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That "Stocks" icon is bizarre -- imagine a stocks app where the marker indicating the queried position on a trendline actually had that superfluous refraction effect on it.

"Ova Sfongia Ex Lacte" seems like a typo of a recipe that originated here (https://historicalitaliancooking.home.blog/english/recipes/a...) and spread around the Internet.

Agreed. I started from this article a few years ago, and was frustrated enough by:

So that means, while I know what it does, I don't really know how, since all the work is in that mysterious function.

that I spent the time to work it out myself. (answer: It arises from discretising the Laplacian -- 6 is the number of direct neighbours in 3D)

The genus of the seahorse is _Hippocampus_.

I wish it were possible to link to a particular page (e.g. the optics simulation).

For starters, a Chinese language which preserves final stops (-p, -t, -k) would be a better choice (e.g. Cantonese). These disappear completely in Mandarin, leaving rhymes (the vowel + final consonant) underspecified or ambiguous in many cases.

Don’t give them any ideas… https://taxheaven3000.com/

There is the normal notation for half-open ranges, which would lead to unbalanced brackets.

Amazing that you developed this over the course of three months! Can you drop any insight into how you pulled together the audio data?

In this instance Standard Chinese or any sort of literary pronunciation is essentially useless to me since people aren't speaking that way

Thank you for creating this! But I'm afraid this is the misunderstanding -- words like san1 cing2 申請 are very much everyday words, even though the reading of the character is deemed literary. You should think of characters like 請 and 聽 as just having multiple in-context pronunciations, some of which you should learn, some of which you probably don't need to.

- Characters starting with the vowel i sound more an e. Therefore, "to invite", 請 (cing2), sounds more like ceng2, and "to hear/listen", 聽 (ting1), sounds more like teng1.

As a Cantonese speaker, I love the effort here! However, the above isn't correct. This is an example of vernacular vs. literary pronunciation, and 請 has both pronunciations, depending on context. For instance, 請 is ceng2 when used as the verb "to invite", but cing2 in compounds like jiu1 cing2 邀請.

It shouldn't be conflated with the phenomenon later in that same paragraph about 懶音 "lazy pronunciation".

Adoption makes it entirely possible for an Asian-presenting person to have a European first name _and_ surname and, frankly, is not something you should be asked about in an interview.

I've also successfully used this in production — another side effect is that you can inspect the exact information that each step is using to compute its own output, if you ensure that the output plan is a pure function of the input plan.

A video presentation of the same algorithm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajv46BSqcK4

This is occasionally quite useful. A few weeks ago, my phone's display went haywire, and the only way I could operate it to secure a backup was through the somewhat hidden mirroring functionality via QuickTime screen recording.

The end result seems to have been the intentional desecration of the corpses of a previous ruling dynasty in a massive, public bonfire, and the (probably intentional) use of the undifferentiated remains — jewellery, precious beads and more — as construction material.

In the literature, they're usually called convolutional layers (I think you can pretty much search and replace all uses of "convolutive" in the text).

This reminds me of an urban exploration video on YouTube taken in a dead mall, where the people found a hidden apartment in a crawlspace where someone had apparently been living — there were signs that the area was being actively used.

Both س and ص are transcribed as "s" — is this really a common convention?

It's also worth noting that Tan is a Mandarin Chinese surname too (譚) in addition to being a distinct Hokkien surname (the much more common 陳).

Is there an index of resources that lists metas that people have put together for each country?

I find it exquisite that Paral·lel station in Barcelona really has a parallel platform layout (despite the station name deriving instead from the fact that the street with that name is parallel to the equator). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avinguda_del_Paral%C2%B7lel

This is clearly referring to 阿姨, which is a vocative term of address for an aunt (in particular, on the mother's side). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E5%A7%A8

This is wrong — an entire spectrum of early modern variants starting from _vuestra merced_ to _vuesasted_ to _vusted_ to _usted_ has been demonstrated in written and printed matter across the centuries. It helps that written Spanish has been particularly well documented from the Age of Discovery onwards.

The docs are unusually unpolished by Apple standards — search for “progess” in this documentation link.

But the backlit screen does make a difference in usability, one has to admit?

This is the hardware that I wish Beepy had: https://beepy.sqfmi.com

By the way, does anyone know why all of these devices use the Arabic BlackBerry keyboard? Was there a particular surplus of this layout?

I was bored today and was playing "Maple Leaf Rag" on an electric piano while cycling through the voices, and happened to discover exactly this when I chanced upon the harpsichord!

It saddened me to hear about the circumstances: https://headwizememorial.wordpress.com/pow-chu-moys-memorial...

This article seems to conflate "spice ingredients" with spicy ingredients. I would have a hard time considering how food from cuisines that use (e.g.) aniseed, caraway, cardamom or poppy seed could be considered "spicy food".