standing for elections based on charge
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by sieve 2y ago
In last year's national elections, two people that the Indian government has jailed under various national security and terrorism laws were allowed to participate and actually won their respective contests.[1][2] While they were allowe
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by sieve 2y ago
Have been using FastMail for a long time. Works just fine. I also have an old Proton Mail account that is used occasionally. Can't complain about that either. I don't want my mail being scooped up by Google-scale orgs. Don't
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by sieve 2y ago
The Gemma 2 Instruct models are quite good (9 & 27B) for writing. The 27B is good at following instructions. I also like DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B. The Gemma 3 Instruct 4B model that was released today matches the output of the larg
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by sieve 2y ago
I have had very high myopia (-9D) for most of my life. Used contacts for nearly a decade starting 30 years ago. Went back to glasses after that. Would have eye strain issues due to 12+ hours on the computer every day. When I turned 40 and s
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by sieve 2y ago
This self-flagellation is charming but pointless. My concern is that the East has so completely adopted Western culture and ideas to the exclusion of that originating within itself that local customs, traditions, languages etc will probably
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by sieve 2y ago
Well, Google TV provides the software, Dixon is a known contract manufacturer of appliances and Amazon provides the customers. So, I am wondering what value they are going to add.
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by sieve 2y ago
Nicely explained. And love the artwork. I prefer interpreters when playing with the syntax. But once you are serious about taking it further, bytecode is a very good choice because you still maintain control over the execution. Once the cod
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by sieve 2y ago
It's been a while. I think it was the privilege issue more than anything. And as it was a fresh start for me, I decided to pick podman. If docker works for you, I think you should continue with it.
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by sieve 2y ago
It is not user-friendly, but it works flawlessly once you get used to it. I stayed away from docker all these years and tried podman from scratch last year after docker failed to work for a project I was experimenting with. Took an hour to
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by sieve 2y ago
This might be bad for individual professions but an overall positive for humanity as a whole. The number of people paying for translators pales in comparison to those who want good-enough translations but do not have access to them. Google
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> if javac involves IR, SSA based analysis and transformation (which I assume it does) https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/jdk.compiler/... I am fairly certain that it does not. T
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by sieve 2y ago
I got started from the books that were available here in the early 2000s. The one I like the most is "Programming Language Pragmatics" by Michael Scott, mainly for its simplicity. Then there is "Advanced Compiler Design and I
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The Dragon Book is terrible as an introduction. There are better books I would probably recommend, but not to a beginner. The best "complete" intro out there today is Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters.[1] [1] https:/&#x2F
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by sieve 2y ago
I have written all kinds of compilers, interpreters and vms over the last 15 years. A couple of them for work. The rest for fun. Some vms used RC, others did mark-and-sweep GC. Some vms even did JIT. A lot of them were simple treewalk inter

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