The New Ultimative Smaltalk Threadt (lots of Off Topic)

[FBnil]

Maybe I should look at, um, Chinese(?).

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Cantonese? Mandarin? Or a dialect of those?

Toki Pona

My rendition of the oompa loompa song in Toki Pona... and "Pyra in 2 months"!

and think that the Dutch speak German ('Deutsch').

We do! Dutch resembles much more the old Germanic language than German. It is because Germany was invaded by Bavarians? (not sure, but it was from the south) that changed the inflection of many words. Making Frisian the most Germanic language to date, and Dutch a second (phonetically, that is). Can't find my source, but I can search for it. meanwhile:

 

[Caine]

My rendition of the oompa loompa song in Toki Pona... and "Pyra in 2 months"!

Fire container...works for me

We do! Dutch resembles much more the old Germanic language than German.

Sure, germanic but not modern German. Aside from the fact that many of us actually can speak it.

 

[ible]

@FBnil are the first four words describing a condom??

 

[FBnil]

so I keep those memorized

I remember "Toire wa doko des-ka?" as the most important one. (as you seem to be a coprofiliac, talking about a number 2 and such). PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS:

ICECREAM !!

GELATO? AISUKURIMU? Cake?

@FBnil are the first four words describing a condom??

Hmm... not on purpose. But... out of paper?

 

[Caine]

Not entirely a surprising question with Japanese videos I suppose, but WTF did I just watch?

 

[rygD]

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Cantonese? Mandarin? Or a dialect of those?

Not sure. Most of the books I would want to read have probably been translated, so I guess it would be whatever I need to discuss certain concepts.

What would really help me is getting better at Latin/Roman and working on more than just a few words and names in archaic and ancient Greek. And Spanish.

 

[JDTAY]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...book-and-google-are-doomed-george-soros-says/

RIP Facebook and Google

George Soros doesn't so much make predictions, but rather proclamations enforced through lobbying. On the bright side, we have MySpace and Bing to fall back on...

RIP internet

 

[FBnil]

Most of the books I would want to read have probably been translated, so I guess it would be whatever I need to discuss certain concepts.

Which ones? Art of War?

 

[rygD]

That wasn't one of the ones I had in mind, although I have a (physical) copy of that one, too, so why not.

 

[Yori]

Quick question to anyone who has submitted a ticket before on the dragon box shop, how long on average does it take to get a reply?
I don’t want to be rude and send multiple request or pester ED so is it normal for it to take 3-4 days?

Also is anyone interested language and or in conlanging (I'm asking due to all of the language talk)?
I personally have wanted to try learning Toki-pona and maybe dabble in making something for myself as a project, but haven’t had the chance to do start or know where to start.

 

[levi]

I think the only ticket I've submitted took a couple of months to get a reply. I can't remember what ED was doing at the time, so can't say if he was likely to be more or less busy at that time (plus we never know how busy he is due to his video editing work). Plus mine wasn't an especially urgent request, so he may well have prioritised replying to more urgent missives first.

 

[ible]

yes, i've been trying to get a response out of ED for a little while now on a certain investment opportunity brought forward by some Nigerian princes.

just kidding on the Nigerian princes part. but he must be quite backlogged on e-mails...

 

[Yori]

Makes sense, ED is quite the busy guy and I don't want to pester him, but is wanting to change my order of a 4GB 'Standard edition' To a 4GB 'Mobile edition' urgent? or is that something I should not worry about?
The main reason i'm worried is that due to this being a preorder, I don't want to change my order too late in where an extra 'Standard edition' is already made and ED ends up loosing money on an unesseary board or I end up paying extra!
[doublepost=1517120900,1517120755][/doublepost]I might be overthinking this.

 

[JDTAY]

http://www.businessinsider.com/nicolas-cage-inserted-movies-fakeapp-ai-technology-2018-1

The bad news: New AI technology allows for people's faces to be inserted into video, creating the potential for several abuses.
The worse news: The worst of these abuses has already been discovered and is spreading.

1984 is here, and Nicolas Cage is our Big Brother. >_>

 

[kaprikawn]

I just spent twenty minutes researching astyle arguments because people will insist on using crappy whitespace policy.

PUTTING OPENING CURLY BRACKETS/BRACES ON THEIR OWN LINE IS NOT OK

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[levi]

Whereas I'll say if you're not doing proper indentation to make my life bearable you absolutely need to be putting those brackets on their own line so I can see 'em.

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[PowerGod]

Where does the rants start ?! WHERE !!11!1!

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[levi]

It's a dialect of SGML; the opening tag is optional, and if it's missing you just default to the enclosing tag (the message start).

 

[kaprikawn]

Whereas I'll say if you're not doing proper indentation to make my life bearable you absolutely need to be putting those brackets on their own line so I can see 'em.

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I thought you ware a Python programmer? The Python devs have their heads screwed on when it comes to whitespace policy, none of the needless curly brackets taking up vertical space. They really thought it through.

 

[levi]

Yeah, I am, so in Python the argument is moot because the language enforces indentation and eliminates brackets. But since you were arguing, I was speaking in C++.