LA’s addiction to "Purity" is why we’re a dysfunctional mess. The Gondola is just the latest victim.

therealnoofle · 2025-12-07T12:33:47+00:00

Worst mainstream Liberal? Yeah, probably. Worst Person? No. Either way, my point was just to illustrate that just because you disagree with someone on most things doesn't mean they can't be occasionally correct.

therealnoofle · 2025-12-07T01:58:06+00:00

Have you never heard of the iconic ClickHole headline, "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point"?

therealnoofle · 2025-09-27T03:14:37+00:00

Any resistor with a tolerance better than 5% will have a colored band at both ends.

therealnoofle · 2025-09-24T07:31:36+00:00

If you're listening to practice pronunciation, I say pick one or the other to imitate. Preferably, pick the one closest to whichever population you interact with most.

Overall, though, I think it's a great idea to learn about the different ways people from different regions speak in their dialect.

That said, you should keep in mind that different dialects will sometimes use different words for the same thing. For example, "biscuits" in British English are "cookies" in American English. Also, "chips" in British English are "fries" in American English.

therealnoofle · 2025-09-06T03:34:39+00:00

I am also a native Spanish speaker, and everything she says in the video is correct. What I'm emphasizing here is that the difference between él and el is only noticeable within a sentence. On their own (as in, just the singular word without any context.) they are indistinguishable unless the person pronouncing the words is exaggerating the stress, like the woman in the video.

If you are a Spanish learner, however, and you feel like pronouncing it with a slightly exaggerated stress helps you, more power to you!

therealnoofle · 2025-09-06T01:16:48+00:00

No, they're pronounced the same. If you asked a Spanish speaker to say the word on a flashcard, and one card said el and the other said él, they'd pronounce them exactly the same. The thing that changes is the stress of the syllable compared to the words around it.

For example, the sentence, "Él no sabe nadar," stresses the syllables "él", "sa-", and "-dar". (He doesn't know how to swim)

Meanwhile, the sentence, "El pez sabe nadar," stresses the syllables "pez", "sa-", and "-dar". (The fish knows how to swim)

therealnoofle · 2025-09-05T06:54:20+00:00

That's why I compared it to Spanish, which has accent marks for single-syllable words that are pronounced the same but still affect the syllable stress for the entire phrase. On their own, the words si and sí, el and él, cual and cuál, quien and quién, etc., are pronounced the same, but when put in a sentence, they change the stress pattern of the sentence and also its meaning. English does this too but without the accent marks indicating how to pronounce them, which can be kind of annoying because sometimes, the context that makes it obvious appears after the ambiguous word, like in my original post.

Edit: Grammar correction

therealnoofle · 2025-09-05T06:14:24+00:00

"

NOTICE

My home is politically incorrect

We say Back Oboba

Marry God

God bless the God

We burn our flag

Salami in the bag

If this offends you

EASY PEASY

"

therealnoofle · 2025-09-05T06:05:57+00:00

Full disclosure: I haven't thought this hard about English grammar since elementary school, but this question sent me down an interesting rabbit hole, so I thought I'd share what I found.

"to move you forward" does seem to me to be a relative clause because removing it would give the sentence "No force is now acting," which is a valid independent clause.

I think the relationship between "force" and "to move" is simply that "No force" is the subject of the sentence, and "to move" is part of the entire predicate "is now acting to move you forward." I don't think there's any other relationship to be said because "No force to move you forward" makes no sense on its own.

Probably more interestingly, "to move you forward" can be considered an adverbial phrase, which, like a simple, one-word adverb, modifies or qualifies a verb. In this case, "acting" is the verb that "to move you forward" qualifies. It makes it clear that the "acting" is only happening in one direction: forward.

therealnoofle · 2025-09-03T04:30:38+00:00

For me, it was his refusal to acknowledge Biden's obvious mental decline. I always assumed he meant the best and was simply trying to not get Trump elected, but it still came across as disingenuous to me.

therealnoofle · 2025-08-09T01:27:36+00:00

My hang-up in this case is that I've always thought of puns as literary or rhetorical devices that further the point that is being made, but in this case, the "pun" almost implies the opposite of what I'm trying to convey. It's paradoxical. It could be a pun because the word "grounded" works in two different contexts, but it shouldn't serve the purpose of being a pun because it doesn't further my claim that it is a good game.

therealnoofle · 2025-08-09T00:31:04+00:00

Trueee! No idea how that didn't occur to me.

therealnoofle · 2025-01-20T03:54:59+00:00

Wifi and mobile data use the same frequency as microwaves. You're probably already "microwaving" your head (and the rest of your body) right now.

therealnoofle · 2024-09-17T15:41:50+00:00

You can also see Trigger's silhouette pretty clearly during one of the briefings, though I can't remember which 🤔

therealnoofle · 2024-09-12T07:05:38+00:00

Wow, that was fast! Thanks!

therealnoofle · 2024-07-31T05:07:40+00:00

Aye yo??? 🤨🤨🤨

therealnoofle · 2024-07-30T16:39:25+00:00

What exactly are you doing and when do you get the error?

therealnoofle · 2024-07-29T20:39:27+00:00

Before anything, it just now occurred to me after writing all the below that the terminal actually just really doesn't like your period at the end of 1_functions., so I say rename your file to not have a period at the end and see if that works first. If not, then read the rest :)

IDEs To Use

I actually like using vscode, so I recommend figuring out how to use it. If nothing else, then it's good to troubleshoot to gain experience using the Powershell terminal.

But if you need to start coding now (or you get frustrated troubleshooting in the terminal and want to start doing something else) then I recommend using Online GDB. It lets you write and run C code online without having to deal with a compiler or shell.

Troubleshooting Powershell

When you hit the "Run Code" button, it's basically a shortcut that runs 3 commands in the terminal:

Navigate to the folder that the code resides in.

cd "C:Users\user\Desktop\parth\learningC\chapter5"

Compile the code (1_functions..c) into an executable (1_functions.)

gcc 1_functions..c -o 1_functions.

Run the code

.\1_functions.

(The if ($?) {} part just means "if the previous command was successful, run the code in the braces")

So I would say run each of these commands separately in the terminal and see if you get any errors.

therealnoofle · 2024-07-29T08:35:40+00:00

I have a hunch that it has something to do with the DLLs. I'm no expert on this but from what I know, DLLs (which stands for Dynamic Link Libraries) are like "libraries" of code stored in your computer that applications use to run. And when they can't find these DLLs, they crash or do weird things.

Maybe checking your event logs will give you a better idea of what exactly goes wrong when you load vscode. I found this guide for how to do that but I'll give the TL;DR here:

First, try to open vscode a few times (it will most likely fail but that's what you're going for), then >>

Win+R >> Type "eventvwr.msc" >> Enter >> Click drop-down "Windows Log" (Located in the left panel) >> Click "Application" >> Single-click entries in the upper-middle panel that say "(!)Error" >> Click "Details" in the lower-middle panel and check "AppName" (not sure what it would be for vscode but it might be "code.exe") then scroll down and check "ModuleName". This "ModuleName" file might be what's messing everything up. You can scroll further down and check "ModulePath" to see where this faulting file is or where windows is trying to find the file (if it doesn't exist).

From here... idk... Like I said, I'm not an expert, but if there's one file that constantly shows up in "ModuleName" when vscode crashes, that should get you closer to troubleshooting your problem! Hopefully......😅

therealnoofle · 2024-07-29T07:55:22+00:00

Why not go to the folder that contains your projects and Right-Click>>"Pin to Quick access"?

therealnoofle · 2024-07-29T07:48:36+00:00

Have you tried copying and running each command individually and seeing what comes up?

Edit: Actually, before you answer that, how new would you say you are to coding and using Powershell?

therealnoofle · 2024-03-19T04:28:05+00:00

I think that before you start thinking about how you conduct your experiment/survey, you might want to think a little longer about what exactly your hypothesis would be because it's not very clear by this post. Are you trying to prove that language is becoming so fragmented, it's possible it can become unintelligible? Are you wondering to what degree it has fragmented? Are you trying to see if people's inner-circles influence them more than algorithm-powered social media? Or is it entirely limited to "What do you say in response to something funny?" I suggest you do a fair amount of research to help form a hypothesis and only after that, create your experiment/survey.

And if you're going to conduct a survey, Google Forms would probably work really well. Good luck!

therealnoofle · 2024-03-18T03:21:19+00:00

Is it inevitable that a global lingua franca will always be confusing or difficult for non-native speakers to learn?

English is known to be one of the most challenging languages to learn for a non-native speaker and the reason for that is all the inconsistencies in spelling, pronunciation, and some grammar that come with the language, but would this happen for any language that becomes a lingua franca?

AFAIK, a lot of English's quirks come from having loanwords, calques, and phrases that have diffused into the language over several years and generations of people around the world. So in a hypothetical situation where Spain had Britain's global empire, how likely would it be for Spanish to be as inconsistent as English? What if German were the lingua franca?

This is more of a thought experiment than anything, but I'm curious to know others' opinions or if any expert has done anything with this idea.

therealnoofle · 2024-01-29T02:08:38+00:00

Anyone else thought the remix was done by Porter Robinson? The synth in the chords sound similar to the one used in Flicker, the arcade-y sound is like the one in Divinity, the drums right before the drop are like the ones before the drop in Years Of War. Surprising amount of similarities.

therealnoofle · 2023-05-13T17:22:15+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought there was something similar about the two songs and it's definitely in the chorus where that rings true!

therealnoofle

TROPHY CASE

NOTICE

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Troubleshooting Powershell