Hangul

Oh, yup, these are not derived from Phoenecian, but considering how recent they are they were developed after the concept of a phonetic alphabet had already been widely circulated

Do you have any info on that? I’m not too familiar with Eastern languages, but all of the examples that I can think of have phonetic alphabets less than a millennium old.

Yes, but it’s quite recent, only a few hundred years old - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul

The most insane thing to me is that — as far as anyone can tell — a phonetic alphabet was developed only once in all oh human history.

https://archive.ph/4FoJs

The reason is that the cost of living in the US has been decoupled from wage inflation for a long time.

These days the government’s inability to regulate industry (due to partisan gridlock) combined with the fact that corporations used the period of high inflation to also hike prices has made it even worse for those who were already living on or close to the margin.

I heard someone won an award for the fjords…

I’d say that this is the kind of thing we elect leaders to decide and implement for us, but my leaders are a bunch of fucking morons.

We’ve got to go dig them holes. 🎶

I’m interested, but not $105 interested unfortunately.

That clipped ear says they’ve also been neutered, so… maybe think hard about what that kind of lifestyle change entails.

Investors who don’t bother reading past the letters A and I in the prospectus.

How is Worldcoin still a thing?

This is so terrible it physically pains me.

They’re dinosaurs.

Maybe true, but even at $3500 the Vision Pro would be about the cheapest thing in the operating theater anyway.

Are you looking for a tool that can diff legal documents line by line or clause by clause? If the latter I’d bet an LLM with a large context size could do a pretty good job, especially if you used a script (or another pass through the LLM) to break them down into like sections so that could just compare e.g. all Controlling Law sections with each other and all IP Indemnification sections with each other.

Now that I think about it, tuning the prompt (and keeping the temperature very low, like 0) you could probably get it to return everything from proper diffs to summaries of conceptual differences. And it could definitely do multiples at once if you were to break them into like pieces ahead of time.

I bought one of these when the Amazon meme first got big. It has become a family tradition to try to hide it in somebody’s drawer/under a pillow/etc and claim that it was the power of the wolves. And then wait for it to make its way back….

My family’s spread out. Ours are well-traveled wolves.

“Aerospace chocolatiers” would be a great name for an experimental, new-age music troupe.

If Ukraine is forced to capitulate It could be 20x this number and the Kremlin would still consider it a massive win.

The interesting part of the article:

The new flexible polymer and carbon composite boom is coupled with a twelve-unit (12U) CubeSat built by NanoAvionics. After the mission launches atop a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand, the spacecraft will go into a Sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of about 600 miles (~1,000 km) and the sail will deploy in about 25 minutes to cover an area of 860 ft² (80 m²) with the boom unfolding from the size of a hand to 23 ft (7 m) long. Once deployed, the sail will adjust the vehicle’s orbit by angling itself in relation to the solar wind.