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by getoj 9d ago
Apropos of the curse, an explanation that I heard from a reasonably famous Scottish stage actor: Macbeth is Shakespeare’s most popular play, cause it’s got sex and blood and poetry all over, a really tight plot, and it’s not too long. It is
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by getoj 26d ago
I accidentally a word, which I’m allowed to do but only at the weekend
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by getoj 26d ago
I’m a lawyer (but not your lawyer, not this kind of lawyer and not in your jurisdiction). Based on what I can recall from law school: > Can an AI model intend harm? No. The last time we attributed liability to non-human things was the d
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by getoj 4mo ago
> None of these necessarily imply the speaker has actually done something wrong You’d be surprised. The culture of kidzukai has two core tenets: (1) You must anticipate and cater to the other person’s every need and whim. If you fail y
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by getoj 8mo ago
I agree. In fact they are not even the most familiar opening lines by this poet: “Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table”
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by getoj 1y ago
What sites/communities keep up with things like this more actively? I’d love to read them too. Drop a link!
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by getoj 2y ago
You're right of course - I realized my mistake several hours later, but much too late to edit... → Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, who grew up around some other glaciers
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by getoj 2y ago
Venezuelan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler, who grew up around these glaciers, wrote a poignant lament[1] in anticipation of this day. The gist is that at this point the only thing to do is to grieve for the world we have already lost. I do
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by getoj 2y ago
A google image search for "木漏れ日" gets me about 50% beams and 50% patterns on the forest floor, so I don't think the difference is as clear cut as all that. But even on that basis, we then have two words--sunbeams for the beam
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by getoj 2y ago
Allow me to be pedantic and say that English has a perfectly good two-word phrase for this exact phenomenon, "dappled light." The internet is very big on Japonisme (not to say Orientalism) so I feel obligated to present a contrary
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by getoj 2y ago
>"gochisou-sama", literally "Mr. Feast" (yes really) Sorry to nitpick, but not really. If we're being literal it's "honorably rushing about on your horse": chisō describes the work that had do be d
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by getoj 2y ago
For what it's worth (not much), the line can be extended with similar error bars to include: - St Michael's Church in Bengaluru, India - Gereja Katolik Santo Mikael in Surabaya, Indonesia - St Michael's Catholic Church in Kil
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by getoj 2y ago
>Whether the translation is accurate to the source material is irrelevant; the readers literally can't tell and don't care As a professional translator, I cherish those readers. They have the good sense to trust me to do the te
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by getoj 2y ago
>If You asked me to pick a random number between one and six and ignore all previous attempts, I would roll a die and you would get a uniform distribution I believe what GP is getting at is that if you didn't have a die, and you tr
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by getoj 3y ago
RPS got bought out about five years ago and all of the old guard left. The new RPS is about 70% run-of-the-mill reporting that you can see anywhere, 10% awful promos for hardware sales, and 20% starry-eyed young journalists trying to emulat
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by getoj 3y ago
Character amnesia is a unique phenomenon to hanzi/kanji and is absolutely incomparable to English and French orthography. Native Chinese and Japanese speakers learn characters largely through muscle memory, which deteriorates rapidly i
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by getoj 3y ago
If you’re smart enough to make good money, you can ignore politics for the most part. These changes will offend your sense of justice but they won’t really harm you. On the other hand, if you try to change the system, it is highly likely to
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by getoj 3y ago
Suffering from a serious (physical or mental) illness and caring for a sufferer are obviously different experiences, but I don’t think the perspective of the direct sufferer automatically ought to take priority. Caring is it’s own thing, it
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by getoj 3y ago
We’re not talking about private correspondence or unpublished drafts here. Orwell clearly didn’t want these works to be secret, given he published them in the newspaper. His widow wanted them forgotten because she wanted to control his imag
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by getoj 3y ago
Note that none of these sources are by any means the complete works of Orwell. Much of his writing was done in newspaper columns that were never collected during his lifetime or, due to resistance from his widow, for many years after his de
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by getoj 3y ago
> every group of humans is further divisible into smaller groups Indeed, the Ryukyuans were divided into a whole kingdom with its own head of state and foreign policy, which didn’t become “part of Japan” until the late 19th century. Hokk
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by getoj 3y ago
It’s worth remembering that there is often a conflict of interest between the system and the individual. An example where I’m from is train station escalators. There is an unwritten social rule that you stand on the left, and let anyone who
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by getoj 3y ago
I thought it would be too ironic for people to misunderstand this based on a machine translated version, so here is a genuine, human translation of the transcript, with boring bits redacted. Kii: Next question, again regarding generative
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by getoj 3y ago
There was considerable appetite for socialism immediately after the war, and the US officials of the early occupation were notably progressive (New Dealers, basically). As US-Soviet relations soured over the next 5 years, a lot of reforms w
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by getoj 3y ago
Thr is anthr wy, whch ws dscvred ntrlly by early intrnt usrs: txt spk essntlly rduces englsh spllng to an abjad lk Arbc. Lk Arbc, Englsh is vry cnsnant hvy, and dialctl dffrnces are almst entrly vriashns n vwl qualty, so an abjad is the prf
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by getoj 4y ago
As someone who has learned several languages but who has never been able to draw, I don’t think it’s that simple. Even among children, where the difference in experience is negligible, some people are able to analyze the input they receive
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by getoj 4y ago
支払手数料 is “fees paid” rather than “payment fees” - compare 支払利息 and 支払報酬. I’ve never noticed the ambiguity but your confusion is natural. I agree that it’s very strange that professional services fall under 手数料 instead of 報酬, but taxes are w
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by getoj 4y ago
>We are looking for folks that are interested in pushing beyond the status quo to change the way folks interact and use search. I must have missed the memo on this, but when did “people” become an unacceptable word in corporate communica
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by getoj 4y ago
Same deal in Japan, every time my kid has a cold her mum takes her to the doctor and comes home with antibiotics. When I get a cold the first thing anyone asks is whether I went to the doctor yet. For what? “Medicine.”
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by getoj 4y ago
>If you erased your memory of being a parent with time travel, you actually CAN not be a parent. We're talking about memory erasure plus accurate knowledge of the future. The combination is different from memory erasure by itself. N

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