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I live abroad from some time and never had to use VPN, so vital is relative. The more annoying thing is phone numbers. More and more web services are using it as a security measure, and a lot aren't programmed to deal with international numbers. A bank in my country is especially idiotic in that respect, and I keep a monthly 5€ phone plan from there just to be sure I'll not lose access to a few websites.

> Yeah this is what bothers me too.

Yet you fell for government propaganda and report the fault on people who don't want to take part in clinical trial. The restriction of liberty with a vaccinal passport is purely a political choice and has nothing with health per se. A lot of countries are doing fine without it.

Capital plus immigration. I've been in WA a decade ago and I was surprised by the number of ethnic Chinese people everywhere. One day China will just have to push a button to turn the country into one of its province, without any need for war.

This is where Western and Japanese linguistics show their biggest difference. The former has a tendency to try making heavy generalizations (finding the universal properties of language/s) and prove it by crafting a few examples fitted for the task (peak armchair linguistics). In the latter, a huge amount of data is collected. I've seen at library a book with hundred maps, relatively precise, about the fine variation in Japanese dialect. It's however sometimes lacking explanation. So both approaches have their strengths and weaknesses and I think that more ground breaking word can be done if relying on works from the two traditions.

Genuine question: What does it bring new to the table?

American opinion on food: automatically discarded.

This is a simple heuristic I live with.

I especially hate this "corporate fun" style when it's a big tech repository where each bullet point of a list is replaced by an emoji.

> Apple's mistake is that they seemingly believe there is pushback because people misunderstand how it works.

They don't believe this. The lack of understanding trick is often used by governments and corporations because it robs the opposite party the choice to oppose, as opposition is framed as lack of understanding instead of a political choice. It's a semi-elaborate way of calling idiots people who disagree. This is why governments "educate" on topics they don't people to oppose.

Author is a woman.

> 'what if you wanted to only sign part of a document' and 'what if, after signing, the document was processed by something that reordered the attributes'

Those use cases are valid. The second one is actually the reason why JSON can't be used for a similarly usage (there is not canonization standard, and reading then writing a file could reorder the elements order).

Funny you belittle "half finished product" while praising Linux in the same paragraph...

> The term "toxic masculinity" does not imply "masculinity = toxic".

It totally does, this is why those two words are used in that expression. The plan is to skew the meaning of masculinity by making the colloquation widely used enough, until it's automatically associated with toxicity even when that word is not present.

Also since web browsers are taking more and more of the operating systems responsabilities (providing API to buid applications) they should be more careful with compatibility of applications. Reversing the responsability is not acceptable.

Coincidentally I just got burned today by some of those Chrome changes: a web app I'm developping has its container exposed on port 10080 for some reason. Impossible to open it with Chrome, because it decided most ports are now "dangerous". Took me 10 minutes to figure out, as it was working fine before. As relaunching the thing involve some manual steps, I solve the problem using Safari... It is becoming more and more difficult to do things not vetted by Google, and that's scary.

I'm reading a page about Zig from the official documentation and it says:

> For C/C++ projects, having dependencies can be fatal, especially on Windows, where there is no package manager.

Which is doubly wrong. First there is an official package manager for Windows (winget), but there is also vcpkg, a package manager for C and C++ libraries, also developed by Microsoft.

Otherwise the language seems to have good design, so it's bit regretful to use strawman argument about package managers.

PS: the doc page is https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

Also strange not to mention potential state actor. Each time an attack in carried on US targets there is a premade list of countries from which it supposedly come, and here nothing.

Great idea. Then we can finally stop counting men and women in all occupations as those counts are used as the basis of sexist policies.

That's not a real solution because education is mostly at the hand of governments, who are close to the said corporations. And the even if people were more critical about what they read, it is not that helpful since all the media outlets are controlled by the same people and thus pushing the same narrative. Without any alternative view it's hard to even think of something.

Tunisia never was a colony of France, it was a protectorate. Words have meaning, so please stop spreading disinformation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectorate

"Le protectorat colonial se distingue de la colonie dans la mesure où un territoire colonisé est placé sous l’administration directe de la métropole dont il fait partie intégrante, tandis que le territoire sous protectorat conserve théoriquement une relative autonomie." https://bibliotheque-numerique.diplomatie.gouv.fr/MEAE/fr/pr...

There are so much rules, yet for some reasons apps that are free to download but require a subscription at $30/month to do any action (so, not even a freemium model and arguably qualifiable of scam) are present in the store...

Edit for the downvoters: I'm speaking of apps doing local data manipulation (in my case, I tried few photo collage apps), not something linked to a web service. Those should be one time purchase, not subscription based.

> my profession is vaccine hesitancy and persuasion researcher

Can't get if this is sarcasm or not. If true, it's scary how fast micro-fields are created and funded once there is a political purpose behind it, so that policies can be rubber-stamped as science. If false, nice troll.

Well you admit yourself in your 5th and 6th points that I'm right. I chatted as soon as yesterday with someone studying Vietnamese dictionaries written in kanbun and nôm, so indeed that person need to know a lot of kanji. That's not representative of the whole society, but you can't rule out the existence of those people. It's also telling that the biggest dictionary of Chinese characters is the Daikanwa Jiten, compiled by a Japanese.

Imagine thinking learning ONE phoneme is a hard task... Please never have a look at Arabic or you'll have a stroke.

Moreover [ɾ] can be replaced by [l] perfectly fine and the vowel devoicing is not something you need to do anyway (it's not even occurring in all dialects). So even searching really hard for "difficulties" you can't find even one thing that is remotely difficult which just proves my point.

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First, you don't need 10k kanji to read. About 3000-5000 depending on what you read is enough. Then count 400-500 kanji per year if learning at university and being motivated (lot of people stops).

For conversation count two intensive years for the bare minimum, add one for more fluency. Actually all depends on how much effort you spend on it, I know a guy who was JLPT N2 or so after it's first university year (needless to say, he spent an aweful amount of time practicing, especially with natives). Then add at least one year in Japan to really get a good grasp (I went from N3 to N2 in a year while basically partying).

No, Japanese phonology and therefore pronunciation (what the grand parent post is complaining about) is one of the easiest out there. There are very few consonants, only 5 vowels, not tone and accent is irrelevant. I don't understand how pronunciation could be remotely a problem with Japanese.

There are also some other easy things like grammar (very few rules, that are quite consistent and composable) and some basic sentence pattern (heck you can make full sentences, sometimes conversations, with a single word [the predicative adjectives]).

Except you won't be able to do that with Duolingo. I'll go as far as saying that Duolingo is (very) negative for learners: it sells them the idea they are learning a language and progressing when they are in fact not.

A good example of that is a comment I read here on HN from a user defending Duolingo since it allowed him to master hiragana (one script of Japanese) after two years and half. This is normally taking a week, for a slow learner, and the rest is practicing for fluency.

Source: myself; learned and learning multiple languages, at university and by myself. Working in edtech research.

Age of Empires II Definitive Edition is getting new DLC recently, as well as new game modes (Campaign co-cop, Empire Wars).

Wargame Red Dragon announced a South Africa themed DLC.

The fact web standards exist doesn't not mean they are to be used or implemented. If that were the case, the web would have became the semantic web by now given how much standards the W3C wrote about that.

There isn't any commercial or open-source mobile without security flaws. Given the importance of iOS it's no wonder it's under scrutiny by attackers, just like Windows was (is) while Apple was memeing a virus free Mac OS. That wasn't the case, it's just MacOS was a mostly irrelevant target.

Yes. Europe developed vaccines and gave some for free to Africans but somehow "the EU might have ruined Africa's best chance out of the pandemic". This is one more article in the thread of "White man bad" that are trendy since a few years. And the article doesn't enlighten us of what would have happened if UE didn't gave any vaccine whatsoever or let Africa develop one, since UE intervention supposedly f*cked up the situation.