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How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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501 points·by abnry·22 giorni fa·555 comments

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abnry
·23 ore fa·discuss
I need something like this for when my AC unit, which can only be right next to the TV, cycles on for a bit. It's sort of the inverse problem. When total noise gets louder I need the TV also to get louder.
abnry
·13 giorni fa·discuss
Very nice! I solved them all in the backyard on a pleasant Sunday afternoon.
abnry
·17 giorni fa·discuss
How can an animal even have a neck that long? Was it clear from the fossils that it is this long because I am skeptical.
abnry
·21 giorni fa·discuss
This is where I got the link from.
abnry
·21 giorni fa·discuss
I knew Flibbertigibbet from the sound of music:

MARGARETTA: How do you find a word that means Maria?

BERTHE: A flibberti gibbet!

SOPHIA: A willo' the wisp!

MARGARETTA: A clown!
abnry
·23 giorni fa·discuss
When I was a child, I remember going to the nearby children's museum and seeing an exhibit with 1 million bread tags. It was supposed to help conceptualize the number.
abnry
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Are you carrying a lot of stress when you were walking 10 min mid-day? I think the wandering, creative mind is the goal and walking often facilitates that, but if some stronger force is keeping you away then it may not work.
abnry
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Europeans are shocked by the portion sizes in America. But they feel normal in the US. Frogs often don't know they are being boiled.
abnry
·4 mesi fa·discuss
The guiding analogy of the piece is that of planting a tree and waiting for it to mature.

The reason we need to wait is that it takes time for some things to mature.
abnry
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Which IIRC are all a consequence of Jensen's inequality.
abnry
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Fantastic! Now I don't need to run it in a headless xorg session.
abnry
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I'm still struggling to care about the "hit piece".

It's an AI. Who cares what it says? Refusing AI commits is just like any other moderation decision people experience on the web anywhere else.
abnry
·5 mesi fa·discuss
The NSFW content is a big bummer for me. I can't let a kid go to Wikipedia unsupervised because of this.
abnry
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I love it!

I typed "hello".

> Your thought's hash is: 4358f43b660389eecd435dc2a5f5cee29786245cd2cff27bd4de0b3e8fd53b79

> Including you, 267 persons had that thought already!

> First time was 4 hours, 14 minutes ago, last time was less than a minute ago.

Of course, everyone else has thought of this. But what if I "type": 4358f43b660389eecd435dc2a5f5cee29786245cd2cff27bd4de0b3e8fd53b79

> Your thought's hash is: c37d0a8c512b9ec7074d3bc77c4545d58fdfcde55bad89a70ede71ac2ac0000d

> Including you, 8 persons had that thought already!

> First time was 2 hours, 1 minute ago, last time was 1 minute ago.

That's hilarious!

And also, "typing": echo "hello world" | curl -d @- https://subth.ink

>Your thought's hash is: c5ba1c7e35345dbb8c2dc6be0972d0b6ddf6c6515143b64c057296948e2ba8cd

>Including you, 10 persons had that thought already!

>First time was 1 hour, 52 minutes ago, last time was 2 minutes ago.
abnry
·7 mesi fa·discuss
I think the response is a great comment. It really is insane that they felt the need to damn the flooded campsite.

The comment actually does a great job of accentuating the point of the story. Everyone offended is too caught up in their achiever mode mindset to truly appreciate the absurdity.
abnry
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Where do I get DRM-free ebooks to put on a Kobo? I don't support breaking DRM. So I'm using a Kindle because it has the best access to and integration with almost any book I want.