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Ladies, gentlemen, and cherished non-binary folks: it has been a serious joy to moderate this community for you....

Já que esta comunidade quase não tem usuários, decidi fechá-la. Caso alguém tenha interesse em reativá-la, contate os administradores da instância. (Che, incluso se querés la comunidad para parlar de la ciudad de Paraná.)...

I wish to stop being a moderator in lemmy.ml. However, I don’t know what to do with this community; the last time I asked for new mods nobody showed interest. So I’d like the help of other members of the community to decide it....

UPDATE, 2024/JAN/17: this address has been locked so mods only can post. Use the new one....

Interesting paper, about the alleged ability of LLMs* to judge the grammaticality of sentences - something that humans are rather good at. Eight phenomena were tested, and LLMs performed extremely poorly....

If you’re paywalled, check this archive link....

Disclaimer: I like the Fediverse, Lemmy, and the concept of federation, I’ve been here for two years, and I feel grateful towards people working on this platform - devs and admins and mods and everyone else. As such, I hope that what I’m voicing is interpreted as constructive criticism and food for discussion....

I’m creating this thread to hopefully promote a bit more activity in the community....

Even if not solid research, I think that this article is worth sharing as food for though....

IPO = Initial Public Offering, where shareholders offer to sell their shares to the public, shifting a company from a “private company” (it belongs to me, you, and that guy) to a “public company” (it belongs to anyone who pays enough for the shares)....

The article shows a case of language contact (Tsimané vs. Spanish) triggering the conceptual split of a colour into two.

Please, no discussion about plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Otherwise Guillotine-kun will get you....

Please, no discussion about plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Otherwise Guillotine-kun will get you....

Summary: Reddit warns mods that it’s ending its crypto program, before it warns the other users. What could go wrong? /s

Please, no discussion about plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Otherwise Guillotine-kun will get you....

Please, no discussion about plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Otherwise Guillotine-kun will get you....

Aka The Faraway Paladin: The Lord of the Mountain of Rust...

I often switch between phones and speakers, but I’m too lazy to do it through the sound preferences window. So I came up with this script*, and I’m sharing it here as others might find it useful....

Also known as wataoshi or I’m in Love with the Villainess....

EDIT: I was able to solve this by going into the “change password” screen, right-clicking the “old password” field, clicking “inspect”, and changing maxlength=“60” minlength=“10” to maxlength=“60” minlength=“1”, thanks to the tip provided by Dandroid in the comments....

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The name of the game is Six Cats Under. It can be played online, and it’s rather quick to play....

O evento foi nos últimos sábado e domingo (2~3/setembro). Já é tradicional em Curitiba, na sua 31ª edição. Teve pratos típicos, bonsai, ikebana, e obviamente um bando de otakus, descendentes de japoneses, e curiosos.

This video offers a nice introduction on the comparative method, used to reconstruct languages without direct attestation, and then talks a bit about the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. It’s full of examples and rather accessible, even for people not well-versed in Historical Linguistics (or even Linguistics).