not supporting the complainer but it is kinda scary how much control western culture has over tech…

there are so many holidays over the world. why christmas but not, say, Songkran or Chinese New Year?

only citizens can vote though? i don’t think any of those people will be deported.

bluesky is federated and decentralised too… i don’t understand why people are having problems with it? maybe they just don’t know?

and RFK wants to regulate HFCS… I don’t know how to feel about this, that’s… good? I guess?

Attitudes like yours certainly isn’t attracting any new users…

I think you are conflating two things. We can have a viable third party with ranked choice voting. We don’t necessarily need PR.

Personally I think PR will fragment the parliament and destabilise the government.

Also if you look at 2024, PR would’ve given many seats to Reform…

aliens

Humanity is just a prolonged organic chemical reaction happening on an insignificant speck of dust floating in space. We are not that important.

Universe is still insane though, but for different reasons.

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… and give them corkscrews.

No, lemon is literally a human creation, made by crossing citron with bitter orange.

Belief is necessary but not sufficient.

All power in our society is based on belief if you think about it.

Accents exist, you know.

“are” is a perfectly valid pronunciation of “our” I think, at least in some accents. Writing it as “are”, on the other hand does feel wrong.

I like contacts even less now.

I have a bunch of smart devices - light bulbs, wall plugs, etc. They all connect to Home Assistant running on my own server and I don’t need to pay any subscriptions.

IoT is not the problem, corporate greed is.

Well I did clarify I agree that the overarching point of this paper is probably fine…

widely accepted linguistic standard

I am not a linguist so apologise for my ignorance about how things are usually done. (Also, thanks for educating me.) But on the other hand just because it is the accepted way doesn’t mean it is right in this case. Especially when you consider the information rate is also calculated from syllables.

syllable bigrams

Ultimately this just measures how quickly the speaker can produce different combinations of sounds, which is definitely not what most people would envision when they hear “information in language”. For linguists who are familiar with the methodology, this might be useful data. But the general public will just get the wrong idea and make baseless generalisations - as evidenced by comments under this post. All in all, this is bad science communication.

I already said? It doesn’t affect FSR

This is bad reporting from phoronix (not surprising). The performance bug has nothing to do with FSR. It was just discovered in an FSR demo.