I am currently in my work office in Madrid, main building has electricity so I guess they have some backup generators, the kitchen however is out of service.
According to local newspapers metro network, airport and traffic lights are all down
Readit Newssoyyo commented on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8x... · Posted by u/lleims
soyyo commented on A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks' pewresearch.org/decoded/2... · Posted by u/cpeterso
As a native Spanish speaker it took me a moment to understand why "yes" was being translated as "forks" until it clicked and it's not an error.
In Spanish "Ye" is how we call the letter Y and "La ye" is a word used, at least in the version of Spanish spoken where I come from, to refer to the place where a road forks. Hence the fork in the road is "La ye" and the plural would be "Las yes" or the forks. In this context forks is referring to where the road forks not to the eating utensil (which would be "tenedores").
I am also a native Spanish speaker and I haven't ever heard this. I have always called and heard from every other Spanish speaker the letter Y as i griega (greek i)
Not saying that this is wrong, in fact one can check the Spanish wikipedia to confirm that "ye" is a valid naming for Y but definitely not used where I live nor for the letter or a fork in the road.
I understand that is more juicy to get information from graphs, figures and so on, as every domain uses those, but i really hope to eventually see these models to be able to workout music notation, i have tried the best known apps and all of them fail to capture important details such as guitar performace symbols for bends or legato
soyyo commented on Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood link.springer.com/article... · Posted by u/dr_dshiv
Maybe someone can correct me, but I don't think this is absolute pitch. It is pseudo-perfect pitch, based on pitch memory, and it was already known that it can be trained.
As an amateur musician myself, I understand the desire to have perfect pitch, but it seems that the problem of perfect pitch is seldom mentioned.
Usually, people talk about the common annoyances, such as transposed music, non-standard tuning, choruses that drift in pitch, etc... but the actual hard one is that it fades away with age. First, it starts "shifting," and people will start to believe that a note is actually a semitone higher or lower than it actually is, and then eventually, it is completely lost.
There is research that indicates that this is very common, and people with perfect pitch are more likely to lose it than to keep it. This is a huge blow—imagine a whole life relying on this one skill to support all your music-related activities, and suddenly, it's completely gone.
I think this video gives a nice summary of all this from the point of view of a musician:
soyyo commented on Learning fast and accurate absolute pitch judgment in adulthood link.springer.com/article... · Posted by u/dr_dshiv
>some are not just intact, but in use, right now.
Thanks for giving me something to research at work. What query do you recommend I put into a search engine? "intact aqueducts italy" doesn't seem to help much
Start by expanding the countries in your search.
At its peak, the roman empire covered Europe, North Africa, and parts of Eurasia.
In Spain the most famous is the one in Segovia, it is incredibly well conserved, but not in actual use.
soyyo commented on Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation mitchellh.com/writing/zig... · Posted by u/tosh
Sorry if this is a silly question, i am a web developer so I dont usually dwelve into systems or low level programming except out of curiosity.
My understanting is that everyone is suggesting to move to memory safe languages when possible, however Zig does not seem to have any.
Since zig is a new language my guess is that the main use would be brand new projects, but sholdn't this be done in a memory safe language?
It seems that the selling point of Zig is: more modern than C but simpler than Rust, so I understand the appeal, but isn't this undermined by the lack of memory safety?
soyyo commented on New Aztec Codices Discovered: The Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco tlacuilolli.com/2024/03/2... · Posted by u/dzdt
There's so few surviving because guess what? European colonizers destroyed a bunch for religious reasons.
On the Mayan side the destruction rate is well north of 99%. To quote one of the bishops that did a book burning party:
"We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction."
Yeah, because that was their literature, history, science, philosophy ...
I'm glad we aren't currently so dedicated to destroying stuff.
Hopefully some indigenous scholars managed to stash some in a cave or tomb somewhere 500 years ago and we simply haven't found them yet.
Well the aztecs did the same before the europeans:
"Before the arrival of Spanish conquistadors, the Aztecs eradicated many Mayan works and sought to depict themselves as the true rulers through a fake history and newly written texts"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices
I dont mean this to be taken as a justification or something, but there is this tendency of picking historical eventsand judge them by todays standards, and is particularly egregious when it is only applied to just one side portraying others as innocent victims when they were actually doing the same thing.
soyyo commented on We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened blog.sentry.io/we-removed... · Posted by u/kuba_dmp
While they removed cookie banners and say they no longer include dependencies that set cookies, browsing around the site for a bit I still see several cookies set. For example, visiting https://changelog.getsentry.com I get first-party cookies "_GRECAPTCHA", "ph_phc_UlHlA3tIQlE89WRH9NSy0MzlOg1XYiUXnXiYjKBJ4OT_posthog", and "_launchnotes_session", plus third-party cookie "_GRECAPTCHA" on recaptcha.net.
Similarly, visiting https://try.sentry-demo.com I got cookies "sentrysid", "sc", and "sudo".
I also got a player.vimeo.com cookie at some point, but wasn't able to reproduce.
If you're running a complex modern site and decide to do away with cookie banners, you generally need to pair this with browser automation that crawls your site and verifies that you (and your dependencies) are in fact not setting any cookies.
I believe that under GDPR cookies that are used only for technical purposes and not related to personal information are exempt from any consent and don't need to be informed with the infamous cookie banner.
Is not about cookies, is about their content and purpose.
The style is obviously gpt generated and I think the curl team knows that, still they proceed to answer and keep making questions about the report to its author to get more info.
It really bothers me is that these idiots are consuming the time and patience of nice and reasonable people, I really hope the can find a solution and don't eventually snap by having to deal with this bullshit.