stratocumulus0

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by stratocumulus0 11d ago
Long before that, a known religious zealot used to close his online store on Sundays and put out a very in-character lecturing note if you tried to visit it anyway.
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by stratocumulus0 13d ago
It generated me an Anatolian farmer from the 19th century who spoke... Ottoman Turkish. It's like taking a peasant Briton from the 1200s and claiming that they spoke French, because it was an official language of the country back then.
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by stratocumulus0 25d ago
Since we are on HN, the analogy that comes to my mind is becoming a founder in an area you have no expertise or even sincere interest in. Not a rare phenomenon at all.
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by stratocumulus0 2mo ago
In the left-wing spheres here, terms such as "political act" or "solidarity" are just bloat used to make your message sound more left wing. It's a faux pas not to virtue signal in a way that sounds radical and ensur
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by stratocumulus0 2mo ago
Can you extrapolate a bit more from my post? It's clear that I've put massive amounts of research into it.
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by stratocumulus0 2mo ago
I can evaluate the claim now , but I would not have been able to evaluate the speed gain of an Oracle database using whatever proprietary implementation they are using. Claiming I've called author anything is putting words in my mou
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by stratocumulus0 2mo ago
Oracle's claims about speed-ups of their database are just that, claims. Their licenses explicitly disallow benchmarking, so basically we are legally bound to rely on their word.
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by stratocumulus0 2mo ago
The account name is "Wild West" and it's all agenda posting. Scrolled through it, half of the posts are about criminal immigrants, the other half about collapsing governments in "the West". Links to a dubious news s
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by stratocumulus0 2mo ago
In most cases it's not possible for a refugee who's already in Germany to gain a regular residence permit without going back to their country of origin and starting the entire immigration process from scratch. All this talk about
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by stratocumulus0 2mo ago
The cult of 10x got their magical tool that lets them feel 100x. Don't take their toy away from an excited kid.
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by stratocumulus0 3mo ago
I'm not claiming any of those.
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by stratocumulus0 3mo ago
Yes, this is a valid point, mnemonics are totally valid when you are new to a concept. I'm learning Turkish right now for example, and the dative forms for me/you (bana/sana) perfectly fit the accusative conjugation pattern i
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by stratocumulus0 3mo ago
This kind of content is usually shared by people who are learning a language out of genuine interest for the first time. Most of the time it's Japanese because of the popularity manga and anime enjoy, and the challenge of learning a la
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by stratocumulus0 3mo ago
While others might be like that, the type I'm talking about explicitly does not want to be challenged or alter their worldview. I find a comparison with religion an another poster made to be pretty fair, as the people I know who practi
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by stratocumulus0 3mo ago
Postman wrote this in context of television, which is a broadcast channel with no means to interact with it. But in times of social media, your reaction to the news is something you can broadcast yourself, at the very least to your online f
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by stratocumulus0 3mo ago
I'm not saying that this is implausible, but this is one guess in a sea of many. We were shown a single word substitution with a claim that 300 others match, but no documentation of this person's research. We don't know this
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by stratocumulus0 3mo ago
True, I did not think of the pi/phi distinction when writing this. There are other quirks exclusive to Linear B that don't occur in Linear A though, such as three different ways to write the phoneme "A" with no clear pat
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by stratocumulus0 3mo ago
Always glad to exchange! I'm a software engineer and a hobby linguist only myself, so don't expect wonders from me. But this is a fun topic to research for sure.
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by stratocumulus0 3mo ago
An in addition to that, a vast majority of documents are lists which consist of a "header" (1 to 3 words) and word-number pairs afterwards. An another common class are small clay seals with 1, 2 characters carved into them. It&#x2
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by stratocumulus0 3mo ago
As an amateur who's been fascinated by this puzzle himself, I will add some context that might be relevant in assessing the plausibility of this claim: - The "Libation Formula", which the author used as the base for his trans
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by stratocumulus0 3mo ago
It would be great if people started to claim religious exemptions from making money for oligarchs and politicians. We would see this dumb rule gone in an instant.
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by stratocumulus0 4mo ago
The word "our" has other purposes than declaring possession. If a company refers to its customer base as "our customers", does it mean that it created them or owns them as property at the moment?
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by stratocumulus0 4mo ago
My dad had an immobilizer built into his car (a 1994 BMW 320 bought in Europe) which used this kind of key. I've almost forgotten about this detail until I stumbled upon this post. I don't know if it was stock, though.
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by stratocumulus0 4mo ago
It's because restaurants make the most money on drinks, so selling you overpriced water with artificial branding becomes an excuse to charge the same money for water as one would for sodas. And some cannot be convinced that tap water c
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by stratocumulus0 5mo ago
This is exactly my observation. Every now and then there's an Anglo posting on Polish social media asking people questions about some obscure Catholic doctrines and getting offended after they're told that no one there cares. I gu
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by stratocumulus0 7mo ago
My experience is that on American platforms free speech means that these platforms are free to remove whatever content based on whatever heuristics, with little to no accountability. Right now I see examples of American social norms limitin
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by stratocumulus0 7mo ago
Catholicism is different in every country, I would imagine that a church in a secular place such as France would contain itself a bit, because there's no societal expectation that anyone should follow its religion, and therefore the pr
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by stratocumulus0 7mo ago
I was raised Catholic and even though the last time I've been to a church could have been in 2019, I don't remember any priest who wouldn't just gloss over the religious content for the day (copied from an online source), itc
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by stratocumulus0 8mo ago
One major difference is that it was extremely difficult to leave Eastern Europe. Borders with the West were fortified and even in the unlikely event of getting a visa issued, the government would make sure that your loved ones were left beh
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by stratocumulus0 8mo ago
Unfortunately this is our national mentality - no one can tell me what I should do, and if I get told to stop, I will double down just to piss off that someone who insulted my pride. The biggest enemy of a Pole is always their neighbor. One

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