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- Comment on Google Translate's latest feature is its take on Duolingo 11 hours ago:
IDK exactly what Duolingo is, but it sounds like this new product gives you practice with spoken conversations? I’m unexcited by the idea of doing that with a computer but still, spoken language learning is completely different from written language.
The best thing for spoken language acquisition from my perspective has simply been listening a lot to live human speakers of the language, in person. That means either take a class with a human instructor, or travel to wherever they use that language. It’s ok to start with very limited ability. Bring a dictionary things will sink in over time.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 14 hours ago:
Hadn’t heard about that one, heh.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 14 hours ago:
It’s a joke, in case that wasn’t obvious.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 14 hours ago:
It’s worse, e.g. aibohphobia (the fear of palindromes). Sufferers can’t seek treatment because they’re afraid to even say its name.
- Comment on Is it better to: [A] watch videos content on a flagship/midrange smartphone that you already have, OR [B] get a cheap tablet (say, around $200 USD) to watch videos? 1 week ago:
I usually use my laptop but sometimes my phone. Both work fine. Phone is a low midrange, I guess, Moto G Stylus 5g, 2023 model.
- Comment on Liquid gold: Prototype harvests valuable resource from urine 1 week ago:
I’m sure we’ll all receive some trickle-down benefits.
- Comment on How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult 1 week ago:
This thing is 1.5 hours long. Any indication of what it is about?
- Comment on Redditor advises people in DC hide Air Tags in their clothes to help family identify them if they go missing. 1 week ago:
Now the abductors know where to look. :(
- Comment on Looking for near equivalent alternatives 1 week ago:
It’s not clear to me what they mean by that. The definition of a snapshot is that it’s static, so you can roll back to it. If it’s automatically updated all the time, it’s a mirror. The same with backups in general. The most common use of a backup is restoring a file that you deleted by accident. If the deletion is immediately propagated to your mirror, you can’t use the mirror that way.
What exactly do you want? Maybe something like Ceph replication? Hetzner at one point offered that. I don’t know if they still do. Same with OVH.
What’s wrong with Hetzner? I’ve generally found it better than Scaleway.
Maybe go on lowendspirit.com and ask there.
- Comment on Looking for near equivalent alternatives 2 weeks ago:
Hetzner Cloud has US locations and has snapshots, but you really want to power down the VM while a snapshot is in progress. I’m not sure what you mean about copy on write but snapshots and mirrors aren’t the same thing, and maybe what you really want is database replication. I believe (not sure) that Hetzner has a service for that, though by definition you’re no longer self-hosted with that approach. I don’t think you have much control over hardware assignment with their cloud servers, and maybe that’s not great. It depends your requirements I guess.
- Comment on Does putting clothes in the closet protect them from dust, or is the dust in there too? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know why clothes that have sat around for a long time get funky but I don’t think it’s dust per se. Keeping clothes in a drawer generally keeps dust off of them but they still get funky.
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 2 weeks ago:
This sounded too crazy even for Elon, but it seems to be fake. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44859807
- Comment on Heydey ho folks, anybody I know a decent search engine with a lite interface? 2 weeks ago:
It’s difficult for software to identify slop, since if there was a technical way to do so, the same methods would be used to generate more convincing slop.
You could give kagi.com a try (fake email address gets you 100 free trial queries) but idk if the output format will work with your browsers. Paid plans start at $5/month. It gives you more filtering options than DDG and so on give you, but I don’t think it’s better at detecting slop. Some people think it’s great and that it’s well worth the cost. I tried the 100 queries and thought it was a bit nicer than DDG but not that big a deal. YMMV.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 weeks ago:
Is there any music on spotify that isn’t also on youtube? Youtube has practically everything, it has always seemed to me. I’ve never been tempted by spotify.
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 3 weeks ago:
Is there any comfortable way to bring up this topic without making me sound like a narcissist who assumed a guy wants to sleep with her just because he asked her out🥲.
I wouldn’t say you sound like a narcissist but this does sound immature. “He wants to sleep with you” and “he just wants to sleep with you” are two different things. It sounds to me that he likes you and wants to spend time with you, and maybe-probably also wants to sleep with you. Is that enough for you? It’s enough for some people, though obviously not for everyone. Either way, talk to him about it.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get hookups without seeing escorts? 3 weeks ago:
Oh I was going to suggest Mouser and DIgikey for most kinds of electrical stuff, but it sounds like you are after something different.
- Comment on Helion Secures Land and Begins Building on the Site of World’s First Fusion Power Plant 3 weeks ago:
There was another one of these a day or two ago, where besides making fusion energy, the reactor was going to convert mercury to gold. Competition must be getting stiff.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 4 weeks ago:
4a didn’t have swappable battery iirc.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 4 weeks ago:
600 euro, not so helpful. Thanks though.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 4 weeks ago:
I just want a comeback of phones with swappable batteries.
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- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 4 weeks ago:
The classic
- Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah 4 weeks ago:
Billionaires with nukes, just what we need.
- Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse 4 weeks ago:
Buh bye
- Comment on Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech. 4 weeks ago:
It’s a reference to A Fire Upon The Deep, an SF novel by Vernor Vinge. One way to describe it is that a superintelligent computer virus tries to take over the galaxy. It is great, try a web search.
- Comment on Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech. 4 weeks ago:
Is that something like a “class II perversion”? For example the Straumli Blight.
- Comment on Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with? 4 weeks ago:
Calling women “females” instead of women, as if you were a frakking Ferengi, won’t endear you the interest of any sensible person.
But when it does work, the oo-mox makes it all worth it ;)
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 5 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boredom looks like an interesting article that might convey some helpful info.
- Comment on self hosted system for managing donations at museum 5 weeks ago:
Pen and paper then. Too many computers.
- Comment on 6G mobile could divide the world 5 weeks ago:
Tldr? Why do we need 6g anyway? What is the benefit supposed to be? Not higher transfer speeds I hope. We need modes with better support for low power and weak signals. For low power, 2G is superior to everything that came after it.