Connor

26 | 🏳️‍🌈 | Computer Engineering Graduate | He/him | Absolute nerd interested in far too many things

[Connor @magicmad11]

Wait, fixed it

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@Beauengels @insidethegroove I don’t see that as entirely true
I think invoking an older album helps
I was very young when Confessions on a Dance Floor released, so I only knew the radio singles. Confessions II on the horizon got me to listen to the whole album and subsequently Confessions II on release

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@honeytitz69 @theTSdepartment enforceability of IP

she has “shake it off” trademarked for merchandise

I am not a lawyer, but a common carve-out in terms of IP enforceability is parody. If her team hasn’t gone after Trump, there’s a good chance it’s because they wouldn’t have a case

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@broknherz @meifumaudo @solarfoid they’re explaining by way of ‘doing the thing’

when Irish people talk about someone “having notions”, it’s that they perceive that person as thinking they’re better than everyone else

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@asubparusername Old Irish, by contrast, had palatalised coda consonants, so working with the Latin alphabet as they were, they marked that palatalisation by inserting an i before the consonant. When considering that palatalised consonants after back vowels have a palatal glide anyway, it works

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@asubparusername Additionally, the approach with the vowels in Irish is bilateral, kind of by necessity. At the time that the system used by East Slavic languages was devised, the Slavic languages only had open syllables. the front yer, which now marks a palatal coda, used to be a short vowel

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@GondorWizard @_colourmeamused the party was named prior to the standardisation of Australian English when that was a perfectly acceptable spelling in Australia

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@UnAm3rican @ltcaulfields @ehura17 The technology that drives most biometric systems (e.g. face/fingerprint scanners on phones) is “AI”, but it’s not at all like the text/image/video generation models that have become every major company’s favourite gimmick lately

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@UnAm3rican @ltcaulfields @ehura17 “ai is bad” is also an overgeneralised blanket statement. You think you’re just referring to the technologies of the past few years which are obviously bad for a variety of reasons
But “ai” also covers technologies that have been around for decades

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@worst_egirl @00DaniPonie ‘haitch’ is the predominant form in Australia, northern England and Ireland (not sure about Scotland and Wales)
‘aitch’ is dominant in southern England and North America
But it’s just a dialectal difference and really not that deep

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@worst_egirl @00DaniPonie same linguistic process as for ‘herb’
Began life as a French loan (in this case from French ‘hache’, which has a silent h)
I think specifically in this case, the h sound appeared because of a hypercorrection in English dialects that were losing the h sound

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@sporabbles I do personally find all Korean romanisation schemes a bit clunky, but from the angle that makes me appreciate Hangul for its elegance (e.g. imo there really is no way for a romanisation scheme to represent batchim that doesn’t sacrifice clarity in some way)

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@CyborgPeds @SevierlyBlessed I got a trial of the standard Total 30 a few months ago, and it’s a really nice lens
Ended up not ordering it because I wear contacts infrequently enough that dailies are more cost-effective for me, but they were super comfortable for me. I tolerate them better than the Total 1

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@Marcusg141 @Bal_selton ‘Suitability to everyday life’ has everything to do with whatever system you grew up with and learned to intuit meaning from, especially in the context of the climate where you grew up.
I know generally what to expect for “18 degrees” in Sydney, but not elsewhere

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@Marcusg141 @Bal_selton The difference between neighbouring degrees really isn’t that significant when other weather factors have a significant influence on what that means. Humid vs dry 25°C (77°F) feel different, so it really doesn’t matter if it’s actually 24.5°C (76°F) or even 24°C (75°F)

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@ceaaasbt @Evan64m At that scale, it’s pretty much just the signal envelope, which represents the loudness, but almost none of the pitch information

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@bungholeworms @axiochrono @nocontextmemes I’m from New South Wales in Australia, a state with a larger land area than Texas and a larger population than Washington state

It would be insane for me to not specify the country

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@stefanusog @PopBase Yes, the one from 1972 was shot on medium format film (70mm)

70mm film is what’s used for IMAX (e.g. Oppenheimer was shot on 70mm)