Readit News> When the Saxons arrived and asked the Welsh the name of that hill, the Welsh said “pen” which means "hill" in Welsh. So the Saxons used their word for hill, “tor,” and called it Torpen (hill hill). > > Then the Norse arrived and the same process added the their world for hill “Haugr”. So now it was Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). > > Later, the English called it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
Turns out the rise near the village of Torpenhow isn't named Torpenhow Hill, but I digress... Here's a quick YT on it:
[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Brythoni...
"Word may not recognise vocabulary or grammar conventions that are part of local dialects, and will try to correct them," she says. This can effectively marginalise regional nuance, she adds.
The Cambridge spelling of recognise, marginalise indicates BE, but the comma inside the quote ... correct them," she says. is a pure AEism. Pick a team!
I highly recommend checking it out; if you can get over the rather dated graphics and gameplay mechanics then you'll find this to be a real gem.
I look at welsh and still go wtf lol
I find Irish easier when you put on the accent tbh. Makes much more sense when you read / speak it like that
Ironically, Welsh is a much simpler language than Irish, and easier to learn for an English speaker. Almost completely regular orthography, much simpler grammar (with no grammatical cases). But, simple or not, the grammar and orthography are very different to English.
Do you mind if I ask how you learned Irish? It's a language that I would like to learn a little of at some point, but so far I've been too daunted to attempt it.
It's interesting that the PCIe lane can be driven at PCIe 3.0 speeds. That goes a long way to helping to make up for the fact that it's just one lane. Having used various PCIe cards on a RockPro64, it's nice to see more options.
I'm a little surprised that UEFI isn't available at launch, but here's to hoping that won't take too long.
Good stuff, and I'm happy to see the progress. I just wish the company hadn't gone off the deep end.
I've been booting a couple of Pi 4s from USB SSDs for a while, in order to avoid relying on SD cards, but I'm not really familiar with what all of the implications of this are.
I wonder whether we have the moon to thank for Earth having retained a short day, and the short day for our magnetic field. Big moons of inner terrestrial planets must be vanishingly rare in the galaxy. If terrestrial planets with magnetic fields are uniquely suited to breed up complex life, that might by itself account for the Fermi paradox.
But I don't know how to evaluate the notion that our gross moon has protected Earth from the near tidal locking Mercury and Venus suffer.
And how likely is it that a planet without a large moon would fail to retain a short day? Mars has a day of similar length to that of Earth (though no magnetic field worth speaking of...).
Linux is one of the great examples where FOSS has built up momentum and outrun several commercial competitors. Ditto for git (which actually was a bit "FC" in the first place). GCC and LLVM have between them stomped a few commercial compilers.
If you want examples of open source lagging the commercial equivalent: FreeCAD Vs SolidWorks, KiCAD (which is beginning to edge out some competitors: Eagle just went down) vs Altium, GIMP Vs Photoshop, KDEnlive Vs Premiere, Octave Vs MATLAB.
Not to say they're not amazing projects, or that they don't have their own share of technical debt, but they'll all have to play the long game to reach the overtake (and they're all decades into the race, so it's a slog).
Not being into home automation myself, I can't really comment on open source in this space, but the commercial churn puts the FOSS approach in a good place for the software side. Hardware, not so much.
For example, they contributed heavily to the SMPng project (which made FreeBSD into a modern, multi-theaded kernel with fine grained locking). They even hosted the kickoff meeting: https://people.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMPmeeting.html They employed Peter Wemm, who did the majority of the work for the AMD64 (eg, x86-64) port. And lots that I'm forgetting about probably..