I have two chimps within, Laziness and Hyperactivity. They smoke cigs, drink yerba, fling shit at each other, and devour the face of anyone who gets close to either.
They also devour my dreams.
Pretty unique: the “blocky” looks are a lot like Latin/Cyrillic, the contextual forms Arabic, and the voiced vs. voiceless correspondence reminds me Hangul and the kana. And yet it doesn’t “feel” off even with the mix (on the contrary, it feels like something real), and it looks really cool.
What are the rules for all three readings? I.e. are [d t t̚] word-initial, medial, and final?
[François] The revived people of South America helped me to learn it [Spanish]
Things like this are the ones that make me like the least this part of the series. It shows how much they rushed research.
There’s no way they’d learn Spanish in Araxá, most of the population there speaks Portuguese. In fact, I don’t even know why they decided to mine niobium there, if they entered SA through the Amazon river delta; for reference they’re further from each other (2000km) than Berlin from Moscow. Plus there are niobium deposits in the Amazon basin, smaller and less profitable but still enough for their purposes.
And the whole idea of going to Catalunya feels silly. There are some fluorite deposits in Sant Cugat del Vallès but they’d need to walk something like 15km from the coast, on a rather hilly terrain. Transport is hard. There are better deposits in Asturias, by the coast, but no olives. But you know, where there are fluorite deposites near the coast? And olives? Tunisia. Plus dates; amazing travel food, tasty even if dried for long-term storage, and with a high caloric content. I should stop chewing on those everyday, though. They certainly don’t help with my weight.
Those things don’t make me say “bleeergh, I’ll drop it!”, but come on… it’s a stain in a series that shone because of all the research behind it. Granted, mostly Chemistry, but still.
If you develop some feature (or bug!) of course some people will find a decent way to use it. That doesn’t mean the feature should be there on first place, specially when the possibility of abuse is so obvious. Plus if the pressure behind this anti-feature was “only” single page applications, and nothing else, I bet it would be implemented in a different way.
Also, look at the big picture. In isolation, one could argue giving pages access to your browsing history was a necessary albeit poorly thought feature; but when you look at other stuff browsers nowadays are supposed to do, you notice a pattern:
Are you noticing it? All those “features” are somewhat useful, but with such obvious room for abuse it would be insane to add them, in retrospect. And that abuse is usually from money hoarders, or people controlled by them.
Worse: all of them crammed into what was supposed to be a system to show you content, but eventually got bloated into a development platform, transforming browsers into those bloody abominations of nowadays, with a huge barrier of entry, dominated by a single vendor (and where the vassal of said vendor got ~3% market share). I’d say that not having a monopoly is more important than all those features together.
And odds are the ones pushing for those features (like Google) knew they were insane, and that they would raise the barrier of entry for new browsers. But that was their goal, innit? Enshittify the web while claiming control over it.
Mass nouns get no S
More accurately, a mass noun cannot be assigned a grammatical number. For example, compare
Asterisk means “agrammatical”. #1 shows “bread” is a mass noun, and #2 shows “sheep” isn’t, even if “sheep” doesn’t accept the ⟨s⟩. (It’s just a weird plural.)
…that said I think your take is bad. “Countability” is rather unstable, specially if there’s some semantic pressure to keep both the countable and uncountable meanings. That applies to “mail”; in fact the word used to be only countable. (It meant “bag”. Nowadays that meaning is archaic, but still.) Add dialectal variation (e.g. Indian English speakers seem to be rather fond of using “mail” as a countable noun) and language interference, and the whole thing becomes an “I only accept when people use a language the same way as I do!”.
Nah. The medium interacts with the message, shapes it, but it is not the message itself.
Single page applications are only a necessity because pages are expected to be huge behemoths, so requesting a new page would take too long and put a burden on the server. And that is mostly the result of corporations bloating their sites with advertisement, to the point our expectations on what’s an acceptable page size became distorted.
(Note Angular was released by Google in 2016, and the anti-feature is from 2015. I don’t think this is a coincidence.)
I’ll expand here what I mentioned in another comm.
Most back button hijacking relies on the browser history API. Further info here: “The replaceState() method of the History interface modifies the current history entry, replacing it with the state object and URL passed in the method parameters.”
So for example. You visited site A, then site B. Your browser stores this as “user went A then B”, so if you click the “back” button while navigating B, it sends you back to A. However Javascript in the site B can tell your browser “no, the user didn’t visit A then B. They visited C then B”. So as you click “back” you’re sent to a third site you never visited.
Why is this anti-feature there on first place? Why are sites even allowed to interact with your history? Because corporations really, really, really want to know your browsing history: which sites are directing traffic to it site, which pages within that site you visited (imagine those pages show you products you might potentially buy), so goes on. It has practically no reason to exist for non-commercial sites. Now remember Google is a corporation, it profits the most from advertisement, and has a role in the web standards, and you’ll notice Google was at least partially responsible for this anti-feature.
And now, the same Google is using its monopoly over search to dictate which should be the rules for the usage of the anti-feature it added. As if the internet was Google’s property: it’s who decides which features should be on the internet, and how you’re allowed to use them.
Moral of the story is: even if it looks like Google is doing something good, remember they were responsible for this mess on first place.
Wow. I checked both; the first seems to be an abridged version of the second video, that left me genuinely impressed. AI or not AI, it’s well damn made propaganda: depicting Trump’s allies as clowns, showing his allegiance is to the Zionist State of Israel instead of USA, catchy song, they even call him a cuck and say “talk real big for a man with tiny hands, tiny hands, tiny things, tiny everything” (Trump throws hissy fits if someone reminds him he has a tiny dick).
It’s doing a lot in three minutes: mocking the people in power in USA, throwing Trump’s base against him (note the ones spamming “cuck lol lmao” are usually the right, not the left), and even souring relations between USA and Israel.
It shows how well prepared Iran was to this war.
“Upon review, we’ve terminated the channel for violating our Spam, deceptive practices and scams policies,” a YouTube spokesperson told Middle East Eye.
I swear, the amount of times I’ve been saying “cut off the crap” while reading the news… Google as typical calling everyone stupid by proxy. Because yes, when people (or corporations) expect you to swallow a blatant lie, that’s what they’re calling you, stupid.
I hope this stuff has been uploaded elsewhere, and that Streisand effect goes full force.
You think the hardest part was convincing Purson? Pfffft. That isn’t even the start of their troubles!!!
I guess I think of Bertia as the MC, even though Cecil is supposed to be the MC.
Cecil is the main character, but Bertia is the protagonist.
People often use both interchangeably, because they often refer to the same character, but here I think the distinction is useful:
This distinction is also something you see in spin-offs: the protagonist is usually the same as in the original series, but the MC is a different one. And this series plays a lot like a spin-off to an inexistent main series, since you’re following the love interest instead of the otome villainess.
And also in Sono Bisque Doll, at least at the start (Marin as the protag, Gojō as the MC). Later on it becomes a mess, and likely on purpose.
So far I’m pleasantly surprised with this adaptation. And the “we’re going to have a baby” scene, goddammit I laughed hard in real life at it, I don’t remember doing so while reading the manga!
Seeing Garfiel crash was very emotional
Specially as Reala thinks he’s just missing his mother, when he knows she is his mother.
And, like. We take Garfiel as more mature than he really is, as he’s physically well developed, but the poor guy is just a teen.
And in this episode, he was selling dirty mags to the boys too!
I ended watching the series anyway, even with all that AI controversy. Not a big deal, but still considering to drop it anyway.
@[email protected] summed it up rather well. I can deal with visual issues (I’ve watched Hoshi no Samidare, for all that matters!), but I hate when they ruin a good story.
Myne and Maomao forced me to wait to throw this season’s stuff into a backlog, so I’m watching this episode right now.
So far I’m really liking the adaptation. They did a really great job setting up Veor as the cruel and ruthless barbarian, and Serafina as a war prisoner that will suffer unthinkable acts… only to undo those expectations later on.
Back button hijacking wouldn’t be a problem on first place if the HTML standard (ooopsie, HTML plus JS plus CSS plus kitchen sink!) wasn’t such a bloated mess because of corporations like Google, who tried (and managed) to make the internet more corporation-friendly and thus user-hostile, while raising the barrier of entry for browsers.
So, Google is pretending to solve the problem itself was [partially] responsible for creating. And, in the process, it can control the web from both sides, right? As both the one “graciously” granting the cattle/users access, and the one dictating its access.
For a start: a lot of those rely on the browser history API. Sites should not be granted the ability to manipulate your browser’s navigation at all, be it through JS or smoke signs or whatever. Why is this capability there on first place dammit.
The question it raises is if this is the fake surge, the one we see, what is the real one we don’t see? Renewable energy comes to mind. Robotics too but maybe that’s too tied up with AI.
Gotta love HN reasoning skills. /s
The text itself says the real surge: it’s the digital one, that started in 1971.
I don’t think the series is inappropriate at all. Like, even if I had children and saw one of them reading this series, I wouldn’t mind it.
There are quite a few manga and anime that have inappropriate relations between teachers and students, but this one gets singled out (even if it’s not that inappropriate, looking at your comment)?
Bingo. I know plenty of those, and even read one or two of them; I don’t think it’s morally bad, because it’s all fiction. But I do get pissed at this sort of double standard, where I get to enjoy even raunchy things and other people can’t enjoy even inoffensive things because they happen to be gay, fuck this shit. (Sorry for the swearing, it isn’t targetted at you, I’m just angry.)
Yes, yes, greyed out. Of course. HN upvotes anything that has to do with AI, except when it clashes with their nationalism.
…it’s weird how Iran isn’t just “beating” Karenland’s Reich, it’s sweeping the floor with it.