soldehierro

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by soldehierro 6y ago
Esperanto > Rust
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by soldehierro 6y ago
It's hard not to admire a project that not only gives RISC-V a run for it's money, but imperialism too.
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by soldehierro 6y ago
Impressive, if scary, tech, though part of me wonders why games don't just ban people spreading hate speech instead of rigging a complex AI to detect hate speech.
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by soldehierro 6y ago
I'm skeptical about this "miracle" grain's commerical viability - at least for human consumption, the barrier to entry is not simply edibility, but palatibility. It was only after trying millet - a grain with a long hist
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by soldehierro 6y ago
I looked up the Coimbra protocol, which is an ugly Wix site peddling a book. I've got to say, my bullshit meter was off the charts, so I am a bit suprised to see actual research confirming it.
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by soldehierro 6y ago
As a current university student, I am painfully aware that there are good educators, okay educators, and piss-poor educators, but I do think we can expand our pool of very talented educators by making the necessary investments and making te
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by soldehierro 6y ago
It's interesting how many people in the intellectual elite, otherwise, buy into "quality" as an explanation for the apparent success of elite education, overlooking selection biases as an explanation. Education isn't a l
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by soldehierro 6y ago
No, there's not a risk of space debris.
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by soldehierro 6y ago
I am distinctly aware of the many differences between life in America and other countries, especially less developed ones. As an American myself, I'm greatful for the prosperity that many of my compatriots tend to take for granted, but
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by soldehierro 6y ago
I think you'd be suprised by how user-friendly piracy has become. Often, it's just as simple as appending "watch free online" and finding some shady video player site. If you have a VPN, or just don't care about bei
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by soldehierro 6y ago
Spotify shouldn't be compared to Netflix, no, but the core product is the same: convience. If I pirate, I have access to a larger catalog than any streaming service, but I have to slog through ad infested sites, constantly remember whe
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by soldehierro 6y ago
Ultimately, the result of this fragmentation in streaming will only be that more people turn to piracy. Yet again the media industry shooting themselves in the foot. The solution is a spotify for films and tv, not an ever-expanding myriad o
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by soldehierro 6y ago
Argentines already have free university education in their own country. (Look up the "Reforma Universitaria"). The options in the EU - for a student speaking Spanish or English - aren't free, even if they may be more affordab
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by soldehierro 6y ago
> Americans are almost universally wealthy. I would beg to differ. Sure, the average standard of living and "lifestyle" in the US is above many countries, but to say that everyone is wealthy is a flat out lie.
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by soldehierro 6y ago
Rioplatense Spanish has a few different sounds, sure, and Argentine slang can be fairly diffuclt, but it's absolutely ludricrous to think that an Argentine would have difficulties communicating in Spanish with another Spanish speaker,
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by soldehierro 6y ago
Is this a Whatsapp bot or something?
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by soldehierro 6y ago
Every day we inch closer to a police state.
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by soldehierro 6y ago
Wow, this is brilliant. I know my way around a computer and have programmed before, well enough to understand the discussions around here, but I am decidely not a "tech person" by any means. I think this concept would be really gr
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by soldehierro 6y ago
I think textbooks do help, immenesly, atleast for me, with the caveat that they are not there for you to help understand a language, learning to speak comes from understanding. Sure, you can learn without a formal grammar, but being an ad
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by soldehierro 6y ago
People like to rag on teaching grammar rules. While it's certaintly not what makes you fluent - that's an intuitive grasp of grammar, it allows you to start understanding and enjoying native content much faster. Learning a languag
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by soldehierro 6y ago
I'll admit my ignorance of the grammatical complexities of Hungarian beyond the fact that it's highly declined and has a really interesting case system, though I will remark that the modern lingustics community generally ascribes
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by soldehierro 6y ago
That was the point I was trying to get at, that liguistically there's nothing "special" about English, as many people, as you can see in this thread, would claim. That's not to say there isn't a huge disparity betwe
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by soldehierro 6y ago
Grammatical complexity, in my opinion is overhyped as a barrier to language learning. In my own experience, after enough time and pratice you eventually internalize grammar structures without a problem. The real issue is learning enough voc
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by soldehierro 6y ago
"Angloexceptionalism" really gets on my nerves to no end, and the worst part of it is that it seems it's mainly anglophone monolinguals that are making these outrageous claims, like English being intrinsically superior to oth
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by soldehierro 6y ago
The part about European langauges not having a present progessive tense was painful to read. Many european languages do have a present progressive, just not French and German, which aren't much of a representative sample.
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by soldehierro 6y ago
It's absolutely terrifying not only how dangerous these diseases can be, but also how little research funding they get. If there is ever a widespread prion outbreak, it'll end up making Ebola look like a common cold.