6P58r3MXJSLi (u/6P58r3MXJSLi)

6P58r3MXJSLi commented on Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits eli.li/gundam-is-just-the... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

6P58r3MXJSLi · 5 days ago

just the same as Jane Austen is one hell of a statement.

Gundam actual influences are well known, Tomino himself talked about it, more than one time. Gundam was inspired by WWII stories, but the direct source of inspiration is Gerard O’Neill’s “The High Frontier”, in which there is depicted the O'Neil Cylinder, whose design has been literally copied verbatim for Gundam's space stations/colonies.

6P58r3MXJSLi commented on Project Gemini geminiprotocol.net/... · Posted by u/andsoitis

userbinator · a month ago

Maybe this is just me showing my age, but I don't understand why reinvent everything when you could just go back to something like HTML 2.0 or even 3.2 with some minor changes. I probably hate what happened with the "modern web" as much as the Gemini developers, but going full NIH is unlikely to be a good solution when there's an existing "unmodern web" to develop for, and as a bonus, can be experienced even with a modern browser.

Never underestimate interoperability.

6P58r3MXJSLi · a month ago

HTML 2.0 and NOSCRIPT are very hard to enforce both server and client side.

6P58r3MXJSLi commented on Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools dayvster.com/blog/why-zig... · Posted by u/dayvster

weinzierl · 3 months ago

"It's true when you ride a skateboard with a helmet on."

Rust is not the helmet. It is not a safety net that only gives you a benefit in rare catastrophic events.

Rust is your lane assist. It relieves you from the burden of constant vigilance.

A C or C++ programmer that doesn't feel relief when writing Rust has never acquired the mindset that is required to produce safe, secure and reliable code.

6P58r3MXJSLi · 3 months ago

> It relieves you from the burden of constant vigilance

Is it..?

Rust is more like your parents when you are a kid: don't do that, don't do that either! see? you wanted to go out to play with your friends and now you have a bruised knee. What did I told you? Now go to your room and stay there!

6P58r3MXJSLi commented on Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools dayvster.com/blog/why-zig... · Posted by u/dayvster

zanellato19 · 3 months ago

>Yes it did, of course. Maybe it takes years of practice, the assistance of tools (there are many, most very good), but it's always been possible to write memory safe large C programs.

Can you provide examples for it? Because it honestly doesn't seem like it has ever been done.

6P58r3MXJSLi · 3 months ago

postfix

sqlite

billions of installations and relatively few incidents

6P58r3MXJSLi commented on Why English doesn't use accents deadlanguagesociety.com/p... · Posted by u/sandbach

int_19h · 5 months ago

> Many languages have combinations of letters that have a single sound, it's no excuse for not having accents.

You don't need an "excuse" for not having accents. Digraphs and diacritical marks are simply two different ways to mark a letter as being pronounced as "somewhat similar but different". Whether one is better than the other is a matter of subjective perception, and it's very common for languages to not do it consistently. For example, Spanish has "ll" but also "ñ" (ironically the latter used to be "nn"!), and Czech has "č" but also "ch".

What's criminal about English is not the lack of diacritics, but rather the extremely convoluted and hard to predict rules for interpreting digraphs and trigraphs. If "ch" always meant the same thing, it would be just fine.

6P58r3MXJSLi · 5 months ago

> "somewhat similar but different"

about accents, see my examples. they are used to disambiguate, which is a bonus in itself.

> If "ch" always meant the same thing, it would be just fine.

that is my take too: in German you have ss and ß, for historical reasons, but both sound the same and have a predictable pronunciation, always.

6P58r3MXJSLi commented on Why English doesn't use accents deadlanguagesociety.com/p... · Posted by u/sandbach

eesmith · 5 months ago

> but I believe that only applies to French writing in English for English people

Shrug. Yes, languages have different paths in their evolution. Film at 11.

I still like what this linguistics PhD wrote about the specific history of one aspect of English language evolution.

> English doesn't make sense

That is of course an exaggeration. Just because the rules are complex and full of exceptions doesn't mean there's no sense. Even if you reject all of linguistics, Shannon in “Prediction and entropy of printed English”, demonstrated that English is compressible, which means there must be some patterns.

Now to drink some maté.

6P58r3MXJSLi · 5 months ago

> Just because the rules are complex and full of exceptions doesn't mean there's no sense

That's exactly what "makes no sense" means, actually.

> demonstrated that English is compressible

of course it is

> which means there must be some patterns

Of course there are. Patterns are (almost) everywhere - even PI is normal, but not random - but patterns in English make little or no sense for a language born and developed among, in the same era and having close contact with, a lot of other much more regular languages. The two facts are orthogonal.

Even Sumerian is more regular than modern English...

6P58r3MXJSLi commented on Why English doesn't use accents deadlanguagesociety.com/p... · Posted by u/sandbach

eesmith · 5 months ago

Yes, and how do those entirely true observations connect to the non-use of diacritics in English?

I pointed out the ship example from the text, which was used to demonstrate how "this early French influence over English, which arose from the Norman Conquest, is the beginning of the reason why English is written without accent marks. ... This was the French habit that the Normans brought to England: the use of extra letters to spell sounds that the alphabet didn’t have special letters for. This is why English has combinations like sh, th, ee, oo, ou that each make only a single sound."

That's an extra letter being used to indicate a different sound than the base sound, similar to how diacritics are used to indicate a different sound than the base sound ("the cedilla has the function of ensuring that a c can be pronounced like an s, despite coming before an a, o, or, u").

6P58r3MXJSLi · 5 months ago

> "is the beginning of the reason why English is written without accent marks" > sh, th, ee, oo, ou

That's cool 'n all, but I believe that only applies to French writing in English for English people.

Many languages have combinations of letters that have a single sound, it's no excuse for not having accents.

In German one can write strasse and straße or müller and mueller (different writing, same sound). They too don't have accents, but words written differently also sound different: schon = "already" and schön = "beautiful".

But German, on one hand retained diacritic marks, on the other it's also almost deterministic about pronunciation.

a it's always /a/

ä it's always /ɛ/ or /ə/ like e

sch it's always /ʃ/ as in schule

ch it's always /x/ after a, o, u and /ç/ after e, i

and so on

English doesn't use diacritics, IMO, because English doesn't make sense, it's a pastiche of lowest common denominators, so fck diacritics, they are too hard, let's write words as we like and pronounce them the way we feel they should sound, regardless of how they are written.

But it could use accents, for example rècord and recòrd, present and presènt, pérmit and permìt it's just they never thought it could be useful...

6P58r3MXJSLi commented on Why English doesn't use accents deadlanguagesociety.com/p... · Posted by u/sandbach

eesmith · 5 months ago

I thought the article did a good job of explaining how English uses additional letters where French use accents, like the "h" in "ship" to indicate how the s is pronounced.

6P58r3MXJSLi · 5 months ago

that's how "sh" is pronounced, not how "s" is pronounced

same pronunciation of sh in ship is found in

- sugar

- sure

- machine

- Chicago

- mustache

- sheikh

- nation (!!!!)

Can you notice that some of those words do not have any "s" in them?

English doesn't make any sense.

6P58r3MXJSLi commented on Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024) med.stanford.edu/news/all... · Posted by u/fzliu

MOARDONGZPLZ · 6 months ago

> That's why I never left my country, even though it costed me a lot monetarily wise.

I suspect ignorance is bliss here as your post seems to be mostly weird stereotypes. I hope you didn’t make major life decisions on these bases alone.

6P58r3MXJSLi · 5 months ago

> I suspect ignorance is bliss here as your post seems to be mostly weird stereotypes

these are just your prejudices talking

you haven't even presented a point, besides your beliefs, based on nothing.

Several African countries - you clearly know nothing about it - have a similar life expectancy than the US of A. Life expectancy in Mississippi is shorter than Morocco, for example despite a huge difference in wealth.

But they usually live a better life, with better food, stronger sense of community, less work hours, less pollution and a vastly superior culture and historical heritage.

If it wasn't for the western bombs, regime changes and wars waged using fake intelligence, they would never leave their countries for, say, Detroit, Bakersfield, Jackson etc etc

Nobody in their right mind would.

6P58r3MXJSLi commented on Biomolecular shifts occur in our 40s and 60s (2024) med.stanford.edu/news/all... · Posted by u/fzliu

nakedneuron · 6 months ago

Truth is many people also stop moving (exercising) significantly in their forties (reason being probably sitting lifestyle promotes posture and fascia degradation which makes moving less and less enjoyable).

I'd posit that another significant decline in moving occurs in the sixties when many go in rent.

Not sure if the biological clock is cause of abrupt changes or rather our scheduled lives. So, no significant changes from the sixties on? Then what's the genetic function of those programmations?

People who reach old age (100+) are mostly also comparatively healthy.

6P58r3MXJSLi · 6 months ago

> Truth is many people also stop moving

The truth is, both things happen. People slow down — not just because they stop moving, but because life changes. They feel more tired, take on more responsibilities, and have less time and energy for themselves. And yes, sometimes the body begins to decline — gradually or even suddenly. It’s normal, and it happens to many.