hessenjunge
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- Comment on Elon Musk’s X Still Down in Brazil After Company Sends $5.2 Million Fine to Wrong Bank 1 month ago:
Also
‘He took to Twitter and tweeted a tweet.’
Should now be
‘He took to Xitter and xat a xit.’
The X being pronounced ‘sh’ every time.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
They code-switch between English and Hindi. If you don’t know Hindi, you won’t understand it. Are all posts like this? Of course not.
You’re so close. Let me give you another hint: What do you think every other regional sub looks like? (I speak multiple languages, so I’ve been to multiple regionals - including in Languages I don’t really speak)
Also, yes it is a bit racist to assume that Indians are only able to converse in an Hindi/English mix and unable to converse in proper English. On top of that it is a bit stupid to assume all of India speaks Hindi - e.g. most of Bengalurians speak Kannada.
But there aren’t as many English-speakers as in America. I didn’t say all, I say most (this will be a recurring theme).
You’re correct. It’s a recurring theme. You have been made aware by multiple people now that you over-inflate the percentage of USAmericans among the users of English-speaking forums and that you have been incredibly ignorant about it.
I think none will dispute that US located users are in the majority - the majority is however not as big as you make it out to be. (and your reasoning is - for lack of a better term - atrocious)
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
I admire your determination to bend your perception of facts to fit your narrative.
- Russia, Kanada, Australia, South America? Apparently they ceased to exist.
- Africa? They still live in mud and abject poverty. There is no electricity nor Internet.
- China? They’re 100% locked in. (No bots no nothing.)
- Indians can’t write proper English (a bit rich coming from an USAmerican)
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
FYI
According to Wikipedia the percentage of English speakers located in the US is lower that 20%. Does this mean that only 1 in 5 users is from the US?
Population of the US: 334.914.895, Population of Europe: 745.173.774. 334.914.895/745.173.774 = 0,449%
English Speakers in the US: 297.400.000. English Speakers in Europe: 260.000.000. So you have about 37,4M more English speakers in the US than in Europe.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
Sorry, are you trying to prove beyond a doubt that you are dishonest and statistics-illiterate?
which is why I said:
It is entirely rational to assume that an English-speaking person on the Internet is from the US, given no other information.
No, you wrote:
**The US has more allocated IPv4 addresses and more users per allocated IPv4 address than any other country, by wide margins **- and IPv6 adoption is not that widespread yet. It is entirely rational to assume that an English-speaking person on the Internet is from the US, given no other information.
So your assumption is based on a gross misinterpretation of the statistics you presented. Your incorrect interpretation of the graphs would put US participation at about 99,99%, which is obviously ridiculous.
Also according to Wikipedia the percentage of English speakers located in the US is lower that 20%. Does this mean that only 1 in 5 users is from the US?
The point of using the IP address statistics is to show that the vast majority of websites on the Internet were created in the US for the US market, and that is still true today.
That’s not at all what these graphs show though. While I agree that most websites might be US targeted towards the US calling that ‘vast’ is bit of a stretch.
… and realistically not many people outside the US had any interest in the internet in 1983.
I gather you’ve not been around then. Almost none had any interest in “the internet” until the mid 90s - this includes the US. Partly because what you refer to as “the internet” was called WWW back then and started only 1989. People had been very anal about this until about 2005 - I guess you haven’t been around then either.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
No, they highlight some problems with IP4: Bad distribution of IP4 ranges and bad distribution of those ranges. So the graphs show the US has way too much IP actresses, some under used/unused and some overused. The blog post they are from is pretty clear about this.
These graphs do not give an indication of how many users per country there are. There are in fact statistics on that which expectedly show China and India on top. These however do not take into account that social media use way more popular in the U.S. for now.
The closest stat may be Reddit users by country which seems to indicate that about every 2nd user is from the US. (Not sure if Russian/Chinese bot accounts also count towards these though).
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
Possibly. It’s hard to know without seeing the numbers and assessing output quality and volume.
Also it’s not unheard of that some bigwig wastes millions of company €€ for some project they fancy. (Billions if they happen to be Elon)
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
The LLMs they train on their code will only be accessible internally. They won’t leak their own intellectual property.
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
I don’t get it. Care to explain?
- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 5 months ago:
I guess the tree branch needs to start somewhere, but why leave out amphibians?
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 5 months ago:
You better double check. I just found out that only my comments with few upvotes are still that way, the others have been restored.
A script replacing them with random words might do the trick.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 6 months ago:
When the horseshoe becomes a circle…
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 6 months ago:
Small correction:
“Ich bin bei den Großeltern” → “I’m at my grandparents (or grandparents’)”
“I’m at my grandparents’ place” only exist as “I’m at my grandparents‘ house” → “Ich bin im Haus meiner Großeltern”
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 6 months ago:
kimovil.com/…/where-to-buy-xiaomi-poco-x3-pro-256…
Listed at $322 meaning you bought it half price or less in ‘22. Good purchase!
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 6 months ago:
Do you have a Kimovil link for this incredible phone?
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
I like the idea of a register a lot.
Do you also talk about it though? I was in Denmark on business for a couple of weeks and I don’t recall there being a discussion about it.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
In my country I’m only aware of statistics published by a newspaper (source may be statista, some agency or a job portal). I find the values weird however as I earn way above the stated value for my general description. I’m in a bit of a niche however what might work to my benefit. The statistics still feel like ‘expectation management’ to me though.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
Not denying that it’s legal and beneficial to discuss that. It’s unfortunately not common (yet?).
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
Pretty disarming for unsuspecting foreigners.
That would indeed be a WTF moment for me.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
In which countries is it custom to openly discuss salary? In Germany and most if not all countries I’ve been to professionally it is not the norm. This is of course bad for transparency/employees and good for employers.
- Comment on How I cannot be worry?? 10 months ago:
This is how to drive other people, especially coworkers, insane. That’s all that is.
- Comment on Be more open-minded! 11 months ago:
That’s a good question! Xenophobia has an evolutionary basis and exists in other species as well (e.g. chimpanzees). Encountering another group of humans (or chimps) might be dangerous. Being cautious is beneficial for survival.
However, when you add racism and are actively hostile to another group - is it still a Phobia? And if not or if IT is not fear-motivated, what do you call it?
- Comment on Be more open-minded! 11 months ago:
According to Wikipedia it was an actual fear that homosexuality is contagious. That belief is probably alive and well amongst idiots. I always thought it to more akin to hydrophobia instead of arachnophobia - as in fat reacting to water. Now I think that is to take as fat is neither attacking water nor is it insane.