Notices by Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io), page 51

Here it says that 僕 (boku) used by women has a feeling of gender neutrality in #Japanese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNR0egvK_oQ&t=296s

But it also says that there are two pitch accents for 僕, and grown-ups tend to use the raising / flat version.

When watching the next episode of the Tengoku Daimakyou #anime, I'll try to notice to which version is used by female characters.

By the way, YouTube subs work with #Yomichan! I wish the same was true for mpv (but you can easily extract the subs to a .srt using ffmpeg, and then search for the time.

The older MPlayer could print the subs on stdout, I wonder if there's some way to do it with #mpv or #vlc?
@srevinsaju #japanese

@srevinsaju Then you're in luck: there are 1345 manga chapters and 3 anime series, of which the most recent has 1160 episodes. Finding subs in Japanese should be easy, and you'll learn a lot of everyday vocabulary from it.

@globalc I wish they published manga in html, with text that can be selected and instantly translated by Yomichan / 10ten.

@roptat Ah, I've been meaning to read it since a Japanese friend recommended it.

Sometimes I use Yotsuba stickers in LINE 😄

The rhythm of #Japanese: haku (mora), long vowels, nasal n sound, sokuon (doubled consonants).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_HLY0Rss-g

On my first year in Japan, I tried reading Dragonball, but it was still too hard for me because it uses informal grammar and slang I didn't know.

Doraemon is probably a better starting point, but I find it too boring.

#Japanese

Multiple #Japanese friends recommended reading children's manga, which use simple vocabulary and have furigana over most kanji.

https://www.japanesetease.net/easy-to-read-manga-for-japanese-beginners-vol-01/

You Don’t Have to Study Kanji
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exkXaVYvb68

But you do... they're just not the first thing you should be spending time on when learning #japanese, and they should be learned in context.

A leaner <iostream> in libstdc++ for GCC 13

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/04/03/leaner-libstdc-gcc-13
#gcc #cpp #programming

@RetroWizzard phew! 😌

@RetroWizzard WHAAAT? Is Steam really gonna get steamrolled? Let it sink too? 😢

I looked at the instructions for installation and configuration, and it looks way more complicated than Packer.

This puts me off, 'cause I feel that plugin installation should work out of the box in #neovim with *zero* lines of Lua configuration.

But Lazy seems to be going in the opposite direction, doesn't it? 😅

@sigsegv @elijahmanor @srevinsaju

It should also work well on Linux with Proton 🙏
https://www.protondb.com/app/1442820

omg, I didn't know there's a 2021 sequel of R-Type with amazing graphics and sound effects 🤩

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1442820/RType_Final_2/

#videogames #retrogaming

Why π is in the normal distribution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy8r7WSuT1I

Wow. I wish I understood these fundamental relationships when I came out of school.

Gaussians come up everywhere in physics, statistics, computer science and engineering...

#math #statistics

@jasonprogrammer Yes, すいません is a contracted and less formal version of すみません.

Forgot to give the title: Boku No Kokoro No Yabai Yatsu (僕の心のヤバいやつ).

English title: The Dangers in My Heart.

And this is the scene in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb6xnbXOoro
#anime

The first episode of a new #anime series opens with a student reading a "Murder Encyclopedia" during recess.

The voice over goes like: 僕は頭がおかしい (boku wa atama ga okashii) = I am messed up in the head.

Then the internal monologue continues with murderous fantasies towards the school's most beautiful girl, who notices him staring and... 🫣

Well, at least this won't be yet another ordinary school life anime 😂

@srevinsaju juergen?