NorthWestWind
@NorthWestWind@lemmy.world
I code stuff. I draw stuff.
- Comment on Black Widow 1 hour ago:
New excuse for not thinking before you speak
- 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? 4 days ago:
Ayyy fellow Canto speaker on the same boat
I don’t really watch anime but I want to read Japanese text. I’m currently 2 months in following the Tofugu guide. I spent about a week on memorizing Hiragana and Katakana, and have been grinding Kanjis and vocabularies on Anki since then. At some point I also read the Japanese sentence structure guide from 8020japanese out of curiosity.
Since I’m a native Cantonese speaker, learning Kanji is rather trivial, so I mostly spend my time learning both Onyomi (Chinese pronunciation) and Kunyomi (Japanese pronunciation).
I am at a point where I can read some simple sentences and guess some words base on Kanji (for example はじめる means “start” on my Japanese Wii), but I definitely still have a long way to go before I can do anything fluent. If you watch a decent amount of anime, chances are you can probably learn faster than me.
- Comment on Winner winner! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 2 weeks ago:
If God can be son of himself, then Christ can be follower of Christ
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
…and sucked at using them
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
A has like nothing good it’s just the British (and Greenland)
- Comment on Are There Any Pastebin Alternatives that Allow Editing and Long-Term Storage? 3 weeks ago:
Or just use GitHub Gist or a repository. I have been uploading my arts to a repo for backup for a while now
- Comment on How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance? 4 weeks ago:
I think it depends more on the intention of the murder. If the killer specifically targets a person, that’s assassination. Otherwise, it’s homicide? Maybe when it’s a specific group of people it can be called genocide instead
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- Comment on Mother Earth is getting HOT, but it shouldn't be this way 4 weeks ago:
Well they fucked it up good
- Comment on Young artist who is a big fan of Twin Peaks 5 weeks ago:
It’s a copypasta
- Comment on Death to the spiders 1 month ago:
As I was reading this comment, a spider appeared.
They know.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 month ago:
- Comment on go to sleep 2 months ago:
stares back from +08:00 timezone at noon
- Comment on Vibe coding takes the "science" out of computer science 2 months ago:
Pfft. Computer Science ain’t about coding
- Comment on Why abc, xyz, etc.? 2 months ago:
The following are not-properly-researched theories I made up
I think x came from “unknown”. Perhaps at one point people used a cross (x) to represent something unknown. The symbol may have extended to mean “variable”. Then math advanced and people begin making graphs with variables and the logical next variable is y.
abc are used when these variables run out, because they are intuitive to pick.
ijk in programming loops came from “index”. The reason we use “index” and not “count” or “tally” is because in early computer days, someone decided to use “index”. For example, your browser still automatically fetches “index.html” if a path doesn’t return a valid response.
ijk in vectors may have come from quaternions, which in turn came from complex/imaginary numbers. Since i represents “imaginary”, that could have been carried over to vectors.
The xyz orientation in 3D program is purely a choice by the developer. It is which ever orientation they are comfortable with developing.
y is up because of it’s commonly used for graphs, but y is down for computer graphics. The top-left corner of a screen is (0, 0) and as the position moves downwards, y increases.
We do use Greek letters in other coordinate systems! For example, a spherical coordinate system often uses (r, θ, φ). I think these symbols may have already had connections with other aspects of math (like θ is commonly used for angles). They are not used generally to avoid confusion.
- Comment on Antz in my Pantz 2 months ago:
A competitor to crabs
- Comment on Find luigi 2 months ago:
Jokes on you I played this for 2 hours and reached level 1000
- Comment on In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand? 2 months ago:
There are a few ways we do it in Chinese.
In mainland, people would sometimes just type the initials of the pronunciation of the character. For example, hhhhh (哈哈哈哈哈, hahahahaha), sb (傻逼 sha bi, dumbass). It can get out of hand for people who are not super familiar with their vocabularies (like me, a Hong Kong Cantonese speaker)
Alternatively, one can just use a different dialect/version of Chinese. In Hong Kong, we can have both written Chinese and spoken Cantonese mixed in the same message. We simply pick which one of them gives a shorter version of the word. For example, 回家看看有無撞其餘活動 ([Written] Go home and see [Spoken] if it conflicts with other events). Sometimes we even mix in ancient Chinese.
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 2 months ago:
My mom always says warm you neck. Her explanation is that an artery runs through it and you can lose heat quite quickly there
- Comment on Even in space it's possible to get hit by a self-driving Tesla. 3 months ago:
Cargo space
- Comment on Please remember to spread the word about this :( 3 months ago:
Those damn electrons!
- Comment on Always there 3 months ago:
Can’t wait for World 7: Sky Land
- Comment on I have discovered chat IS cute and so are you <3 3 months ago:
Chat are you real?
- Comment on Future aspirations 3 months ago:
She used the cats to steal more cats
- Comment on A small price to pay 3 months ago:
Sugar cane grows faster on snad
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
They don’t harm your computer like insects do. Problem solved :>
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
By keeping them out of my home.
I live in Hong Kong, very warm and wet. We simply have mosquito nets on every window. Alternatively you can try to live higher.
But even without those, I don’t really see much people having this problem. Perhaps it’s sampling bias.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
I see an Ammeter
- Comment on any alsume dwellers here? 5 months ago:
I’m using voyager and I can change them. Check settings->gestures
