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- Comment on Mildred 1 hour ago:
It could be a David Foster Wallace reference. “In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk.”
- Comment on How do you pronounce a name you haven't heard? 1 week ago:
There are some old interviews with George RR Martin where people ask him about various characters, and GRRM would adjust his pronounciation to match the person asking the question. So he’s pronouncing names differently in different interviews depending on how others pronounce them. I wonder if it is to make the other person comfortable, or if he just doesn’t have a canon pronounciation.
- Comment on Growing up isn’t easy 1 week ago:
A good story about a bad day doesn’t have to be about complaining. It can be about learning from mistakes, a strange irony, the absurdity of coinciding factors, etc.
- Comment on Me, who doesn't use ai 5 weeks ago:
If you ever do write with pen and paper, it takes little effort to focus on just one improvement. A first step could be to try to get a consistent height of letters. When I’m in a hurry my “o” and “i” become way smaller than, say, “e”. Just a quick look when you’re done writing and a reflection like “next time I’ll try to make this letter as tall as that letter when I write”. When all lower case letter are as tall, focus on something else, like ascender height or baseline. Maybe your “l” tilts more than your “t”, then that’s a good thing to fix. One small step at a time.
- Comment on Language 1 month ago:
The second part of the Tractatus.
- Comment on There was such a simple solution all along 1 month ago:
This is paraphrasing a swedish politician called Annie Lööf. She has been made fun of and ridiculed for that phrase for a long time.
However, that’s not what she said. The context was simplifying rules and regulations for companies, and she was asked if fewer rules would make it easier for companies to do illegal things. Her answer was: “In Sweden it has since long been illegal to run a business with criminal intent”.
This “criminal intent” is the difficult part. If I buy and sell antiques that’s one thing, if I buy and sell stolen goods, that’s another. The difference is criminal intent. - Comment on Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available — Stability AI 2 months ago:
Di ffusion
- Comment on Kids these days are too soft. Can't even roll with these guys. 2 months ago:
It’s unusual to see the rounded r (ꝛ) after an a.
- Comment on Are you positive you didn't make that typo? The Ofif Gremlin has attacked 3 months ago:
The idea of a malicious entity causing spelling mistakes is very old. In medieval times they had a small demon called Titivillus.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titivillus - Comment on What if I ever need it? 3 months ago:
Yes, Swedish. Also, for unrelated reasons I reacted a bit triggered in my previous reply and my canadian girlfriend said that I was being an arrogant european, and I’m sorry about that.
- Comment on What if I ever need it? 3 months ago:
Maybe in your country, but not in my country.
- Comment on What if I ever need it? 3 months ago:
I have to do CPR training once per year, and almost every time they’ve changed the recommendations. I don’t even remember the current recommendations now.
- Comment on Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet? 6 months ago:
Similarly, the viking rune “alphabet” is called the Futhark, because the first letters are pronounced F, U, Þ, A, R, K.
- Comment on Open for discussion 8 months ago:
If people will be people, the interesting difference will be how the platform works. I guess this is the true test of the federated approach. What does it hinder or facilitate in practice and what are the actual effects?