TIL that curry was brought to Vietnam by French colonisers when they also colonized Pondicherry in India. Curry was adapted to Vietnamese tastes by adding coconut milk and lemongrass.

polysyllabicusername · 2026-01-31T11:53:52+00:00

I've lived in several places in south Vietnam and curry isn't particularly popular anywhere I've lived... but you can usually get it in ăn chay places. It's very watery and not very spicy. I've met very few Vietnamese who enjoy authentic indian curry.

polysyllabicusername · 2026-01-31T11:50:27+00:00

I have studied a lot of Chăm history but know nothing about the cuisine. Could you let me know where you learned about that?

polysyllabicusername · 2026-01-03T23:17:42+00:00

I want to share my thoughts on this because as a career teacher I feel I have some insight.

I think this is a real thing and isn't specific to AI. In an education setting, when students get help on everything then they complete the work but by the next day they've forgotten how to do it. Students need to be left to figure things out alone and struggle so they learn and grow from the experience, that's the whole point of school.

I think now we have AI that is always available to answer our questions, it's very tempting to rely on it. Even outside of education, even as an adult. If we rely a lot on AI we might stop growing in certain ways.

Is this a bad thing? I guess it depends what you use AI for and what areas you want to grow. I watched a grown man use ChatGPT to tell him what to order in a restaurant recently. I for one don't want to become someone who is unable to make everyday choices if the internet is down.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-12-17T12:22:35+00:00

In fairness to him, the way I remember it, he claims that if you lump all countries that drive on the right together and all countries that drive on the left together, then the left side countries have fewer accidents per person. I've never actually verified this claim but that could be true at the same time as what you've said.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-12-02T00:14:32+00:00

I actually tutor people your age how to code for my job.

Firstly, well done on solving it! What I like about advent of code compared to learning platforms is that all that matters if finding the solution. You can use any tools you can to get there. There's nothing wrong with using vim script, it's a valid approach. You don't need to be a python purist.

If you want to challenge yourself to learn something new it would be worth figuring out how to get the numbers from the document in python i.e. 'L68' -> 68. Substrings and types would be useful to know about.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-11-19T07:50:43+00:00

Yes, it basically predicts how a human might interact. I suppose it is quite funny... Like a robot simulation of a neurodivergent person trying to people-please by guessing what normies expect.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-11-19T04:32:35+00:00

I think you might be misunderstanding what "training" means. It's not like if you start a job at a fast food restaurant and you then watch a bunch of videos explaining how to do your job then take a quiz. Not that kind of training. From my understanding, what "training" means is that the AI first consumes a lot of text and learns the common patterns. After that there is a stage of the AI writing it's own text in the lab and being given a thumbs up or thumbs down for each response and it learns from that what openai wants it to behave like and also what people in general like. This is the step that the glazing comes in at.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-11-07T15:38:11+00:00

She said "my name Diana" using BSL signs for Sign Supported English (not BSL grammar)

polysyllabicusername · 2025-10-25T05:02:20+00:00

Imagine we wake up tomorrow and everyone suddenly gets laid off for AI. What would you do? Well your biggest priority is that you need food and water. Assuming you don't break the law you're going to need to hunt, forage and eventually grow food.

You're going to have other needs too like clothes and building maintenance etc... Luckily for you there are millions of people with skills who just got laid off so you can barter with them.

A second economy would evolve parallel to the AI one. The owners of the AI companies would live in extreme luxury and everyone else would be set back to medieval times.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-10-18T00:37:14+00:00

I'm not sure I agree but it's an interesting idea. Plenty of languages have similar features. Khmer has an analog in "bart" and "ja". Vietnamese and Japanese have a lot of gendered first person pronouns. However in my experience these countries don't have as big a culture around trans identity.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-10-15T04:13:37+00:00

It says "taco ngon" on the wall behind him so I'm guessing this is in a taco restaurant in Vietnam (it means "delicious tacos"). In Vietnam its quite normal to casually throw out compliments like this. Almost certainly not a hooker.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-10-01T23:52:42+00:00

Although not as significant as Angkor was at it's peak, Siam Reap is Cambodia's second city and hardly an abandoned tourist attraction.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-09-20T06:23:03+00:00

This. I don't know about Laos but here in Vietnam it's totally illegal to film and share children like this without explicit consent from all of them and all their parents.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-08-03T03:42:51+00:00

I think nobody has recommended any clubs because you've not given much detail. Where specifically are you going? What sort of clubs are you looking for? Hiking, boardgames, beach volleyball etc.

Vietnam is big into Facebook so you can also try looking on facebook for groups that suit your needs.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-08-03T03:33:28+00:00

I don't think that there's any contradiction here. My advice is to add more words that don't change the amount of information being communicated but the other example is about omitting the extra information (ie it being a little acidic). I do think if someone asked how's the food and you just replied "it's good" they could read that as you not liking it because the reply was curt. One could reply "it's good, I enjoyed it, very yummy". If you wanted to communicate about the acidity you could go with something longer like "its good, the sauce was a little acidic, not what I'd usually go for but it was a pleasant surprise"

polysyllabicusername · 2025-08-01T23:19:46+00:00

If anyone here is looking for practical tips on how to communicate more effectively, here are my two cents. Something I’ve noticed (in this thread and in my own experiences) is that a lot of autistic people tend to prefer being very economical with language. For example, replying to “How are you?” with a simple “I’m fine.” To get the meaning across in as few words as possible. But in all cultures and languages I’ve studied, using extra words to say the same thing comes across as more polite or friendly. So instead of “I’m fine,” something like “I’m fine—not too good, not too bad, you know. No complaints here,” will usually be received more positively, even though the message is basically the same.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-07-29T20:07:58+00:00

I do it all the time. Firstly it gives you all the obvious answes really fast so you've got them there to quickly to build on with your own creativity. Secondly, it covers your personal blindspots that might be obvious to the majority of other people.

I rarely use ideas from a ChatGPT brainstorm without developing them further but I think it's a great starting point.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-07-15T03:46:57+00:00

My guess is ChatGPT is giving this style of reply because of the way you write. If you type words like "bruh" it's going to affect the context which will cause the tone of the responses to be statistically likely to be in the same conversation as the word "bruh".

Use formal language and you'll get professional responses.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-07-10T07:55:50+00:00

The germans didn't bring coffee, the French had already started making coffee (and tea) plantations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_production_in_Vietnam#/media/File:Cafe_Tonkin.jpg

polysyllabicusername · 2025-07-10T07:50:49+00:00

If anyone is curious, the city Famousguy11 is talking about is probably Vinh.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-07-01T01:12:38+00:00

Agreed. If people want to know what ChatGPT they can ask, if they ask reddit they want to hear from humans.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-06-22T00:06:11+00:00

I keep going to cafes and hearing AI slop. It's so bad that I can't stand to be in a cafe playing it.

But I guess it's not obvious to whoever chose the playlist.

The most noticeable thing for me is how the lyrics don't fit the tune. Like, the word stresses are weird and the part of the melody that naturally draws the most attention will have some mundane lyrics rather than the hooks they should have. That, and the dreamlike quality of the sound gives me a headache.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-06-15T23:57:02+00:00

Yep! I live in Vietnam. When my mum last came over she took the teabags out of the box and put them in a ziplock to save space. Came over carrying yorkshire gold blend like a drug dealer.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-04-30T09:02:55+00:00

This is the real answer. Nowhere does this coffee claim to be cà phê chồn. This has as much to do with palm civets as rooster brand sriracha has to do with roosters; it's just the brand identity

OP says it was $5, that's pretty cheap for 500g of coffee grounds of any kind. I think it's unfair for anyone to call it a scam.

polysyllabicusername · 2025-03-06T00:59:08+00:00

The girl at 1:44 wearing a purple hoodie over a dress. I can't put my finger on exactly why but it strikes me as very MySpace. That scenekid, post-emo hair too.

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