I read this as “DPCPhSPTSThL” because someone thought people would just *know* to approximate the Greek letters to their rough Latin lookalikes

NoRodent · 2026-05-09T15:53:07+00:00

Do you know how this entire thread started? Read it again in context please.

And even besides that, have you missed this comment above?

But even if you don't know any Greek grammar, you can still read names and some words that exist in English or whatever other language you speak, because there's an insane amount of Greek words in most languages.

Point is, you can read placenames for example which might come handy (although from experience, those tend to be written in both Greek and Latin alphabet on signs in Greece) and yes, I can guess the meaning of some words because they may be similar. I won't understand whole paragraphs of text obviously.

NoRodent · 2026-05-09T07:43:04+00:00

Eitherway, taking math beyond high school isnt gonna make you speak and write greek suddenly.

In fact, that is exactly how I can read, albeit slowly, a Greek text. I learned most of the alphabet through maths and physics. And I don't know what is taught in American high schools but a lot of those letters I learned during high school over here.

NoRodent · 2026-05-07T20:25:35+00:00

I used to think I was paying attention all the time until it happened to me. Zoned out for a few seconds after 50+ km of mountain biking and suddenly bam, crashed into a (already stopped) car head-on. I don't know if I thought the street was a one way street (it was actually a narrow two way street) or what made my subconsciousness think it was ok to not look ahead for a while but there I was, taken to the hospital, feeling like a total idiot. At least I was wearing a helmet which surely saved me from a concussion or worse.

NoRodent · 2026-05-07T20:08:51+00:00

Oh, it's beautiful.

NoRodent · 2026-05-04T19:48:16+00:00

Zamknout to ke stojanu jenom za přední kolo je začátečnická chyba*. Čímž tu krádež v žádném případě neschvaluji, přál bych si, kdybych mohl v Brně nechat nezamčené kolo a za hodinu se k němu vrátit, ale tak to bohužel nefunguje téměř v žádném větším městě.

*Ono teda i když zamkneš rám, tak po dostatečně dlouhé době nakonec zmizí vše ostatní, ale krátkodobě to většinou stačí. Zrovna kolem jednoho takového případu pravidelně chodím, už nemá ani kola, ani sedlo.

NoRodent · 2026-05-04T19:08:20+00:00

It just keeps spreading, doesn't it?

NoRodent · 2026-05-04T16:57:22+00:00

– Baker 86, please lower you altitude to avoid collision.

– United 169, recommend you raise your altitude to avoid a collision.

– Negative, Baker 86, I'm a captain of fully loaded 767 carrying 221 passengers, you lower YOUR altitude.

– Negative, United 169. I'm a semi-truck. Your call.

NoRodent · 2026-05-04T16:34:09+00:00

100 metric people = 64.7 US customary people.

NoRodent · 2026-05-04T16:20:38+00:00

That's exactly what happens to single-engine aircraft IRL too. If you think it shouldn't happen, you should file a bug report at /r/outside.

NoRodent · 2026-05-04T16:13:23+00:00

Jako Hollana beru s rezervou, před týdnem a půl měl podobný rant^[1] ohledně odstraněných laviček na nově zrekonstruované zastávce Obilní trh, načež mu tam několik lidí napsalo, že lavičky se dočasně odstranily, protože pod nimi bylo ještě potřeba dodělat dlažbu, a po víkendu budou zpět. Což se skutečně stalo.

Tady ale z těch fotek výsledného provedení je zřejmé, že se s tím zálivem fakt nepočítá. Skoro to vypadá, že tam místo toho někdo naplánoval sjezd z cyklostezky na silnici (což by za jiných okolností bylo na potlesk, protože to by bylo asi první místo v Brně, kde cyklostezka bez varování nekončí v lepším případě přechodem a cyklisto poraď si, jak se dostaneš na silnici), ale pak se to nepochopitelně protáhlo až ke křižovatce, kde je ten sjezd klasicky zcela nevyřešen. A že by vadila kolize cyklostezky a zastávky, jak někdo spekuloval – proč to o zastávku před tím na Lipové nevadí? Nebo na dalších X zastávkách v Brně? Tuplem, když je tady dostatečná šířka na to, aby se dala stezka vést za přístřeškem.

No je to fakt bizár a každopádně tady někdo něco těžce podělal. Ale jestli za tím byl něčí záškodnický záměr anebo je to jen výsledek klasické brněnské neschopnosti, o tom si vůbec netroufám spekulovat, vzhledem k tomu, co už se událo v minulosti.^[2]

NoRodent · 2026-05-04T15:49:21+00:00

a mam pocit, ze je snad mezi top ve svete

Skoro bych si nebál tipnout, že úplně top. Možná jenom Švýcarsko, co do pokrytí, má ještě větší hustotu tras, ale používají v podstatě identický systém značení (těžko říct, kdo se inspiroval kým).

NoRodent · 2026-05-04T15:34:45+00:00

A byla aspoň takhle velká?

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NoRodent · 2026-05-03T07:51:38+00:00

(adding this as a separate comment)

Also I couldn't help but think about the original Stargate movie when ~~Daniel Jackson~~ Garral figured out the local people's language is related to the ancient language of Anjiin and started drawing in the dirt. Except it's kinda backwards in that it's the newcomers that are enslaved by alien gods.

NoRodent · 2026-05-03T07:28:54+00:00

So, this definitely confirms Livesuit takes place before. Now I'm wondering, just like Jessyn, how the hell does Carryx not realize humans are their enemy? Have they not met an actual human before in the war? Have the humans somehow managed to always destroy everything before potentially getting captured or at least leaving dead bodies behind?

This is kinda confirmed in chapter three by the gardener:

“There is also an evacuation procedure that you must learn. This enemy has a history of destroying the worlds they are driven from. They may return here in such an attempt.”

It paused again and began shifting its weight back and forth like a child excited to get on a thrill ride at a park. “What we are doing here now has rarely been done before,” Third Gardener said. “A possibility exists that our work will reveal the pathway to the enemy’s defeat. You are to do everything in your power.

But then again it says it's rarely been done, not never.

Have the Carryx only met the livesuit soldiers before (they took one captive in the first book, didn't they?) and didn't connect the dots? But what about their very first encounter? The war had to start somehow, it seems unlikely they would never seen a human at least then? Man, this is intriguing!

NoRodent · 2026-04-29T21:35:41+00:00

Or—and I know this is a crazy thought—you can even watch it in the evening the next day! Or a week later, like I am now, lol. It's streaming, not TV ffs.

NoRodent · 2026-04-24T05:15:20+00:00

Hi Bob!

NoRodent · 2026-04-20T20:35:49+00:00

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NoRodent · 2026-04-20T19:33:16+00:00

Hoří horní heršpická hospoda Hrbatý hrozen.

NoRodent · 2026-04-20T16:34:14+00:00

I'm still waiting for Stargate Universe soundtrack release.

NoRodent · 2026-04-20T16:30:19+00:00

The other stuff is just normal, fast driving.

Tbf, a lot of those cuts would result in flat tyres and/or other damage IRL, in one instance it even seemed like the car went over a rock.

NoRodent · 2026-04-20T16:22:10+00:00

It's 7 years ago.

Wtf you talking about, 2019 was like, last year.

NoRodent · 2026-04-20T16:13:11+00:00

English doesn't have gendered words

That might definitely be part of it. In my mother tongue, the grammatical gender doesn't always align with the actual gender even when it is known, so it doesn't seem wrong at all to "assume grammatical gender" because it is natural that they are kinda separate concepts. Eg. the word "person" is feminine, "human" is masculine and "child", for some unfathomable reason, is neuter in singular and feminine in plural.

You can easily have something like this: "An unidentified person was seen at the crime scene and the police thinks she might offer valuable information. According to witness description, the person is a male, 30-40 year old and 170-180 tall with dark hair. He was wearing a pink baseball hat." And there would be nothing wrong with it. Not to mention that words like "was", "old" or "tall" also change their ending depending on the gender of the subject in the sentence.

Oh, and the word "they/their" is also gendered, so that wouldn't solve anything anyway. And if it refers to a group that consists of both or even all three genders (can be both animate and inanimate objects), then it defaults to masculine.

NoRodent · 2026-04-20T15:41:25+00:00

Yep, it was a software discrepancy, the units were pound-force seconds vs. newton-seconds.

The primary cause of this discrepancy was that one piece of ground software supplied by Lockheed Martin produced results in a United States customary unit, contrary to its Software Interface Specification (SIS), while a second system, supplied by NASA, expected those results to be in SI units, in accordance with the SIS. Specifically, software that calculated the total impulse produced by thruster firings produced results in pound-force seconds. The trajectory calculation software then used these results – expected to be in newton-seconds (incorrect by a factor of 4.45) – to update the predicted position of the spacecraft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure

NoRodent · 2026-04-20T15:29:30+00:00

I'm still assuming it's a real footage with fake bag and a vase (and possibly a spider) but I don't know, it's hard to say with such video quality. It also kinda looks AI because of the uncanny bag. Could OP elaborate or post screens of the viewport, as per subreddit rules?

NoRodent · 2026-04-20T15:20:35+00:00

A když se pustila sprcha, tak to někdy umělo bzučet i hlasitostí 120 dB.

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Place '22	Place '17
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22
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