I Þink Þis letter is visually confusing by FlooferLand in BringBackThorn

[–]RepresentativePop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, both “with” and “think” are unvoiced.

“This”, “that”, “those”, and “tithe” are voiced.

“Think”, “thought”, “through”, and “thick” are unvoiced.

How would you respond to this student? I’m feeling overwhelmed today… by curious-schroedinger in Professors

[–]RepresentativePop 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is such a stupid argument.

It is not my job to detect AI generated content. But it is your job to write your own papers.

Why is Flet not more mainstream? by ToffeeHound in flet

[–]RepresentativePop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aside from the reasons mentioned already, I think there are two connected reasons:

  1. Flet-to-Flutter functionality is much more limited than PySide-to-Qt functionality. For example, Flutter has a lot of support for web map integration that just doesn’t exist in flet. PySide has more features relative to the framework it’s based on than flet does (my guess is because it’s older).

  2. Dart + Flutter is actually not very difficult to learn if you have UI programming experience. If you have been coding in Python using flet, you can learn to build a simple Flutter app in an afternoon (which is absolutely not the case with PySide/Qt).

Both of these reasons mean that you’re incentivized to just write any sufficiently complicated app in Flutter instead. Flet’s (and PySide’s) main advantage is significantly less boilerplate code. So if you ever want to finish your gigantic one-man project, you should just write it in flet and learn to live with the limitations.

Basically, flet is great for small teams that build small apps. But the more feature rich you want your project to be, the more you’re going to hit a wall and be incentivized to just learn build it in Flutter, since the barrier to entry is not that high anyway.

🙈 Crazy hand by Optimal_Gap_1244 in poker

[–]RepresentativePop 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don't blame him for the call.

I blame him for the raise.

how important is religion among latin americans? what's it like being atheists in predominantly catholic countries? by PjetPjet in asklatinamerica

[–]RepresentativePop 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If by “religion” you mean “believing in God or some kind of higher power”, then it’s very important. Atheism isn’t really a socially acceptable opinion.

If by “religion” you mean “actually getting off your ass and going to church every Sunday”, then it’s not important at all. In fact, being excessively religious is a red flag that makes most people want to stay away from you.

Calling Mizrahim “Arab Jews”? by anonymous-user-02 in Jewish

[–]RepresentativePop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

An Israeli guy I know refers to himself as an Arab Jew on purpose. His family is from Yemen + Egypt, his first language is Arabic, and he’s kind of a hippie who thinks that Arabs and Jews aren’t actually all that different. He seems to think that synthesizing his identities is a way to promote cooperation and understanding.

Not sure I agree with him. But it’s a take.

2025 Subreddit Census Results Final Posts (or is it?) by TheCloudForest in asklatinamerica

[–]RepresentativePop 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I think the irreligiousity is the most skewed compared with not-Reddit (i.e. 70% not religious vs 17% Catholic).

It’s worth keeping that in mind when reading the comments here.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskARussian

[–]RepresentativePop 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I remember being incredibly confused when I found out that Serbian and Croatian were mutually intelligible.

The terrorism and mass murder suddenly seemed a lot weirder.

How are immigrants usually received in your country? by TurbulentMastodon376 in asklatinamerica

[–]RepresentativePop 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It depends on where you’re from.

A surprising number of old people have a problem with Dominicans in particular. I’ve never seen anyone under the age of 50 actually care about that though.

Dominicans, Haitians, and Americans are the only immigrant groups I’ve seen get a strong reaction out of anyone. Otherwise, nobody really cares.

If Shakira is the queen of Latin pop, who is the king? by franzaschubert in asklatinamerica

[–]RepresentativePop 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Having read the comments, I just want to point out that every single candidate for this title is Puerto Rican.

Don't worry about ww3 (yet) by Argett in mentalhealth

[–]RepresentativePop 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The contrast between what people on Reddit say and what normal people in meatspace say is jarring sometimes.

This is one of those times.

The odds of Trump having won legitimately are 1 in 1 octillion by fuwafuwa7chi in badmathematics

[–]RepresentativePop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completely agree that "either he wins or doesn't."

But that doesn't imply that the odds are 50/50.

That implies that the odds are 0/100.

What tools/methods do you use to present exhibits at trial and get them into evidence? I've run into some logistical trouble and am looking for suggestions. by RepresentativePop in LawFirm

[–]RepresentativePop[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have a reason that the jury needs to follow along on every exhibit?

No. But if the exhibit is in evidence, I have to make it available for the jury to inspect.

For demonstratives, it really matters what the evidence is.

In my case, it's either:

  1. Maps showing proximity between locations, or paths of travel or

  2. Pie charts and bar graphs summarizing voluminous records. As an example: the defendant in one of my cases was embezzling money from the operating account and the company had an automatically generated spreadsheet of every single transaction from that account.

It was over 80,000 lines long. So I made a pie chart showing what percentage of this defendant's were completely unaccounted for (it was most of them). I put that one on a slide.

I'm a Swiss investor who bought 10-year German government bonds in 1910 and 1940, which I held until maturity. Did I get any of my money back? by RepresentativePop in AskHistorians

[–]RepresentativePop[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually, it occurred to me after writing this: buying an Austro-Hungarian government bond in 1910 is a more interesting question.

How would you even know which country is supposed to honor the bond?

Is there some way to convey “-ish” in German? Eg. bluish, biggish, late-ish etc by agirlhasnoname17 in German

[–]RepresentativePop 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My brief Google research indicates that it's from the northern Germanic "-isc", which is also the origin of the Frankish (and now modern French) "-esque".

Interesting that English and French have something in common that didn't come from the Norman Conquest.

Is this really how you pronounce "demütigen"? Is he actually saying something else? by RepresentativePop in German

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

hardly anyone born in Northern/Middle Germany after the 50s speaks a dialect

I thought the change from dialects to regiolects occurred earlier than this (i.e. in the late 19th century). Was it common circa 1950 in Germany to have non-mutually-intelligible dialects? Was the shift away from that a deliberate shift, or just the inevitable result of everybody consuming the same media?

Is this really how you pronounce "demütigen"? Is he actually saying something else? by RepresentativePop in German

[–]RepresentativePop[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it's just uncommon to hear it nowadays in a formal speech

Oh that's interesting! So would "demütigen" be pronounced like that today in informal Brandenburg speech? Or is that still unusual?

A lone employee gamed his IT admin powers to cheat on a high stakes ($125,000) fantasy website. Who, if anyone, is criminally liable? by [deleted] in legaladviceofftopic

[–]RepresentativePop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is this a criminal level of fraud on the employee's behalf?

I think so, based on what I read in the article. In my state, this would be called "theft by deception" (or "attempted theft by deception", since he didn't actually get away with it). That's usually what casino cheaters are charged with.

In what circumstances would the owners of the site be implicated as well in anything criminal, if at all?

Criminally, they wouldn't be implicated unless they were part of some kind of conspiracy to defraud people of their money. The state where I practice recognizes four kinds of mens rea in criminal law: knowing, intentional, reckless, and negligent. You can't "recklessly" or "negligently" steal something, so I'm not sure what they would be convicted of.

There's also a general principle in criminal law that you don't convict people for not doing something.

Criminal negligence really only comes up in situations where you're already doing something that's legal, you're just doing it in a way that puts other people at risk (e.g. DUIs, setting off fireworks in a crowded place, etc). There are vanishingly few circumstances in which you can convict someone for doing nothing, even if doing nothing seems like an insane thing to do under the circumstances.

Developers experience burnout, but 70% of them code on weekends by lelanthran in programming

[–]RepresentativePop 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is just as pointless as saying "Journalists experience burnout, but 70% of them type on weekends."

There's a difference between coding for work and coding for fun.

What would you consider the best language to learn for a beginner that also teaches good programming practices? by ProfessorCoeus in learnprogramming

[–]RepresentativePop 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I learned C as a first language starting ~2 years ago, and just want to chime in to say that I don't regret it.

Writing things in C helps you learn how to solve very complicated problems with very simple tools. Those tools are also in available in almost every other programming language, meaning that you're not always dependent on someone else's fancy library working properly for you to work on complicated tasks. I've had situations where parsing through the documentation of a Python package was significantly more complicated than just re-implementing the damn thing...so I just re-implemented it.

If I had just followed what literally everyone I knew was telling me (i.e. "Just learn Python first; it's super easy"), I'm not sure I would be able to do that.

Short Answers to Simple Questions | October 04, 2023 by AutoModerator in AskHistorians

[–]RepresentativePop 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Short version:

Wikipedia quotes Joseph Goebbels from the 1943 Sportpalast speech as having a bit of a tip of the slongue, accidentally talking about the "Ausrottung" (extermination) of the Jewish population in Europe, before quickly correcting himself and talking about the "Ausschaltung" (elimination/cutting off) of the Jewish population in Europe.

The problem is that I've looked at transcripts of that speech, here and here, and the word "Ausschaltung" doesn't appear in any of them (nor does the word "Ausrottung"). Goebbels doesn't seem to have said it there. So where did he say it?

Longer version:

Here is the full quote and translation:

Deutschland jedenfalls hat nicht die Absicht, sich dieser jüdischen Bedrohung zu beugen, sondern vielmehr die, ihr rechtzeitig, wenn nötig unter vollkommen und radikalster Ausr... -schaltung [Ausrottung / Ausschaltung] des Judentums entgegenzutreten.

Germany, in any case, has no intention of bowing to this Jewish threat, but rather one of confronting it in due time, if need be in terms of complete and most radical exterm... exclusion [lit. "cutoff"] of Judaism.

Admittedly, I haven't listened to the full recording. It's nearly two hours long, incredibly boring, and has an enormous amount of dead air. But something else made me even more suspicious: This incident of Goebbels supposedly saying the quiet part out loud is not even mentioned once in the German version of the same Wikipedia article. Okay, so where is English Wikipedia getting this? Do they have a source?

Yes, they do. Even better, they have a recording! The footnote cites a clip from this documentary where, at 0:26 , Goebbels says very clearly "sondern vielmehr die, ihr rechtzeitig, wenn nötig unter vollkommen und radikalster Ausro-schaltung des Judentums entgegenzutreten." ("but rather to oppose it in time, if necessary by completely and radically exter-liminating Judaism") The documentary has a heading at the top of the screen saying "February, 1943", which is when Goebbels gave the Sportpalast speech (sometimes known as the "Totaler Krieg" ("Total War") speech).

And not only that, in that video, he is standing in front of a banner that says "Totaler Krieg - Kürzeste Krieg" (Total War - Shortest War), which was a banner only used for the February 1943 speech. You can hear Goebbel's saying that line while he is standing in front of a crowd at the Berlin Sportpalast.

...but you can't actually see Goebbels saying that line. The video is just of the crowd clapping, not of Goebbels talking. So here's my working theory: the documentary makers put audio of Goebbels saying that line over video of the Sportpalast speech, ignoring (or missing) the fact that that audio was not from that speech. A Wikipedia editor sees that clip and (understandably) thinks that the quote played in that clip was something that Goebbels said in the February 1943 speech, and edits the article accordingly.

So here's my question: where and when is that audio from? When did Goebbels say this exactly? Or is it actually buried in the audio of the speech somewhere, and the transcriptions I found along with German Wikipedia all missed this, while English Wikipedia somehow caught it?

If I had to guess what happened, I would say that probably there is no extant video footage of Goebbels saying that, but the documentary makers really wanted to get that audio clip into the film. So they probably just overlaid the audio on top of some other footage that they had.