JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 3 days ago:
languages that lack a set of rules to correctly pronounce every word ever are mental illnesses.
Yeah, I don’t know enough about French grammar and pronunciation rules, but I think part of the problem comes from them trying to maintain a written language that got left in the dust by the spoken language ages ago. So instead of updating the written one, they chose to ‘preserve history’ and add a landslide of little rules explaining separate cases, not just for pronunciation, but in a hugely systemic way. Native French-speakers have actually complained to me about that occasionally.
I could give you any Spanish word you don’t know and you wouldn’t miss pronounce it.
I love that about Castellano, just that some regions speed it up so much that I can barely catch it.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 5 days ago:
Well.. I mean… what later become “English” branched off from its West-Germanic roots, long ago, and never did become “High German.” So theoretically, as an English-speaker, I have great familiarity with modern French, and we share the same basic sentence-structure as with modern German. Some of that is actually true. In practice, I could not be more of a complete dumbass upon those other languages.
TBC, I can speak Castellano and Français like someone with heat-stroke, and I can vaguely understand Dutch and German.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 5 days ago:
Like learning Norwegian (bokmål) while living on the west coast.
In all honesty, I’d be absolutely terrified of trying to learn a Nordic language, which is absolutely NOT due to the lovely Nordic people I’ve met across the years.
It’s a “me” problem, and case-closed, please.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 5 days ago:
a lot of swallowed and mumbled consonants
This has been my experience learning French. The written language and the spoken one are pretty wildly out of tune, with up to ~5 letters at the ends of some words either not pronounced at all, or heavily swallowed.
The pronunciation of Castellano (i.e. a sister language) was vastly easier for me.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 1 week ago:
Assholes & idiots are gonna asshole & idiot, but this time around, I reckon some of them will fall off the wagon. We’ll see…
- Comment on If trump is really implicated in Epsteins pedo-ring what is your theory as to why this wasn't leaked by an opposition leader? 1 week ago:
Bullshit.
Hilary Clinton divorced Bill
*Hillary. And that never happened.
Your whole “both parties equally complicit” is such a load of horseshit, too. Russian asset much..?
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 3 weeks ago:
No one is even hinting at changing that for the future.
That’s not really true, though. AOC, Sanders and others have been ceaselessly vocal about these matters, directly influencing change. And unless there’s systemic, nationwide fraud at the voting booths in November (I mean, much more than the usual), then the so-called “GOP” currently in charge is going to be in deep trouble from that point on. At least going by precedent and current rules, which of course might be somehow subverted by the Orangies, such as a declaration of martial law, etc.
No one in a nation of pussies will stop him.
The people manning the actual equipment are still military lifers, far as I know. From what I understand, it’s those types of folks who’ve historically prevented global nuclear war every time there was a chance of it happening.
- Comment on Non-Americans: what would you do in a situation where a foreign country run by a extremist dictator began producing nukes? 3 weeks ago:
On 24 August 2024, Durov was arrested by French police on criminal charges relating to an alleged lack of content moderation on Telegram and refusal to work with police, which allegedly allowed the spread of criminal activities. –WP
Did they maybe have a point with that one?
…letting war criminals fly unimpeded through their air space.
I mean, the heads of state of the three most powerful nations in the world (plus various others) arguably hold that status, and collectively they must have flown over dozens of different nations. France may not exactly be heroic in that regard, but it’s a crowded field, far as I can tell.
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 3 weeks ago:
Well, that’s the answer in terms of comparative density, but in terms of comparative weight, I’m wondering if the ice would indeed be heavier since it commonly traps additional gases in the freezing process.
So yeah, I’m not entirely sure if OP was talking more about weight or density.
@thatweirdguy1001@lemmy.world
- Comment on ‘I wanted that Raiders of the Lost Ark excitement – you could die any minute’: how we made hit video game Prince of Persia 3 weeks ago:
Nifty article; thanks for the share.
The game can be played here:
https://princejs.com/…And if you need some help to survive, you can alter values right in the URL.
- Comment on Non-Americans: what would you do in a situation where a foreign country run by a extremist dictator began producing nukes? 3 weeks ago:
hostile government, like the… France
France? Care to explain?
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 3 weeks ago:
From what I understand, global nuclear war was an ongoing concern by the mid-50’s, when the nuclear arms race got in to full swing. Along the timeline of the ensuing Cold War, there have evidently been a shocking number of close calls, with global war being averted by a single individual in some cases.
Now one note of interest might be that the USSR’s cache of nuclear arms may not have been well-maintained over the years, so modern Russia might be sitting on a far more limited amount of live weapons than exists on paper. FWIW… which of course probably isn’t much, in the end.
- Comment on Are hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have? 3 weeks ago:
Are hierarchies inherently bad…
Allah asked, rhetorically.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, there’s a point to what you’re saying, but to paint with the same broad brush upon them both is not only delusional at best, but in real-world terms, actually toxic in terms of influencing voting bases. Shame on you.
Just look at the public voting records of Congress going back ages, and see how Dems (warts and all) actually do the right thing most of the time. Decade after decade…
When people bang their drums upon ‘money playing a part of politics’ being outrageous, unexpected and ‘breaking the system,’ what they’re really saying is that they fundamentally don’t understand capitalism… the very system they grew up in.
“Both sides being the same” is beyond an idiotic, false narrative, and any decent history or political scholar can tell you just that. It’s the message of dictators and oligarchs really, upon close examination.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 3 weeks ago:
They’re also owned by big money as much as the Republicans.
Idiotic takes like that are as much of the problem as anything else.
Holy hell, the number of know-nothings who upvoted that nonsense…
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 3 weeks ago:
XD
Have it your way, laddie.And may it shine your way forward upon the rest of your life, lol.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 3 weeks ago:
Well, then… you can pick better battles than this, can’t you, upon someone who was already in your corner upon gender?
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 3 weeks ago:
Eh, you know what?
DisengageI’ll just tell you hwat, though– I’m open to talking to you in other circumstances, in which you’re not so incredibly hot & bothered as you seem to be upon AI. I mean, I’m sure you have interesting things to say upon lots of matters.
No offense intended, but you seem like a young man, spittin’ fire, which is… pretty much on point, right? And I don’t mean that as a put-down, mate… I mean, we’ve all kinda been there, yeah.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, okay. Guess I’ll have to avoid making chili in those places, then.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
Oh! What I meant is, I thought Kbin went down sometime back, and got merged in to Mbin, or something like that.
My comment wasn’t adding anything useful, in any case, so please do disregard. Just shows what I know. :S
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 3 weeks ago:
Huh. So in what context would there be misted mineral oil in the air? Like in a factory or workshop..?
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
That depends on the layout of duties for any particular site / instance.
When Sunaurus spoke of “vile content,” I got the sense that yes, he had to deal with too much of that horrible shit, plus much more.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
A well-constructed site also has a huge amount of work put in to its design and functionality. Its a job that requires a lot of discretion, compromise, and adapting to the best interests of the users… all things which aren’t necessarily obvious. So really, there’s at least three absolutely vital job areas:
- Backend and maintenance
- Ongoing site design
- Moderation and PR
It’s so, so easy to underestimate how much and varied the work is going to be when you’re high on enthusiasm.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
Whoops?
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll take your word for it, as I don’t have that specific experience.
What I’m still exploring is how to get the best out of GPT while working around its limitations. I try to avoid putting it in positions in which it has a chance to hallucinate, and am trying to train it towards a bias towards stating uncertainty where it might not be absolutely sure.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
i remember his unwillingness to defederate with basically anyone, hard to say if that played a role.
Good and interesting point. And a small anecdote: I was running my community there at the time, and once, after I posted an extract from a book which examined internal disputes between Israelis, we immediately got ‘jumped’ by a gang of toxic HexBear users, rabidly trying to twist the discussion into an overall condemnation of Israel. Now I probably would have agreed with much of what they said in other circumstances, but they were just such obnoxious assholes about the whole thing that we wound up banning most of them.
If Sunaurus had to deal with stuff like that on the regular, then I pity the fool… (famous Mr. T quote)
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 3 weeks ago:
Sunaurus (what an awesome bloke), stated several times from early-on that the site received a considerable amount of “vile” content of one type or another, and heavily implied that it was serious drag on the admin team. Later, he said very publicly that he was quite burned out having to deal with that and other issues, and was going to try to focus on the backend, leaving the then-current admin team to deal with the daily operations stuff.
Unfortunately, it seems they essentially got burned out too, with no useful volunteers to step up. It’s a damn shame to me, since it was such an incredibly well-run and curated site otherwise, but it sounds like the amount of toxic users were too much too handle, in the end. Altho frankly, I’m not really sure why Lemm.ee (the 3rd-biggest Lemmy instance at the time) evidently received so much of that shit compared to others.
I happen to have a long history in web forums going back ~25yrs, and for sure I’ve seen site runners absolutely overwhelmed by trying to run both the backend and frontend. Beyond a certain traffic point, at minimum there needs to be two people to strike any healthy balance, with as many useful helpers as possible, as the site expands. Sadly (and typically) almost every person involved in staff is an amateur of one type or another, so sites can also kind of implode due to internal squabbles.
All this hobbyist site-running stuff involving large interactive userbases is usually a lot more challenging than it might seem on the surface.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 3 weeks ago:
Not an expert here, but food-grade mineral oil is safe for cutting surfaces from every source I’ve read. It’s even commonly used as a laxative.
Meanwhile, from what I gather, walnut oil has a comparatively long shelf life, but it does eventually go rancid, leaving an off smell. But it may be that yearly oiling makes that a relatively moot point, with the new covering the old.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 4 weeks ago:
…yet trust them so adamantly in this moment to manage your very relationship with information.
That simply isn’t the case, whether or not you choose to believe it, or tot it up on the massive axe you obviously have to grind in these matters. For whatever reasons, you’re choosing to lump me in to a group of people I never belonged to in the first place, which is a -you- problem, and not mine.
And no, GPT is certainly not my primary learning aid upon French. In fact, it’s one of about half a dozen tools I use, which I’m constantly cross-checking against each other for accuracy, forming an overall highly-useful ‘teacher’ of sorts. So when you lead with that pedantic little bit of fluff, what you’re really telling me is that you have no idea what you’re talking about. You seem to see these things in highly binary terms, once again a “you” problem.
Yeah sure, bonne année and cheers, mate.