Yaky
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- Comment on What if programmers rewrote the English language? 2 days ago:
Toki Pona specifically makes me think of overly verbose programming languages. With limited ~120 word vocabulary, describing things can be lengthy. Orange pet cat would be something like “good animal of house and of red yellow”.
- Comment on What tools do you recommend for me to start working as a cell phone technician? 2 weeks ago:
Second the iFixit kit.
Another consideration is some tool to heat up the display or back. iFixit has the iOpener, a silicone “pillow” you heat up in the microwave, which works okay, but you might prefer a heat gun, or a plate (3D printer’s heated bed works too).
And good lighting of course.
- Comment on People who have legally changed their first or last names (marriage not included), what is the reason you changed it? 3 weeks ago:
Some immigrants change their name to the variation that is more common one in the new country, especially if they use it every day already. Or to un-botch the transliterated spelling. So Oleksandr or Aleksandr is now Alexander, Katerina is Catherine, Ielizaveta is Elizabeth.
- Comment on When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift? 3 weeks ago:
IIRC Twitter introduced using # to make words searchable across all of the tweets, hence the name.
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 5 weeks ago:
Free, sure. There is only one app that does it, with huge dependency on Google and/or carrier (whoever runs the servers), which could just… stop working one day, like it did for me.
- Comment on What is the point of abbreviations for short words when they do not reduce times significantly when you type? 5 weeks ago:
Just to add to the fun confusing acronyms, in 3D printing circles, IPA is isopropyl alcohol, not beer (india pale ale)
- Comment on What is the point of abbreviations for short words when they do not reduce times significantly when you type? 5 weeks ago:
What specifically do you mean? If you are asking about you = u, to = 2, OK = k, and such, it’s text speak - faster to type and can fit more in 140 characters (SMS character limit IIRC)
But I agree that there is no reason to use those, especially on non-mobile devices.
- Comment on What can I do with a (jailbroken) iPad 1? 1 month ago:
Here is one of iPad reuse projects
And here is a crazier and thorough project on replacing internals
TBF I considered using my old iPad2 as in-car navigation or just as permanently-on weather display or picture frame. (If battery doesn’t swell from being on all the time)
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 1 month ago:
Smartphones and tablets manufactured circa 2015 were powerful enough to run many apps and software, and not yet locked down as much as they are now. So there were a lot of custom ROMs and kernels being made for Android and jailbreaking tools for iDevices, allowing you to customize much much more than the manufacturer intended.
And it’s just fun to make something that most people consider “obsolete” perform well, or well enough to be usable.
Not sure what role gender plays into that though.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 1 month ago:
Large companies can do / have done that (dumping to drive out smaller competition.
Small companies usually cannot afford this.
Unless you can pitch this as a disruptive idea to gullible investors (looking at all tech startups that burn trillions without making profits)
- Comment on How would you answer the "ecological" question on self hosting and federated networks ? 1 month ago:
Wow. This is literally the argument used by the megacorporation in book The Every (sequel to The Circle). It’s supposed to be social commentary and satire of greenwashing - the megacorporation claims only it is capable of saving the world by being “green” (which includes recycling people’s prized posessions like heirlooms and photographs into bricks for prisons)
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 1 month ago:
I have a geographic one for you:
Friend: posts some statistics map
Me: Czechia is an interesting outlier here, weird.
Friend: [sic] its czechoslovakia, not chechniaAll countries/regions that start with “ch” sound are the same i guess. Also Czechoslovakia split in 1989.
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 1 month ago:
My friend at the time watched some documentary about chess computers (Deep Blue etc.) and was telling me about the “super advanced algorithm called Brute Force”. I told him that brute force is means trying every possible combination, is the least efficient approach, and does not generally work for chess. He was adamant it was some genius algorithm. The only time in my life I remember saying “I have a computer science degree, I know what I am talking about”.
- Comment on New to android ROMs and degoogling and I have questions. 2 months ago:
I know of:
- LineageOS
- LineageOS+microg (is its own thing)
- GrapheneOS - this is what I use
- eOS - shiny degoogled Android
- iodeOS - degoogled Android with some extra features and parental controls - might be something you want?
Some other Android-derived projects are inactive: DivestOS shut down, CalyxOS is paused.
For 3, I think it has to do with popularity, unlockability, and the chipset.
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 2 months ago:
You see Ivan, birthday is for other people to eat, drink, and have fun, not for you.
Kinda like a big wedding in the US I guess? Bride and groom are not the ones having fun.
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 2 months ago:
AFAICT restaurants were few, expensive, and difficult to get into (i.e. not for regular people on regular basis), and the option for regular people would be stolovaya (cafeteria?) which is simple, probably mediocre food.
So seems like if you don’t have the connections and want decent food, make it yourself.
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 2 months ago:
Are they (post-)soviet boomers? There are some cultural things that I noticed too, some amusing, some frustrating.
- Home food is automatically better than restaurant food, as you said. Also, somehow, any burger is automatically viewed as McDonalds burger (i.e. bad)
- Unsolicited advice and unprompted attempts to help.
- Insistence on getting you a gift or accepting a never-requested gift. “Here’s a nice thing, it was expensive and difficult to get, you should like it”.
- Viewing self as “a burden”. Being offered food, comfort, or accomodation is rejected because “I don’t want to impose”. Sometimes goes into “suffering builds character” mindset, which is nonsense.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 2 months ago:
From what I remember: France refused to join US war in Iraq in 2003, and around the same time I started hearing nonsense like “freedom fries” and “google french military victories and you get no results lolololol”, and it was all really fucking stupid. But some of that seemed to remain in popular culture.
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 2 months ago:
Sounds pretty similar to US stereotypes towards Eastern Europeans, who are “always grumpy” and “rude”.
- Comment on Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language? 2 months ago:
(Not first-hand knowledge) I read somewhere that tonal languages such as Chinese make it difficult to express sarcasm the same way Indo-European languages do, with accent and inflection.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 2 months ago:
“I use a messenger”
“Which one?”
“You know, Messenger, the Facebook one”
- Comment on If you had native-level fluency in a language, and don't talk in that language for a while, can you develop an accent later-on when trying to talk in that language again? 2 months ago:
Not sure about an accent, but it will be noticeable.
From personal experience: I am aware that I often use structures specific to my current English-speaking region while speaking one of my native languages. Also, my slang and cultural references are really outdated. So I do not have an accent exactly, but it would be possible to tell something is off.
- Comment on For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis 3 months ago:
Metro 2033 (and at least one of the sequels) had a (post-apocalyptic russian) nazi faction as enemies.
- Comment on Why doesn't my phone put all of my apps to "sleep" by default? 3 months ago:
Some general examples: Any active navigation keeping track of your location if you switch apps. Pebble monitoring notifications to be sent to a smartwatch. Email or chat client periodically checking for messages.
There is a Developer Setting in Android to instantly kill off-screen apps, but that would make multitasking a hassle.
On that note, what I have witnessed is the opposite, phone OS being overly eager to put apps in sleep / idle mode, to the point of ignoring user settings of “do not optimize battery” and “allow background processing”. Many (most “normal”) apps handle notifications through Google, but many FOSS and independent apps need to run in the background to check for messages, updates, etc.
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 3 months ago:
When I was taught that Philo Farnsworth, a “farmer” who “invented” television by using the idea of plowing a field in parallel lines to display an image, I was completely dumbfounded. A farmer figured out how to build a vacuum tube, fire an electron beam, deflect it at phosphor-coated surface, and do so in lines, varying the intensity, to display an image? This simplistic “history” skips about 50 years of progress in vacuum tube design and absolutely fascinating mechanical television.
On that note, The Upright Thinkers by Leonard Mlodinow is a good book about scientific progress, and really drives a point about incremental nature progress.
- Comment on genius 3 months ago:
IIRC that entire plane was a DIY plane from a popular kit, not a commercial vehicle.
(not clicking on a Google shortlink)
- Comment on I'm there! 4 months ago:
More of a self-directed way, but check out eBird for submitting bird observations and iNaturalist for almost everything else. The cool part about iNaturalist is that your observations also get identified by other people, so you know the submissions haave been reviewed. And you could help identify others’ observations too.
- Comment on Is there a word or (concise) phrase to describe the paradox of sharing something (like a website) that you don't like, but because you're sharing it you're tacitly helping it? 4 months ago:
That sounds like a Streisand effect, or a variation of it.
- Comment on Latin names suck 4 months ago:
IIRC the “migratorius” part is only partially true, they migrate, but relatively short distances, so their year-round range is still pretty much the entire continental US.
They do gather into flocks in fall-winter and then split back into pairs in spring-summer, which is interesting.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked? 4 months ago:
Heck, my first smartphone ran Android 4.0. Compared to current Android 16 more than a decade later, the only practical change I could think of is granular permissions.