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That's not an excuse though.


That's not what parent means. Parent means there are humans that speak, why can't you understand some of them.


I think I can understand all of them as long as I have time to learn the language they're speaking


I'd assume it's more something vaguely in this direction:

https://libquotes.com/charles-babbage/quote/lbr2z8s

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.


>You and I are using words without sound, are we not?

Nope! You're sounding the words out in your head (or out loud) when you read it.


I am not. Not everyone subvocalizes, and for some people, like myself, an inner monologue narrating what you read is voluntary. I might choose to have the latter if I'm reading a book for enjoyment, but if I'm just reading comments online, I would prefer not to limit my reading speed by doing things like that.


Not necessarily. Deaf people can read, even ones who are deaf from birth.


Exceptions don't make the rule. Generally, people sound words out. Even if the language doesn't have an alphabet of sounds like Mandarin.


> Generally, people sound words out.

That's how hearing people learn to read. But even then it does not follow that they continue to sound words out or play back the audio in their head after they become proficient. In fact, one of the hallmarks of a proficient reader vs a beginner is that the former no longer needs to sound words out. They can just look at a word and recognize it more or less immediately.


It's definitely not "generally", it's not even a supermajority.

> Some estimates suggest that as much as 50% or more of the population subvocalizes when reading, especially during their early years of reading development. However, with practice and improved reading skills, many individuals can reduce the extent of subvocalization and increase their reading speed.


I think sounding words out would be the exception. Do you sound words out when you read code? I'm having trouble imagining that.


To chime in, I don't, but yes, it's my understanding that for many people the "voice in their head" instead metaphorical at all.

I was always under the impression that the internal narration used in visual media (e.g. the Dexter opening sequence comes to mind [1]) was taking a dramatic license, but it's apparently some people's lived experience.

1. https://youtu.be/d3_znBNPjl4?si=N5zfhtobEVtc5O1X


I think code is a different situation entirely. The whales are communicating not coding anyway.


Why "of course"?


How many Gods are there? Which ones truly exist and which ones truly don't? Why is it so? How would you prove both sides of the postulate?


Because it's obvious.


Pretty sure I just spotted the wahabi. Not sure why wahabis are against the term wahabi. Wahabis follow Islam according to the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab right?


If a Muslim prays 5 times a day, fasts in Ramadan, has a beard, wears a hijab. Practices Islam according to the Qur'an and the teachings of the Prophet, are they a Whabbi?

It has become a derogatory term to describe practicing Muslims and the "good" Muslims are the ones who are liberal in their views and follow western values. Otherwise they are so called "conservative", "Whabi, "hardliner".

Muslims do not know who this person is. He is a footnote in history and people do not learn/practice Islam from his books. They do it through the Qur'an and the authentic teachings and actions of the prophet which is the authoritative source on Islam.

This is my frustration. A boogeyman word to describe normal Muslims when they practice Islam as it was practiced by the prophet 1400 years ago.


>If a Muslim prays 5 times a day, fasts in Ramadan, has a beard, wears a hijab.

This is not what makes someone a wahabi, you're strawmanning. These qualifications you mention are basically common denominators among all muslims. Again, what makes someone a wahabi is having beliefs as taught by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. For example, being against the maddhab system.


lol. And Bitcoin will replace the dollar.


But you can click "Delete".



Sounds amazing. Imagine small, inexpensive, reliable Neutrino detectors. No more bad signals on your cell phone. Reduced latency between long distance communication. No cables needed.


Forget the consumer tech, high resolution neutrino astronomy would be dope.

Not that I expect anything like that in our lifetimes.


Sure you’d get cheap detectors but then you’d be dealing with a flood of artificial neutrinos that blinds our ability to do good research on it.


Hosted at home? If so do you make everyone to use a VPN?


I host jitsi and other things at home, no VPN.


No, it's hosted on a hetzner server.


How much are you paying monthly for it, if you don’t mind me asking.


It's about $40/month, but it's my personal server for everything else too. Hosts some web radio projects with liquidsoap and icecast, some generative audio experiments, and so on. It's still probably more server than I need.

Edit: remembered that wrong. It's $66/month. But I'm using an instance much larger than you'd need to just run jitsi.


You can get so much mileage from a $40 hetzner instance. Mine is doing all forms of useful things. My only critique is that latency to storage boxes is awful (and storage is otherwise really pricey).


https://www.hetzner.com/sb

You'll find plenty of decent ones here for ~€40/month.


Also, having good tracks will make up for the crap tracks on the album. Fans don't listen to the crap tracks as much. That's a benefit of throwing a bunch of darts at dartboard at once.


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