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He went straight for the slums of Buenos Aires, very far from trying to make the place look nice.

Are you talking about firsthand accounts? Because Venezuela in the last decade has seen close to 20% of their population leave [1]. Argentina's emigration is nowhere near those numbers (yet).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_refugee_crisis

As someone who's used to using open source video editors which tend to feel pretty lightweight (Shotcut, Kdenlive, Olive, even Blender), but who sometimes needs slightly more advanced features than those can offer, my initial impression of DaVinci Resolve was definitely one of pure bloat. It put me off of it enough to not try it again, although I may give it another chance at some point.

I wonder if someone coming from the Adobe suite would feel the same way or if that bloat is normalized in the industry.

I think both you and the article are correct. Here's a bit more context [1], it seems both Ruby and Coral were considered in part due to their connection with Perl, and in the end Ruby won because it "sounds better" and also because it's Matz's birthstone:

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20110717205734/http://blade.naga...

Edit: this also provides a clue for Perl's naming, it's "related to a shell" (I don't know if this is accurate)

They may have them, it just didn't cross my mind so I went straight for the junk hardware stores. I had an afternoon to kill anyway and had fun looking at all the weird Japanese retro hardware.

I recently went looking for floppy disks in Akihabara, Tokyo. I needed them for a photography project and I didn't want to buy an entire box off Amazon (yeah, they are still available) since I only needed 2 at most.

Despite Akihabara having no shortage of retro hardware junk stores, even many with floppy disk drives for sale, finding actual floppy disks was surprisingly difficult. I did eventually find some, but only after asking multiple shop owners who swore they had seen some around their shop to then fail to find any. The last guy went digging behind the counter and eventually produced a dusty box of floppies with only about half remaining.

> And not that it is even an interesting question but my take is no this is not a simulation. Way too much detail. Even if some civilization had the resources to run a simulation the size of our universe it would be a massive waste to do so. The most efficient computational system for simulating a universe with the high fidelity our universe has is to create a universe and let it evolve.

I also don't think we live in a simulation, but if we did, how can you know anything about the outside universe, leave alone its resource limitations? Perhaps what we consider to be huge and complex (our own universe) is the equivalent of a simple Conway's Game of Life to the outside world.

Perhaps not you or I, but collectively wouldn't we want to try to communicate with those outside running the simulation?

Exactly. It was also one of the first mainstream web apps to make widespread use of XMLHttpRequest. The term AJAX hadn't even been coined at the time of Gmail's release, and it was probably a major factor in the popularization of the technique.

I've had a couple "scares" like that, i.e. an entire window full of open tabs disappearing (usually closing it by mistake), but normally they come back with just a Ctrl+Shift+T. Not saying that's what happened to you, just sharing my experience.

Is your JS clone published somewhere?

Jump'n'Bump was awesome. I played it so often back then that I made a GUI launcher for it, since you could change various settings through command line flags only.

Brainchild Design[0], the studio that made it, had some other fun and highly polished games too, Quadnet was one of my favorites.

[0] https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/profile/brainchild-design

There is also GUSANOS[0], which is no longer maintained, but from my understanding OpenLieroX merged many of its features into its codebase.

[0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/gusanos/

Open letters considered harmful?

He didn't even resign, he asked for PTO until the end of his mandate (December 10).

I thought that my use case was too particular, since Ardour's focus is in music production, and that made me shy away from reporting it as I wasn't even sure I could call it a bug. But you're right, I should've.

Japanese is the only script I'm familiar with (other than Latin), and it's very clear to me that the person who drew the hiragana characters in this book wasn't familiar with them as they only vaguely resemble the actual characters. I wonder if there was a bit of a "game of telephone" effect going on too, as the book cites a French encyclopedia as its source, which may also have contained non-native renditions of those characters.

It's also interesting how they refer to the language as Japonese instead of Japanese, which makes sense if they their source was a French encyclopedia, but I wonder if Japan was being referred to as Japon in English too back then.

Hey Paul! Thanks so much for Ardour first of all, and double thanks for this awesome generosity.

I didn't know about interview mode, I'll read up on it. Looking forward to 8.1!

I just realized you're an Ardour developer, so thank you for the awesome piece of free software, and I hope my comment didn't sound too whiny. I love Ardour and still recommend it to other podcasters at every chance I have, especially when I see people using Audacity for that task while Ardour is clearly the better option given its non-destructiveness.

In Ardour 5 I am able to simply slide the playback speed slider ("shuttle speed control") to start playing at >1x speed, and after releasing the mouse button it keeps on playing at that speed.

In v6+ the sliding part still works, but upon releasing it the slider springs immediately back to 1x, so I can't easily select a playback speed and keep it going. As a workaround there's the varispeed option, but for me it's not as intuitive (it uses semitones instead of "Xs" as its unit), and feels much less flexible. I could probably live with it if I was forced into it, but I much prefer v5's behavior.

I'm not a musician, but I've been happily using Ardour to edit a podcast for many years now (paying for a subscription the whole time too) and I really like the workflow I arrived at with it.

One particular feature I like is the ability to edit while playing the audio at 2x speed, which I use to do a quick first pass where I remove obvious things like dead air, coughs, uhms, etc., before doing a second pass at 1x looking for finer details to fix. However, I've found that this feature has been worsened a bit since v6, so I've been stuck at v5 this whole time despite the many new releases. Every time a new version comes out I try it out immediately, but so far v5 has been the superior one for my particular workflow.

I'm not complaining though, for as long as Ardour 5 still runs on my computer I'll be a happy user, and I'm very grateful for Ardour's existence, but I wonder if anyone else uses it the way I do and if they've had the same issue with newer versions.

Why is Esperanto in the natural languages list? Is it not constructed?

The second version of the Sally prompt reported on the benchmark has GPT4 giving the correct answer:

> Sally has 3 brothers. Each of these brothers has 2 sisters. This means that there are 2 girls in the family, including Sally. Therefore, Sally has 1 sister.

The prompt:

> Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have? Let's think step by step.

The only difference with the first version being the addition of the last sentence.

Just to add clarification: 柔術 is the martial art, while 呪術 means sorcery.

The first kanji in 呪術 means curse, so while "sorcery" could be a cool name for a software project in English, a Japanese speaker would probably have apprehensions about using 呪術.

I think it's safe to assume that the Portuguese "pão" (bread) was pronounced much closer to "pan" around the time they made contact with Japan, and that's what stuck in Japan while the Portuguese pronunciation kept evolving. I find it strange otherwise that the Japanese word is closer in pronunciation to the Spanish "pan", or even the French "pain", than the modern day Portuguese word.

That was technically impressive no doubt, but I think it was itself probably inspired by Windows' explorer.exe, which used to work the same way: you could enter an HTTP address in the file explorer address bar and suddenly it became a web browser.

Konqueror took it a bit further though by supporting other schemes like FTP, SFTP, and anything else that had a KIO[1] implementation.

[1] https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kio/html/

TIL, thanks for the explanation.

That doesn't sound right, 4000 tons is more than 10 times the maximum takeoff weight of a 777.

For any Spanish speakers in here, I got inspired by this and borrowed Mark Dominus' code to find the "best anagram" in Spanish, my results are here: https://github.com/pilaf/anagramas

And here are the top scorers:

11 actinometro / cortamiento

11 aeronáutico / ecuatoriano

11 anemometría / mareamiento

11 apriscadero / esparcidora

11 arremetimiento / meritoriamente

11 atrasamiento / metatarsiano

11 camastronería / sacramentario

11 entropezada / panderetazo

11 importación / piromántico

12 anemométrica / maceramiento

> But Fairbanks told the Los Angeles Record that he intended to show “the South Americans as we think of them rather than as they are.”

Reminds me of another movie, Down Argentine Way (1940), which literally opens with Carmen Miranda doing a stereotypical "South American" song and dance which angered Argentine audiences of the time so much that the movie got banned. From Wikipedia [1]:

> However, the film was banned in Argentina after being "hissed off the screens" by audiences there for misrepresenting the real culture of the country, wrongly including many Mexican and Caribbean mannerisms and costumes, as if they were part of the Argentine landscape.

Reading OP's article it seems the Argentine government around that time was all too keen on banning films though.

Nonetheless Down Argentine Way was selected for the US National Film Registry [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Argentine_Way [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry