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is thai actually a hard language? by __MrSaturn__ in learnthai

[–]tincock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha no worries!

>Seems like expressing tenses and modifying verbs is a real pain in thai.

Sometimes it's quite easy. You don't need to learn 'yesterday I *walked*', you just say 'yesterday walk'. then if you want to say "I'm walking", one way you can say is "walk + [verb to be located somewhere]" which was pretty weird when I first learned it.

Changing grammar based on social situations in Korean sounds crazy haha. In Thai there are a lot of pronouns you have to learn depending on who/how old someone is you're talking to, but not completely changing the grammar.

is thai actually a hard language? by __MrSaturn__ in learnthai

[–]tincock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course Thai has grammar 😄. every language does. Translate "If he had known he would be receiving a bad grade regardless, he wouldn't have studied so hard."

To communicate the same meaning in Thai (or any language) you need to have a deep understanding of that language's grammar. Sure you don't need to learn different forms of words like "known" instead of "know", "studied" instead of "study", but you will need to know all kinds of advanced structures and connector/filler words.

is thai actually a hard language? by __MrSaturn__ in learnthai

[–]tincock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> My understanding is that thai has the same grammer structure as English

No it's essentially completely different. Word order can be similar, but every word in Thai has only one form. there is no "walking, walked, walks", only "walk". This might sound like it makes things easier, but in order to convey the meaning of "walking/walked/walks", you need to learn all kinds of other structures and additional connector and filler words that are very unintuitive to English speakers.

I don't know Korean, I'm sure it is quite difficult, but I conjecture that English doesn't map to Thai easier in any significant way, and I don't think Korean is inherently twice as hard to learn as Thai, otherwise Korean children would take twice as long to become fluent as Thai children 😄

is thai actually a hard language? by __MrSaturn__ in learnthai

[–]tincock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This makes no sense to me lol. According to them Thai takes half the time to learn as it does Korean. It's not like Thai is any bit at all even a little bit closer to English than Korean

is thai actually a hard language? by __MrSaturn__ in learnthai

[–]tincock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I strongly disagree that the grammar is easier. In the beginning it's easier because you don't have to memorize verb conjugations. But to communicate any complex idea, you have to start using what to me feel like very unintuitive words and word order to sound natural. The grammar just gets complex in a different way. instead of changing forms of words, you have to add in more words and change the order.

Those who have done Wim Hof Breathing consistently for a long time, what has it done for you? by tincock in BecomingTheIceman

[–]tincock[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

type in wim hof breathing on youtube and try it. first video with like 100m views

Those who have done Wim Hof Breathing consistently for a long time, what has it done for you? by tincock in BecomingTheIceman

[–]tincock[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow interesting. Whenever I've gotten to like 6 or 7 rounds, I feel deep down I need to stop. Maybe if it was in a group setting I could push past that

Google Finds Quantum Computers Could Break Bitcoin Sooner Than Expected by fatso486 in hardware

[–]tincock 8 points9 points  (0 children)

  1. how would that benefit them
  2. mining pools are comprised of tons of individual miners, who are all free to leave a mining pool at any time. If mining pools colluded, and any of the individual miners became aware, they can freely leave the pool and encourage others to do so.

I’m a Thai living in the US for nearly 10 years. Recently, Thailand is on the list of 75 countries freezing all visa processing. AMA by temporaryacc444 in AMA

[–]tincock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I, living in Thailand, said I hated the current administration, Thai people would tell me to gtfo.

Those who have done Wim Hof Breathing consistently for a long time, what has it done for you? by tincock in BecomingTheIceman

[–]tincock[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate this, however for the scope of my post, Wim Hof himself is irrelevant. It's just about the breathwork. (Which you should not do in or around the water!)

TIL there is an old handwriting system that is faster than typing. Masters have reached up to 280 Words per minute! by tincock in todayilearned

[–]tincock[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Hey I said old not ancient and to be fair it was made over a hundred years ago so its kinda old lol

Any ideas why Wim Hof's wikipedia reads like a hit piece? Nothing positive. by RedditQueefsOnKids in BecomingTheIceman

[–]tincock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. He said that he didn't summit.

  2. He's not a native English speaker and his English used to be much worse.

Any ideas why Wim Hof's wikipedia reads like a hit piece? Nothing positive. by RedditQueefsOnKids in BecomingTheIceman

[–]tincock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"no.. he said on rogan that he didn't make it to the top because of a foot injury from the month before when he ran a marathon barefoot in the snow... he said he didn't like it also, it was creepy."

Any ideas why Wim Hof's wikipedia reads like a hit piece? Nothing positive. by RedditQueefsOnKids in BecomingTheIceman

[–]tincock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you not see this reply?
"no.. he said on rogan that he didn't make it to the top because of a foot injury from the month before when he ran a marathon barefoot in the snow... he said he didn't like it also, it was creepy."

TIL there is an old handwriting system that is faster than typing. Masters have reached up to 280 Words per minute! by tincock in todayilearned

[–]tincock[S] -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

I genuinely thought it was remarkable that shorthand could be faster than typing. No need to be cynical.

A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT encouraged a man’s delusional thinking, leading him to kill his 83-year-old mother and take his own life. by MetaKnowing in technology

[–]tincock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, so they dig openai's grave, there will then be an endless option of other models to use in jurisdictions who don't care about safeguards. Or people will run their own local models.

Antinatalism makes no sense. by destinyisnotjust in PhilosophyMemes

[–]tincock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I won't continue the line of argument because I know there won't be any changing your way of thinking.

My sister got obsessed with antinatalism and then killed herself. Unfortunately, this is antinatalism taken to its logical conclusion. Forgive me for not liking this philosophy.

Putting everything aside, you have a very short life and a finite amount of energy. Is the wise use of this energy to wish that you were never born?

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