andrewzah

Both US parties try and "cancel" things they don't like. It's not related to one party or the other. [0] Also, "cancel culture" isn't some new concept. Humans have rebuked and ostracized each other forever.

[0] Or are we forgetting when people lost their minds about "happy holidays" and starbucks' cup design change? Or Colin Kaepernick? Etc. I don't see how anyone can say it's related to one political party in one country.

There is no one uniform experience, but there are some consistent problems.

Severely underpaid teachers and a focus on testing leads to formulaic memorization of (what a lot of us thought) was drivel, just things to know and forget after the test. High school for me started very early (about 6:45/7 to catch the bus), so it was miserable. I did have some classes that were the exception, but for me all school did was try and beat the drive to learn out of me. In middle school I got punished for reading ahead in our assigned literature. We also had to deal with a powertripping principal for years.

And that's to say nothing of the completely whitewashed US "history" we learned.

I actually was homeschooled for a few years, so I have experience with both systems. The issues I had with homeschooling were the overly religious program my parents used, and the lack of socialization.

I will never put my kid in a public or private school system, provided that I find a community for us to engage socially in, that we find a good curriculum that's not religious, and that either myself or my partner engages in it full-time.

You can do all of those things outside of work. There are meetup groups, local sports leagues, etc. There is no reason it has to happen at the office.

Also this is just my opinion, but I find it odd when people's social groups are... just people from their job. There is so much more to life than just people who work in the same company or industry as oneself.

"the expectation is that you are available on IM all the time. Maybe not 24/7, but definitely more flexible than the old 9-5 expectation"

So talk to them about those expectations. Let them know that you won't respond outside of X hours, etc.

I haven't had any issues with my HOA. There are bad HOAs, but I feel like for the average person they're fine. Beats having a neighbor that decides to put junk in the front yard, including a toilet. That happened to my parents, who don't live in an HOA neighborhood.

I strongly doubt a fan translation of a game from 1997 is going to reflect on or tarnish -anything-. Fan translations are very common, and without them games would be forever unavailable to people who don't speak that language.

This reminds me of the fan translation projects for games like Ace Attorney from Japanese -> Korean. They also found a way to extract the game strings and put them into a google doc. It was super cool.

So I went through all of the hassle of modding my 3ds to change its language to Korean (Nintendo only allows specific languages per 3ds region), and patching a romfile of Ace Attorney. Then Nintendo released Ace Attorney 1-3 on the switch and pc, so that was great timing. It's still annoying on the switch as the game supports Korean, but only if you set your system language to Korean; hardly ideal if anyone else uses it. At least with Steam it can be configured per-game.

This is why "first name" should be "given name" and "last name" should be "surname". There are many assumptions programmers make about names, but this one is particularly annoying for CJK and other cultures.

I've had the opposite issue in Korea. Several systems expected LastFirst (from my perspective).

I think what parent is getting at is that criticism and nitpicking take no effort. Obviously that's not to say nothing should be criticized.

There's a similar, ruder, expression in fashion communities: talk shit, post fit.

Why not just use Anki? It's mature, and plenty of decks exist for language learning. I've been using it for ~4 years or so now and nothing else has really come close in terms of features or stability.

With the 'as' keyword you can cast between types [0]. Instead of inheritance, you can implement Traits for objects [1], which works more like composition.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/expressions/operator-exp...

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/trait.html

I can’t say that I’ve had any issues with Thunderbird, other than reconfiguring hotkeys is a pain.

There is a caldav addon that allows syncing with remote calendars. I use that to coordinate calendars on my computers and iphone.

This is basically every HN thread when it comes to anything related to race in u.s. politics.

Does Thunderbird not count? That satisfies email + calendars for me on both Linux and Mac.

Yes, but it starts at $149. Unless you're doing music professionally, that is rather steep when free ones like Salamander exist.

Adequately funded police can still take forever to arrive or decide not to come at all. This has absolutely zero to do with defunding police. Which by the way doesn't mean taking -all- of their money away. It means readjusting their budgets and allocating some of that money to other types of responders.

There always has been a market for immediate response private security, if one has the money.

Looks like they explicitly plan on incorporating bounties into the app itself.

My prediction is someone will go all viligante and beat/maim/kill someone, probably who is innocent. Then the app will get pulled.

Bitcoin was a great proof of concept. But now it's just a horrendous waste of energy, all for people to hoard their coins in a get-rich-quick scheme.

Bitcoin needs to die. The useful parts can get incorporated into cryptocurrencies that are actually used as currencies and not for hoarding.

There are free vsts you can use instead of pianoteq as well.

On linux I set up my midi controller with Carla to use Salamander Piano [0]:

[0]: https://sfzinstruments.github.io/pianos/salamander

Check out the frequency response curves yourself of the airpod pros [0] and say, an open-back sennheiser hd650 pair [1]. The airpods have a huge bump at about 1.5kHz to 3.5kHz (mids), while the sennheisers are more neutral in low frequencies but also have a bump at ~3kHz to ~7kHz.

Nothing will beat open-back headphones on a good system, but apple's stuff as of late is plenty good.

[0]: https://reference-audio-analyzer.pro/en/report/hp/apple-airp...

[1]: https://reference-audio-analyzer.pro/en/report/hp/sennheiser...

I agree. Aftershokz changed my running completely. I pair them with my garmin fenix and no longer have to deal with wires or being isolated from my environment.

I recommend etymotic research ones. They cut frequencies more uniformly. The typical foam ones are slightly better at noise reduction, but they make everything sound incredibly muffled. I haven't had issues with any particular brand of foam ones though, if just cutting out noise is your goal.

The best would be custom molded earplugs, but those are fairly expensive.

Not to derail the conversation more, but "howdy" is more of a southern American thing than just American. I never used that in the midwest/north until I moved to the south.

No. I had similar experiences when learning Korean in Korea.

There is a trend by native English speakers to bash english, and treat it like no other language can have any of these issues.

The only major difference is noted in the other response; English has a lot of different dialects. Korean has Standard Korean that everyone learns now, and unofficial regional dialects. With English you have people randomly learning American English, UK English, Indian English, etc, which all have various differences in vocabulary, idioms, grammar, etc.

Or both parties can work together since there is no True English. Indian English is different than <place> English. It is wrong for the author to expect their English to be universal, and it's wrong for <place> English's speakers to expect -their- English to be universal.

Thick accents are frustrating in any language. I have had to work hard on removing my American accent when learning Korean; it made understanding what I was saying much easier for everyone.

I think what people take issue with is when native speakers (who only speak 1 language, and maybe 1 local dialect of it) start demanding things from ESL/EFL learners.

Prepone is not a word in American Standard English. Or casual American English. Nobody uses it, although we should. It's totally logical from "postpone", but languages are not rational or logical.

If something is to become a word, people need to actually use it in the first place. Indian English is different than American English is different than Black American English is different than UK English.

That's the difference of EFL/ESL and a native speaker. If you live in the US/UK you're probably aware of how pitiful the average person is at grammar. However, they can always tell if a sentence is right or wrong for their variant of English.

When I taught English abroad, I would get asked questions all the time on things I hadn't researched yet so often the answer was "just because".

There -is- a difference of natively learning a language and learning it later on as EFL/ESL. It has nothing to do with politics, or being perfect. In fact, many ESL/EFL speakers have better grammar and vocabulary than the average native speaker because they have to focus on those things in order to learn the language.

However, a native speaker won't struggle in speech, and they'll know the various idioms used all the time in colloquial speech. Of course native speakers don't have to take the TEFL/TOEFL! They don't consciously think about grammar rules, they just employ them nearly always perfectly in speech. Of course not every native speaker is good at writing at an academic level and we should be aware of that.

This phenomenon is also not unique to English! This article and the one linked are basically following the trend of bashing one's own English; how dare native speakers speak their language like they have been their entire life? Part of learning any language is learning the cultural idiosyncrasies and idioms. Of course, native speakers should strive to make sure they're not overusing idioms with a EFL/ESL audience, but knowing "grammar" and "complex technical terms" doesn't actually mean you can speak [American/UK/Indian/Black American/etc] English.

Humans are just curious when someone has a different accent than the local area. There are various American accents. I've had that question asked a lot when I was living in Korea. Getting upset about it is entirely a personal choice.

Plenty of words are like that. "Apron" was originally "napron" but due to confusion from "a napron" sounding like "an apron" it changed that way.

I personally have always said "kerfluffle", not kerfuffle.

It's a huge pain in Matrix with even a small amount of users in a chat. At least for me, I've never used IRC where I cared about e2e. There are other services for that, including just encrypting with the other party's public pgp key.