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I used to see these, but I haven't seen them in a long time. I think they're covered by one of my uBlock lists (probably "annoyances" or something like that).

I suspect you're right that an adult will be able to achieve "nearer" phonetic fluency in a language that shares more phonemes with their first language than they would in one that has little phonetic overlap with it. So a Spanish speaker will have an easier time becoming fluent in Italian than would an English speaker, etc. (I'm surprised by your assertion that Japanese has large phoneme overlap with English, but I don't know much about it - it just seems surprising to me.)

I'd be curious to see a visualization of the overlapping phonemes between languages, like a large Venn diagram kinda thing (or maybe just a graph). I think this data is probably available and a visualization wouldn't be too difficult to create - maybe it already exists but I couldn't find a comprehensive one with a brief search.

I dunno, if you're an adult who moves from India to America, you're not going to be speaking Hindi much (unless you speak it at home, to be fair). You'll be conducting your life entirely in English. And if you move to the States for university then you'll be doing academics in English too. You'll easily achieve thousands of hours of practice in this way.

While most people don't have time to put that many hours into studying a second language outside of a country where it's the native tongue, many immigrants have no choice but to immerse themselves in a new language just by the default behavior of living their life in a new country that doesn't speak their first language.

Yes, such immigrants will always be a few thousand hours behind people who started in America, but surely there's some plateau where the improvements become marginal. I don't think the critical period advantage is about the early volume of hours so much as the age period when they're spent - i.e. if you compare someone who moves at 20 vs. 40, the results will be the same, but both will be worse than someone who moved at 8.

Probably yes, and I think this is what a lot of rich people do with their kids, at least in terms of exposing them to vastly differing languages like Mandarin and English.

I do wonder if there's some limit on the number of phonemes you can learn, and how many hours are required to "solidify" a phoneme. But I definitely think the idea of a "unity course" is a good one.

Personally I had a French "class" in elementary school, where I barely learned anything - I certainly can't speak French - but I can pronounce French words better than I can pronounce any Spanish words (despite three years of Spanish class in college). Those French classes were basically just learning to count to 100 and singing songs like "alouette."

From my recollection of my developmental psych courses, the studies on this subject generally control for "time available" by including cohorts of adults in full-time immersion programs, or even adults who move permanently to a new country. The results have always consistently shown that even with dedicated study and full time immersion, adults will never reach the same level of linguistic fluency as would a child within the critical period (generally < 11 years old) because they're incapable of acquiring the phonemes of a new language to the same degree as a child, due to fundamental limits of neuroplasticity in the regions of the brain responsible for language acquisition.

So yes, obviously if you don't have time as an adult to learn a language, you won't learn it as well as if you can dedicate the rest of your life to it. But the point of the results of "critical period" studies is that even if you dedicate the rest of your life to it, you'll still be at a disadvantage compared to a child, when it comes to attaining perfect phonetic and linguistic fluency.

That depends who is doing/reporting the matching. This could very well be an Epstein-like situation where we'll simply never know the verifiable truth.

I think the standard is to publish the IP addresses. I understand why companies request this, so they can open their firewalls to those addresses, but in terms of security the real answer is to use bidirectional mTLS, so that you just need to publish your public certificate rather than (or at least, in addition to) an IP address. Unfortunately, mTLS deployment is fairly complex and isn't a great solution for webhooks unless you control the library code on both ends (i.e., you're publishing client libraries for receiving the webhooks), or if you make it an opt-in feature for extra security. Otherwise the simple use case of "just set up a receiving HTTP server" becomes much more complicated and adds undue friction for developers implementing code to receive the hooks.

Bank transfers are cheap and instant when both parties in the transaction have a working bank account, which means they had a residence where they could receive mail, which means they had government identification, etc.

Why? The price increase is not limited to Namecheap, as stated in the article:

> All .COM domain renewals will see an approximate 9% increase. This price increase will happen across registrars, not just Namecheap

You can shop for a new registrar but you'll be paying more for .com domains regardless of which one you choose.

Drink when you haven't peed for a while or your last pee was yellow. This is actual advice given to athletes and it's pretty effective IMO.

I hate cyclists when I'm in a car. I hate cars when I'm cycling. And I hate pedestrians when I'm walking, cycling or driving.

So does a community that allows a mining operation to "exploit" it have any say in the matter? Is it possible that the operating brings new jobs to the community that wouldn't have existed otherwise?

Why are these numbers so different from the original FEC complaint? [0]

> Consequently, based on available data, Mr. Bankman-Fried is the disclosed source of approximately $37,768,312 in contributions to Democratic candidates, parties, and aligned outside organizations in the 2022 cycle. In contrast, Mr. Bankman-Fried is the disclosed source of approximately $320,400 in contributions to Republican candidates, parties, and aligned outside organizations in the 2022 cycle.

And lest you think these are your typical MAGA republicans receiving the money, they are all the most RINO, uniparty republicans you can imagine [1]:

> Since July, Bankman-Fried has made $5,800 contributions, the maximum individuals can give directly to Congressional campaigns, to the committees of Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Richard Burr

[0] https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12...

[1] https://www.rightjournalism.com/its-not-the-dems-only-ftx-fo...

He donated like 3 grand to the GOP.

My favorite part of Lua development is when you get the test runner to work and it runs 200+ unit tests in 100ms.

This is more like a company squatting an apple.io domain and redirecting to a Sign In With Apple page. I'm surprised Discord allowed it to exist.

Who are you referring to?

Don't they build spaceships? Seems reasonable...

It's a bit more pernicious than ngrok just because it's more difficult to isolate and block only malicious usage of the feature. But yeah I agree it's not breaking news that implants will find ways to tunnel out of your infrastructure when exfiltrating data...

It could also be simultaneously true that it's cheaper to rent ARM servers from AWS than it is to rent Intel servers from them, and that AWS makes more money renting you the ARM servers. In fact, given they're developed in house, it might even be likely that the ARM margins are higher for them than their Intel margins.

You might be able to MITM some packets meant for the cellular network, but fundamentally you're not gonna be able to MITM any cellular packets without running your own base station (i.e. a device outside your phone). Whatever mechanism you used for redirecting cellular traffic to your MITM apparatus could always be bypassed by simply sending that traffic over the actual cellular network.

Oh I see, thanks for the attention to detail :) The title should probably be changed, then, since it says "YouTube will now show..."

I don't have watch history on, and I don't see a blank homepage. I still see a grid of videos from channels I've never watched. It doesn't say "recommendations" or anything, but I'm not sure what else it could be...

They're having a cage match (unless Musk backs out).

Here's a great YouTube video on the same story: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lk4N2epJzgg

If I didn't believe this ten years ago, I certainly believe it after seeing people's behavior during the pandemic. Personally that's when I considered the social contract to be null and void. I'm no longer interested.

Finally, a real security weakness to cite when making fun of people for their mechanical keyboard. Time to start recording the audio of Zoom calls with some particularly loud typers...

While upbringing ("nurture") is clearly a critical component to success in any specialized field, there is undeniably a "nature" component as well, and I doubt that the best nurture could overcome lack of natural talent anymore than natural talent could overcome lack of nurture. To be the best you need a lot of both.

It's more obvious in athletics, where there is clearly natural talent, but the equalizer is the support network of parents funding practice, driving to games, getting into competitive leagues, etc. I don't see why the same wouldn't apply to intellectual talents as well, even if the differences in natural talent are less obvious than in athletics.

I think OP is merely suggesting that the tutelage of a Fields medalist had more to do with the subsequent Fields medal than did the poetry. I didn't read the comment as diminishing the accomplishments or suggesting anyone could do the same if they just had the right tutor. It was clarifying the title that misleadingly implies a causal relationship between poetry and math, or that he somehow stopped studying yet succeeded anyway.

If you've got root on the client, certificate pinning can be disabled ;) Usually it boils down to patching whatever method or system call the library in question is using to pin the HTTPS request, e.g. on iOS jailbreaks there's a tweak called "SSL Kill Switch" which hooks the native HTTP client to remove cert pinning. On a CI machine or desktop, you can probably do something similar with LD_PRELOAD trickery.

edit: Yeah, I found this library [0] that does it (actually disables validation entirely) with LD_PRELOAD and works with openssl, but no commits since 2018 so might not work. Also I'm pretty sure proxychains uses LD_PRELOAD and it might include some option to disable pinning, idk.

[0] https://github.com/DavidBuchanan314/libleakmydata