bigbangdangler

brave

I cannot fathom why anyone would be using Brave browser, but it’s not really fair to claim this is a Linux problem.

nvidia

Nvidia are famously anti-Linux/pro-MS and their drivers are notoriously hard to get working on Linux. Again, not a Linux problem per se, and many people simply use AMD instead (because the drivers are in the kernel, no installation needed). YMMV, but if you had games working, you probably had drivers working, so it sounds like this isn’t actually related to your issue.

i had same problem on windows

Again, issue with Brave. Use a better browser.

We’ll be hermits together. All of us. And the hismits and the theymits too.

An article not mentioning another relevant fact in 15k words means nothing about that other relevant fact.

“Just two more weeks, bro.”

Irn Bru is fantastic. Gather it at all costs.

Fun fact: it outsold Coca Cola for a few years in its native Scotland. Unfortunately changes to the sugar tax in the UK, and the changes both companies made to their products as a result, mean that Coke does now outsell it.

Privatize profits, socialize losses.

This is the law of the land.

“Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

Because no one could possibly protest against raw patriotism!!*

• in fascist form.

The playbook hasn’t changed. But now they’re showing their work and still missing the point.

Sigh. None of this is surprising in the least. The cost of AI infrastructure and compute (coupled with the complexity of the chain) makes it prohibitively expensive.

It only has appeared cheap because of investor money flowing like Niagara on the off-chance that it could be made cheap enough to be profitable after getting everyone addicted to using it. I really don’t think it’s there, and it’s definitely not cheap enough to continue flying for free much longer.

Indeed, which is why it is generally classified as an analytic language (as opposed to e.g. fusional). It is sometimes misclassified as an isolating language, which it really isn’t, since Mandarin does have compounds. It is worth noting, though, that no natural language fits perfectly into the morphological prototypes.

That said, fewer complexities in one part of a grammar tend to even out in others. In fact, there is some tendency of tonal languages to lean isolating or analytic exactly because the ratio of morphemes-to-word is lower (often 1-to-1); given that syllables can only be so complex (a limitation of anatomy), analytic languages will tend to have more homophones than non-analytic ones, and thus the tone tends to be required to maintain the same information density. To look at it another way, tone is a method for distinguishing what are otherwise homophones.

Now, how any of that relates to whales… well, it very likely doesn’t.

Have to admit, I agree. I know there is a lot of sensationalism out there, but there are serious reasons to take issue with Boeing’s output, especially newer models.

It’s not like I’m refusing to fly on Boeing and I think that’s generally an overreaction… but there is a slight, very slight relief when I see my flight is scheduled with an Airbus.

Holy shit.

This thing collapsed at the gate, before passengers were on board.

A collapse on takeoff or landing could have killed everyone on board.

Thanks for sharing the actual research.

I’m curious to dive into this (pun intended). It sounds like a bit of a stretch to analogize these whale signals to Mandarin or any other human language simply because of this:

However, our analogy has a limit: while in human languages, different tones can be associated with different meanings, the meanings conveyed by sperm whale codas have not been established.

The jump is, though they may be referring to the whale sounds as “tones”, in human languages “tone” and “pitch” are two distinct concepts which share a modality. The former has to do with meaning, while the latter has to do with things that are extrasentential or even extralinguistic. Consider the rising pitch at the end of a question in English: this nudges the listener into thinking they heard a question, but it doesn’t carry meaning in the lexical sense, which makes it pitch and not tone (cf. the various books like e.g. the Cambridge series on Pitch vs. Tone, even though there are common terms like “intonation” which belie the scientific terms).

If there is no evidence of a mapping between meaning and pitch in whales (as the above quote suggests) then it really isn’t linguistic “tone”, even if it is musical tone or some other type. It’s certainly a sound with some sonorant quality, minimally pitch.

Could all be entirely wrong. As I mentioned, I haven’t yet read the paper fully.

Well yeah, doing actual research or understanding a topic would cut into his golf time

To date, I have not heard a single CEO talk about where the money will come from if no one is employed.

How can consumers consume if they don’t have any money?

Linguistically: yes, and it’s typically attributed to a working memory constraint.

Arch people tend to want people to know they use Arch (btw). You’ll also find a lot of posts about getting Arch working.

Debian people tend to be too busy doing other things on their computers besides getting them working, so you’ll hear about it less.

(Important: I’m not dumping on either distro here. Some people, myself included, like Arch exactly because it’s fun to play with and set up. Debian’s older packages tend to mean a more stable system. Use what you like.)

Don’t threaten me with a good time. Deliver it.

The cost to go with a movie with one friend is around $30-35 where I live. This assumes buying no concessions.

The cost to buy that movie on a physical format (assuming it releases on one) is $20-30 depending on whether that format is DVD or Blu-Ray.

A lot of folks right now could not afford either option. But even for those who can, the math doesn’t math on movie theaters.

I love this. Hit me in the right spot. Thanks.