kozel

@kozel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you compress text files by mapping a word to how commonly it is used and translating it with an application?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To get the data, search “frequency list (of English)”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I found it in my feed and didn’t check the sub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it may be a reaction to present Denmark’s efforts to ban burning of qurans. (They would also ban burning of bibles, but the main reason are qurans.) However, the meme is wrong in many ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Grip the bread vertically to your chest.
  2. Start cutting in direction from the front to the back.
  3. Slowly rotate the bread, so you cut the crust only in one point (the tip of the knive moves through already cut bread).

  It may be easier to see it with a short knive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In czech, we have a phrase “jak sa kráje chleba” (same way as a bread is sliced). Problem is, that (at least in my social group) nobody knows, wether it means clockwise or anticlockwise, as everybody slices the bread differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just find (in wiktionary) the word “moonwise”, meaning antisunwise/counterclockwise. But the moon moves the same way as the sun does. So is there some deeper meaning based off of some long-term patterns in lunar movement, or is it just simple antagonism sun×moon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh, just a hint of an accent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As a west Slav (Moravian) myself, I’m usually able to distinguish these two, especially in written form. The meme shows the characteristics of polish quite realistically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh, just a hint of an accent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Once I met a Slovak guy with clearly polish surname, so I asked him wether he had polish ancestors. He genuinely didn’t get why would I think something like that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to dispose of dirty polyethylene?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I might try to compost it (and than separate the plastic and soil), unless I find better sollution, but I’m a bit afraid of animals messing it out from the composter.

  Local trash company recycles the plastics (at least they claim so). I’ve also writtern them an e-mail, but I don’t really expect to get an answer from them.

• How to dispose of dirty polyethylene?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Olé⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Antic roman hope.