<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: japanoise</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=japanoise</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:54:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=japanoise" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by japanoise in "Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's all narrative. Abstract strategy games with perfect information (like chess and go) look at a casual glance like they should be difficult for computers, but in fact they're rather ideal. Before AlphaGo, belligerent go players used to smugly dismiss chess as a 'solved game' (not what that means) because chess engines have been better than the best humans for years.</p>
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<p>I would think of using 'Frenchie' to refer to a person as being affectionate banter. Like 'Yank' for Americans or 'Canuck' for Canadians. It's not incorrect, but would be inappropriate outside of an informal context.<p>French people have 'rosbif' to refer to the English and Australians have 'pom' or 'pommie'. You wouldn't call the prime minister that at a diplomatic event, but it's not offensive to call your friends that.</p>
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<p>I'm using the words 'grammatical' and 'ungrammatical' in a linguistic sense; human languages are subtle and fluid, and one doesn't have to be far along the sliding scale between 'doesn't speak a word' and 'well-educated native speaker' to be understood. We speak of 'broken' English when somebody is able to be understood but hasn't fully grasped the language yet; using demonyms incorrectly is a subtler flavor of the same thing. For example 'no come here' -> 'no entering' -> 'no entry'</p>
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<p>It's not <i>completely</i> wrong, it will be understood, but it is ungrammatical and a clear marker that the speaker is not native, similar to getting adjectives in the 'wrong' order ('a big tasty sandwich' sounds more natural to a native speaker than 'a tasty big sandwich', even though the latter makes sense and will be understood).<p>Demonyms for historical neighbours of England have irregular forms when speaking of a particular person from there. Scotland has 'Scot' and 'Scotsman'; Wales has 'Welshman'; Spain has 'Spaniard'. Other countries indeed need a second word, such as 'person' or 'citizen' ('a Chinese' sounds offensive to me; I would say 'a Chinese person' in all cases). The only country I can think of where using a bare demonym is grammatical when speaking of a single person from there is Germany with 'a German' - probably because it has the suffix -man.<p>Edit: A sibling comment pointed out that 'an American' is grammatical, and thinking about it, I think the suffix -an is what makes bare demonyms grammatical - you can say 'an Angolan', 'a Laotian', 'a Peruvian', 'a Moroccan', etc, but wouldn't say 'a Thai', 'a Swedish', 'a Sudanese', etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:33:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730454</link><dc:creator>japanoise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by japanoise in "Pandoc – A universal document converter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Either pandoc or shellcheck, for sure. Both of them are sensible choices to use Haskell for</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 01:51:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24883281</link><dc:creator>japanoise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24883281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24883281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by japanoise in "Show HN: The Internet Portal – Warp to a Random Website, Using ICANN CZDS Data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh, right, I see it now. It wasn't visible straight away on my phone.</p>
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<p>My first result was a Chinese porn website. Thank goodness I'm at home and not at work right now. You may wish to add a disclaimer about that.</p>
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<p>Switching to dvorak definitely helped me. I did as the author suggests, learned dvorak and switched to Emacs. Ever since, I've never struggled with RSI</p>
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<p>There is no Cabal.</p>
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<p>Contrary to the other commenters, I see this as a huge improvement. Maybe I'm more used to languages like C rather than what, ml, python, pascal?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2020 10:30:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098616</link><dc:creator>japanoise</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24098616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by japanoise in "Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pinetrees are eco fascists (mostly admirers of the unabomber) who use the pinetree emoji in their names.<p>Trad-cath-leninist is more straightforward: traditional (I.e. Reactionary/fundamentalist) Catholic (as in the church) + marxist-leninist.</p>
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<p>My impression of twitter was of an insular bizzaro-world where communities that are essentially invisible in meatspace become enormous and have outsized influence; k-pop fans are huge on twitter and almost always trending, but are barely known outside of their own circles elsewhere, not to mention all the incredibly granular political groups (the long and bloody trad-cath-leninist vs pinetree-eco-fash wars are so drawn out you'd be forgiven for not realising it's only 20 people per side, posting 24/7)<p>It always amazes me that normal people like journalists still use such a strange website.</p>
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<p>With the topic of this thread being slate star codex, it saddens and discourages me that use of a pseudonym is not allowed on letter.wiki.</p>
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<p>> If you must do religion, why not Christianity or Islam?<p>I'm amazed this aside isn't getting you downvoted. Have you been under a rock for the last 2000 years? The horrors of Abrahamic religion far outstrip anything Buddhism is responsible for.</p>
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<p>A Forth shibboleth is that you have to implement your own in order to understand it. Try reading the assembly, then forth source, for jonesforth: <a href="https://github.com/AlexandreAbreu/jonesforth" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AlexandreAbreu/jonesforth</a><p>This is how I learned.</p>
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<p>You're thinking of INTERCAL: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL</a></p>
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<p>Maybe I'm showing my power level a bit here. To me it means "tweaking something's aesthetics in a way that doesn't improve, perhaps even degrades, performance".</p>
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<p>To use computing slang to talk about music: this is just ricing. At best you'll sound out of tune with the rest of the band, at worst you'll run into wolf intervals and other issues with just intonation.<p>This touches on the biggest reason we stick with 12-tone equal temparament in the West: social reasons. Having a standard means we can play together, in groups or at jams, without having to negotiate which tuning system we use (an argument most working musicians I've met see as utter wank and a waste of time).</p>
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<p>Could you tell me about your method for this?</p>
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<p>It's a varying question and depends what you mean by an all-in-one experience. There's no one perfect language.<p>My answer would probably be Python, though.</p>
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