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> and I always feel bad for not knowing how to start pronouncing their names

No worries, give it your best approximation and if it's way off or if someone cares a bit too much they will correct you, use the corrected version since then and you're golden.

We know it may be hard, no problem whatsoever and no one cares, don't worry about it one bit and definitely don't feel bad about it. I think poles actually prefer if you say their name in 'english way' rather than super-correctly in polish because it sounds more natural instead of being suddenly jerked back into polish for a millisecond and then back into english. Just remember the 'w'->'v' and you will get a lot of street cred for free

Lol, first time I'm seeing this. But the very top recommendation from yt was 'Jeż kurwa - czeska parodia!'. I love how memes travel. I think the last very popular Czech meme in Poland was Jožin z bažin

Yeah, that's why you can hear 'polish/slavic accent' because it's hard for us to say it differently

I think I rarely use polish letters when I write on whatsapp/signal etc. and I don't think I often see them written. I don't pay that much attention though so it may be that I'm the only one

I'll be honest, I'm very interested in knowing how that polish phrase entered a Scotsman's, living in Czech Republic, canon and what it means

Yup, thanks, that's the rule.

I think I should change the 99.99% in my original post to 98%

>There actually are exceptions, but they are regular as well - w before last syllable is often devoiced to f. Levandofski. But even most Polish speakers doesn't know that it's the rule, they just speak that way without thinking :)

Well, true, but I don't think devoicing w in 'Levandofski' is correct, sounds a bit sloppy but hard to hear the distinction to be honest so maybe

There is though a clear devoicing not only before the last syllable but before 'sz' as in 'wszystko'(all), 'wszędzie'(everywhere). Not sure if there's a surname that that applies to.

That's interesting, could you elaborate on the difference in 'w' between 'wise' and 'when'? I'd say 'Wookash' as in star-wars 'Wookie' is a good way (way, hehe) to say Łukasz.

I'm not a linguist though so I'm curious

Do you guys also have the open/closed u distinction?

Yeah, Łukasz is the same name as Lucas and because ASCII and internet it's very common to just write it as Lukasz because no matter if you're talking to the native or not, they will know what you mean (it is very common for polish people to omit polish letter altogether when texting/writing informally online because the correct letters can be inferred from the context so why bother pressing that alt key). If you were to pronounce it correctly though it would be something like 'Wookash' (which looks ridiculous in written form but hey)

People are giving pronunciation tips for other languages in the comments, here are tips for polish. Polish often seems incomprehensible for english speakers because of the sheer amount of consonants though it actually flows quite nicely if you know the rules

'sz', 'cz' - those are equivalent to 'sh' (shop,shell) and 'ch' (chop, check)

'w' - it's a hard 'v' as in 'very', 'vary'. Always, no exceptions and never anything else, it's Ko-v-alski (Kowalski) and Le-v-ando-v-ski (Lewandowski). This is, I think, the most common mistake when reading polish names because english speakers often soften the 'w' to english 'w' as in 'when'/'why'

'Ł or ł' - that's the thing you think of when you see 'w' in english. It's the same sound as in 'when'/'why'/'when'. It's not a weird accent on 'L', for some reason we don't have 'v' in our alphabet and we moved 'v' sound to 'w' and 'w' sound to 'ł'

ó - it's called 'closed u', the same as normal, open u, pronounced as in 'put'/'dude'. The only difference between open and closed 'u' is in writing, none in speaking

y - a vowel, I don't think the sound exists in english but often 'yyyyyy...' in polish is used as 'ummmmm...' in english

ą, ć, ę, ń, ś, ź, ż - good luck ;)

One thing that makes polish a bit easier is that it's pronunciation is 98% consistent, you need to learn the sound of each letter or digraph once and it will never change so every polish person will pronounce even made-up words in the same way because there's only one way (you may write it incorrectly as in the open/closed u above, or ż/rz, but you will read it back correctly so just don't show anyone how you've written it :) )

I think it comes down to 'I work to have what I have, why others should have things for free'. Even though the things you get for working are good and you have a great life, and the free things are shit but let you at least survive just barely, it's still too much. 'If I work to have a great life, those that don't are not eligible for anything, not even the smallest things' and then you can complain about homelessness in your area because it's more important to be able to complain than to solve the issue and get rid of the issue to complain about

They also sued polish company a.pl a few years ago because they said it sounds like 'apple' when you read it in english (.pl being of course polish TLD and it is read very differently than 'apple'). Not sure how this was resolved but the site is still up

> There is no possible experiment you could in principle do to verify that the universe stays the same when you're not looking.

And then people invented video cameras to trick the universe to stay the same when they go to sleep

> Why would a company rather have a guy that can solve binary search in five seconds, than one that has showed continuous progress with several finished projects over the years?

They probably only interview people that have showed continuous progress with several finished projects over the years and hire only those that are good and can code instead of pulling leftpad from npm (a snarky response but so is yours, as if it's either good at whiteboard interviews but uncreative imp or bad at interviews but great and accomplished)

I think that was the case when Universities offered only 5year Master's degree programs but it changed after the Bologna process and you have Bachelor's 3years (3.5 for engineering) + 2years (1.5 eng) Master's.

Bachelor's degree is often enough for a starter job in industry and I don't think it matters that much if it's Master's or Bachelor's even later in your career (at least in software dev), PhD is definitely regarded much higher

Sounds like 'you are in your right to opt out of our policies if you disagree with an upgrade, it will immediately terminate all of your mining'

And then saying that most people support you because only small percent of people opted-out

So it's not up to the miners and the consensus to decide what's best for the network? The leadership can decide the rules of a new fork unless everyone else coordinate to oppose it?

Edit: What prohibits the leadership to do an arbitrary fork? How do cryptographic protocols factor the fact that leadership can just say 'no' and do the opposite and the chain will follow. Especially the word 'secure' in every coin looses it's meaning isn't it?

This is what I think people often miss in those discussions. There is an assumption that everything shared/'hosted' online is someone's opinion and thus should be allowed to be shared. This was never a case on the internet, don't trust what you read online. What should be regulated is what can be advertised, because most what you read is indistinguishable from an ad. Smoothies cure cancer - an ad or someone believe some antivax type bullshit? What if it's an ad to vote for a particular party because the other will do unbelievable bad things? Fanatic or serious opinion? Should you allow those kind of post on your platform?

In my opinion you should just because it is the only way to make sure that your platform is not taken seriously and will prompt people to read something a bit more serious. It will stir controversies on twitter but who in IRL seriously considers an opinion of a twitter person?

Edit: I went for a smoke I thought about it a bit more, take a look at voat vs reddit. Voat was created as a response to censorship on reddit and look at the cesspool of a place it is. Companies do not censor content because they have a moral stand or a political agenda, they moderate the content because otherwise it will turn into a shit you wouldn't believe (HN does it to). There is much more trolls on the internet responding to everything they can than legitimate people trying to have a discussion.

New Eternal September started with social media and those not hardened by the internet before have a hard time to just dismiss what they read as 'a troll'

I'm always using 1000003 and 1000000009 if I need a big prime in code. Million 3, billion 9 - very easy to remember

Ok, yeah. We obviously can't get rid of a curvature. I think SE answer [1] explains what I assumed incorrectly to mean 'locally flat'. I meant it so that you can make a metric look like Minkowski metric at a point p, basically existence of normal coordinates. Of course second derivatives (and thus curvature) won't vanish in the neighborhood. Case closed, thank you.

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/157019

Why not? (to the first sentence, locally is locally)

But I think I have found the source of my confusion in my original post, I was thinking about manifolds only in the topological sense and for some reason forgot that when there is a metric then we have to preserve distances. No 'mug and a donut' type of shenanigans.

That's why I asked about GR specifically, to have a common framework to work with. Without it you can say words like experimentally, practical and talking about differences between different pis whatever that means but this will only lead to misunderstandings at best and nonsense at worst

I don't think this works in GR the way you think it works (regardless of what 'physical circle' means), aren't you always able to change coordinates for the space to be locally flat?

(This always confuses me, can someone that knows GR shed some light on this? I would greatly appreciate it. I've been trying to teach myself GR a while back from the lectures of Frederic Schuller and Alex Flournoy that are available on youtube but it's hard without being able to ask questions)

This assumes he wouldn't impress Cesar later on a different occasion or that it was the first time he was trying to convince his mother to let him go.

Not on a piece of paper, no.

Of course I had to at some point but in those instances I was at a computer anyway so I just used excel/python/matlab what have you, not a calculator like a Neanderthal

Not sure about Japan but in Poland the variables in problems are either symbolic and you solve it symbolically, or if they are given as values then they are usually chosen just right to not make arithmetic much of a bother (that actually results in a fun 'sanity check' that if you start getting something waaay crazier than 'normal' you double check if you didn't screw something up somewhere along the way or if there is a better way to solve it).

But everyone is taught to only substitute variables for values at the very, very end so calculators are not needed at all. At some point in education there is no point in testing arithmetic skills over and over again, the problems and the methods of finding out solutions to them are what matters

The same way as pi, e and other constants, log(17) is just that. I never had to convert them to some decimal approximation in calculus classes

Edit: Ok, I remember now there was a statistics exam when we had something like Student's t-distribution tabulated on the exam sheet but I had to scrape my brain to find an example, it does happen though

Why? I've done calculus and analysis in college and no one has ever used a calculator, I'm not even sure what you would need one for, can you give me an example (seriously curious)

The only time I remember needing a calculator in my entire education was some circuit theory because those Thevenins and Nortons get real ugly real fast (but even then you only need +,-,*,/)

Every part of that comment was true. They are rootkits with a non-hidden persona, they are not malicious unless it's worth being malicious.

I don't give trash collectors access to my bank account so that they can better estimate the amount of plastic I'm about to produce and better prepare themselves to make streets even cleaner