guyrocket

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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

Most software is built on free samples. Games, for example, very often have free demos...still..after decades. Free demos sold me on many games over the years. And one day, I'll pay for Proton too.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 26 points 8 months ago

Those are boopers.

Aka monitor monitors.

They boop when your monitors are happy.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago

Sexual confusion. Then a laugh.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Really. Can you get a burner phone for anything close to $3/mo?

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Should this also be cross posted to the Steam magazine? I would do it but I don't know how...or IF I can do it being on kbin...

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone know what the implications are for Vanadium?

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Well duh. Of course the robots will eliminate the competition. How else will we get skynet?

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago

The simple answer I'm seeing on a quick review is that it is a way to simplify the complexity of the many possible nouns that could be uttered.

"LA pap"
"LE pep"

These are imaginary words but the articles will help distinguish them from each other for a native speaker. They sound similar but I know it was "pap" and not "pep" because I also heard "la".

Also, gender is just ONE of the many possible dimensions used by noun classes in language. There are also things like size and animate/inanimate that are used by languages.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_class

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

That is doubleplus ungood!

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That was interesting, but I think this explains it a bit better.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ljrtQtj4BOM&pp=ygUbTGluZ3Vpc3RpY3MgbGFuZ3VhZ2UgZ2VuZGVy

ETA: Good wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender

ETA: Lots more info, including interesting papers:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linguistics+grammatical+gender&ia=web

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I think HD quality that I get sometimes on my cell phone is as good.

Even landlines were "tuned" to the audio frequencies that voices use. So they were also not full range audio.

But I do agree that overall it seemed like landlines had better audio quality.

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