At least they use punctuation. We've recently had a project on HN where the author used only lower cases and no punctuation because they equated it to being chained by the system.
Seeing Anya (the girl pointing at pictures), I'd guess the author is partial to Japanese culture. As their writing system does not have a concept of upper/lower case, he might just have determined that they are superfluous. Or he is simply an eccentric. Though I guess this is one of the things that some folks will not care and others getting hung up mightily.
I personally don't really mind that bit of capitalization that English does. German is much worse.
Not quite the same. Capitalization doesn't add much to languages written with the Latin alphabet. THE ROMANS ONLY VVROTE VVITH CAPITAL LETTERS.
But the Greeks added vowels to the alphabet because Indo-European languages rely a lot on vowels (as opposed to Semitic languages which are easy to understand without vowels).
Do you think using capitals at the beginning of a sentence aids comprehension?
I view punctuation and spelling rules as a way to maximize comprehension (akin to having a linting standard). In non formal writing, I don't see any harm in avoiding capitalization (at least it doesn't seem to me to help understanding / reading speed, etc at all).
It's like people typing "K" instead of "OK". It's disrespectful to the reader, suggesting that the reader is not important enough to warrant typing an extra letter.
One would expect Altman to know how to use the SHIFT key when running a massive business, but, hey - once you achieve escape velocity from society, you don't have to live by its norms or grammar rules.
I can assure you that it would cost most people people here a promotion or a raise if they did this at work.
2024 is the year that most of us are collectively growing out of the early social media era all-lowercase thing, but everyone hasn't gotten the memo yet.
> “He laughed with a booming abandon that made the whole restaurant turn around and look.”
Don't the people in the restaurant actually turn around in this sentence, whereas they didn't in the original, because it's just describing a kind of loudness with an example?
> “He laughed with the kind of booming abandon that makes the whole restaurant turn around and look.”
I feel like people are sleeping on Kagi FastGPT, its their amazing search combined with their summariser and a llm model that gives me the answers directly without having to search myself.
I was a teenaged boy when I first started playing Counter Strike. Maybe I’m a Luddite but the game is still fun; I feel like you don’t have to gamble or buy 48 cosmetic collectibles to enjoy it.
It's explicitly not aimed at children being rated M / mature and with obvious themes implying as much. Obviously children still play it, but there has to be some level of responsibility on the parents here.
Whether or not children play CS:GO/CS:2 is irrelevant. It is a game where 50% of the time you play as terrorists shooting law enforcement, it's very obviously not aimed at kids.
The only way for kids to gamble in CS at all is to either steal a credit card, which is obviously not Valve's fault, or for them to have a Steam gift card. If anything is to be done about the children, I think Valve should just 1) require a users to have a credit card on file in order to buy lootboxes, and 2) require re-entering the full credit card details if the user makes several purchases in a short period of time, in order to stop kids who, for example, memorized the CVV of a card already on file in Steam.
Keep in mind that uploading a government ID would have issues, seeing as in the US a driver's license is not universal, not to mention IDs all across the globe. Maybe there's an alternative form of ID that would work that I just can't think of, but anyways, I'm against needing to upload a government ID to access anything unless it's specifically for governmental purposes.
Ok but as a society we’ve settled on letting fully grown adults partake in some forms of gambling. Are we really equating loot boxes in a mature rated game to casinos that will empty your kids college fund in the span of 12 hours?
My point is that the "think of the children" angle is redundant and reductive. We simply don't need to go there to have a discussion on the pros and cons of lootboxes.
True, but a bit of a moot point if both search engines will indiscriminately route you to those websites anyways. It's not like I'm opting-out of that issue by using DuckDuckGo right now.
When the magnet is moved below the flake, the flake stands up, meaning it is being repelled. This is the case for every magnetic material, but what they do in the video is flipping the magnet around so that poles are reversed, a normal magnet would be attracted = flake flat on the surface but instead it is also standing up. This shows that the material is a diamagnet at least = it always creates an inverted magnetic field to the magnet.
So here's why this could be big: Not all diamagnets are SC but all SC materials are diamagnets.
