And “yacht” or variations of it are used in the exact same way in a lot of other languages. It is really an exceptionally unfortunate example the monolinguistic OOP chose to be their point.
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That is how all languages works.
And the algorithm is programmed to follow particularly American puritanical values, as they are aimed at the American consumer market, but of course on account of the universal nature of the internet, we all get to enjoy the results of it now.
Yeah, it is an extremely typical native English speaking monolinguist take. They always manage to find examples that are common in basically all languages and assuming it is some esoteric English language quirp.
Exactly which nuance is important in this context?
breecher@sh.itjust.worksto People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Spending your limited time on earth wisely2·2 days agoThe thing is your story seems more to confirm the scientific consensus around consciousness as connected to the physical existence of the brain. You describe how ancient medicine functioned through trial and error. Some times they came up with stuff that worked, more often than not they didn’t, and they had no way of knowing why a cure worked until scientific progress had discovered the underlying explanations for it. So when they found a cure that just happened to work on a certain disease, they would apply it for all sorts of diseases, or lacking proper diagnosis, would mistake other diseases for the disease it worked on and so forth.
It was blind chance without any actual useful theory behind it. Now we have useful theory which explains why consciousness would be linked to the physical cognitive functions of a brain, and less and less that would explain how it could exist without it.
breecher@sh.itjust.worksto People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Spending your limited time on earth wisely2·2 days agoNo, both of those still involves some form of brain consciousness. What we don’t have any evidence of is consciousness existing without a physical body.
breecher@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and StarlinkEnglish1·3 days agoNow when a Putin simp is leading the country?
Especially compared with his facial expression. He very much look like he is savouring the news.
Finely diced celery, carrots and onion is the foundation of basically all great stews and ragouts (including ragu alla bolognese).
Also he did manage to dismantle federal government, so no more oversight and regulations for corporations. That is a pretty huge win for oligarchs and a catastrophy for basically everybody else, which everybody seems to have forgotten about in the general avalanche of shitshows which has been occurring.
breecher@sh.itjust.worksto Games@lemmy.world•Deathloop is free to claim on Epic GamesEnglish21·6 days agoThe game is forced multiplayer? Yeah, then I’ll pass.
Yeah, the vision during the procedure was not an issue at all. The smell of burnt eye as the laser works away was a bit off putting though. I can attest that burnt eye smells a lot similar to burnt hair.
I had my done over 20 years ago, and only needed glasses again this year (and that is only for a very slight correction, I can see fine without them, while 20 years ago I was basically blind without my glasses). I can’t recommend lasik enough, especially for people with very bad eyesight.
Hopefully such people exists, but I am not quite sure they do.
No, conservatism, as formulated by Edmund Burke in his attack against the French Revolution.
breecher@sh.itjust.worksto PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Assassin's Creed: Black Flag remake is such a badly kept secret it's been leaked by a statue maker who just assumed we all knew it was comingEnglish3·9 days agoBecause the original doesn’t really have a lot of predatory monetisation. They are having GTAO wet dreams thinking about how to monetise their most popular game of the franchise with the excuse of doing it as a remake.
You didnd’t purchase their artwork though. The fact that you still haven’t figured that out says a lot about what kind of customerbase was needed to get NFTs off the ground.
Techbros are still doing it. In this thread even, and people are still falling for it judging by their upvotes.
It is pronounced pretty much the same way in a number of different languages.