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New comment by Causality1 in "Help! Is This Arabic?"

Causality1 — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:25:22 +0000

Also add "use the correct Arabic for your target audience". "Arabic" is not monolithic and using the wrong dialect can go over as well as using Scots on a web page intended for Jamaicans.

New comment by Causality1 in "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

Causality1 — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 01:28:51 +0000

I would call myself a 99-percenter. I still believe in the restriction of credible violent threats, fraud, and pornography featuring real children.

New comment by Causality1 in "111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video]"

Causality1 — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 01:26:24 +0000

Being able to just do anything you want was so incredible, though. For example, the Google Assistant DING is one of the most ear-splittingly obnoxious sounds I've ever heard and there's not a damn thing I can do about it besides stop using Google Assistant. When I had similar problems in the 90s I could just go find the audio file in question and quiet or replace it with whatever I wanted.

New comment by Causality1 in "A Lonely Universe"

Causality1 — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 23:59:37 +0000

Either intelligent life is rare in the universe or there's something that happens to it that prevents it from what we envision as the future of our own species, i.e., colonizing and spreading among planets. Maybe 99.99% of species ruin their own climate before getting off-world. Maybe they all decide it's happier living as hunter-gatherers. Unless we're alone, there is some fate that's common to all intelligences and it isn't a Star Trek future. The universe is simply too old. If anything else like us existed and it was possible to exist like us for a long period they'd have filled every planet before we ever evolved.

Personally I think just the fact the universe hasn't been eaten by Von Neumann machines means we're alone.

New comment by Causality1 in "AirPods don't “just work”"

Causality1 — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:28:05 +0000

Nobody seems to care, is the thing. Qualcomm is now deprecating APTX-LL in favor of APTX-Adaptive even though it's 50% laggier even under ideal circumstances.

New comment by Causality1 in "AirPods don't “just work”"

Causality1 — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:25:08 +0000

No noise cancellation is better than bad noise cancellation. The ANC on every set of earbuds and headphones under $200 I've tried is just a blast of white noise that makes it feel like someone is ramming cotton balls into my ears with a jackhammer.

New comment by Causality1 in "AirPods don't “just work”"

Causality1 — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:20:37 +0000

Not to mention zero latency. Trying to have multiple people in a car play music/podcasts is a nightmare over bluetooth when you used to be able to just pass an aux cable around.

New comment by Causality1 in "AirPods don't “just work”"

Causality1 — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:17:27 +0000

if you instantly play the music you were listening to right before the call by clicking the play button on your keyboard, your music will play at a lower audio quality

I don't recall the names of the specific bluetooth profiles, but I wish Airpods and bluetooth headphones in general gave you more control over this. Sure, the older headset profile is noticeably lower quality but it's also virtually lag-free. I have a shitty old headset I use when gaming on my phone specifically because there's no noticeable latency.

New comment by Causality1 in "mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine boosters induce immunity against Omicron"

Causality1 — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:11:23 +0000

My concern is for the other symptoms of covid that could compound. Taking your vaccinations and boosters will generally keep you out of the hospital, but what of the other consequences? Cardiomyopathy, damage to smell and taste, and cognitive impairment could all be cumulative. What happens if they are and we're subjected to decades of repeated damage?

New comment by Causality1 in "“Zero fucks given” in other languages"

Causality1 — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:51:52 +0000

I feel like these have been translated in an over-technical way to deliberately make them seem more ridiculous. Is It can oxidize on my anus not really "it can rust on my ass"?

New comment by Causality1 in "English has been my pain for 15 years (2013)"

Causality1 — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 09:32:19 +0000

This phenomena also scales not only up to a room full of internationals but also down to within countries. For example, if you're American and have a stronger accent you'll typically use a more universal one at work, even if everyone you work with is from the same geographic area as you. That's my experience as a Southerner.

New comment by Causality1 in "Against Translation"

Causality1 — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:58:02 +0000

The bigger issue is there's like five entirely separate theses that he kind of tries to ramble through in a single article that should've been split up. Some of his points are excellent but some of them are silly and childish, the products of someone who lives in academia and not the real world.

New comment by Causality1 in "Forest data for 236 countries and territories in the period 1990-2020"

Causality1 — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:26:45 +0000

It's a little silly to make such a big deal out of 54% of global forest area being in five countries when those five countries make up more than 35% of the earth's land area.

New comment by Causality1 in "Pixel prevented me from calling 911"

Causality1 — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 14:32:13 +0000

"Google uses AI to write apology for murdering user" is a headline I fully expect to read one day.

New comment by Causality1 in "NASA returns Hubble to full science operations"

Causality1 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 14:40:48 +0000

That's a great argument if it required a shuttle launch at 1.5 billion a pop. But modern rockets like Starship are a lot cheaper. Musk's $2 million number is probably horseshit but according to David Todd, the Seradata satellite market analyst, Starship launch cost could come in at $10 million. I'd say $10 million to bring Hubble home is worth it.

New comment by Causality1 in "NASA returns Hubble to full science operations"

Causality1 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 02:40:32 +0000

it's moreso disappointing that SpaceX keeps getting injected into conversations about NASA's scientific work

Why are you getting hung up on Starship being the current best choice for a return mission at Hubble's EOL? If I was making the comment in 2010 I'd've said returning Hubble is worth the cost of a shuttle launch. If Hubble miraculously lasts another decade I'll make the argument returning it is worth the cost of whatever vehicle is best suited at that time, possibly if unlikely a vehicle coming from the France 2030 development drive.

New comment by Causality1 in "NASA returns Hubble to full science operations"

Causality1 — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 23:39:28 +0000

I can't figure out what your point is. I'm saying Hubble is such an incredible achievement and pillar of the spirit of space exploration it's worth spending the money to bring it home even if doing so doesn't generate any scientific data in and of itself.

New comment by Causality1 in "NASA returns Hubble to full science operations"

Causality1 — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 23:23:58 +0000

With the retirement of the shuttle, Starship is the only vehicle in or near operation capable of bringing Hubble back to earth intact.

New comment by Causality1 in "NASA returns Hubble to full science operations"

Causality1 — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 22:14:24 +0000

The purpose of NASA is not only to explore but inspire. In light of that, I'd be fully supportive of using a Starship launch to bring Hubble home.

New comment by Causality1 in "Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11"

Causality1 — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 20:30:31 +0000

I like the feature additions but dislike that there's no visual division between the menu bar and the title bar you can click and drag to manipulate the window. Windows 10 and 11 often make me feel as if I have some disorder of the nervous system as I'm forever clicking just to the side of the interface element I want to use.