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ggmon Show HN: Classical Latin TTS

There will be a few people doing "but how do we know" and the answer is (as I understand it) with some uncertainty, structural clues in things like rhymes, where the written form clearly indicates sounds which had to sound alike. If you follow the clues through language shifts over the centuries, you can arrive at a sense which ones preserved the rhyme, and which didn't and a huge amount of inference added in gets you back where you expect things started.

The same with the great vowel shift.

Bill and Ted and So Crates.

ggmon How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

I love Oden! I've had oden in JR train stations, and in fancy posh restaurants with copper beaten flat woodfired bowls to cook it in. Its the best! The turnip is the best bit. ('turnip' sui generis)

ggmon How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

In the old Tsukiji market you walked past wooden boxes of the flakes wafting gently in the breeze and saw people milling them with green enamelled powered industrial bench planes, while cooking gas powered market trolleys trundled around, with curious drum like round control panels shifting frozen tuna sides and boxes of abalone. I've never seen those motorised carts anywhere else.

the stuff we buy in packets here in oz must suffer in transit and packaging, they are shattered fragments but they still waft gently in the steam of a bowl of salmon and rice.

The bonito shavings reminded me of the litter around a wood turners lathe. Waste there, but here the point of the exercise.

I think I've had them served as a garnish on Oden. They dance.

ggmon Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID

If you do this, have at least one backup key (if need be on paper) or a guaranteed alternate path into the hosts you depend on this key to access. Because if the secure enclave is as good as we're told, if you lose access to ->THIS<- secure enclave, its game over for the keys.

Secure enclave protecting Keychain, the keychain is backed up. Not the contents of the enclave.

Too many failed access attempts? poof the key is gone. Could be as low as 10.

(happy to be corrected. This is what I gather from a quick read-around. I was a bit surprised the site didn't seem to discuss this)

ggmon Andy Burnham launches campaign against 'headphone dodgers' on public transport

Not just PT please. And, pay staff to enforce it.

ggmon How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?

I don't think that is really true any more. All electronics includes a substantial amount of Chinese sourced inputs but I believed actual manufacturing is taking place on Ukranian soil of metal and plastic parts. Of small jet engines as well.

ggmon Nine-Inch Snails

I see what I did there. I mistook the absence of the CSS grey bar, for the complete text of the article. That's on me. You are right, this does not render the entire content visible to me. Were I an AI I'd say something like "you're absolutely right" but I'm not, so I'm going to add a specious double dash -- and slink away.

(sorry. I really did think I was reading the entire piece. It looks like what I see is their occasional seeding of freemium content which is long form and from their back numbers)

ggmon Nine-Inch Snails

In firefox? Strange, I just used it to read the full text of a piece about botched executions.

ggmon Nine-Inch Snails

Or, and don't take my word for it, ask Abraham Lincoln, who told me to try "reader mode" in Firefox.

ggmon RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes

So a highly specific problem couched in terms of the legal obligations of the registry. But,you ignore the other dimension of WHY a legal authority might require a registry to act.

Do you honestly think the world would be better if there was no international law, or legal constraints on ISPs? Do you think BGP operators are somehow supra legal?

The registry system we live in has operated for almost 3 decades now, an inheritance of a prior informal arrangement. It's a mutuality. If you want to change it, get involved in it's policy process.

ggmon Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran

Used to man the free help desk for programming problems at the uni computing centre I worked at. "Have you got a current listing of the program" got rid of most of them.

Saddest case was a PhD student in chemical engineering near the end of his thesis work struggling to get reproducible results. After half an hour of debug I realised he was using un-initialised Fortran array state for his data. I suspect his discovery went up in smoke.

ggmon Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?

I might want to think of myself as a rationalist but I don't want to be ideated that way.

I'm more than happy to be badged a secular humanist and I am led to beleive they overlap but I see differences.

What really shits me is how many rationalists are basically mansplaining tiresome pedants. And, hyper argumentative.

ggmon Things to know when you get cancer

And worse for post op ward experience. No family to bring food? You won't be happy. And, according to my Chinese expat friends, even seeking recommendations from friends can incur the expectation of a payoff or several. Want that specialist? Pay to get referral from your gp.

If this is maligning the system I'd love to know. They said faced with excess costs to go private in Oz for a condition or fly home and get treated in China, they'd stay here. The net cost might well be similar.

ggmon Accelerometer-derived real-world sleep stages and risk of incident diseases

The normal sleep study kit is very invasive, my partner said it made normal sleep next to impossible. (She was being assessed for sleep apnoea risk) if this study as a corollary can say accelerometer study is good enough to eg weed some cases out, it would be super useful for doing triage before the more invasive process.

ggmon Oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey

If I read this right, no wooden remains so no radiocarbon or tree ring analysis: it's stylistic features of the amphora found underwater which are canonical to some holotype which is reliably dated.

Super interesting find!

ggmon Thunderbird Alternatives: 7 Best Email Clients to Try in 2026

> The downside is that Apple Mail isn’t designed to provide the same level of customization as Thunderbird.

No shit. I spent a week vibe coding swift to set Reply-To conditionally. At the end? I find I can set X-Anything but the canonical critical list of "not these" simply can't be set and what's on that list is undocumented.

Yet, you can set reply-to in gui, and you can applescript setting it as gui actions.

ggmon Things I wish I had known about kickscooters

Emergency Room staff would probably concur, since scooters came back they have seen an uptick in presentations for injuries which come from a highly unstable platform sharing the pavement or road with other things. People, cars, Buses, potholes, unexpected SQUIRREL events, you-name-it.

Here in OZ, with mandated cycle helmets we had a drop in catastrophic head injury. Scooters have the same legal burden but it's not enforced well so alongside the arm and leg injury, is the rise/return of catastrophic head injury.

Motors only make it worse. I think there's like an inverse square law speed to survivability for bodyshock. Unpowered? you often walk away. Powered? You, or somebody else, is at serious risk of not walking away, ever.

ggmon Could I make six figures from my couch? Influencers said yes – so I tried

A very long time ago I was "amwayed" by somebody I liked. It was hugely dispiriting, both because of the emotions they use (under training) to make you want to both spark joy in them, and make money, and because of the utter futility of their effort to dig out of a financial hole by monetising their relationships.

I think they realised very quickly we weren't a fruitful relationship for that gig and it moved on, but I have been reminded of this ever since when people mention this kind of MLM approach.

ggmon Reform UK figures see social media engagement drop after strikes on Russia DCs

It shouldn't be hard to construct filters over the return, but I doubt the social media firms want to.

ggmon Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age

And yet, the original 2CV and a number of other small cars sold for decades with exactly this feature.

ggmon Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11501561/

https://www.jofem.org/index.php/jofem/article/viewFile/547/2...

ggmon Passkeys are a trap

Highly economy specific. Ease varies by nation state. Social engineering attacks in Australia are far LESS common than they used to be and I believe other economies in Asia and Europe all have less than the USA.

If you aren't talking from a US perspective, where are you that SIM swap is a low bar?

ggmon Whatever became of holography? (2011)

Monochromatic laser light makes these things look other-worldly. They look amazing and they look increadible, but its not even close to uncanny valley it's so unreal.

ggmon LineageOS 24.0

Familiarity

App consistency

Upstream app availability and release cycle

Security.

ggmon Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity

I thought that aside from the social context above, there is a theory that artificial sweeteners actually cause paradoxical effects in the metabolism because of triggers associated with the sweetness not the glucose/sucrose content. Ie specifically "diet" soda aside from eating out a Lot, may not be helping.

ggmon When Corn Flakes Were Part of an Anti-Masturbation Crusade

I'm a Post loyalist. Grape nuts forever! (Kellog despised Post and never forgave him for (probably) ripping off his ideas.

ggmon Orkut.com

I wrote to google asking to get basic boolean primitives in circles. So you could organise a secret birthday party for "@friends not josh" but got nothing back.

Given the engine logic behind search has this, it felt like no brainer.

ggmon House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k

By definition tunnels are underground. 15m deep would have got us there. The headline could be width or height!

ggmon Google no longer accepting product vulnerabilities submitted to the OSS VRP

I skim read. I didn't see a "why"

ggmon Fastmail – Grouped Mailbox

At this point if I didn't own a grandfathered free gsuite plan I'd move. I already use fastmail for pobox.com which they have kept running seamlessly, their product engineering and standards participation is stellar.

Would recommend. 10/10. Hope they add an Asian/Oz data region option