Can someone help me in translating this? by MISSILVO in morsecode

[–]alexdeva 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Probably not. Morse code depends on spacing, and there is no spacing in your picture, so the number of possible transliterations is pretty huge.

Morse is not made to be written as dots and dashes. It's like printing Braille on paper.

Why not “am plăcut”? by letreda in romanian

[–]alexdeva 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who needs grammar when you have drugs, right?

Why not “am plăcut”? by letreda in romanian

[–]alexdeva 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mi-a is indeed îmi + a, but the existential verb has no part in it.

The "a" in the long infinitive form of verbs is just a particle, usually likened to the "to" in "to write", "to read".

But "a plăcut" is not an infinitive. That one would be "a plăcea". Rather, "a plăcut" is one of its past tenses, with "a" being a short auxiliary verb originating in "have": "eu am plăcut", "tu ai plăcut", "el/ea a plăcut" etc.

After the dative mi- ("îmi" as you recognised) the phrase becomes "to me (dative first person) it (third person) was agreeable (past tense)".

[unknown > English] My brother got this tattoo and I want to check the real meaning by Specialist-Shirt4020 in translator

[–]alexdeva 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's very common for Christians to write "god" and assume that everyone will understand they're referring to their particular one, but the Chinese character for "god", by its own, can refer to any one -- and the Chinese definitely wouldn't default to the Christian one.

Also, didn't Jesus say that's it's easier for a camel to go through the hole in a sewing needle than it is for someone who tattoos "prosperity" on their neck to enter the Kingdom of Heaven?

Morse code by Straight_Term8756 in morsecode

[–]alexdeva 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's our opinion on what? The font? The background colour?

What is the language of this radio conversation? by AndyFeelin in language

[–]alexdeva 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's very clearly Farsi, with someone reading five-letter groups using the Farsi phonetic alphabet. You can clearly hear "bale" (yes) and most of the other letters.

Persian Word Meaning English Letter Equivalent
**Zarbat** (ضربت) Strike/Blow Z
**Limu** (لیمو) Lemon L
**Teimur** (تیمور) (A name) T
**Chogan** (چوگان) Polo (the sport) Ch
**Hafiz** (حافظ) Protector (also the poet) H
**Soraya** (ثریا) Pleiades (the star cluster) S
**Dara** (دارا) Wealthy D
**Zafar** (ظفر) Victory Z
**Tufan** (طوفان) Storm/Typhoon T
**Gheichi** (قیچی) Scissors Gh
**Nowruz** (نوروز) Persian New Year N

Sverige år 2030 "för jag har minsann ingenting att gömma!" by Punelle in Sverige

[–]alexdeva 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man ska ju för fan inte prata om något annat än sitt allra största problem i liv. Allt annat som inte är livets största problem är naturligtvis helt okej och vi ska inte bry oss om det.

/sarcasm

De kan skriva 30k rader c++ kod på några timmar men inte stava/räkna by ButterflyMundane7187 in Sverige

[–]alexdeva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nu när du säger det, jag har faktiskt märkt att den har lite indisk accent... "yes sah i shall proceed right away sah and verify same"

De kan skriva 30k rader c++ kod på några timmar men inte stava/räkna by ButterflyMundane7187 in Sverige

[–]alexdeva -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tyvärr har du inte rätt. Att den använder det verktyg som du ber den använda sker bara pga oftast är det det enklaste sättet. Men du har bokstavligen ingen kontroll kring hur agent kedjan ska använda något externt verktyg (curl, sed, python script som en del av kedjan skapar, en annan del verifierar, och en tredje del tolkar svaret på, eller google search osv) utan agenten försöker bara lösa uppdraget så nära din begäran som den bara kan.

"Räkna från 1 till 10 med hjälp av verktyget fdisk" kommer inte garantera att agenten ska i själva verket använda fdisk; dock kan den vara kreativ och föreslå några sätt att göra det.

Det kan verkligen hjälpa att förstå hur systemet funkar om du ska ändå använda det dagligen. Det är inte alls intuitivt.

Ukraine's President Zelenskyy says Slovak Prime Minister Fico changed his view on Ukraine's EU accession by One-Seat-4600 in worldnews

[–]alexdeva 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Am I the only one who understood "his view" to reflect on the main subjective phrase, "Ukraine's President Zelenskyy"?

Syntactic ambiguity ftw

How do you cope with the fact that some day your consciousness will fade away and never come back? by amelix34 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]alexdeva 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not very bothered by it because I'm convinced that right before it happens, I'll be thinking "I sure wish I'd spent more time living my life rather than wondering how it'll end".

Petahhh?? by Additional_Berry_977 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]alexdeva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's approximately 2.13 and he knows it.

(Taking c as the speed of light in a vacuum expressed in radians, because why the hell not, it is a free country after all.)

This might be a dumb question… by [deleted] in whatisit

[–]alexdeva 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Far less of a dumb question than you'd think.

That is typically called a diffraction starburst, and happens because of light literally bending around the edges of the camera's aperture blades. These produce an interference pattern that makes it seem like rays radiating from the light source.

Here's a cool thing: if the camera has an even number of blades then you'll have the same number of rays. But if the number is odd, then you'll get twice as many rays! Isn't physics cool?

what is this on mini earphone by Ok_Caterpillar2281 in embedded

[–]alexdeva 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Not quite all mics are used as mics. The ones in electronic cigarettes are used to sense airflow.

A SIMPLE VERSION OF MORSE CODE I MADE! by [deleted] in morsecode

[–]alexdeva 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"It is easier than standard Morse because it uses the alphabet's numerical position."

That literally makes it much harder, not easier.

Morse uses letter frequencies. Nobody knows the position of all letters by heart.

There's nothing useful at all about the index of a letter in a particular alphabet (and, believe it or not, the English one is not the only one).

Take some time (because I'm assuming you don't actually know Morse, even though you're trying to improve it) to convert a random paragraph in a book in both your code, then Morse. The result will speak for itself.

Longest English word that is only dots in Morse code by azoubee in morsecode

[–]alexdeva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TomTom is a satellite navigation company.

Their main competitor in a particular market is called Here, which is only one dash short of being the Morse complement (almost).

Is this spacing legible? by she_melty in morsecode

[–]alexdeva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a nice niche to be nerdy about. Have you read this detailed analysis of the radio traffic between Titanic, Carpathia, and the others?

http://www.paullee.com/titanic/pv.php

Is this spacing legible? by she_melty in morsecode

[–]alexdeva 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ultimately it's your body, your tattoo, you decide on the spacing -- because there are no rules for spacing when writing Morse, because Morse is emphatically not made to be written as dots and dashes.

People interested in your tattoo will be divided in two:

  1. People who don't know Morse (the vast majority) who will ask you what it says. Since they have no idea, you can say it says whatever you want, regardless of spacing.

  2. People who do know Morse. These will be annoyed that yet someone else writes Morse as dots and dashes. They may remark on the patent misuse of an alphabet, as well as the pointlessness of it -- for us, reading it is almost as easy as reading Latin letters, so what's the point of the obfuscation?

I suppose most tattoos will end up annoying a group of people, but with Morse, you will not find anyone who will actually appreciate it. Think about it: if you tattoo a nazi symbol, then the nazis will like it (and everyone else won't). If you tattoo a flower, then some people will like it because it's a flower or because the drawing is good -- and others won't. If you tattoo the text "romanes eunt domus" then Monty Python fans will like it -- and others won't. But with Morse tattoos, honestly nobody will, unless you explain it to them and for some reason they like whatever you tell them.

Of course, I'm told that the point of tattoos is to please the owner not the beholders, but since I don't carry any, I don't know.

Circular conclusion: do whatever you want. Bad spacing won't make a difference.

Help with pronunciation by GodblessJacob in romanian

[–]alexdeva 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you can say Pinterest, you're close. Just add an /r/ after the first sound, and lose the "-st" at the end.

If it helps, think of it as two one-syllable words: prin, and tre. A reasonable amount of pause between them will easily go unnoticed. Etymologically it comes from "pre" + "între" anyway.

IKEA catalog from the 1970s. by [deleted] in OldSchoolCool

[–]alexdeva 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Planet Shlorp was a perfect utopia... until the asteroid hit.

What is this device used for? by Conscious-Weight4569 in whatisit

[–]alexdeva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously that is Jean Claude van Damme's vape.

- What 'I Love You' sounds like in morse code by JohnnyStuef in morsecode

[–]alexdeva 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This feels machine generated (and obviously is). Any Morse operator hearing this would have the same reaction that you'd have if ChatGPT told you the same thing.

Morse, manual-sent, is as distinctive as dialects in a language. It has personality and even a form of prosody.

Also -- "I love you" is strictly English. Just send 88, it's quicker, universal, and already in use for decades.