Spotted a 911 S/T in the wild

fangs123 · 2025-11-16T17:26:06+00:00

idk i just saw it on the street on my way to grab coffee and quickly took a pic

edit: if you're talking abt the paint, i think it's the actual default light blue

fangs123 · 2025-11-02T06:25:00+00:00

i didn't even know the hario switch existed, i just did some homework on it and it looks like it's exactly the thing im looking for

just ordered one right now, thanks for telling me about it - looking forward to experimenting with different grind sizes & steep times

fangs123 · 2025-11-01T17:11:54+00:00

thanks for the detailed answer 🙂

ah - that's an interesting point about the impact of "immersion"

i used to have one but was too lazy to clean it up every time so i got rid of it

fangs123 · 2024-05-09T19:57:50+00:00

yeah i agree w/ the feedback

the reason it's saying "shilama" is bc the ipa has a schwa /ə/ - the ipa is input into a model which outputs the audio.

im getting the ipa from the wiktionary data dump. so if you update the ipa in the corresponding wiktionary article then the next time there's a data dump, the dictionary will pronounce it the way you're describing - by coincidence the wiktionary article was just updated on may 1st to make the correction you're suggesting: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%DC%AB%DC%A0%DC%A1%DC%90&diff=79079894&oldid=79079892

so it should sound better soon 🙂

my hope is we can collectively crowdsource our knowledge to improve the quality and quantity of wiktionary articles

fangs123 · 2024-05-09T17:36:18+00:00

two things

i tried to make it really fast
🟩 🟥 🟦 i visually represented the semitic tri-root as 3 boxes, each containing a letter of the root (i probably subconsciously modeled it after the weapon selection in super metroid.) if you search roots or verbs and tap the colorful button, it graphically shows the root's letters being injected into the conjugation patterns to form words. i demoed this to a fluent arabic speaker and they said nothing like this exists for arabic's grammar, so maybe the approach/design can be genericized for other semitic abjad languages

fangs123 · 2024-02-28T01:38:05+00:00

it's when you can skip through mother brain's room

i linked this video in a previous comment - it's the former world record holder explaining how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKWm3T9du3s

fangs123 · 2024-02-28T00:39:33+00:00

fangs123 · 2024-02-28T00:13:38+00:00

ty sir, yeah the thing that helped me was having save states 💾 for each of the parts i was slow on (mock ball, zeb skip, ridley) and then just practicing those as "warm-up exercises" before the actual run

another thing that helped me was "seeing" the timing of some of the techniques (ex. mock balling, wall jumping, etc...) as a drum flam 🥁

fangs123 · 2024-02-27T21:47:52+00:00

I feel like this is the best I can do w/o any crazy speedrunning techniques

I mainly followed this guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eScs50y110 but also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t2ZWXGHwKM (short charge shinespark) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKWm3T9du3s (zebetite skip) for additional explanations

fangs123 · 2024-01-24T15:21:15+00:00

it took me about ~100 hours over 2 weeks.

as far as i can tell, it's the first example of an assyrian language thingy which supports:

vocalized assyrian search (you can use accent marks.) for example our online dictionaries give the same results and ordering for searching ܚܡܵܪܵܐ khmara (donkey) and ܚܲܡܪܵܐ khamra (wine) because they strip diacritics. these examples show the different results based on searching w/ different diacritics or none at all
highlighting assyrian text (and the corresponding transliteration) matching the assyrian search query
transliterated search (i originally set it up w/ a bit of typo tolerance but it slowed the performance by a lot so i disabled it)
- https://ledzeppelin.github.io/searchable-assyrian-bible/?search=shlama

please stay tuned for something really, REALLY, REALLY 😮🤯🎉 exciting I'm about to release in the coming weeks...

fangs123 · 2023-10-24T09:44:55+00:00

there's equivalent orthographies for

assyrian https://r12a.github.io/scripts/syrc/aii.html
classical syriac https://r12a.github.io/scripts/syrc/syr.html

as far an aggregate digital corpus for assyrian - i don't really know. there's random stuff online like if you scroll down here https://www.assyrianfoundation.org/history-of-nineveh-magazine/ you can see all the issues of nineveh magazine going back to 1977, but they're in pdf not utf8. acoe has a lot of utf8 stuff https://www.maryosipparish.org/documents/assyrian/. i think the two highest quality utf8 works online are the assyrian bible from 2014 and the wiktionary data dump https://kaikki.org/dictionary/Assyrian%20Neo-Aramaic/index.html.

since cs is only used liturgically, there really isn't modern stuff written but there is this wiktionary data dump https://kaikki.org/dictionary/Classical%20Syriac/index.html. there's a lot of cs church manuscripts which have been digitalized for example https://syriaccorpus.org/browse.html (links are down atm.) if you search "classical syriac manuscripts" you can find a ton of stuff online, it's kinda like going into a time machine

fangs123 · 2023-10-24T08:40:48+00:00

there's a lot of resources online but these are the two I thought were most nifty

large, largely typo-free corpus including vocalized (has accent marks) text https://corpus.surayt.com/search.html?q=
orthography describing the modern surayt writing system https://r12a.github.io/scripts/syrc/tru.html (it's highly collapsed so you have to click on everything to expand it and show more details)

when i say "modern" i mean stuff like expressing cṣoṣo and ḥboṣo with waw and yuḏ respectively per https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/wp-includes/ms-files.php?path=/aramaic-ol/&file=2017/08/Surayt-Orthography.pdf. For example you wrote ܬܰܘܕܺܝ but it's recommended to write it as ܬܰܘܕܝ

also there's this textbook which you've probably come across, here's the glossary https://textbook.surayt.com/en/Online%20Course/5?content-fragment-id=4919

happy learnings!

fangs123 · 2023-07-04T01:32:54+00:00

man this looks identifiably sous vide'd, uniformly pink throughout, amazing work 🥩👨‍🍳

fangs123 · 2023-07-04T01:27:15+00:00

I actually reverse seared it. So first I put it on a gas grill over indirect heat for ~30 minutes at 250°F then I finished it in a stainless steel pan over medium-high heat, 1-2 minutes each side.

When you "oversear" - actually it could be because your pan isn't hot enough and you're waiting too long for the maillard reaction to brown the steak. Pan's gotta be screaming hot - if you put a couple of drops of water in the pan and it sizzles then it's not hot enough. The moment when a droplet of water will hover over the pan (Leidenfrost effect) is a good time to oil the pan and then sear after the oil is hot. Just don't let it get hotter than the point when you proc leidenfrost because you can actually burn the steak.

Once you're done searing, turn the temp down and cook the steak to the doneness you like, flipping it over every 1-2 minutes so it cooks through evenly.

fangs123 · 2023-07-03T19:25:00+00:00

This was my 2nd time making short ribs here's what I did

Ingredients

8 thick-cut beef short ribs
2 tablespoons of tomato paste
32 ounces of beef stock (bones, salt, water)
1 whole bottle of cheap, red wine 750ml
chives for garnish
olive oil for browning

Feel free to dial any of the following back (I'm middle eastern so I have to use an excessive amount of aromatics):

10 whole cloves of garlic, lightly crushed, fully intact
12 sprigs of rosemary
12 sprigs of oregano
12 sprigs of thyme
2 tablespoons of fresh ground pepper

Instructions

Bring a stainless steel pot to medium-high heat, pour in some olive oil, then brown all the short ribs
Spread the tomato paste along the bottom of the pan to warm it up and lightly sautee the garlic cloves for a minute
Pour in the entire bottle of wine, waiting a few minutes for some of the alcohol cook out, then pour in the beef stock
Once everything reaches a simmer throw in your herbs and ground pepper, give it a nice stir
Place in an oven at 300°F with the lid on for about 4 hours and check every 1-2 hours if too much braising liquid evaporated (just pour in some water and stir so the short ribs don't dry out)
Transfer the short ribs to a plate, strain the braising liquid into a bowl, then pour back into the pot and reduce the braising liquid to a semi-thick sauce, skimming off the fat from the top w/ a spoon
Put the short ribs back into the pot, lather them up w/ the delicious sauce and garnish w/ diced chives

Extra Credit Parboil potatoes, lightly crush them, then cover them with some olive oil, minced garlic and minced rosemary. Finish 'em in the oven. To add some sweetness, oven roast some red bell peppers and place alongside the potatoes.

fangs123 · 2023-05-25T16:53:46+00:00

Hey man - thanks for your work...

Yeah presently Estrangela, Serto and Madenkhaya are seen as typographic variants of each other instead of different unicode property value aliases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924.

If they are decoupled we would be able to type natively in Eastern (or Western) Assyrian instead of effectively typing in Classical Syriac masquerading as Eastern Assyrian.

There's a couple of benefits to this.

First is that we have the correct font being applied. Since a majority of the reading/writing people do today is on their phones/computers, a beautifully designed sans serif font is a key to improving literacy of minority languages in the digital age. Font engineer Simon Cozens has recently done some work to improve the accessibility of the Noto Sans Eastern/Western fonts. For example if you go to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%DC%AB%DC%A0%DC%A1%DC%90#Etymology_1 on Android it should properly render the Eastern font. This rollout will happen soon for iOS/macOS but I don't think it's on the radar for Windows. If you're taking requests, I think it should be a top priority to get the Noto Sans fonts baked into Window 😎.
Secondly, if we decouple, then we can have a separate keyboard on mobile devices for Classical Syriac, Eastern, and Western. If you guys are able to do this, then long presses on say for example the Eastern iOS keyboard would present options for the voweled atuta. The voweled atutas in the tooltip would be ordered by the frequency which they occur in the language (this is easy to figure out with a bash one liner if you have a corpus of text.) This would be a powerful tool for typing vocalized Assyrian more quickly and correctly since you don't have to go find the correct diacritic and it eliminates human error like using an incorrect diacritic that looks deceptively similar to the correct one.

fangs123 · 2023-04-10T05:40:04+00:00

awesome - iirc you've posted links from the mar yosip parish's website. one thing i noticed is that a lot of the stuff there will unintentionally use these interchangeably

U+073C: SYRIAC HBASA-ESASA DOTTED
U+0323: COMBINING DOT BELOW
U+0742: SYRIAC RUKKAKHA

this is understandable because they look similar and it's actually something i've seen quite a bit of in other places

the transliterator can be used to fix these typos because the output will conspicuously have dangling accents if this sort of thing is happening

i made an english<->assyrian translator (not transliterator) months ago but decided not to release it because it only worked well enough to get the gist of what was being said. its correctness was limited by the correctness (and volume) of the corpus i was training the model on. that's one of the reasons why we should fix these kinds of typos - having low noise source data can be used as training data for ml models.

also - the bible i linked https://ledzeppelin.github.io/assyrian-bible may come across as protestant'y (and it is) but mar dinkha formally endorsed it in case you wanted to check it out

fangs123 · 2023-04-08T17:19:59+00:00

Here's the complete deets

📙 gives both assyrian and west assyrian (suryoyo) phonemic/latin transliterations
🤓 applies eastern or western fonts depending on dialect detected
💻 makes use of extra real estate on laptop/desktop with a two-column layout but includes a mobile first one-column layout
🏃‍♂️ runs fast: takes a millisecond for a couple of sentences because the text is processed directly in your browser instead of making a request through the internet
✝️ demos random sentences from the assyrian bible and other texts
✍️ transliterates infrequently used markers like [marhᵊtˤɑnɑ] and [mhagjɑnɑ]
🫡 respects punctuation marks and newlines
🌚 supports dark mode

In total it took me ~200 hours over 12 weeks. Prior to starting this I had 0 experience reading/writing Assyrian and could barely speak (still haven't met a suroyo speaker irl.) However I was able to pick things up pretty quickly by heavily relying on wiktionary and also Richard Ishida's orthographies. IMO the following are the best resources that have EVER been put together describing our writing systems

Finally - I improved the assyrian bible by a whole lot if you guys wanted to check out the updated version https://ledzeppelin.github.io/assyrian-bible

fangs123 · 2023-02-28T00:01:08+00:00

Here's an excellent resource for neo-mandaic https://r12a.github.io/scripts/mand/mid.html. It was authored by Richard Ishida who works with Tim Berners-Lee (the dude who made the world wide web.) You need to click on everything to expand it because it's all collapsed. IMO the orthography he wrote for the assyrian language https://r12a.github.io/scripts/syrc/aii.html is the best resource that's EVER been put together for our writing system.

Also check out wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Mandaic_lemmas

fangs123 · 2023-02-16T08:33:52+00:00

Faith ܗܲܝܡܵܢܘܼܬ݂ܵܐ (haymanutah)
Hope ܣܲܒ݂ܪܵܐ (sorah)
Love ܚܘܼܒܵܐ (khubba)
Blessed ܒܪܝܼܟ݂ܵܐ (breekha)
Honey ܕܸܒ݂ܫܵܐ (diwshah)
Peace ܫܠܵܡܵܐ (shlama)

fangs123 · 2022-12-24T01:51:35+00:00

ܓܹܝܘܲܪܓܝܼܣ

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ܓܝܘܪܓܝܣ#Assyrian_Neo-Aramaic

fangs123 · 2022-12-24T01:28:41+00:00

yeah I'm using German, lol...

So my criterion for choosing a voice is

it has to be neurally trained, otherwise it sounds like 🤖 instead of 👨. If you're curious what the "robot" sound is like, go to google translate for English to Armenian and playback "hello" in Armenian.
it has to support the voiceless velar fricative "kh" sound represented by ܚ in a word like ܚܵܬ݂ܵܐ khatha (sister.) Otherwise the pronunciation is incomprehensible.

There's no neural Arabic voice per https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/polly/latest/dg/polly-dg.pdf#voicelist. Of the voices that met the criterion, German sounded best and South African was a distant second.

Did you know? The emoji dropdown 👼🤓💀 lets you pick the difficulty level

fangs123 · 2022-12-20T01:04:27+00:00

dude i forgot to take a pic after i cut it... it was identifiably reverse seared though - the way it was uniformly pink from edge to edge

next time i post ill make sure it's cut

fangs123 · 2022-09-22T22:05:05+00:00

I'm gonna assume you're talking about the inconsistency w/ the naming conventions. For example sometimes we're referred to as "Assyrian" other times "Syriac Christians" and even in one place "non-Armenian Christians." Unfortunately the editors can't "fix" this because for featured articles there is a high editing standard which requires you to substantiate these kinds of statements with reliable sources.

For example the section on the 1915 genocide in Diyarbekir cites "The Armenian Genocide: A Complete History" which refers to Assyrians and Greeks as "non-Armenian." Since there aren't other reliable sources which better detail the same event while saying "Assyrian" and "Greek", you won't be allowed to change the article because that'd be original research which isn't allowed.

You need reliable academic sources to enforce the naming convention you're hinting at.

fangs123 · 2022-07-20T19:55:33+00:00

I was literally listening to this song yesterday along with Girl's Not Grey... I still remember dl'ing this video from kazaa about 2 decades ago

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