Arnaud Spiwack

I'm convinced. Not sure where I can watch it though.

Mais je l'ai tout de même adopté. C'est un exercice intéressant, parce-que ce n'est pas naturel. Mais aussi je trouve a posteriori que, pour l'écriture technique au moins (le type que je pratique) ça a vraiment tendance à augmenter la clarté. À rapprocher de la pyramide inversée en journalisme.

C'est ce que recommande souvent. À une époque ça circulait dans les cercles de debunking: si on comment post la thèse qu'on souhaite réfuter, on l'a renforcé inconsciemment chez le lecteur. Donc commencer par la proposition défendue. Ça sortait d'une étude dont je ne sais pas la robustesse.

In the following video essay I will argue that civilisation began its inexorable decline when animated movies starting casting A-list actors instead of voice actors

La section du site de l'Académie Française sur le mot "CD-ROM" est 🧑‍🍳👌.

This isn't how I solved it. I simply orientated the 5 first centre pieces as I solved the cross. I got lucky on the top centre piece though, it fell into place without me having to do something about it. It seems harder to solve intuitively.

For a total of 4⁵×2=2¹¹=2048 times more possible configurations for the cube. The recommended solve method appears to be to solve the cube with your favourite method then fix the centre pieces' orientations, e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZBu... .

It's obvious in retrospect, but I've just realised that when you draw on the faces of a Rubik's cube, then the centre pieces have orientation (it's known as a “picture cube”). If I understand correctly, 5 of the centre pieces are free to rotate in any orientation, the 6th has only two orientation.

Screenshot from Google NGrams showing how the works CD-ROM has mostly been used between 2000 and 2010.

CD-ROM.

I think we used to understand that. Maybe a century ago? But this philosophical intuition seems to have been lost. It feels too me that this is a significant institutional regression.

I've had this on my mind for a while. Since these payment processors are so l completely unavoidable, they are functionally post of government. As such they should be subjected to the save restrictions as government. In particular, no cutting people off without due process.

Note that mutable arrays as linear but pure entities don't support aliasing. Whereas state# passing array do. So it's unclear to me what the relation between the two is. State# passing could be linear, though. That's more interesting.

I'm on holiday. You may want to ask again in two weeks if you want less pithy answers.

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You know when I say that medieval chapels/churches/castles/cathedrals were brightly painted in such a way it would even make 1970s hippies whisper "well that's a bit much"?
I wasn't kidding.
Check out this reconstruction of St. Stephens chapel:
www.virtualststephens.org.uk/explore/sect...

Is the sequel worth it, would you say?

It's a time travel story, which I don't feel they always navigate too well (even by their own rules). But it doesn't really matter, it's all about the characters' journey. They set up a rather comedic premise, but the story rather borders on the tragic. It's been fascinating.

It's apparently an adaptation of a video game, which are rarely good. It probably helps that the game is a visual novel (it probably explains why so many people are in love with the main character too).

I just recently discovered the fantastic anime Steins Gate from 2011. It has a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, am I the only one who has missed it?

C’est avec une grande tristesse que j’apprends le décès de Gilles Dowek. Que la terre lui soit légère.

I'd spent the evening in Paris with friends (there may have been alcohol involved). As we were heading home metro station Luxembourg, we were talking about Cedric Villani. Who promptly showed up, walking out of the station. We said hello to a slightly taken-aback Villani, who said hello back.

A choir sings "original work from Japan." Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Zelda, and more. Simply AMAZING.Find REDEFINED on facebook!https://www.facebook.com/rede... Nintendo A Capella

Speaking a cappella with the children, I suddenly remembered this masterpiece. It's from the very early days of Youtube, but it's still here. We enjoyed watching it together www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSBI...

NotNotArnaud - Twitch Final Fantasy VI: Worlds Collide | ff6wc | Seed of the week(ish): TMNT

I'll be streaming some Final Fantasy: Worlds Collide momentarily. Trying this curious seed-of-the-week with a Ninja Turtle theme.

Stream starts at 00.15 UTC twitch.tv/notnotarnaud

This is fair. I'd say iu isn't a great illustration that this is about the と particle, because it doesn't take an accusative. Maybe, instead, we can contrast

本を読む (I read a book)
「本」と読む (it's read “book”)

And we do see that と carry this meaning independently of the verb.

Still, it seems reasonable to think of と as verbally quoting. It just doesn't only do that because natural language is (very) messy.

Note that in Japanese to is necessary for both direct and indirect quotations […]”.

And that's how you get the usage with “omou” as well 私はバスで行こうと思う (it's another of their examples, I don't dare form sentences myself) which, clearly, isn't a direct quote.

Where Tom might not have said these precise words.

But they say “To is basically used to mark a quotation; the literal meaning of ～to iu is ‘say with (the sound) ～’. This use of to, however, has been extended further to cover indirect quotations […], and even thoughts (i.e. internal voice) […].

“It's complicated” as I understand. Makino and Tsutui's dictionary of basic grammar lists two meanings to the third (in their order) と particule (p478 in my edition): quoting and manner.

But even when it's the quoting thingy, it's not always a quote. They have トム日本へ行きたいと言っている as an example.

Morning fun fact number 2: Japanese usually use their own set of typographic symbols. Quotes are my favourite, they'd write look 「like this」 (instead of “like this” or « like this » or „like this“).

I don't know, I think it just looks more like a quote in the Japanese style.

Morning fun fact: in Japanese, quotes are often pronounced. They're pronounced “と” (“to”). I don't know, however, how you would say this sentence, so I'll refrain from trying.
My grammar dictionary has the example
“Yukiguni” to iu shōsetsu wo yonda
(I read a novel called “Snow Country”)