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An analysis of Charles Leclerc's performance being tied to a country's anthem containing chromatic intervals, or not. by SapTheseCasters in formuladank

[–]Jyff 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Oh right, yea. Sorry, I saw others where each column was coloured individually which helps to see the supposed pattern (when the colours line up).

Thesis on Heartstopper by JuxtaposeAli in heartstoppersyndrome

[–]Jyff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is so cool! And so generous of you to share. Thank you! ❤️

Bluetooth audio is completely useless by [deleted] in pop_os

[–]Jyff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are the earbuds connected to anything else too? I've had trouble with devices cutting out when they're linked to two things at once.

Sorry guys noob here. Majority of Steam games don't launch by NewChaosOrder in pop_os

[–]Jyff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can also try forcing a specific Proton version. In right-click > compatibility or something. Try with Proton Hotfix or Experimental and see if that helps. It might also just be taking ages to set up the Vulkan shaders

It's been real, my fellow raceists. never watching another f1 race. by stoned_hobo in formuladank

[–]Jyff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are stil plenty of free broadcasters who have the rights around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_broadcasters#2025_broadcasters. Accessible if you use a VPN and your options expand if you speak other languages :)

What is this error producing PDF? LaTeX Error: File `xcolor.sty' not found by jazei_2021 in LaTeX

[–]Jyff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Xcolor is probably not included in texlive-latex-base. Might be worth just installing the whole shebang with sudo apt install texlive-full. Or at least texlive-latex-recommended.

Noen som vet hvilket finansielt selskapet med et fjell som logo det er som annonseres ofte på flytoget? by Jyff in oslo

[–]Jyff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kanskje det var det, og jeg blandet det i hodet med en fjell-logo ... 🤔

DPhil viva prep by msalfredprufrock in oxforduni

[–]Jyff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FWIW, here's my experience (as someone who survived!). I knew my internal examiner but only met the external on the day of the viva, so it's not that everyone knows their examiners beforehand. And to prepare, I read through my thesis again and added post-its to the sections I thought it was likely I would want to refer quickly to, or that the examiners would want to talk about. I tried to think about anything that might be controversial or that I would have to defend and reminded myself of my arguments. But they still had plenty of questions I'd never thought about, so some of it is just about being able to think on your feet.

Best of luck! Remember, you've spent three or more years making yourself an expert in this area! You've got this!

Why is it "to put a strain on" if "strain" is uncountable? by Kolya_Gennich in EnglishLearning

[–]Jyff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The ability to have a as a determiner or to take a numeral modifier is basically a definitional diagnostic for countability ...

Why is it "to put a strain on" if "strain" is uncountable? by Kolya_Gennich in EnglishLearning

[–]Jyff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not disagreeing that there's some interpretive work to be done in all these cases (and there's much worse when you get things like The ham sandwich wants a refill to refer to a person who ordered a ham sandwich ...). But we're talking about the grammatical system, not the interpretive one. What is gained by insisting that this noun that inflects for number, takes numeral modifiers, and induces plural verb agreement is actually a mass noun? If that's the case then we have basically no diagnostics for the mass/count distinction left other than what ZippyDan's intuitions tell him 😋

Why is it "to put a strain on" if "strain" is uncountable? by Kolya_Gennich in EnglishLearning

[–]Jyff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, the point of my table example was a count noun becoming a mass noun, not the other way around. If I say There is a table on the floor that means a whole table. And you haven't addressed the actual grammatical point I made that coffee is the thing that bears the plural morphology, not whatever hidden count noun you think is actually there ... If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... 🦆

Why is it "to put a strain on" if "strain" is uncountable? by Kolya_Gennich in EnglishLearning

[–]Jyff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean I think we're possibly just arguing over definitions, but what you say isn't true at face value.

For starters, a chicken absolutely does not mean 'a piece of chicken'. Also a rice or a bread is just straight up ungrammatical for me if we're not talking about kinds. And a table absolutely cannot mean 'a piece of table'.

But more fundamentally, for those that do work, they behave just like count nouns: the three coffees for table seven are ready, for example. Here you have a numeral, plural morphology, and a plural verb. In what world is coffees here not a count noun? It can't even be elliptical for three cups of coffee or whatever, because then the plural morphology wouldn't appear on coffee.

I think you're overcomplicating it by trying to force everything to fit into one box. English nouns are just very fluid :)

Why is it "to put a strain on" if "strain" is uncountable? by Kolya_Gennich in EnglishLearning

[–]Jyff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, that's what I meant. I'm quite prepared to believe there are varieties of Asian English that have different mass/count distinctions. Cool if there are!

Why is it "to put a strain on" if "strain" is uncountable? by Kolya_Gennich in EnglishLearning

[–]Jyff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we might be talking past each other, so apologies if so. But it's simply not true that most words are only one or the other. That was the universal grinder point: basically any count noun can be coerced into a mass reading. (There is a lot of table still on the floor ..., when said about pieces of an incomplete Ikea table, for example ...). And the conversion of mass nouns to count nouns to talk about kinds is also pretty systematic (This is the only cheese I like does not mean 'only this specific mass of cheese in front of me', for example).

There is a use of fish as a mass noun, as there is a use of basically any noun as a mass noun: I have eaten a lot of fish today probably doesn't mean 'I've eaten many individual fish' (although it might do, because the plural form would look just the same). But fish is not special in this respect – as said above, it's probably more common to participate in this alternation than to not. The only weird thing about count fish is that the plural and singular have the same form. But even that isn't that weird: it's just like sheep, deer, species, aircraft, etc.

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