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Surely you mean B43 heh.

Those binds all work on this version btw! I automatically did b43o2,,,o3o4o5 and got everything I wanted

Do you mean the short-term memory needed to apply the commutators or the conjugates? Otherwise you only really need to "memorize" the steps of the method.

I learned this method around 10 years ago, and I can still solve the cube without applying any memorized algorithms because of it. It really is the only fun way for me to solve the cube after all this time.

The Heise method might be a great fit for you. Unlike most methods, it requires no memorization. And, unlike most methods that require no algs, it can be quite fast. AND it forces you to learn about how the cube actually works and to think in commutators and conjugates: https://www.ryanheise.com/cube/heise_method.html

I suspect what you're saying could definitely be a phenomenon. However, in this case, I think it's just a matter of domain and context.

I speak both English and Spanish natively, however, I'm more comfortable in English when talking about e.g. technology and music. On the other hand, I'm more comfortable in Spanish when talking about math, feelings, etc.

As you can probably already tell, it's not like math and feelings are very related. It's just that I've probably been more exposed to those things in Spanish than in English. Same goes for technology and music topics, I've just been exposed to them in English a lot more than in Spanish.

Btw, I also had to write a dissertation in Spanish and I, too, had trouble with it, hah.

Hmm, I may be misreading your comments in this thread but it sounds like you're not okay with languages simply... evolving?

You are aware that importing words is a thing, right? Even if equivalent words already exist. It's perfectly normal and even healthy for a language to do so.

To me, pullear and deployar are just a lot more clear and there's no ambiguity. "Desplegar" would not be very meaningful to me in the context of my work.

It's all about clarity in my mind and condescension really has nothing to do with it.

You discover this early on when picking up a language. It's so pervasive and so annoying for language learners but I can understand why it happens.

If you're learning a language, CC are p much the way to go

It's been mostly reduced to free software projects channels/networks and just semi-private channels for groups of friends who've been on IRC for years now. So #archlinux, #dolphin-emu, #python, ##machinelearning, etc. all on Freenode are pretty active.

There's some hobby and subreddit related channels too. Like ##chess, and #rubik.

Other than that, the language learning community was surprisingly very active years ago, so it's still kinda alive. Language-specific channels like ##deutsch, ##espanol, etc. on Freenode are kinda alive. There's also ##learnanylanguage.

You just have to love Stephen Merity.

His work on QRNN's saved me quite a bit of time and money when I was doing my undergrad dissertation on language models.

This SHA-RNN seems to have surfaced from a similar line of thinking that spawned the QRNN.

Pretty sure the author is a he.

I'm assuming the dating pool is already not huge. Reducing it further by trying to find another foreigner to date would just make it really hard to find a partner.

It'd be cool see some stats for the results people get. I'm sure a lot of people are taking the quiz right now. Could we find what makes people procrastinate most often?

Spoiler, I got 'lack of value' and for some reason I bet it's gonna be a winner, at least when it comes to the HN userbase

Aside from V-2 already commented on, I'd like to add that spelling mistakes such as

"it's" as a possessive

are mostly native-speaker exclusive. Your/you're, there/their, etc. spelling mistakes you just don't see non native speakers make. This is because they're just that, spelling mistakes.

So while native speakers know what they mean but it's just associated with a sound in their head, they just write out that sound. Non natives on the other hand usually think about the grammar, the right word, etc. I don't think I've ever met a non-native speaker that makes the there/their mistake e.g.

In case you missed the recommendation below, I'm gonna go ahead and second the GZCLP suggestion. It's much better than 5x5 and SS, deals with plateaus better and you can have more fun with it!

There's a subreddit for it and similar routines created by the same guy, too: /r/gzcl

It only requires 3 days/week at the gym and around 1hr per day

Off the top of my head, most romance languages. You could argue some German dialects as well, Japanese, etc.

Maybe even Chinese depending on your definition of 'vowel'. Are you talking phonemes or actual phones?

English has ~17 vowels, which isn't the most a language has, but that's quite a few

Author profiling comes to mind as well

I agree both you and the parent, I don't think you're disagreeing, you're just talking about different things. You're talking about the historical distinction, the parent is talking about how things are nowadays.[0]

I found the article a bit disingenuous since you need to know what the Uerdingen line is and its context to understand what they're saying, since the divide isn't quite what it used to be.

[0] http://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/runde-2/f25c/

They controlled for that by having about as many fraternal twins in this study, though.

It's particularly surprising to me that they got very similar results with regards to discrepancy between fraternal and identical twins when testing again at a later age.

which has generally been refuted by linguists in recent years

The strong version has been refuted, the 'soft' version is pretty well accepted among linguists.

ßẞ means a very specific sound that’s separate from s, and from ss

Kinda. ⟨ss⟩ and ⟨ß⟩ are both /s/, ⟨s⟩ being /z/ for contrast, but they do affect how you read the preceding vowel.

La eliminación de los dígrafos ch y ll del inventario de letras del abecedario no supone, en modo alguno, que desaparezcan del sistema gráfico del español.

Important distinction to make. They are still part of written Spanish. To be completely honest I didn't even know they were part of the alphabet before and I wouldn't know how that affects everyday life.

The capital Eszett is a new letter that (almost literally) no one used before

Maybe someone could automate a way to compare tests made on e.g. Netflix' speed test site[0] and speedtest[1]. If there's a huge discrepancy, then it'd be fair to conclude that the ISP is throttling specific connections.

[0] https://fast.com

[1] https://speedtest.net

Die Technik hat sich seitdem zwar verbessert, die Methoden sie zu knacken aber wiederum auch.

Is what it was trying to translate, not sure where you/it got 'rumgeilt' from.

A more natural sounding translation would be:

The technology has improved since then, but, on the other hand, so have the methods to crack it

You could also translate 'wiederum' as 'in turn' which might exlain the 'turn' in Google's translation.

Yes, exactly. Learning a foreign language not widely spoken outside of Europe, while also taking college-level math and science courses is a high barrier to entry

Obligatory "anecdote isn't data" but as someone in a third world country who seriously considered studying in Germany, the language learning aspect was the least of my worries. I got to a B2 proficiency level in around a year and to C1/C2 within a year of that (for context: you need B1 to apply for citizenship and C1 to apply to higher education programs in German).

Getting the 9k, plus flight expenses, all the paperwork expenses was what proved to be impossible; in reality you need around 12k. It was all too much. I had no way of getting that amount of money.

In the end I decided to stay and get my degree here. Learning German was a great experience so it wasn't all a waste. Met some great people along the way and discovered my love for linguistics.

I also personally agree that this policy isn't necessarily helping Germany overall. I think the Blue Card program is a lot more valuable and should probably be more heavily "advertised".

Tangentially relevant, but I've been part of several communities that have discovered a lot of interesting things about some video games using high-speed cameras.

Super Smash Bros. Melee: A game where input lag really matters a lot, the reason we still play using CRTs, not only has several frames of input lag, but it's not a constant number of frames of lag. It can range from 2 to 5 frames of input lag.

Tetris the Grandmaster series: Another game where input lag has a huge impact not only has several frames of input lag (and people have resorted to all sorts of ways to reduce it, including AHK scripts that constantly move the mouse on Windows XP) but the first two games of the series don't run at 60Hz. TGM1 runs at a slightly lower rate, not really significant, but TGM2+ runs at 62.68Hz, which is quite significant and makes some of the challenges a tad harder.

Both of these communities took the measuring test a few steps further than what can be done with isitsnappy. They connected LEDs to the buttons so it was easier to know precisely in what frame the button was pressed.

Someone in the Melee community also placed photoresistors close to the screen and used an oscilloscope to know exactly when the brightness changed.

Not exactly the most relevant anecdotes, but I felt like sharing.

the desire to climb it

Isn't the article implying that even the very desire and will to climb it are significantly influenced by upbringing, income, etc?

So even if two feet and the desire were all you really needed, you'd still be at a disadvantage compared to people in different income brackets and more stable family status.

I appreciate the links! Exactly what I was after.

The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6.

I'm finding it really hard to believe, as someone in Guatemala, that 6% of requests to Google here are made over IPv6. Is there any way to gain more insight? e.g. what ISPs are responsible?

At least from my perspective, this wasn't a matter of remarkable vs unremarkable, it was about the expectation the title set.

Maybe it was the "into the woods", maybe it was the "alone" part, but I just wasn't expecting a story of some person stealing from others and getting caught after 27 years.

Completely agree that "sidestep" would have been a much better choice. I think the title is technically correct but that doesn't mean much since context matters a lot. "Sidestep" is a lot more intuitive and, I do disagree with you here, I think the average person would get a better idea of what's happening if they read "sidestep" instead of "bypass"

A movement is defined by what it does

Can we really attribute what a noisy minority does to the movement's actions, though? Even if said minority claims to be part of the movement. At what point do we draw the line?

Most feminists, admittedly talking from experience here, are moderates.

Comparing this to Kim Jong Un's actions isn't fair, as you're comparing the actions of a specific individual to those of a non-representative group of people.