throwaway2203

That novel helped me understand love.

There might be more creating it than there are those valuing it

My friends who studied for the Pakistan Civil Service exam told me you can get questions like:

When did Gen Musharraf visit India on so-and-so trip?

A) Oct 10th 2004 B) Oct 8th 2004 ...

(I made the answers up, but I distinctly remember the days being 2 days apart)

I'm actually not sure which button does what on the Quest. I usually click them all until something happens.

Super curious as well

They were pretty nimble late 2000's, early 2010's.

It is known that they are, given the main opposition party's leader is jailed and they're not allowed to campaign.

Hearing from friends that there were a lot of last minute shenanigans like poll locations getting changed, candidates election symbols getting changed (important given the lack of literacy).

This is great! I ignore so many videos from friends and family because I suck at watching videos!

Can I export the recordings and the resulting (presumably text) diary?

are sellers normally willing to drive to your mechanic/shop? or do you have to find one that will meet you somewhere?

It says you have Arabic but doesn't break it out by dialects.

Looks cool. Would love to know pricing and how/where you store data?

Any idea if this was in tech/engineering?

I reckon it's more webkit rather than Chrome. I think Mozilla is the only major non-webkit browser now.

First of all those are primal needs and independent of schooling. Schooling is a far more personal choice.

Second, I do all those things because it's my responsibility, not because the state will come after me if I don't.

Sure, and it's my responsibility to provide it without the state nanny'ing over me.

The homeschoolers get a free pass to do literally whatever... don't you see a dichotomy with what you're preaching?

This is my thing, like what right does a public school have to regulate when I can and won't send my kids to school? If I decide to take a trip abroad for a month, that's on me... why do i have to worry about truancy court and CPS breathing down my neck?

my informal understanding is that Allah is a contraction of al-ilah or (the God), which was also at the time the name of a particular deity (a sort of supreme God also associated with rain). That might have to do with the associated inability to pluralize.

This is not completely correct. Allah is a name as much as it is a "type". One of the things Arabs will point out is that Allah is "special" because it cannot be pluralized and hence is a better name for the monotheistic God than English God or Persian Khuda (which can be).

I'm a non-arabic speaking Muslim who prefers in non-liturgical context to use Khuda and have occasionally been "corrected" by well meaning folk.

I was using the free version so 3.5.

I've never heard of titli makhi before, but have heard of bher from multiple sources. I don't know definitely (as in I haven't looked it up in a formal dictionary) but colloquially in my dialect bher is more correct.

Also worth noting that GPT-4 used the incorrect letter representing the R. Google translate correctly provides: بهڑ

Thanks for the added context though, it's super interesting.

"wasp". IIRC it returned "shahtoot" which is a kind of berry.

I just tried again and it said "shahbaz" which is a name or at best an adjective. The correct translation would be "bher" which Google Translate displays as the "alternative" translation.

I've been playing with it a bit... the other day I asked ChatGPT the name of a certain animal in Urdu and it with complete confidence threw the name of a fruit at me.

That said ChatGPT is better at picking up dialect nuances. I can ask it to tell me how to say something in Egyptian Arabic, vs most translation tools will use Modern Standard.

This sure brought back memories!

Content would be incredibly hard to produce for it though.

anybody else's work firewall blocking these insecure pages?

At that point the guys with guns take what they want so nothing you have is worth anything any more.

When did the Selective Service requirement get dropped?

That's fair... my first job was putting out listings with DHTML well into the 2010s because no one told HR to update the job descriptions.

Sometimes, sure, but more often than not, I see salary range: 80k-180k depending on experience.

Not very useful, that.