haskellshill

If you had one fewer leg, wouldn't you be a different person? Implication is not equivalence.

> `nato bar` returns Bravo Alfa Romeo. I use this most often when talking to customer service and need to read out a long alphanumeric string, which has only happened a couple of times in my whole life. But it’s sometimes useful!

Even more useful is just learning the ICAO Spelling Alphabet (aka NATO Phonetic Alphabet, of which it is neither). It takes like an afternoon and is useful in many situations, even if the receiver does not know it.

That is nonsensical. You could make the same argument by taking any English word, tracing its origins to Greek or Latin, calling it a loan word, and therefore arguing that it doesn't matter if you spell it correctly or not. Clearly misspelled words are "good enough" to be understood, but wouldn't you be disappointed if a newspaper contained a bunch of misspellings?

So you're saying that because the country was once colonized, their writing system is not "real" enough for you, and you only consider it a transliteration? That seems extremely disrespectful.

> half of the tone marker diacritics don't correspond to the Pinyin tone markers

Yeah, they are different languages. What'd you expect? First you didn't even know that the Vietnamese alphabet was their actual alphabet, and now you're criticizing it for not being similar enough to some other random alphabet. Whatever your point is, you're failing at making it terribly.

"I am so fascinated by language that I wish my newspapers would include less foreign languages"

"We need to remove information from the text because perhaps the author (who clearly speaks Vietnamese) may have made a mistake". Do you also think that we should remove all algebraic symbols from mathematics papers, because perhaps the author has made a mistake, and the audience may contain people that won't spot it?

That is a really dumb point. Then Finnish has no writing system either, because it was created by a swede in the 16th century. Strange how there exist languages without writing systems, yet people write them?

Ridiculous opinion. If no country in the world has either a native alphabet nor a native language, then what is the point of the word "native"?

That is a very weird and fringe definition of what a person is.

Perhaps it can improve but it can't learn because that requires thought. Would you say that a PID regulator can "learn"?

> try to figure out what went wrong

LLMs don't do this. They can't think. If you just one for like five minutes it's obvious that just because the text on the screen says "Sorry, I made I mistake, there are actually 5 r's in strawberry", doesn't mean there's any thought behind it.

> It deeply resembles how LLMs learn and think

What? LLMs don't think nor learn in the sense humans do. They have absolutely no resemblance to a human being. This must be the most ridiculous statement I've read this year

This really shouldn't be a problem for a newspaper with 2.5 billion USD revenue to figure out in 2025 though.

I still don't understand this attitude of "I can't be bothered to try to understand it so it's useless". Vietnamese is actually one of the more easy tonal languages for westerners to understand, given that the tone marks are literally pictograms of the pitch (and it's not a transliteration like 你好 -> nǐ hǎo). Why are you so allergic to actually making use of that feature?

Well, I disagree that simpler means better looking. It's akin to arguing that a commie block has better æsthetics than a gothic cathedral.

so just ignore the "visual noise" or "random scribbles"? i dont get why youd want to remove meaning from an article simply because you dont undestand it.

I disagree, but your opinion may come from your ignorance (sorry, lack of knowledge perhaps) of Vietnamese. First, it's not a transliteration, it's their native alphabet. And the diacritics mark tones, which is a very important part of the language. An example from the article itself:

> In the case of Hỏa Lò Prison, for example, “hỏa” means “fire,” and “lò” means “furnace”: the Burning Furnace Prison. Without the marks, “hoa” means “flowers,” and “lo” means “worry,” rendering the term “Hoa Lo” meaningless.

Your example doesn't work because (a) it's an address, not text meant for reading and (b) turning ș into s only alters the pronunciation, while the meaning is still intelligible.

Uh yeah they don't? Unless you also have problems with words such as über, façade, señor or crème brûlée.

Rather, the removal of them affects readability in a similar way to removing accents, punctuation or writing in all lowercase.

Yeah, very silly in an article specifically about language. But one may also ask, why do people still read NYT (and other newspapers) in 2025, given that they are just inferior versions of blogs, that you also have to pay for?

How much did proton pay you to post that link again?

Why does FF brag about adding yet another useless "feature"? Sure, it might be more worthwhile to fuck over google and the likes though

Maybe ff will actually fix the problem then. They certainly have the money to, they just chose not to

You connect to hotel WIFI from home and work?

> I trust Mullvad more than I trust some random hotels WiFi

For what exactly? All sites are HTTPS now anyway, so the only thing you're leaking is the hostnames / IPs you visit. I don't exactly see how the whole "hotel WIFI" thing is relevant at all, except as a dishonest marketing strategy by VPN salesmen

Proton are pretty shady. The Radware ties, the blocking of two journalists, etc. etc.

People die of missed sepsis all the time, so if you want to lean on your "medical background" to claim this was not the case, you better elaborate what exactly that background is

How's that relevant at all? Are you arguing that it's good to be ignorant of the views in other countries? Should we hide the fact that it's illegal to convert from Islam in Iran, because that might reflect poorly on them?

What if drug dealers are good guys actually?

I know nobody benefited from your comment either way, you're literally just stating somebody is dumb