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New comment by tbodt in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

tbodt — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:41:37 +0000

> “For a lot of people in the world, their phone is their only computer, and it stores some of their most private information,” Samat said.

Not applying the policy to adb installs makes a lot more sense if the people this is trying to protect don't have a computer

New comment by tbodt in "Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers [video]"

tbodt — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 01:21:39 +0000

I work on Starnix and I've never heard of anything meant to replace it. What are you talking about?

The new signs bringing greater understanding to organic chemistry

tbodt — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:37:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/the-new-signs-bringing-greater-understanding-to-organic-chemistry/4020582.article

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42267562

Points: 3

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Martha's Vineyard Sign Language

tbodt — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 06:29:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-hidden-history-of-marthas-vineyard-sign-language

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42219501

Points: 53

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SAT Requires Exhaustive Search

tbodt — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:34:22 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09512

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37930172

Points: 2

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New comment by tbodt in "Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words"

tbodt — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:35:11 +0000

I have a direct answer: once you get good enough at toki pona to want to distinguish, you do some personal reflection about what a friend is to you and find more specific ways to say that, such as jan poka (accompanying person) or jan mi (my person). You can also specify whether jan li pona tawa mi (good to me) or li pona tawa kulupu (good to the broader community).

New comment by tbodt in "Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words"

tbodt — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:25:10 +0000

Lots of little mistakes, here's an accurate back translation

I love Toki Pona. I've been speaking it from a short time. You can see my vehicle at https://www.youtube.com/@janPolijan. Toki Pona is good for fun conversation, but it doesn't have a lot of talking or ways of talking. Its sounds are nice and few. The toki pona community is growing the language. People do a lot of talking and have fun conversations. But toki pona is good for thinking in because of it and is fun for the mind. You'll be able to talk a lot in Toki Pona in the future. You'll be able to say large things. But you won't want to talk about transportation technology in Toki Pona. People talk in about big knowledge gadgets in book vehicles. [lol] Toki Pona is small, but it's fun and can say a lot of things.

New comment by tbodt in "Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words"

tbodt — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 02:45:37 +0000

Much closer

New comment by tbodt in "Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words"

tbodt — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 23:06:20 +0000

I would definitely not attempt to translate something like that in one shot - I'd read it and digest it for a bit and come up with a way to say the same thing without being unnecessarily obtuse, Thing Explainer style. mi nanpa e mute ijo la kipisi ijo li ken ala lon. ijo wan sin li kama la mi suli wan e nanpa. taso mi ken ala suli kipisi e nanpa. nanpa pi mute ijo la ni li ken ala: ijo tu en kipisi pi ijo wan li lon. taso mi nanpa e suli ijo la kipisi nanpa ale li ken. ijo li kama suli sin pi kipisi wan la mi ken suli pi kipisi wan e nanpa. kipisi li ken lili ale. nasin nanpa ni li ken nanpa e suli ijo e suli tenpo e suli seli. nanpa pi suli ijo la ni li ken: mi sitelen e nanpa la sitelen ni li ken nanpa ni taso li sama ala sitelen pi nanpa ante. taso nanpa mute la sitelen ona li suli ale li ken ala pini. GPT3 doesn't translate this very well, it seems to miss the fine points of grammar, but maybe GPT4 would do better

New comment by tbodt in "Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words"

tbodt — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 22:06:57 +0000

As an experienced toki pona speaker, this list is amusing because most of this is either a pointless terrible idea or already valid and accepted - somehow with very little in between. I'll leave it to the next commenter to go point by point.

New comment by tbodt in "Stable Diffusion 2 Depth Guided model: architecture photos from dollhouse"

tbodt — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 09:22:47 +0000

Beyond what you described there is a weird clause in paragraph 7:

7. Updates and Runtime Restrictions. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Licensor reserves the right to restrict (remotely or otherwise) usage of the Model in violation of this License, update the Model through electronic means, or modify the Output of the Model based on updates. *You shall undertake reasonable efforts to use the latest version of the Model.*

I think this means it is now illegal to use SD 1 if at all reasonably possible to use SD 2?

New comment by tbodt in "Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years"

tbodt — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 06:58:41 +0000

Panini's grammar describes Sanskrit syntax and morphology, and it's structured much like a typical parser generator grammar, except written in a heavily abbreviated form of Sanskrit instead of a programming language. In fact it's the first formal grammar in recorded history of any language, and western linguists studying it is arguably is the reason we have the concept of a formal grammar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%AD%C4%81dhy%C...

New comment by tbodt in "I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you"

tbodt — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:24:29 +0000

In the Hacker News language game I think this comment delivered without sarcasm would be much better received.

New comment by tbodt in "We became experts on Google Play Store policy violations"

tbodt — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 23:13:42 +0000

I suspect it is actually an army of underpaid contractors, and that the inconsistency is a result of each flag and update getting looked at by a different contractor.

New comment by tbodt in "[dead]"

tbodt — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:24:13 +0000

The problem with the law is this bit snuck into a definition at the very end:

> or any topic involving gender identity, gender dysphoria, transgenderism, sexual orientation, or related subjects.

New comment by tbodt in "Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests"

tbodt — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 19:00:35 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/AsahiLina

New comment by tbodt in "Never trust a system that seems to be working"

tbodt — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:27:42 +0000

.oi

New comment by tbodt in "Never trust a system that seems to be working"

tbodt — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:01:21 +0000

There are plenty, but you may have to turn on showdead and scroll to the bottom and uncollapse to see them.

New comment by tbodt in "Never trust a system that seems to be working"

tbodt — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:55:41 +0000

I did a quick search on the comments page for "he"+"him" and found nothing referring to foone, and was about to congratulate HN for getting it right, and then thought to scroll to the bottom of the page and found a dozen dead/autocollapsed comments, most including the wrong pronouns. At least they're where they belong.

RegretsReporter extension – crowdsourced YouTube recommendation filtering

tbodt — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:24:35 +0000

Article URL: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/youtube/regretsreporter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32925574

Points: 3

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