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> In any case, my pet peeve is people expecting speakers of English to accommodate foreign sounds, but not extending the same ask to foreign speakers who often mangle English name sounds just as much.

You fail to understand most of the world use international English where nobody really cares about correct pronunciation, but about understanding each other and only small minority of English users are nowadays native English speakers, one could say it's questionable nowadays what is the correct pronunciation (intended original use changed), so it would be quite foolish to insist on correct pronunciation in international enviroment.

I don't think same can be said about English native speakers who usually don't speak even second language and can't go their way to at least pronounce few names correctly, while rest of the world is learning whole other language, not just pronunciation of bunch of names.

Agreed with your pinyin commnets.
It's free. There used to be a radio licence, but it was discontinued once the income from the TV licence was enough. B&W licences are only for B&W TVs and are now rare.
This is my favorite radio!

Originaly called BBC Empire Service it is targeted toward a global audience. I like that the news are much less US/EU focused than the usual media I consume.

I sometimes find out that their top stories are events that our news don't report much on, because they happen - say - in Gabon.
Reading this, I would actually tune into Eurosport knowing I can watch with minimal commentary - I know commentary brings some people a lot of structure but I find the events impossible to take in with somebody talking over it.
The source the Guardian links to is showing the outlook for July 31 - August 4, while the embedded image and article appear to be talking about July 25 - July 31. Before noticing the dates I'd thought the article was simply wrong and was using outdated data, it's just that next week is forecast to be cooler than this week.

Edit: And then right after posting I notice the date range is actually embedded in the image, July 29 - August 2, Thursday to Monday. At least the first part of the article does seem to be mostly based on outdated data, the outlook now showing much cooler than the snapshot in the article for most of the same days.
Sorry bud, but it's not "unthoughtful" to discount your opinions. I, and apparently a good percentage of the site, have considered them, found them fruitless, and tire of the arguments.

Your beliefs are incorrect. You can think what you want of course, but there comes a point where nobody needs to care what you say.
In fact, if we stopped emitting entirely tomorrow, things would get much worse very quickly for a few years, due to the aerosol masking effect. Basically we're actually emitting so much that our pollution is blocking out some of the heat from the sun - remove the pollution and now we have all of the greenhouse gases we had before still in the atmosphere, but we're getting the full amount of heat from the sun. Explained much better here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cl3ger/z/evsoc1g
A webpage would convey the same information in a fraction of the time and bandwidth, but he is right, Apple’s policies around the butterfly keyboard fiasco and flex gate are despicable, and they are going to be resolved via class-action lawsuits eventually, but at a huge cost and aggravation for customers, and no small reputations damage for Apple.
You can't anonymously hold a domain in any *TLD. Yes, even in freenom's TLDs (you're not a domain holder with free domains)
Oh, definitely. But I think how interesting those are doesn't depend on those niches existing, it's an independent quality.
You're arguing that it's not a big to deal to kick asteroids onto orbits intersecting with Earth's because in the past Earth also was hit by asteroids.
First World problems here guys.
Sorry but this is absolutely impossible to implement in any second/third world country with high crime rates.
Please, don't misunderstand me, but everybody here should take a walk in the suburbs of any South American country to be convinced otherwise.
Anyway I admire the noble idea of the creator of this article.
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I'm not going to knock Tesla for trying a primarily visual-only approach, but I will knock them for insisting that it will work out to level 4 autonomous driving with just software.

I predict that these kinds of unexpected edge cases will keep popping up for several years. It certainly will be interesting to see how robust their image processing algorithms get as time goes on, but I wouldn't hold my breath for reliable full self driving for a while.
> Like the rule that you have to set min-width to 0 or something to get the desired behavior.

Thank you, you're my savior. This is exactly the problem I had on Friday and now I can finally solve it.
IMO the politics and team tactics/antics are part of the fun.

It’d be boring real quick if they’d make it 21 time trials…
It is more than this, too. It is called climate change for other reasons, and that is because while the global, overall, average temperature will rise, local temps could drop, or even stay the same!

Say we have a 3C temp rise, global average. Some places could have a 10C increase, others a -5C decrease average!

Look at coastal areas, like British Columbia, while inland the temps drop quickly. Or the British isles.

Ocean currents bring warm water north, keeping these places warm, but the currents could reverse! Or vanish!

Now you have temp drops, but in a local region, even with overall 3C rises...

I guess my point is, localized events mean almost nothing. The true tragedy of climate change is that by the time we can really verify it is happening, it will already have happened.

And some areas will have incredibly dramatic climate changes, others almost none. Think 10C average warmer, including for heat waves.

Edit: just realised you sorta said this, just in a different way. Will leave this here regardless.
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But, you need to write the hard thing once. In a 10 line wrapper function and then call that function from everywhere.

sql_query($db,$sql,$params);

Problem solved.

I guess every PHP developer writes a bunch of these wrapper functions for common sql tasks before he starts his work.
I've often wondered why the apostrophe causes so much trouble, sometimes I think the mistake is made deliberately to seek attention (like the sign in the article). I say this because I was always way down low near the bottom of the list when they handed out the English marks at school. Thus, if anything I should be among those who keep putting it in the wrong place!

That said, I often mistype its and it's when I mean vice versa, and occasionally its' but I usually pick them up on a proofing of what I've written. Occasionally, I miss one that I've posted online and I'm quite mortified if I am unable to correct it. (It's important to use the apostrophe correctly because its misuse distracts readers from the text they're reading.)

I can even remember the day in primary school when we were taught how to use the apostrophe. The day was unusually pleasant and we had our lesson outside in the playground. The teacher taught us what I think has to be one of the simplest rules in English grammar and that's the use of the possessive apostrophe, which is to just ask the question who or what owns something, and that's where you place it.

A single boy owns a book, so it's the boy's book; multiple boys own a boat so it's the boys' boat. Pretty simple really.

Its and it's is a bit more confusing but if you've forgotten the rules all you do is to see if you can substitute it is.

For me, the most grating misuse of the apostrophe is when it is used to indicate plural such as I have many orange's. Some rules are a bit confusing and some have changed over time but they're few and far between. For example, there's an old building of Victorian vintage in a town near me that's called Kiss's Building, today we'd shorten that to Kiss' Building.

So what gives? Why do so many people find the apostrophe so difficult?
I don't know, seems like a reasonable compromise to explain what changes they made?
One might almost say that the belly of the dragon will drip water.
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Tokyo Olympics is a disaster overall.
> they participate in a sports competition

they should understand that all sports competition has an element of showmanship and display - after all, the viewers make the sport possible.

Sports competition isnt something with intrinsic value that can exist in a vacuum. If the audience desires certain types of show, they get it, or the competition makes no money and cannot continue.
No. Frequency of conditions intense enough to constitute ‘a disaster’ has gone up.
How is it useful if it does not expand our understanding of the world? What use does it have?
> It is not that people in rest of the world or rest of USA are less smart on average. It is that they live in a system in which some form of oppression exists if someone higher up in the food chain learns of their success and starts beating them down so they...

... move to California. Well, at least I did ;).
> And yet, the vaccine doesn't keep you from getting the disease, nor does it keep you from spreading the disease.

Binary yes/no statements like this are basically disinformation. COVID vaccines are _neither_ perfect, not useless.

We know that various COVID vaccines are effective, in the range of 60-90% against getting and spreading and being very ill, which is actually very good compared to many other vaccines.
I think the poster is argumenting that even if you recognize it as pure fiction, it still affects you emotionally as if real, at least a little bit.
That link was a very frustrating read hahaha

> Additionally, pip would not be able to guarantee recreating the same environment (install the exact same dependencies) as it is outside the scope of its functionality.

Well then, maybe fix it? Because clearly it’s an issue? A good chunk of that explanation really reads like “ehhhh, can’t really be bothered fixing this”, which makes sense given the Python devs approach to the last couple of Python versions: no fixes for anything important, just more half-baked features nobody asked for.
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this is the PHP bashing thread for this week, enoy ;-)
Learning flexbox is when CSS started clicking for me. I may abuse `display: flex` everyone once in a while, but it can truly be used for a lot of ideas.
yeah, we've got soft fabric sensors and the bone conduction speakers are amazingly small. We're still working on comfort with our prototypes - but we're getting pretty good.

Our industrial design firm has nocked it out of the park with design, and we think there stuff will have a huge impact on comfort. Still needs to be tried.
> Still, cars are everywhere. There are just tons of trips where the alternative doesn’t really make sense.

The obvious alternative is a car sharing platform. I've got a couple in my neighborhood and they work for the kind of trip you're describing.
That is interesting, I can’t think how else to pronounce the word-initial “t”s in something like “Tu jest carrefour, a tu jest kurwa jeż” (a phrase that has entered the canon of my friend group) any other way, I wonder if I’m already saying it unaspirated.

:D
> That said, I still wonder why -ui was chosen for "wei", "shi" is pronounced "shr"

Shi is pronounced Shr? That sounds more like your typical pirate Beijing hua. Which can get quite confusing when you get out of Beijing to let's say to Shanghai business trip and you can't figure if something cost 4 or 10 kuai at street vendor (my personal anecdote, I think they actually do it on purpose since normally 4 would have very different sound).
I'm not actually sure how recent this is. Clicking through the Wayback Machine for their FAQ (http://web.archive.org/web/20150813135145/https://www.haiku-...), it looks like they've shipped the 32-bit versions with both GCC 2 and a newer version since at least 2015, starting with GCC 4 and getting newer as the years passed.
He's also supported by people who believe in empiricism. If it feels like everything is terrible, I suggest watching less news.
This is an excellent article with great simple tips, like highlighting most Calculator apps' hex mode and the mile-counter analogy. Great work by the author.
English has a couple of pure examples: 'Mrs' and 'Nth' I can think of.

You can extend this with exclamations/onomatopoeia (eg: 'hmm', 'shh', 'brr'), but can see that these are not 'normal words'.
> we can't feasibly just remove cars workout replacing them with something

This isn't really true though.

Firstly just as "banning smoking" hasn't really meant banning smoking—people still smoke—being anti-car doesn't mean eliminating car ownership.

In a pro-car world, if I'm a developer building a shopping centre one of my primary considerations is parking. Immediately I need maybe over triple the area of land to build, or significant increase in investment if I'm going underground. Both of these options limit me severely in where I can build: I'll go for an area with cheaper land value, and larger land areas available. Access is further down my list of concerns.

In an anti-car world, I build my shopping centre where people live. Many can walk there. There's a greater array of existing public transport already servicing it (and density means such services are likely to be improved w/out the need for lobbying). Some cycle there. Proximity means visits are more likely to be shorter & more frequent: this increases turnover of parking spaces for the much-smaller number of people who do still need to drive.

There are countless other similar examples of problems that solve themselves when car infrastructure is removed from the equation. Yes we need other solutions in some cases, but just removing cars is enough of a "solution" in itself in many cases.

What people don't realise about cars is that car infrastructure already causes so many problems we've just internalised and accepted as norms. An anti-car approach benefits from those problems being solved implicitly.
What are the "rights reasons" exactly?
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In Tokyo, some young people now tend to think that not to have car is cool (that's now concern for big car brands). Just curious is there similar thought in Europe or other urbans.

Suspected reasons: car isn't ecological, is obviously dangerous and takes responsibility, isn't so useful because there are great public transport (unless have children), or sour grapes because salary in japan is low compared to car price and parking in Tokyo.
Residential and business rent can be disconnected. Isn't that what happened in SF? Massive oversupply of one because they're not interchangeable.

In Kansas City there are some highly gentrified city neighborhoods but then a block or two away a bunch of old warehouse-type factory buildings for rent.
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2231434-eu-draft-exempts-...

This came out around July 6th, only 20 days ago. I remember the thread (can't seem to find it right now).

Funny how the perception has evolved from "the rich with leisure-craft are the only ones who get to avoid paying a carbon tax on their emissions" to "this is the first time they are taxed, look at the progress being made"
> forcing everyone to become renters.

That's scary. First they made starting/running small businesses hard through regulations or by cutting prices so small businesses can't survive. Essentially making everyone employees. Now, this is entirely new level, make it impossible for average Joe to buy a house. That's extreme capitalism at work for you.

What I fail to understand is why people put up with these kind of things, which are obviously against their interest.
I've been reading for years now articles saying that Tether isn't properly backed like they claim.

If that's both true and widely known, who's buying the Tether? The supply's increased from $4 billion-ish to $60 billion-ish over a year.

For that matter, even if the NY AG's claim that Tether was lying is bunk, and Tether is solvent, who wants to bet so big on the US dollar given the Fed's money printing and Congressional spending? It should be pretty clear the dollar's headed for weakness if not an outright crash, and you should put your money into limited-supply crypto like BTC/ETH, gold, or equity in productive businesses. (Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. Even it was, taking investment advice from some random person in an HN comment thread would still probably be a bad idea.)

Who's buying all those Tethers? What motive do they have to buy them, if there's all this buzz talking about how Tether's a scam? Even if Tether isn't a scam, how do you within the space of a year find $50 billion in the hands of people financially literate enough to know what crypto is and how to use something other than BTC / ETH, but financially illiterate enough to put tens of billions into a long USD bet? Isn't that a good way to lose your shirt simply due to macro-economic fundamentals?

I don't get it.
Doesn't heat dome sound way more sensational?
Hard to convince people to take a wolf seriously with decades of crying about it. In fact, at this point, we are all voting for the wolf.
Well, I guess the full empirical approach would involve a lot of betting and prediction markets?

If you watch or read any business news, people always readily invent just-so stories about why the stock market moved this way or that. So that's the effect you are describing in full effect.

But making many (hopefully successful) predictions in a row is a good yardstick to keep yourself honest buy. See also Slatestarcodex's annual predictions and scoring. Or Bryan Caplan's string of bets.

(Btw, as long as you are not trying to outguess the markets, it's almost too easy to make mostly successful predictions: just predict whatever the market predicts.)
She won deservedly. And it was very entertaining.

But there was luck involved, and in 99% of the cases, it’d be terrible advice and strategy to count on a major communications breakdown within the team of top favorites and (apparently) within the organization of the race themselves?

“Strategy” is one of those words that’s used way too much in hindsight.
LOL point taken.
That's a good point. I meant that we don't want to only look at the past and compare if we are better or worse, but rather focus on always improving.
Weird hacks your business will hopefully never deal with
Native Chinese speaker (though not linguist) here.

For "q" and "ch", both are valid pinyin. "ch" in pinyin is actually the same as "ch" in English in terms of pronunciation. "q" in pinyin doesn't have a equivalent in English so it is just "q", which is similar to "q" but not really.
Sounds like you dodged a bullet. Just remember that these sorts of companies will miss out on hiring some excellent talent, who will go on to be hired by their competition.

"Go work, go broke" stands true.
> there wasn't a U letter in Latin

Yup they used V for both. This is probably why German (and then Polish) uses W instead of V - to distinguish it from U.
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I love abusing flexbox.
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How "just ban" won't work: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/world/europe/france-fuel-...
You’re not wrong. Eating well and training hard is also racing 101.

But that has nothing to do with having a better strategy.
This is a common theme in these kind of analyses (even used in economics!) but often the ratio of false positives is sufficiently low for it to not matter enough.
I am surprised Rust doesn't lean into the type system more for declaring async, as I really like that way of framing it. Admittedly, I'm probably not writing ```impl Future<Output = Result<(), Report>> + 'a``` all that much in practice.

I like fasterthanlime's writeups but it does have one particular bugbear for me, that seems particularly common for Rust (and Python, to be fair) feature writeups: environment-based yak shaving because the author likes the mostly-unrelated library <X>. The very first thing that happens if I try to reproduce this code is a build error for cargo-edit, which is totally unrelated to the feature being taught, yet if I wanted to follow the writeup, I'd have to fix it.

I do really have this bugbear, particularly with Rust tutorials
Romanian has the opposite oddity: we have whole words made up of vowels, with a proper sentence like that: "Aia e o oaie" ("that is a sheep", pronounced roughly 'ah-ya ye awe wa-ye').
I can find the full opening ceremony on Youtube, uploaded by Eurosport. I assume you're in the UK and that video isn't shown to you because of that?
You have to buy the rights to cover the Olympic games (which I've always found strange - how do you stop someone from reporting what happened in the world?), and these rights are sold by country. The BBC isn't going to buy the rights for every country just for people to listen to the BBC outside the UK
You don't get what you pay for. Plenty of high-prized scams around.
because it's serious if it's a web server?
By using the brain as clipboard between book, eyes and keyboard.
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That's somewhat putting the cart before the horse. In high-density areas, the existence of cars & car-supporting infrastructure are active barriers to public transport improvement.

If there's any genuine desire for improvement in public transport in the US, a holistic approach has to be on the table. Anything else is just an excuse not to bother.
Not enough, we need burqas too.
That person would be acting as if only a binary "100% spreads virus" vs "100% doesn't spread virus" is possible/relevant.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

> A growing body of evidence indicates that people fully vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) are less likely to have asymptomatic infection or to transmit SARS-CoV-2 to others.
If I remember well, the opening ceremony of London olympics wasn't available on YouTube at that time either, I kind of remember searching for it at the time...