umanwizard

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by umanwizard 5y ago
Yeah. I think it’s weird to be constantly reminded of my colleagues’ skin color while reading Slack.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
I’ve heard it spoken (never, of course, by someone actually from Latin America), and it’s indeed pronounced latin-ex.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> You only see the letter X in indigenous place-names like Mexico or Oaxaca, and there it's pronounced kind of like a fricative version of our H Interestingly, in both of those cases it was originally pronounced like our “sh”, which
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Or latine which was invented by people who actually speak the language.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> Latino/a excludes French-speaking Haitians The vast majority of Haitians don’t speak French, but if they did, why would “Latino” exclude them? French is a Latin-derived language as much as Spanish and Portuguese are, and “latino”
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Latin doesn’t quite mean the same thing as Latino. The former also includes people from Latin Europe; so, for example, a French person is “Latin” but not “Latino”.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Funnily enough, the words “they” and “them” were adopted into English from a foreign language (Old Norse).
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Only certain ones -- not AirPods, for example. They work as headphones, but not as a headset with microphone (for reasons that are not really Apple's fault)
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Voting is already mandatory in Australia.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
The “correct” climate is the one human civilization is adapted to.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
If Britain’s leaders had decided not to have lockdowns, they would most likely still be in business as well. The distinction matters, because when evaluating lockdowns it’s important to realize that there are heavy costs.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> Covid destroyed Not covid. The response to covid, which was a choice with tradeoffs.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Now I want to watch a movie about a post-apocalyptic society where one's social status is based on the size and rarity of one's CPU-jewellery collection.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
That explanation doesn’t make sense to me. Standard (IEEE) floating-point math is deterministic; it shouldn’t depend on the hardware.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
How is this showing anything is a feature about capitalism? The labor relations described in the article are not capitalistic. How are you defining capitalism?
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Rule by unaccountable large organizations isn't specifically "capitalist", as it has existed in societies of every type of economic organization. By this definition even the Soviet Union was capitalist. I totally agree with y
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by umanwizard 5y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/padv22/if_you_could_...
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by umanwizard 5y ago
What does this have to do with capitalism?
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by umanwizard 5y ago
The US is not quite an authoritarian country, but its justice system is reminiscent of one in many ways.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> isn't the scanning only happening on iCloud? No, the scanning is happening on local devices, but only during the upload-to-iCloud process. That’s the key difference that is upsetting a lot of people.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Maybe, but I suppose I don’t really consider SJ its own major city independent of the SF metro area. Which is totally subjective, of course.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Neat! I wouldn’t have expected this to be possible anywhere in the Southwest. There’s no connection — not even Amtrak, between Phoenix (where I’m from) and Tucson. I didn’t even know San Diego had regional trains.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
That’s impressive. AFAIK in the US, the only two major cities you can get between on regional trains (i.e., without using the national train operator Amtrak) is New York and Philadelphia (New Jersey Transit from NY to Trenton, then SEPTA fr
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by umanwizard 5y ago
You can freely buy alcohol in Turkey, a 90% Muslim country. 65% of people saying they’re Christian in a survey doesn’t mean 65% of people are part of the most strict faction.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Because Apple does not currently have code for scanning local devices for illegal images, and would have to implement it, which is a much higher bar than having already implemented it and just needing to add a few hashes to a database.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
I honestly wonder if this is just due to different people getting different UIs. I just click the “see full thread” button on the last visible post of the thread, and I’m taken to the full thread.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
In the US, if I understand correctly, those would be true positives, and everyone who created, received, or distributed them would be guilty of a crime. There’s no exception in the law for pictures you took of yourself.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
Something like that is unlikely to happen because the US is not — for now — an authoritarian state. Replace “FBI” and “Biden” with their equivalents in various other countries and yes, it’s absolutely plausible.
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> every other OECD country doesn’t have the healthcare challenges the US has Right, but they also don’t seem to have the same cost disease issues, or at least not to the same extent. The fact that Germany or Japan spends $x per capita on
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by umanwizard 5y ago
> You can't push_str() under cfg(no_global_oom_handling) either Thanks for the clarification. I had totally missed the point.

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