dashtiarian (u/dashtiarian)

dashtiarian commented on How sober should a writer be? yalereview.org/article/cr... · Posted by u/samclemens

speedgoose · 2 months ago

If you get a watch that measures heart rate variability (HRV), you will notice that alcohol is significantly reducing it, which is associated with a lot of things you don’t wish to yourself. And it doesn’t have to be a lot of alcohol.

So how sober has a simple answer if you care about your health : fully sober.

dashtiarian · 2 months ago

You are absolutely right. But those of us who live in 3rd world dictatorships are here for the fun time, not the long time. The more we live the more we experience corruption, inflation, infrastructure failure, war, water shortages, etc... Hard to do anything productive sober.

dashtiarian commented on How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters accent-explorer.boldvoice... · Posted by u/ilyausorov

CGMthrowaway · 2 months ago

Idea: Farsi and Russian both have simple list of vowel sounds and no diphtongs. Making it hard/obvious when attempting to speak english, which is rife with them and many different vowel sounds

dashtiarian · 2 months ago

While Persian has only two diphtongs and 6-8 vowels, Other Languages of Iran are full of them(e.g. Southern Kurdish speakers can pronounce 12+1 vowels and 11 diphtongs). I find it funny if all Iranians are speaking English with the Persian accent.

dashtiarian commented on Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube cjauvin.github.io/posts/l... · Posted by u/cjauvin

crazygringo · 3 months ago

> the media changed it to Farsi to reduce it's "prestige"

This is not true.

It happened after the 1979 Iranian revolution, when Iranians abroad wanted to call it Farsi out of cultural pride, using the same word in their own language, rather than Persian which is the "foreign" word for it (from Greek/Latin). It was literally reclaiming the name. Then the media followed suit out of respect. It was cultural sensitivity.

Today some non-Iranians and therefore groups like the UN prefer "Persian" because variants are also spoken in Afghanistan and Tajikstan, and Farsi is a reference to the Fars province of Iran, so Persian can be seen as more neutral. But then again, not many people complain about "English" being associated with England and not being neutral enough to Americans or Indians. So it's definitely complicated. But it's also definitely not about trying to diminish anybody's "prestige".

dashtiarian · 3 months ago

I don't know how much you and I both care about this, and arranging the evidense is going to take some time. Specially since I don't know if I'm going to live in a warzone or not starting tomorrow. Sorry.

dashtiarian commented on Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube cjauvin.github.io/posts/l... · Posted by u/cjauvin

jagaerglad · 3 months ago

There are some people suggesting that, however at a small scale and not taken that seriously by many. What difference does it make? What about all the other words that underwent the sound change? Also, some nuanced people can keep languages and politics separate. The sound shift isn't even entirely clear to be due to arabic influence, how come it turned into 'f' and not 'b' such as the arabic approximation? How come sounds like 'g' remained?

And in the end, in English it should be "Persian" and not "Farsi", that is where the actual move should be. How sad and historically wasteful if we started to do that to all languages, "deutsch", "zhongwen" or "elliniki" instead of German, Chinese and Greek

dashtiarian · 3 months ago

It used to be called Persian in English, the media changed it to Farsi to reduce it's "prestige". If you knew English and you are old enough you even remember the shift (1990s–2000s).

dashtiarian commented on Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube cjauvin.github.io/posts/l... · Posted by u/cjauvin

HexDecOctBin · 3 months ago

I find it interesting that despite the relationship between Iran and various Arab countries being pretty hostile, there is no move towards stop using the word "Farsi" and revert back to "Parsi". Anyone know why? Seems like a easy political win for a besieged regime.

dashtiarian · 3 months ago

Because it has nothing to do with Arabic. /p/ in Persian is aspirated, and in some words, like aspirated /p/ in some other languages (e.g. Greek), it has turned into /f/; Ever wondered why ph is pronounced /f/? In Persian this is called "softening" (Narm şodegi).

dashtiarian commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

dashtiarian · 4 months ago

So people from countries US has sanctioned can't even develop and use mobile apps anymore. This will change millions of innocent lives. So unfair and racist. The reason my people are in this mess in the first place is a US coup.

dashtiarian commented on Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling thenewstack.io/java-at-30... · Posted by u/chhum

LtWorf · 7 months ago

If you want linux support, .net is not what you want.

Linux support is an afterthought and it shows. And you never know if it might be dropped next year.

dashtiarian · 7 months ago

If you are a .NET shop, .NET core still has a better Linux than Legacy .NET framework hence the migration.

If you are a Java shop everything just works so why touch it?

dashtiarian commented on Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling thenewstack.io/java-at-30... · Posted by u/chhum

tstrimple · 7 months ago

The vast majority of Java developers will never touch modern Java and have zero idea of its features or capabilities. I'm in the process of migrating literally thousands of servers and tens of thousands of apps to the cloud and there isn't anything close to modern Java. The absolute majority at this client seems to be Java 8 and there isn't a single Java 17 or newer. So it's one thing to have great modern features. But if you're going to be a Java developer it'll take work / luck to actually be able to use decent versions of it. Very similar story with C++. If you're on a great cutting edge team, you might be able to use the shiny new stuff. But more than likely you'll be relegated to some C++11 at the latest.

I haven't seen things quite so bad on the .NET side at this client. Yes there's a ton of legacy ASP.NET apps. But there are also a lot of .NET Core apps. They haven't quite made it to the post Core versions of .NET, but it's still a healthier state than I see with Java. I guess all of this to say that modern versions of "ancient" programming languages are great and really do improve things. But chances are if you're working with an ancient programming language you'll be stuck maintaining legacy shit and won't ever get to utilize the shiny stuff.

This is keeping in mind that your average programmer will never even try to interview for FAANG never mind grind leetcode and programming language trivia for weeks like seems so common here.

dashtiarian · 7 months ago

Well to be fair, if you wanted Performance, Linux support, and a framework which was built with dependency injection and async support in mind and not just have them as patched in footguns, you had to migrate to .NET Core. A Java 8 Spring app was just good enough.

dashtiarian commented on Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/tosh

dashtiarian · 8 months ago

It actually feels nice to see US people having a taste of the kind of government their intelligence service force other nations to have by coups, except that it does not feel nice at all. I'm sorry guys.