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Comment · 1 month ago
In spanish you also have to use a/an:

Es un perro (its a dog)

Saying "es perro" makes no sense.

The problem is that you are mixing two different constructs, if you are refering to the whole thing you have to say un/una, if you are describing a property of something you don't use it.

Es un perro, es macho. (It's a dog, is male)

If you are talking about doctor being a property of someone,like his profession, you say "es médico" but if you are refering to the doctor as an entity and not a property of someone you have to use "a":

Es un médico muy famoso (He is a very famous doctor). "Es médico muy famoso" again makes no sense.

Comment · 6 months ago
Yeah that's true, a product can be successful with truly bad code, but it also makes developers lives miserable each time they need to add a new feature, solve a bug, or simply understand how that entangled mess works.

Management and sales may not appreciate good software design and good code, the next developer that has to work on system will.

Comment · 7 months ago
I find it interesting that, unless I’m mistaken, this was a completely engineering effort.

That is, they were not trying to follow the notion of a universal computing device that had already been defined by Turing and Church at the time. They were just trying to build something like a huge programmable calculator, but they ended up building a universal computation device anyway.

Comment · 7 months ago
Singers drift because they use relative pitch, because most musicians dont have perfect pitch.

With relative pitch music sounds the same even if you deviate from the original equal temperament pitch of the key you started singing even changing the key.

For the same reason if there is a fixed instrument playing at the same time, like a piano accompaniment, it's sound would be used as a reference and the singers would not drift

Comment · 7 months ago
You can with instruments without fixed pitches, like human voice and string instruments, in fact choirs and string quartets do play this way, adjusting each note.

But for instruments with fixed pitches, like guitar or pianos,12 equal temperament is the best compromise to be able to play in all keys.

Comment · 1 year ago
Of the 21 reports included as an example i have looked at number two, Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in WebSocket Handling #2298307

The style is obviously gpt generated and I think the curl team knows that, still they proceed to answer and keep making questions about the report to its author to get more info.

It really bothers me is that these idiots are consuming the time and patience of nice and reasonable people, I really hope the can find a solution and don't eventually snap by having to deal with this bullshit.

Comment · 1 year ago
I am currently in my work office in Madrid, main building has electricity so I guess they have some backup generators, the kitchen however is out of service.

According to local newspapers metro network, airport and traffic lights are all down

Comment · 1 year ago
I am also a native Spanish speaker and I haven't ever heard this. I have always called and heard from every other Spanish speaker the letter Y as i griega (greek i)

Not saying that this is wrong, in fact one can check the Spanish wikipedia to confirm that "ye" is a valid naming for Y but definitely not used where I live nor for the letter or a fork in the road.

Comment · 1 year ago
I understand that is more juicy to get information from graphs, figures and so on, as every domain uses those, but i really hope to eventually see these models to be able to workout music notation, i have tried the best known apps and all of them fail to capture important details such as guitar performace symbols for bends or legato
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
this is a brain thing, it appears that the neural parts for whatever is going inside to have absolute pitch can only be formed when the brain is still developing as a child.
Comment · 1 year ago
Start by expanding the countries in your search.

At its peak, the roman empire covered Europe, North Africa, and parts of Eurasia.

In Spain the most famous is the one in Segovia, it is incredibly well conserved, but not in actual use.

Comment · 2 years ago
Sorry if this is a silly question, i am a web developer so I dont usually dwelve into systems or low level programming except out of curiosity.

My understanting is that everyone is suggesting to move to memory safe languages when possible, however Zig does not seem to have any.

Since zig is a new language my guess is that the main use would be brand new projects, but sholdn't this be done in a memory safe language?

It seems that the selling point of Zig is: more modern than C but simpler than Rust, so I understand the appeal, but isn't this undermined by the lack of memory safety?

Comment · 2 years ago
Well the aztecs did the same before the europeans:

"Before the arrival of Spanish conquistadors, the Aztecs eradicated many Mayan works and sought to depict themselves as the true rulers through a fake history and newly written texts"

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

I dont mean this to be taken as a justification or something, but there is this tendency of picking historical eventsand judge them by todays standards, and is particularly egregious when it is only applied to just one side portraying others as innocent victims when they were actually doing the same thing.

Comment · 2 years ago
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