The most problematic for me as a non-native has been "the" vs "nothing", i.e. when one can/should put the definite article.

Pre-LLM I was joking that real AI is whatever can make that decision correctly 100% of times.

Try making it with "a" - if thing can be "a thing" then it could be "the thing" but if it can't be "a thing" it definitely can't be "the thing" either.

Right on the money!

In the 16th century, being "on the money" meant an arrow or a dart being on (or near) a specific physical coin (i.e. the money), like in a tossing or shooting bar-bet.

Being on merely a money (or some money) would likely not be as impressive in said circumstances, and so whilst being grammatically possible in English, it shouldn't seem so likely the sort of thing anyone would ever have had to say.

"I play the piano" or "I play piano"?

Weirdly, as an en_GB native, neither of these seems wrong to me. I suspect one is British and one is American, and too much TV has driven me to accept the American one.

Both of these are common in the US. It doesn't seem like there's any strong regional connection.

Judging from a search, "play the piano" is about 5 times as common as "play piano", but there are also many sources which uses both versions in close proximity, apparently interchangeably.

With context these can mean different things. You might also play a piano, or hire either a player piano, or a piano player.

If you are answering which instrument you play, it's the former, but if we are talking the profession it's the latter, because you don't say then that you play a piano.

"i play piano" - i know how to play piano "i play the piano" - i am playing the piano

that is just my intuition as native english speaker, but the former cojld also mean the latter and i have seen it used like such before.

I don't have this problem in English, I have it in my native language. It sounds super wrong to me that people say "that concept is called X in the math" instead of saying "... in math". I've never understood why this feels wrong to me, why couldn't you put a 'the' before it? But in English that's a well-established thing. Maybe my brain is wired wrong and short-circuits on Dutch

How do you feel about adjective ordering rules? I always wondered what this was like from the outside.

Background: Dutch, had a few years of English education starting at iirc 11yo (but we also had French and don't parle me avec that so that was really just foundational), got fluent mostly just from chatting in videogames

We were never taught adjective ordering, at least that I remember, since the concept was new to me a few years ago (I'm 32). It seems natural to me, but of course it's entirely arbitrary and so it must be that I simply picked it up from reading other people's English (many of whose was not native either, so that it still worked is actually interesting)

True. That's also a big ambiguity to me. But for some reason I never cared about it as much :/

As a patron of the 405, there is no consensus.

Is it only me, or this Jev thing really gives Claw vibes?

leaning yes 0.72

So, the field was making a joke of someone's dementia?

Everyone knows about the weakness of the research and jokes about it, but much fewer people are aware of the dementia behind it.

I don't want my Scrum Master back, although it never went anywhere in the first place, unfortunately.

It may be worth noting that this is not _that_ KVM, but this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch

I learnt this first myself from HN, a few months ago.

It not exactly a KVM switch, which allows you to have one set of keyboard, mouse, monitor connected to multiple PCs and switch between them. This is an IP KVM, which lets you send keyboard and mouse inputs and view display output remotely over the network.

Right, I was confused when it has the wifi/ethernet port

Depending on one’s computational upbringing, it is exactly _that_ KVM.

(I agree that they should spell it out on the website.)

My first thought was “ah, this must be a JVM for Kotlin by the creators of Kotlin (Jetbrains)!”

What KVM were you thinking of, the virtualization?

Probably Kernel-based Virtual Machine, yeah.

Yes

This "flow typing" looks very intriguing to me: So, in s sense, what we know as "dynamic typing" is more precisely describable as "runtime" (not compile-type) dynamic typing?

Java and Python are not on that list?

Microsoft explicitly de-emphasized Java in favor of C# after their J++ lawsuit. That's why they created C# in fact.

Python for windows application development never really got there and is kind of a technically runs if you want to run python kind of situation.

For technical report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639110

I came across AuthaGraph projection some time ago and got hooked to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AuthaGraph_projection

A version of it including political borders my desktop wallpaper for a long time, until I decided to not change default wallpaper on my new devices anymore.

How come the same article has been posted four times in the past 18 days? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=runjs.app

Doesn't HN have a temporal deduplication system?

When I tried to post a duplicated link HN will just redirect me to the existing one, but somehow everyone else seems to be able to post the same link multiple times.

Same. (but of course, you don't see the duplicates when they do accept your post)

You can also see duplicates e.g. here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=semianalysis.com