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thuccess129 commented on The Invention of Chinese historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/Thevet

morpheos137 · 4 years ago

As somebody that does not speak or read Chinese I am surprised that a simpler script has not been developed and widely used. Is it fast to read? I can understand to an extent if reading speed is at par with simpler alphabetic or phonetic scripts. But surely writing speed must be slower. How do chinese people even type?

thuccess129 · 4 years ago

> How do chinese people even type?

Emacs has 25 kinds of Chinese input methods.

A speaker at Stanford on the topic of early keyboards used for Chinese noted graph structure such as the one you find in Canjie input method was what they used before soundspelling. Today, hypergraphtext autocompletion influences message contruction on flatscreen devices in a kind of mind-machine blend mode on a massive scale.

thuccess129 commented on The Invention of Chinese historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/Thevet

pishpash · 4 years ago

The earliest known dictionary of Chinese was 爾雅, meaning "Near refinement". It is common for languages to use "near" and "far" to indicate "this" and "that". Of course it would take somebody literate to know this, which most internet junkies today are unfortunately not.

thuccess129 · 4 years ago

> internet junkies today

The American Mandarin Society has courses for Professionals. I guess they make quality judgement on what to keep or throwout in use of the Chinese language in their curated walled garden for snooty State official use.

thuccess129 commented on Coding Bootcamps: Are They Worth the Hype? codesubmit.io/blog/coding... · Posted by u/domrdy

thuccess129 · 4 years ago

Knowledge danks fast in the techspace. Do a MOOC series guided by long standing institutes, such as, MIT. Volunteer on a codebase, such as, webrtc, GCC, Wine or SQLite. Earn your stars and make connections. Bootcamps sound like they will queue you up to be the nextgen Mailchimp coder canon fodder. Promises made. Promises broken.

thuccess129 commented on Is the Hyperloop Just Hype? backreaction.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/nsoonhui

thuccess129 · 4 years ago

Two thirds underground building structures and aerodynmaic upper third exposed to the sky, those buildings connected by Boring tunnel hyperloops would be tornado proof and save lives at Amazon fullfillment centers.

thuccess129 commented on Canadian startup Kepler stirs debate with planned fleet of internet satellites theglobeandmail.com/busin... · Posted by u/manesioz

cblconfederate · 4 years ago

Hm, what if we filled the sky with satellites to cool down the planet?

thuccess129 · 4 years ago

> satellites to cool down the planet?

2% shade stationed at L1 is a 20 million tonne umbrella 1.5 million km above ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade

thuccess129 commented on Top Excel experts will battle it out in an esports-like competition this weekend pcworld.com/article/55900... · Posted by u/mooreds

Bostonian · 4 years ago

Interesting. Are there similar real-time modeling competitions where participants are not restricted to Excel? (I know of Kaggle.)

I see that all the contestants pictured at https://www.fmworldcup.com/ are white or Asian males. Intellectual interests are not uniformly distributed across demographic groups, so one should not expect equal representation in professions.

thuccess129 · 4 years ago

There is the "Yellow Ribbon" movement campaigning to give second chances for former prisoners to reintegrate in society. They can add to the demographic diversity under represented in the traditional professions. Tricky former criminals ought to perform well in contests of sharp thinking.

thuccess129 commented on The Strange, Unfinished Saga of Cyberpunk 2077 newyorker.com/tech/annals... · Posted by u/mitchbob

eru · 4 years ago

> You can't rush art. Programming is an art since whatever is being programmed has never been made before, else you could go Copy + Paste and be done.

Eh, if you want to make a comparison, I would put most corporate programming into the bin of 'craft', much more than 'art'.

It's of course all subjective, and there's no one true category. They are just different ways of thinking about the subject.

thuccess129 · 4 years ago

> I would put most corporate programming into the bin of 'craft', much more than 'art'.

A former corporate programmer who was a highly paid corporate programmer at the time when he told me this is that all they do is very fast simple arithmetic. Add and subtract.

Great hackers on the PG spectrum may get struck by inspiration and may outperform the average corporate programmer by 10x or 100x or more and work crazy hours while the creative electricity buzzes.

thuccess129 commented on In need of a baby boom, China clamps down on vasectomies washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/Victerius

thuccess129 · 4 years ago

Terrible what the misguided policies of the past from the Communist Party did to the Chinese people.

thuccess129 commented on Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules bbc.com/news/uk-59608641... · Posted by u/goodcanadian

enriquto · 4 years ago

We are creating really shameful times. History will not judge us lightly.

thuccess129 · 4 years ago

History is fiction in the not-fiction area. 95% is missing taken to the grave in silence and the 5% that is allowed to be there is embellished according to a reinforcing narrative agenda of a kind that sells enough copies to make it worthwhile.

thuccess129 commented on Unreal Engine 5 Matrix Showcase youtube.com/watch?v=ajWLx... · Posted by u/epaga

thuccess129 · 4 years ago

The storyline on the control plane for the Architect and Crypto is fertile field to explore for Civilization player types. Isometric hextile tabletop player map for massive multiplayer gaming with escape hatch for FPS gaming addicts covers all bases. This demo looks GTA skinjob on Hollywood themed franchise, nothing new really. Ideas about reality being a controlled hallucination as theory of mind is an intriguing plot element to expore, too.

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