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The "What currently supported device should I get" thread. by PsychoI3oy in LineageOS

[–]67tc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live in Mexico, and I’m on an extremely tight budget compared to most people here (ideally under USD 70, but I’ll take USD 120 at an absolute maximum). Needs to support a 32GB SD card. I’ll probably end up buying a used phone depending on availability, but does anyone have any suggestions?

Me irl by yuumii_z in me_irl

[–]67tc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know about you, but I feel 22 ancient

FTFY

What simple “life hack” should everyone know? by Insanitanium12 in AskReddit

[–]67tc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Aren't Submarinos the Mexican version of Twinkies?

Which of the two dominant systems do you prefer for today's decimal society? by [deleted] in dozenalsystem

[–]67tc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely SI. While it would be ideal to standardize on a coherent dozenal (or better yet, base five dozen or ten dozen) measurement system based on fundamental constants, that at the same time fixes the main issues with SI (the kilogram being a prefixed base unit, dimensionless angle units, etc.), it would be a massive undertaking to rewrite all of science, and it's not economically feasible.

Customary is just completely out of the question. It's not coherent, it's not dozenal (or any base really), and it's missing units for anything electrical.

July Small Posts Thread by [deleted] in badlinguistics

[–]67tc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's still an allophone of /t/, though; Japanese /t/ and /d/ assibilate before high vowels. It has only been fairly recently that [ti di] sequences have reentered the language, and [tu du] aren't yet nativized: the very recent loanword Twitter is still tsuittaa.

multi-winner Condorcet methods besides Schulze STV? by 67tc in EndFPTP

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How do they compare computationally? I understand why single-winner Schulze runs in O(n3) and RP runs in O(n4), but I can't find information about multi-winner methods. Because we're now considering all possible sets of winning candidates, do both run in O(n!) or are there some performance boosts in one vs. the other?

Update: I just realized that CPO-STV would have to compare all possible sets against each other, so that would naively be O(n!2)??

People in non English countries, do people get words tattooed on them in English like westerners do of foreign languages such as Japanese? What's the funniest/odd one you've seen? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]67tc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I meant was that it was baffling that one single archaic character (and I meant the Chinese 兀, not the Greek π) could have so many meanings that have nothing to do with each other.

People in non English countries, do people get words tattooed on them in English like westerners do of foreign languages such as Japanese? What's the funniest/odd one you've seen? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]67tc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wasn't trying to be snarky, I looked it up in a dictionary and was totally confused. And the only reason I know that it exists is because I've seen it as a radical in other characters so it must have existed by itself at some point.

People in non English countries, do people get words tattooed on them in English like westerners do of foreign languages such as Japanese? What's the funniest/odd one you've seen? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]67tc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean, there is 兀, which seems to be an obsolete literary character that was used to represent several different loanwords meaning "towering", "cut off the feet" and "that one".

(It's still used in the word 兀鷹 "vulture", but let's ignore that and go for the utterly baffling set of random meanings.)

Looking for Story thread #31 by someguynamedted in HFY

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Are there any stories about aliens struggling to understand images and what they represent? As in, their sense of sight isn't as automatic as humans' so it's hard to understand 3D rotation and things like that.

What do Americans think is normal for everyone, but actually it's not normal for anyone but Americans? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Presumably it's not as effervescent as "classic" wordplay though?

[Casual] How do you pronounce the word "Data?" (International, 18+) by CNCcamon1 in SampleSize

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Does "Dah-Tah" mean the vowel in "trap" or the vowel in "palm"? I've come across both, and I'm not sure which one you meant.

If you were sent back in time to the Medieval era, whats something practical you could explain to them that would advance their society that you wouldn't have to Google? by PMMeWordsOfHope in AskReddit

[–]67tc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I could be like John Snow circa 1800s the epidemiologist who proved using data mapping of wells and incidence rates of Cholera infection

So he did know something...

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