Cordiali

Some things in life need to be treated as tools to accomplish a goal. We don't have the mental capacity to develop an understanding of everything in the modern world, so we specialise instead.

It's no different from someone seeing their car as just a tool to get from A to B. That might be an understandable mindset for people on HN, whereas people at a car meet might find something off about that mindset.

Not to mention, sacrifice can come in many forms. The simplest example is, the time required to learn something or develop a skill. As long as people want to pursue things just out of interest, that's not going away.

(Unless we find a way to download the information directly into our brains, I suppose.)

It may not be relevant from your perspective, but yours isn't the only one. Others will find this detail useful or insightful, for any number of reasons.

So, why? Because details matter.

They'd probably also get some comparisons to the Phoebus cartel.

I did notice that too, but it's kinda beside the point.

Well as the song goes, I want it AT way.

There's a Triticum turgidum var. mirabile, which sounds like it might be the variety he found.

According to an article I found from 1951[0], it used to be popular in the Mediterranean, and the seeds can germinate after long periods of storage.

I also tried to look at the wheat in the picture, but not the highest resolution, and it looks like it might be more than one variety, which he did mention. But at least some of the heads resemble the mirabile variety.

[0]: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4118021

There's a joke in here somewhere about machinists.

It's a reference to your basic 'Baton Roue' meme.

I assume it's meant to represent the perspective of pro-AI people, but it's ambiguous.

If you, or anyone else reading, is interested in playing around with this stuff, there's an open source program called Praat[0]. I assume it still is the go-to in linguistics for making spectrograms, it was back when I was studying it, at least.

There's probably nicer programs that can do the same thing, aimed at people like musicians, but they won't have the phonetics-specific guides and help online.

There's also a large archive of speech recordings from a wide range of languages hosted by UCLA[1], which you can download and play around with. There might be newer archives now, but I remember this one, because Peter Ladefoged wrote the proverbial book on introductory phonetics.

Linguistics generally aligns quite pro-copyleft, so there will be a lot of freely available stuff online.

[0]: https://praat.org/ [1]: https://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/

The 'b' sound is a plosive too, by the way. It's voiced, vs the voiceless 'k'.

But the place of articulation kinda flips, from rear consonant/front vowel (kiki), to front consonant/rear vowel (bouba).

If you flipped the voicing, it'd be 'gigi' vs 'poupa', which to my ears at least, is a lot less clear cut.

Anecdotally, 'its' sans apostrophe will be automatically "corrected" by my phone.

On the bright side, this has finally given me the push to disable auto-correction.

Your comment incorrectly attributed an autocorrect error to the person's dialect.

That error was entirely your own, and a conscious one, unlike what you were commenting on.

I'm on a waitlist for this. I went to hospital for an attack about six months ago, and I started overthinking this question afterwards. Wondering silly things like 'is the scale linear or logarithmic?!'

I just looked online, and paintball bow and arrows exist!

(kinda pricey though)

Meanwhile historians are out there, regarding things from 500 years ago as modern.

It's just the natural evolution of AI into a crab.

Most of the games I play are resource management or base/city building games. I haven't bothered checking if a game works in the last few years, I just fork over my money at this point.

I think the closest to a AAA game was Anno 1800 and Mount&Blade Bannerlord, both worked fine. All the current popular city builders work fine (eg. Timberborn, Foundation, Manor Lords). A lot of the games I play are early access too, or the pre-release stream.

The one game that didn't work was Bongo Cat, which is free anyway. The devs are working on an X11 version though, and it's practically a whimsical keylogger, so it might not appeal to fans of Linux anyway!

I'm guessing they're thinking of the word 'money'.

Let's have a moment of silence for the hair follicles of future archaeologists.

I've never even connected the 'X' to the Greek letter chi. I just kinda accepted it as one of many groovy web 2.0 misspellings in search of a domain and trademark.

The accounting of it all would be far from trivial.

You might be interested to read about whistled languages, which is pretty close to that idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language

I know Norwegian also has two different written standards, found an example that demonstrates it:

>English: I will not tell anyone the secret.

>Bokmål: Jeg skal ikke fortelle hemmeligheten til noen.

>Nynorsk: Eg skal ikkje fortelja løyndomen til nokon.

Source: https://www.visitnorway.com/typically-norwegian/norwegian-la...

I'd assume you can get USB floppy drives for 3½" disks pretty cheaply. I think I might've even seen that in my BIOS settings as an option.

Perhaps it's always been burning, since the world's been turning?

I vaguely remember something like that happened during the Egyptian revolution/Tahrir Square protests.

I noticed a similar thing for Python 3 questions, closed as a duplicate of a Python 2 response. Why they weren't collated and treated as a living document is beyond me.

You can also put the lambda function inside the let function, which is handy.

Also, almost everyone should be using tables instead of ranges. The references are missing a few features, but it makes formulas a brazillion times more readable.

> He had special glasses with a special lens to read.

Bifocals, I'm guessing.

Not sure about love, but I like it at least, it's useful to me. But it's like a frozen TV dinner, not something worth bringing up.