Phoenix3875
@Phoenix3875@lemmy.world
- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 1 day ago:
Why is it necessary for the water to go up and down to turn the turbine? Isn’t the pressure already added to the water and you can directly use it to drive a heavier turbine at ground level?
- Comment on It's easier to rhyme in Mandarin than in English 1 week ago:
Other replies answered what’s what. I think the reasoning for this many names is just there are many variants. After all, the current “nation” is several ethnic groups (many with their own languages) merged together for over thousands of years, spanning a large area.
- Comment on It's easier to rhyme in Mandarin than in English 1 week ago:
Native Mandarin speaker here. On one hand it’s true that basic rhyming is easier due to the regularity of the unit of sound and the number of characters sharing the same “final vowel” 韵母.
However, there’s also the tone system. Pronouncing the tone as it’s normally pronounced may interfere with the melody. So it’s actually very hard to write good lyrics that works with both.
In modern Mandarin music, this is usually done by relaxing the tone a bit when singing (the phenomenon is called 倒字). However, serious lyric writers do strive to achieve both goals at the same time. (Cantonese songs are especially good on this regard.)
Compare to the classical Chinese. According to tones, all characters are divided into two classes 平仄, which follows a specific pattern in a poem 格律. The poem is also the lyrics of a melody 律诗. So this system helps you to do both.
- Comment on Delicious rocks 2 weeks ago:
Been there done that. In ancient China, there was a psychoactive drug made out of five kinds of minerals.
- Comment on idk 5 weeks ago:
0 out of 10 no valve involved.
- Comment on I love doing THIS 5 weeks ago:
Me when read a book
- Comment on Fact 1 month ago:
That’d be two cents, sir.
- Comment on Yarr 1 month ago:
Turns out the real treasure is the friendship all along. Anywho, about the salary…
- Comment on Fourier 1 month ago:
Maybe he’s just reading the result. The pic didn’t show the open skull and the brain electrodes underneath.
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 2 months ago:
You know kung-fu?
- Comment on Just in time 2 months ago:
OG heavy metal fan.
- Comment on Ferns 2 months ago:
The encyclopedia itself is Ferns: British and Exotic by E. J. Lowe. It’s in public domain now. A PDF scan is available on the Internet Archive.
- Comment on VTuber Graduation 2 months ago:
Not deep in the vtuber culture, but I thought the term comes from things like Love Live. The idols are supposed to be high school students.
- Comment on Choose the rat poison 2 months ago:
If you would have been controlled by Ratatouille, what happens when you cut your hairs?
- Comment on to hell I say 3 months ago:
Yes, I counted undiscovered jelly fish, what of it?
- Comment on Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades 3 months ago:
Spotted lots of people wrapping in Union Jack and St George’s in London today. Who would have guessed after fighting a world war, they got peaceful evolutionized by the Nazis?
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 4 months ago:
- Comment on I could use some serious advice as to whether or not to do this 4 months ago:
End with “see you next time”.
- Comment on PARTY TIME 4 months ago:
Some plastic bins are acid resistant. I only learned this from Walter White.
- Comment on xkcd #3125: Snake-in-the-Box Problem 5 months ago:
Any two edges that are not directly connected.
- Comment on Yeasty 5 months ago:
That’s not enough dough.
- Comment on "Steam Did Not Respond To Us": Collective Shout Defends Calling On Payment Processors To Ban Adult Games 5 months ago:
How to defeat collective shout? A collective even louder shout.
- Comment on It's the truth 5 months ago:
For those who don’t know, it’s Lao Gan Ma, a chilli oil brand well-known in China and more and more so in other countries.
- Comment on UwU brat mathematician behavior 5 months ago:
I think rather
d/dxis the operator. You apply it to an expression to bind free occurrences ofxin that expression. For example,dx²/dxis best understood asd/dx (x²). The notation would be clear if you implement calculus in a program. - Comment on xkcd #3113: Fix This Sign 5 months ago:
Usually they pay graphic designers to extort others.
- Comment on Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes 5 months ago:
The BBC report cited mainly focused on the marketing industry, with the fixing mistake people being the copywriters. This gives a strong vibe of Madman, where you have the “old-fashioned” copywriters and the tension between market research.
- Comment on China New Internet ID System a Threat to Online Expression: Netizens will require IDs to go on the internet. For now this is voluntary, but there are signs it will not remain that way for long. 6 months ago:
Aktually, for most Internet services in China today, one already needs a phone number to create an account, which is linked back to the national ID. So, there isn’t any anonymity to begin with.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 6 months ago:
- Comment on That's a good question 6 months ago:
Referenced by my favorite Philip K Dick novel VALIS, the symbol of early Christianity: Fish cannot carry guns.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 7 months ago:
Or you can just simply slapping your face. It has a similar sound effect.
