stoly
@stoly@lemmy.world
- Comment on How realistic is it for me to learn Japanese so that I can experience Anime better? How long would it take to learn? Has anyone attempted this? 2 days ago:
I had a friend who was a computer science student and did an additional major in Japanese just so he could read manga in original language. It can be done but requires a lot of dedication.
If you are a native English speaker, then learning Germanic and Romance languages will be easy because they have much in common. With Japanese, there’s no real evolutionary commonality so you really have to just learn a whole new system that doesn’t match your expectations–and from scratch. Example:
1,352
English: one-thousand three-hundred fifty-two Japanese: one thousands place, three hundreds place, five tens place, two
Just the conception of how numbers work is different. This isn’t to say you shouldn’t try to do this, it would be fantastic. Just know that you have to develop a lot of new intuitions.
- Comment on Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg 5 days ago:
lol my first question was whether that was from wales
- Comment on What is up with Gen Alphas love for Austin Powers? 5 days ago:
When Austin Powers came out I thought it was the funniest thing ever. 25 years later I watched a few scenes and turned it off. It aged really poorly.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating. 5 days ago:
Isn’t that what happened with Win 7?
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 5 days ago:
This is an aspect of driving that people don’t get. It doesn’t necessarily matter WHAT the laws are–there are so many ways to drive all around the world. What matters is that everyone follows the same ones so that they know what to expect from others. If people routinely ignore one law in a region and that’s part of the expectation, then everyone is just fine. It’s that one person who doesn’t follow the norms that is dangerous.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 5 days ago:
There are no “bad people” but plenty of people who do shitty things. Here are some of those that street racers do:
- They endanger themselves and others
- They make a lot of noise
- They pollute, scar, and mark the streets
So probably “yes” if you want to define it that way.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Well I mean that’s what conservatives do. They talk loudly and then lie behind the scenes.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I think the difference here is that in both of those previous crashes, the entire market was involved. For AI, only a small number of companies have the resources to really get involved. If this collapses, most people will shrug and go back to whatever they were doing.
- Comment on YSK you can cancel subscriptions by removing them from your credit card/payment processor, or call the bank and ask someone to remove them. 5 days ago:
This was the only way I could cancel Disney once.
- Comment on Mr. Pope 5 days ago:
So if you are a true Catholic you have to take the word of the Pope as the word of God. Catholics who disagree with the pope are hypocrites.
- Comment on After every 10 years of every social media platform becoming just another political propaganda machine Im totally bored of it. 6 days ago:
I agree. It was fun for a very long time and then somewhere around 2015 it became a political shitshow and people started getting mean.
- Comment on Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US under Trump deal * It will become platform owned by different bastards 1 week ago:
This is my take. You’ll want to turn on a VPN to see the real tik tok.
- Comment on Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US under Trump deal * It will become platform owned by different bastards 1 week ago:
They’ll all go to Insta or YouTube shorts. If they care, I mean.
- Comment on Reuters: US could hit entire International Criminal Court with sanctions soon 2 weeks ago:
It’s been decades since people should have moved away from the dollar, but it’s all a house of cards and nobody wants to bring the whole thing down.
- Comment on A natural leader is someone who is seen by others as a leader. It is not the same thing as a good leader. 2 weeks ago:
The name I have heard for this concept is “leadership without authority”.
- Comment on A natural leader is someone who is seen by others as a leader. It is not the same thing as a good leader. 2 weeks ago:
I disagree. You hear stories about bad managers and it’s mostly because they are dealing with some past traumas along with being put into a position of influence with no training. Every bad manager I have had turned out to be a fairly lousy person in general
Every good manager I have met is someone who managed to work through their life’s bullshit and move on from it. They then take the time and effort to learn to manage well.
- Comment on Does it feel like the PS5's library is *severely* lacking compared to the PS4's around the same time in its lifecycle? 2 weeks ago:
Lol I love how you criticize the gaming industry and then your friends directly.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not talking federal government, which you can’t break into unless you’re ex military anyway. I am referring to state, county, city government or a university.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 2 weeks ago:
Or complete
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
This was the start of my career. Then 2008. Then now. There’s never been a good time.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
Ultimately the problem is an over saturated market and universities letting their programs grow too large.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
This has why I’m happy to work in public service. It’s very stable but the salaries aren’t as high.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 2 weeks ago:
It was an international group that met in France that created the metric system.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 2 weeks ago:
Studies have also shown that taking notes by writing causes better learning outcomes compared to typing.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 2 weeks ago:
That’s because you suffer the deadly condition of caring about the well being of others.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 weeks ago:
I think that people who would buy a fridge like that deserve to watch ads.
- Comment on The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 4 weeks ago:
Who says that? It’s a new one to me.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 4 weeks ago:
good one!
- Comment on The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 4 weeks ago:
For me, the cover letter is the first filter. Did they write a reasonably good and unique one? Does it address the job description? Do they explain how past experience prepares them and/or do they explain how this would be a mutually beneficial experience?
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 4 weeks ago:
They do. It’s why you have an immune system. You’re literally being attacked millions of times per day but keep it in check.