Hacker News: zubi

New comment by zubi in "I Visited Bucha Today"

zubi — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 01:11:40 +0000

Off topic, but I was wondering what the green names signify since I started following HN. Can you please tell?

New comment by zubi in "Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük (2012)"

zubi — Mon, 23 May 2022 11:19:40 +0000

The article nicely points out that the decline of Volapük is connected to reform attempts that originated from within. It also mentions that Esperanto had similar issues and some people went ahead to create a derivative language Ido. What it doesn't mention is that why Esperanto continued evolving while Volapük fell apart. One reason usually attributed to its longevity is that Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto, became aware of human tendency to "improve" or reform constructed languages and saw it's been happening to Volapük. So he simply added into the Esperanto manifesto that the rules of Esperanto are "untouchable". So, he stated, that if you attempt to change parts of the language, you cannot call it Esperanto any longer, in an attempt to prevent diversion from the common roots of it.

Largest Collection of Cigarettes

zubi — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 17:05:57 +0000

Article URL: http://www.tttt.ru/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29164279

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by zubi in "Countries that have accepted the World Passport"

zubi — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:52:44 +0000

And on every page, it seems.

New comment by zubi in "Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people"

zubi — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 22:18:05 +0000

I'm an introvert from Turkey.

New comment by zubi in "Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?"

zubi — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 19:57:48 +0000

Excellent reasoning. I never thought of this but very plausible indeed.

New comment by zubi in "Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?"

zubi — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:40:35 +0000

As a response to those who asked questions here in the comments:

When I finally overcame the shock, the very first thing I did was to ask her if she, or a guest, indeed searched for, or otherwise "input" anything related to usb-sticks or water-proofness into a computer system. The answer was no.

I don't know what to make of it. I don't want to succumb to conspiracy theories of the sort that ambient sound is recorded by our devices at all times. Most plausible explanation is perhaps the one about cognitive bias.

New comment by zubi in "Ask HN: I bought Voltaren at the chemist, now Google shows me ads for it. Why?"

zubi — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:23:11 +0000

March 2020, heydays of coronavirus paranoia. I came back home from somewhere, put my keys onto the dining table and went to the bathroom to clean up. My girlfriend, upon seeing the key-chain on the table started reproaching me for being careless about hygiene. When I returned from the bathroom I saw her washing the key-chain in the kitchen sink. This time I got angry and asked how come she hadn't thought that the usb memory-stick attached to the key-chain would be destroyed when being washed. I dried the keys along with the usb-stick, sat down at my table, opened up Facebook only to be greeted by an ad on top about water-proof usb memory sticks. I felt a chill ran down on my spine.

Man with a Collection of Tattooed Human Skin (2019)

zubi — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 22:00:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.artfido.com/man-creates-the-largest-collection-of-tattooed-human-skin-in-the-world/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23885207

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by zubi in "A Typology of Dumplings (2019)"

zubi — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 08:11:30 +0000

Fun article indeed but the data the author has collected, however, is sloppy. Being Turkish, I needed to verify "mantı" on the binary coded features table I and saw, to my dismay, that only the "steamed" is marked "1" among the cooking options, which is wrong even if you consider all variations. Even the wikipedia page correctly states that it is usually boiled or baked.

New comment by zubi in "Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist"

zubi — Thu, 14 May 2020 00:25:37 +0000

This one almost exists:

dexterious dex·te·ri·ous dizzy; full of excitement, energy, rage, etc "they met secretly and dexterious"

New comment by zubi in "Esperanto, an International Language"

zubi — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 01:26:50 +0000

Mi sendis al vi inviton ludi en la aplikaĵo. Mia enluda nomo estas "egeto". Se vi akceptas mian peton mi provos helpi vin uzante la babilejon, kiu estas parto de la aplikaĵo.

New comment by zubi in "Esperanto, an International Language"

zubi — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:43:59 +0000

Shameless plug: I wrote a scrabble-like html5 game for esperanto speakers named "7 Literoj". Android and web app available at https://7literoj.34bit.net/

Please comment if you play it.

New comment by zubi in "FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf]"

zubi — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:03:19 +0000

Interesting. I was able to watch it from somewhere not in the US before posting.

New comment by zubi in "FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021 [pdf]"

zubi — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:21:01 +0000

For those who don't live in the US, this entertaining video by John Oliver might give some context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO0iG_P0P6M

Government Blocks Social Media in Turkey

zubi — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 21:48:50 +0000

Article URL: https://netblocks.org/reports/social-media-blocked-in-turkey-as-idlib-military-crisis-escalates-r8VWGXA5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22438310

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by zubi in "Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler"

zubi — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 21:43:26 +0000

There was a period where I started seeing Webpack everywhere, being used by everyone, so I felt obliged to try it. I struggled with the concepts and configuration and eventually realized that I completely failed to figure them out. It was a heavy blow to my developer self confidence. Fortunately I recovered when I discovered Parcel shortly after. "No config" immediately caught me after the frustration. I'm grateful for and still use it.

New comment by zubi in "Show HN: My first game, minimal procgen gravity golf inspired by Desert Golfing"

zubi — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:21:04 +0000

Care to share the tech stack behind the game? Seems that you used a cross-platform technology to make it runable on several OSes.

New comment by zubi in "Graphics That Seem Clear Can Easily Be Misread"

zubi — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:32:47 +0000

If you take a statistics class, one of the very first things that are taught is to be careful not to infer a wrong cause-effect relation when presented with a "correlation".

A typical example is "given any city, there is a strong correlation between number of churches and number of crimes commited." This is pretty much true everywhere in the world but that does not imply one is causing the other. This correlation can simply be the natural outcome of more populous cities having both in higher numbers compared to less populated ones.

New comment by zubi in "How Does Esperanto Sound?"

zubi — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 22:35:33 +0000

Excellent work, and indeed it sounds pretty much neutral. One question though: I always thought Esperanto pronunciation and letters map quite one-to-one with Turkish, have you considered basing your work on Turkish instead of Polish?

Except ŭ, Esperanto vowels have exactly the same sound as they do in Turkish. Among the consonants, ĥ and c don't map, but all others do. Even ĉ, ŝ, ĝ and ĵ map to one specific letter with the identical sound.