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  • Their family probably came to Taiwan after the Japanese invasion.

    Japan was notoriously brutal to the indigenous population, but most of the people in Taiwan came there in the civil war.

    In fact, stamping out the indigenous culture has been an ongoing part of the post civil war Taiwanese government, and it’s only recently that the Taiwanese language has been allowed to be taught in schools.





  • The main differentiator of fish over everything else is it prioritizes intuitive behavior over backwards compatibility.

    Zsh is to bash as c++ is to c. Most bash scripts and habits will work in zsh, but zsh is just more convenient and has more options. Fish is intentionally different.

    Do I wish fish had existed instead of bash so we had a nicer terminal experience? On the whole, yes. But I also couldn’t be bothered to learn another shell where most of the instructions online won’t be able to help you, and I ended up sticking with zsh.







  • No, you just use a standard technique like word2vec.

    Basically words are considered similar (and embedded to nearby locations in a high dimensional space) if they are likely to be used in the same context.

    And because slurs are used to indicate that you don’t like someone, they tend to occur in the same kind of context.

    So they’re all very similar. This is actual natural language processing being used, but it’s a shit post and the graphics aren’t very clear.








  • Streeting is fucking awful. He’s super Christian, and consistently makes terrible faith based decisions - he’s anti trans and anti right to die - while pretending he’s making them for non religious reasons.

    He’s even talked about how he was brought up to be a self-hating gay person because of his faith. Apparently he did just enough therapy to realize his church was wrong about gay people, but he can’t extend the same awareness to trans issues.