I realised this about advertising once when I was listening to the cicadas in summer, brands are like those cicadas, they have to shout louder and louder to be heard, to survive. It’s a tragedy of the commons, and what separates us from the animals is that we do have the ability to reason about it and change it. It doesn’t have to be this way.

I’ve always wondered what native English speakers get wrong in this way in various other languages. Anyone got any anecdotes?

I’m not American, but I after living here - I’ve noticed a few. They sometimes say “axe” for “ask”. They fail to enunciate “respiratory” fully - they say “res-pah-tory”. Also, they fail to pronounce the f in fifth - like they say fith. Certain words like “squirrel” tend to get squished into “skwol” while I’m used to pronouncing it in two syllables. I’m trying to think of similar examples.

Edit : I now realise that all of the above are incorrect examples in the context of what is being discussed. Pardon me!

"Nuke-yoo-ler. It's pronounced nuke-yoo-ler."

Jimmy Carter pronounced it "Nook-ler". And he used to serve on a nookler submarine.

Hah! I grew up pronouncing it “nyu-clear”. Two syllables.

Native English speakers when trying to speak Portuguese find it hard to speak A with tilde (~). Like when they say "São Paulo" they say "Sao Paulo". Ã is the nasal A, which sounds like the U in "sun" and "burn", while the standard A sounds the same as in "car".

I don't know why this happens, since the phoneme exists in English...

Well as an English speaker i can tell you when I see symbols around or attached to an otherwise “normal” looking letter and I don’t know how they modify the sound then I just ignore those modifications. I mean, what other choice do we have, if you don’t know how it modifies the sound you can either guess randomly or stick with what you know haha.

So in other words, those English speakers likely don’t know what the tilde means.

In many Slavic languages there's a concept of "soft" and "hard" consonants. In Russian and Ukrainian, for example, whether the consonant is of either kind is determined by either the vowel that follows it or a special other letter, or, in case of Ukrainian, an apostrophe. In Polish, there's a diacritic sign for the same purpose, which is for some reason reversed for L.

Anyways. The example that is very tricky to get right for an English speaker in Russian is:

    * мат (carpet)
    * мать (mother)
    * мять (crumple)
    * мят (crumpled)

All four words usually sound the same to an English speaker. It's usually easier to tell the first two from the last two.

Oh, and in Hebrew, while it's not acknowledged by the speakers themselves, there's also two different ways to pronounce "L" ("lamed"), while English speakers only utilize one of the two ways. So, they manage to say "lomed" (לומד, studies) more or less correctly, but "lo" (לא, no) sounds funny to a native speaker, because the "L" is supposed to be "soft".

Yes I second this, HN is one of the least argumentative places I’ve encountered on the internet. Now people disagree with each other a lot, but it’s usually quite respectful compared to most of the internet.

This is not a good defence against being scammed. Like if this is part of your strategy on not getting scammed you should probably go back to the drawing board.

In other words, you’re defense strategy against being scammed should survive talking to someone from these places

Perhaps this is not their entire defense strategy, just the first layer?

I dont know. If u knew how to fight someone, and defend yourself would you still put yourself in situations where you would need to fight someone? You would avoid them in the first place, and then use it if you absolutely have to

I don’t know how effective these are but it’s kinda not the point to me, the point of the clothing is a loud statement saying “I’m not okay with being surveilled all the time it’s normal and okay to to feel that way”

Nothing that CAD and engineering students would be familiar with.

There are some open source options but those aren’t taught at school afaik.

Not that it's necessarily suited for Apple's use case, but Autodesk's Fusion runs natively on Mac.

I think it’s just an electron wrapper over a browser version. Impressively sluggish, clunky, and unresponsive for a so-called native app

Autodesk Fusion GUI uses the C++ Qt library, not Electron. Link to my previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24252787

Okay that’s even more pathetic. Is it using only CPU bound software rendering? I do 3d programming on MacOS. I can assure you that it’s not slow because it’s just super-duper complex. No, it just sucks.

Most CAD programs take little advantage of multicore or GPU, if any. It's all about single threaded CPU performance.

This is not a conspiracy, just normal human behaviour. The loud voices are loud. People are complaining about cars that do collect data. Do you see ANY comments about any manufacturer that doesn’t do this? The only time I’ve ever seen a comment like that was regarding older used cars.

All it can tell us is that maybe this is something tesla should market (if it’s true) rather than bullshit like “self driving”

>rather than bullshit like “self driving”

You should go try it. Do a free test drive with FSD next time you have a free hour. You'll stop using the scare quotes.

I’m not against self driving cars, but if I can’t sit in the back of the car, legally, and read a book while it drives me to work, it’s not self driving is it?

If you think about the history of abuse wrought upon the public by tech companies in regards to personal information, then the reaction really isn’t that surprising.

Are you really surprised that people are suspicious? Really?

I’m not sure tbh but it looks like he was not included in the thread after the first email

Something is really broken when a broken company produces broken products and is doing great financially.

I would not call this success. I would not want to emulate this.

Sorry, it was satire which doesn’t always come through in the written word, I wasn’t being serious :)