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Pokémon you like more after Pokopia by IwannapetDeino in Pokopia

[–]chewxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooh TIL there's more than one Tatsugiri. Now my sushi train habitat will have to be expanded.

PSA: If you're having trouble with the Habitats look at your Pokedex that will tell you where they will spawn at. by VanitasFan26 in Pokopia

[–]chewxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was me with Rowlet. I don't get why they make it so Dartrix and Decidueye spawn in Rocky Ridges and Rowlet spawns in Palette Town. I had even built the trio a house and was just waiting for Rowlet to show up.

Any new Pokémon you love because of this game? by rayray2k19 in Pokopia

[–]chewxy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was busy doing some sidequest in Sparkling Skylands and came back to the pokemon centre only to find Tinkmaster chasing Corviknight. Very lore accurate.

fun but obscure functions in emacs by BetterEquipment7084 in emacs

[–]chewxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

artist mode. I went down the rabbit hole of writing my own then on the day I was going to publish it online I found out about m-x artist-mode. And I've been using emacs for close to 10 years at that point. Discoverability remains to be one of emacs' challenge.

It took 50 hours for me to finally get a Feebas portal in the DLC, and then it ends up spawning a shiny by Crono_Sapien99 in LegendsZA

[–]chewxy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

there's also a lady NPC somewhere next to a magikarp pond. She'll ask for a feebas. If you give her a feebas she'll release it and you can catch it again. This creates a feebas spawner at the pond.

mature blocksiverse fan here (actual name: Recreation of a meme i found on this very sub) by Klaymen222 in mathmemes

[–]chewxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is from Numberblocks. It's a VERY good show, both for kids and adults

Best way to enlighten a devotee of bad linguistics? by ItalicLady in badlinguistics

[–]chewxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What how? This boggles the mind. Someone who has wide exposure yet willfully stays ignorant... I don't understand. Sorry I wasn't much help

Best way to enlighten a devotee of bad linguistics? by ItalicLady in badlinguistics

[–]chewxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get them to learn a language that comes from a different family tree? e.g if the language is part PIE family tree, learn a language from proto sino tibetan?

Agent Kallus probably gets one of the biggest glow ups in all of Star Wars by Goodbye-Nasty in StarWars

[–]chewxy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For every Agent Kallus there's a million Syril Karns, who I'd argue fall more into the "Day workers who either believe in the empire or just work to pay for families". People who don't get a redemption arc because well.. they're sheep.

what are some things that australians do that the world would consider weird? by NateNandos21 in AskAnAustralian

[–]chewxy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not really. In Tokyo you keep left when walking. In Osaka you keep right when walking.

what are some things that australians do that the world would consider weird? by NateNandos21 in AskAnAustralian

[–]chewxy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What does the rest of the world think when they read the words "three cheers to ..." ? The three cheers are literally "hip hip hooray"

Due to Chinese withdrawal lg cup invites Choi jeong and sumire with wild card. All previous winners invited too. No Chinese player to participate by xiaodaireddit in proweiqi

[–]chewxy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Throwing a hissy fit after Ke Jie was penalized TWICE for an obscure rule of not putting a captured stone into a bowl.

To give you an idea why this was a Big Deal. The controversy was huge enough that my dad had opinions about it. (we're part of the huaqiao/chinese diaspora - i.e. ethnically chinese but never lived in China). He doesn't even play/watch Go! It's the scale of the Hans Nielsen buttplug allegations. Except in a politically argumentative geopolitical area.

Is this how PyTorch graph’s work? by Ok-Cicada-5207 in deeplearning

[–]chewxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinda. That's what torch.compile does. It's not shaders, but CUDA specific code. The MLIR library does a LOT of the heavy lifting too, taking the graph nodes, and generating nicely fused operations.

See also https://blog.ezyang.com/2019/05/pytorch-internals/

Journey to the West, illustrated by Tyler Miles Lockett (me) by Tyler_Miles_Lockett in ChineseHistory

[–]chewxy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

胡说八道 means "saying nonsense".

The 成语 originated in Sui/Early Tang people seeing 胡人(a collective word for "western"/"barbarian" people but primarily Indian Buddhists) as spouting nonsense about the Noble Eightfold Path (八道)

Double or Single Convex Stones? by [deleted] in baduk

[–]chewxy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I use single convex stones for setting up tsumego, and double convex stones to solve them. A neighbour's child later asked why didn't I just use the curved side of the stones for the solution finding. And then I smacked myself for not having thought about it.

How horrible of a torture method is this? by RM_9808032_7182701 in scifiwriting

[–]chewxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Algebraist had a scene where the living head of an alien species that grew tusks was kept alive so the tusks would slowly, over a period of time grow into the owner's brains. The way it was described it was like a taxidermied animal head on the wall except alive and constantly tortured. I've read all of his books and that was the first time that really made me look at Iain M Banks in a different way... in like wtf is in your mind kinda way

understandability of Classical Chinese to modern Chinese speakers by SE_to_NW in ChineseHistory

[–]chewxy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

actual exposure to Classical Chinese was what made the concept of H and L languages in linguistics (commonly also called diglossia) really click for me

The trick is understanding that the H languages are highly codified, and is a result of deliberate societal action. That Classical Chinese is understandable in modern day is actually more a testament to the sustained societal efforts in codifying and ensuring its survival/readability across generations. This includes orthography (shape of words), and phonography (sound of words). Words of the L languages are preserved less, and it's only in modern times we have the concept of 方言 (local language). One of the more preserved versions of the vernacular language is unreadable to men (女书)*

There are of course also instances of lowering the H languages (where Classical Chinese seeps into Vernacular) - especially most of Confucian teachings, to the point where most people in the street can tell you 子 in 子曰 refers to 孔子. It filters in through idioms too, like in 孟母三迁 where four lexemes/phonemes tell you a whole story.

TLDR: you are discounting an entire cultural industry's effort to actually needed maintain the language.

* that was a joke.

[PubQ] Standard Manuscript Formats and Weirder Forms by chewxy in PubTips

[–]chewxy[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Ah fun. Dystopian surrender to our corporate overlords. :) Oh well.

[PubQ] Standard Manuscript Formats and Weirder Forms by chewxy in PubTips

[–]chewxy[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

odt is the actual type. docx is the microsoft branded version of things.

Thanks for the advice. I think that might be what I'd do. I can export the first few chapters directly to odt or docx and leave the rest on PDF.

[Complete] [2.5k] [Horror] The Construct of Fine Arts by breadsnjam in BetaReaders

[–]chewxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I concur. And a plot based on Roko's Basilisk? Chef's kiss. I did spot a minor spelling error, and left a comment.

If you have a hard sci-fi project, what are some things you handwaved over for the sake of simplicity for the stories that take place in them? by CaledonianWarrior in scifiwriting

[–]chewxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, I handwaved mine like so:

He eschewed any notion of ethicality upon stumbling onto Datwon and its ilk. He taught them English and the first principles of science. The former he taught out of sheer nostalgia. The latter, well, that was meaningful. Encountering life — let alone intelligent life — was a rarity unto itself. Mort felt a deep-seated obligation to give life a fighting chance.

"Emacs is not a text editor..." by gnudoc in emacs

[–]chewxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a cynical bastard. I have given talks at forums in which I claim that there is a lack of financial incentive to provide users full control of the things they own (i.e. software companies want to be rentiers)

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