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Windows terminal is a shit show. The dev blogs posts are all about useless features such as image background while fundamentals like unicode input are still broken.

Very nice tool for producing blog spam content. No proof or explanation is given on why it could work for any meaningful writing task (let's say research since that the name of the tool) whatsoever.

> They have basically pioneered the "throwaway phone" paradigm we are deep into now.

I'm still using an iPhone 7 for 5 years now without issue, which is longer than any dumb phone I had in the past. Nobody is forced to buy the last iPhone every year, especially since they don't bring a lot of improvements anyway.

The semantic web is a non-solution in eternal search of non-problems.

万 is not to be taken literally as 10,000 in this context but as a very big number, so million year is a good translation.

There is no dictionary that contains "all existing words" for any giving language.

> Non-existent words should be easy to check for.

I'm interested in your magical solution because this is a hard problem.

Those are country development and political choice issues. Last time I took the train (this weekend) it provided a free wifi access all long and I hadn't any cut. I can't remember last time I took a subway and hadn't 4G connectivity. Oh, actually I do, it was in Paris but I wouldn't dare using my iPhone there anyway. There technology is there but Western governments at all administrative levels are more busy bullying their citizens than providing comfort options like East-Asian administrations and companies are.

You turn this as if it were and bad things and Lithuanian were searching for excuse to blame China. China is bullying not only Taiwan on a daily basis but also any other nations for any pretext. It's time for an international alliance to make China stop annoying the whole world.

The real shame is you can't eat a meal anywhere anymorefor 5€ except at McDonalds.

Crazy that an application is proud, in 2021, to be usable on multiple devices.

First it was a time were no vaccine was remotely on the radar so media weren't promoting a non-existing solution. It's only months laters that some get approved for experimentation on humans.

Secondly linking participation to social life and freedoms such as moving inside the country (or heck even buying food!) to the vaccination status of an individual is totally unheard of. The last time remotely similar measures were implemented was during WWII were passes where need to go from occupied zone to zone libre. This whole thing is astonishingly shocking and it's scary how many zealots will defend it. Especially now that data shown the virus is only dangerous for a very small segment of the population (obviously increased in countries were large segment of the population is obese).

> but also predict the entire chain of events that has occurred as a consequence

I wouldn't have agreed with you a year ago, but having seen it for myself, it's scary how true it is. All the wild "conspiracy theories" about the vaccine passport notably came to reality 6-8 months or so after being voiced.

Literally ten times less than the deaths due to tobacco each year in that country. Yet I see cigarettes sold everywhere.

Hard to take such a reply seriously since Japan never had lockdown and is doing fine without it.

Anyway I wholly agree the GP, the West had gone crazy in both the handling of the pandemic and how heavy handed it is with opposition against the ambient madness. And now governments know they can get away with such power tripping without any consequence, situation will continue going worst and worst on the freedom front.

This is especially ridiculous when seeing how few tablets are sold by Microsoft, despite them try harding for a decacde or so.

Yes, it's funny how there is a lot of fear about a country that attacked noone since the Korea War (and that didn't commit massacres during it unlike their opponent), especially when those people are from a country that have a carte blanche to attack other countries and do it on a regular basis.

NK rulers aren't idiots, they have access to the West (media and travel) and they know about the relative military strength and probably aren't to keen to have Democracy™ being forcefully implemented on them.

Yeah... I'm trying to do RA campaigns in hard and some missions are really difficult (and I use the save a lot to backtrack in time). I always played in easy or medium as kid, so made there's that.

The messaging app of Windows Phone that blended seemlessly SMS, facebook messenger and a third provider was awesome to use.

Regulators should in my opinion impose that the message app with XX millions users provide an API for interoperability with other services.

Well source language word paired with one or more translations is the minimal structure for a dictionary and some printed dictionaries are indeed like this.

I browsed some entries of your dictionary and indeed their are (sometimes quite elaborate) explanations. I could easily why it ran out of steam, especially even a basic compiling is a daunting task. Also contributors are fews. On the Jibiki.fr (Japanese-French) project, most of the corrections are made by two members. They're starting from an existing dictionary and it still took years to just check the headwords.

Thanks very much for the paper. I'll read it. I actually already had one of your paper on my machine (Asialex 2011 proceedings) but haven't read it yet.

Did you start it before JEDict from Breen started existing? It's great for English language for other Japanese-* pairs are poorly endowed. There is also focused work on neologisms that could be done with a few people and could really improve existing free solutions.

I'm personally using the route of digitizing an existing dictionary, albeit manually because that can't be automated in this case.

I don't really use it often as a user nor i my projects to have a definite opinion. There is some pairs of words (about 5K) in Sino-Vietnamese that came with their chu nom writing which was very helpful to one of project. Otherwise I think it lacks structure and can't be harvested automatically easily (I don't think Wikidata integrate it all, and that website is a non-starter for me). Also every language is structured differently so Wiktionary can hardly be commented as a whole.

Yes, dictionary content is the revenue source of dictionary vendors, so of course they don't want anyone to use it without permission. On the other hand there are more and more open-data projects (I started one myself), often based on printed dictionaries that felt in the public domain.

If your tool doesn't come with bundled data from Apple, extract data in local and doesn't leak it to another party it's probably safe to do so (like emulators).

Only if the said support and code are not localized too. I'm using all my devices in English because it's easier to find help online but I can see why people less proficient in it would prefer localized software down to formulae and documentation.

Microsoft is a complex and big entity. While most of it is doing a bad job whatever it is, some parts are quite good. In particular now that the C# stack is fully open, it's very easy to report a bug (on GitHub) and developers are reactive from my experience (submitted a bug impacting the dotnet SDK).

> You can't teach false facts to people.

Then why are history books filled with false facts? And that's in the case the government didn't decided to suppress history classes altogether, as it might make people think (I'm referencing the deletion of history classes in scientific high shool section). Paille et poutre...

Still missing: namespaces, attributes and comments (only-half ironical comment).

The local big player is Japan. It would be hard to intervene because of its current constitution but I don't see them letting PRC push its border so close. Moreover Okinawa was historically a vassal state of both Chinese empires and Japan, so it's possible China greed could extend there as well.

> Do scientists actually read what they cite?

I depends on ones probity, but yes the phenomenon is widespread. There are numerous reasons to cite a paper and just read it superficially: padding the references list, pleasing a reviewer by adding a paper he recommended, citing friends, etc. In my own lab they frequently cite a certain theory which if you actually read about it has nothing to do with what they are doing.