HK65

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 hours ago

It's basically a mishmash of Ancient Ugric, Turkish, German, Slavic and Romani words with grammar that is an eldritch monstrosity, nobody really knows where it came from, and it is seriously weird.

There are only two real tenses, but nineteen cases and two different ways of doing imperative, which are kind of equivalent but carry cultural and tonal differences in certain contexts.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago

And made machine looms.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 22 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Some Hungarian prefixes can be piled on without limit, while still creating meaning.

The word "úszni" means "to swim".

Úsztatni - to make someone or someone swim
Úsztattatni - to make someone make someone swim
Úsztattattattattattattattattattni - to make someone make someone make someone ... make someone swim

Can be done with any verb, and maybe some other suffixes as well.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 12 points 19 hours ago

Life is Strange co-creator and Don't Nod creative director Michel Koch has taken to X, "The Everything App"

Here you go, some Leon-sucking as well.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 days ago

There is in fact a requirement, and also that it's off by default.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago

No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation. Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ. One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you? (An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies where-ever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example. Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it. You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never executed that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument. Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD? If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this: Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are tons of frozen Russian assets in the EU, which they can recoup their losses from legally.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The article is actually advocating for segregated E-bike categories that more people could have a go at, since it would be more about technique and less about raw stamina.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's literally just that the language uses compound words constructed on the spot, as opposed to compound phrases. When you say "insect death", German grammar just dictates that if it's written without prepositions as "insect death" and not "the death of insects", you have to write it in one word.

The same works in Hungarian as well. "The death of insects" would be "a rovarok halálozása", while "insect death" has to be written as "rovarhalálozás". Every compound phrase without a preposition to clarify the relationship of the words becomes a compound word.

Actually, Hungarian is even worse, because prepositions and some other stuff also become suffixes, and are thus attached to the word. So the phrase "happening at the time when insect death is caused" can be translated word for word as "a rovarok halálának okozásának idejében történő", but it is equally right, and more succinct to use the adjective "rovarhaláloztatáskori".

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I think both the faction advocating for the Israeli genocide and the faction advocating for throwing the election to someone who would more openly support the Israeli genocide and start some genocides on his own is stupid.

Harris sucks, but her winning is the best plausible outcome of the US election. It's like a plane crash, just because the crash is inevitable you don't smash the plane into the ground so it's over faster, you try to save as many lives as you can while admitting that not all of them can be saved. That does not mean I think the people who can't be saved are less valuable.

But if you want to effect change in Palestine, advocate for BDS, advocate against AIPAC, not against Harris, at least not in the general election, not now. The uncommitted movement was brilliant, and it was exactly the right time. It is not the right time now.

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