Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@Coyote the whole point of an alphabet since its inception, as opposed to logogram systems such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, is to write down phonemes so that you don't have to wonder how to write something you hear or pronounce something you read. A unification of spoken and written language. English experienced some kind of devolution where they essentially went back to words being logograms, except using latin characters as components, that for historical reasons vaguely suggest the pronunciation. Worst of both worlds.

@puppygirlhornypost@transfem.social Steve Wilhite would've liked this

@Coyote accents and dialects develop over time, sure, but these are still small differences in certain words or in pronouncing the language overall, not wildly different pronunciations of the same sequences of letters depending on what sequences they're next to, where they are located within the word, what language did English take the word from, and the alignment of planets on March 15th 1386.

Neither Spanish nor French have the problem where an adult native speaker looks at how a word is written and isn't sure which one of multiple possible pronunciations to pick. It's a solved problem.

@icedquinn @Coyote tbh it would've probably failed anyway, the inertia of something like the alphabet is insane. Even in the case of something more immediately useful like a measurement system there's a certain English-speaking country that refuses to switch from medieval units like the rest of the world did, no chance of switching out the alphabet.

@Coyote it's a solved problem for most existing languages.

@icedquinn lol English hiragana. Nice, I had no idea this existed.

It's unfortunate that the #1 international language ended up being English. With its complete pronunciation anarchy it's impossible to tell someone over writing how to pronounce something, or in some cases even describe a sound, without digging up example words. And even that isn't foolproof since they fail at consistently pronouncing their own language and the same written word can have completely different pronunciation depending on accent.

Every single other European language I know of would be better. Yes, even French, they write 4x what they read, but at least they do it fairly consistently. No "ghoti" situations. No cases where an adult sees a written word and isn't sure how to pronounce it.

In some better timeline the US ended up speaking Spanish and a whole class of worldwide communication problems was avoided.

@VD15 beware, they don't remain stuck in the vacuum cleaner forever

@samwho linux keyboard layout for Polish has it under altgr+shift+T, I love it. Nice website tho, I'll bookmark it for when I'm on windows etc.

@karlauerbach @happyborg @hyolo @volkris it's an extremely interesting topic, mr. M. Ben-Ari's book on concurrent and distributed programming was one of _those_ CS books I enjoyed reading even though it was already some 25 years old at that point. But as I'm sure you know the biggest problem with systems like the one discussed here isn't its distributed nature, nor the possibility that some nodes may fail, but the possibility that some nodes may belong to bad actors and be actively malicious. Trying to work around that is 100% of the reason behind cryptocurrency blockchains' inefficiency, so I'm very interested in how Autonomi is supposed to solve that problem while retaining efficiency.

@happyborg that honestly sounds like re-inventing a blockchain. How is data stored permanently, by who, and how is it ensured that they play nice? Also where can I learn more, since a search query for "autonomi" returns what seems like mostly unrelated stuff.
@hyolo @volkris @karlauerbach

@icedquinn people generally aren't rational actors, but renting out living space is such free money that the only reasons for not doing it are:
1. You are a monumental idiot and if you still have any money it's not for long. (Happens, but not commonly enough to consist for most of the empty housings.)
2. You're too old to deal with this shit. (Happens, but not for long by nature.)
3. The laws of renting out apartments are so retarded that they've done the unthinkable and made it legit not worth it. (Possible, but rare and places that implement those usually go into an economic death spiral pretty fast.)
4. You are hoping for an opportunity to sell them off so soon and for so much higher price that it's worth sacrificing short-term profits to have the housing ready. (As you mentioned happens, but not common and not for long.)

@icedquinn that's funny. Still a tiny minority compared to the actual percentage of empty housings the lefties love to throw around and blame on Evil Speculators.

@icedquinn you got baited by leftie economic comprehension, in the vast majority of cases it's more worth it even for speculators to lend those houses out. Sure, they may gain value by sitting there, but they can earn more money and degrade not much faster when actually used. The empty housings you hear about are usually in bumfuck nowhere where people are running away from and literally nobody wants to buy them for any reasonable price, nor does anyone want to rent them.