The spreadsheet-makers
In a note, Shemol breezily asked whether there was ever a time when people are paid to create Excel and PowerPoint, reached a positive conclusion with Claude, and compared supposed decline of these employees to the current AI hype threatening developers. This is a good question catering my bouquiniste soul. I left a letter in response, which inspired the post you are reading.
I did not experience the time of spreadsheet-makers. I was, at that time, a fake geek boy lingering about office suites and online services. I habitually help Muqliongists and teachers with paperwork, with no idea of work or even college entrance. I swaggered through the provincial capital, staring at my first smartphone, replacing lorem ipsum in Calibri with ‘observation’ notes I was told to take, and feeling the ‘generousity’ and device switch promoted by cloud services. I almost forgot the carefree age, when I also picked up You Gotta Play with Excel Like This, a book published in 2011 by Quu Hao.
وِسَ ڠ دَاِقࣨ؟
دࣱخُاْ ۋاًخُوَاتࣨ سِىَ چَاْ ‘ۋَ’ لا.
ڠ خُوِلَاِ 杏园堡، سْمِو ڠ وِسَ دَاِقࣨ ڽ.
يُوً کِيتُو ڽَا شَ س ڠ ينِو شِيُو ڽ، ݣٍم سخَا 蛊 لَ؟ ڠ ݣِيدِ خَودِ 无能狂怒، كه مُو بِيً يدِيًادِيًا.
تَم شْ recent جِيُ شْ يَ جٍ زْ.
جِ خُوِ فُوفࣨخۇوِ, ڠ سِيَاْ ق 解释模型. — دُوِله، فُوفࣨخۇوِ جِق ڞِر سڠ لِسٍ دِ فُوخَاْ ݣِيَ دِ، شَهس فُفࣨس 晨型人 زَلِزَلِ، 不过 ڠدِ فُوفࣨخۇوِ كِشس زُوجَد شࣲفُ سِيَوخُوِ.
领有和非领有的 C++ range
这是讨论 C++ range 及其 range adaptor 等底层性质系列文章之第一篇。同时，我介绍了意在解决本文所述一些问题的实验性库之设计。
Do not get gentle into your CS major
I used to believe I was the one on the planet who loved this field the most. Now I suspect I care the least. I cannot see the future, sprinting toward a horizon that keeps receding into darkness. Part of this text was written one year ago, originally meant to be the script for a video. I found it too clumsy and in constant need of revision, so I reformed it into an essay.
Before I begin, let me summarize a remark of one brilliant peer, that variance is enormous, and joining the frontier requires a otherworldy stainless résumé. It is never too much to repeat this. However, since anyone actually aiming for that perfection is unlikely to read a post like this, I only deal with the question how large the the gap/residual will be if you fall short.
슈홋(守候) 2038넌(年)
2018年初, 出入 애니메컨벤션之 学生群 発表 楽曲 ‹2038›, 質問 20年後 其人之音楽夢 幾可 毀滅, 想像 其人与 観衆 賃金労働者如 1節之 地下鉄於 川流.
秒時計之 終結, 2038年, 有名 UNIX之整数漫流故障由. 歌詞之 作者, 慣習 捉刀事之 黄하비선, 視覚様 不慣習 콤퓨터, 不似 引證 此事 歌詞于. 整数漫流故障 作 治乱興亡之 比喩 亦困難様. 黄氏 設慮 折節(放棄 音楽)事, 真実之後続 非 反現実 然, 黄氏之思想 反現実 一定様. 黄氏 自信様 想像 者, 地下鉄 混雑事 非, (維音楽界) 極盛 終了事 是.
Buku-name de Mini kon Sina-litera
Mini a linga de-i make de S.C. Gruget en ano 2020. Note-metodo de Mini kon Sina-litera e de-i make de Onerio an amigo en junta de Mini, i kan ade a man ke savi a Sina-litera go-i etudi a Mini. Onerio i de pubili a video de di ota note-metodo. Di note i efeto sama mi note de Kokanu.
‘My Path’ after twenty years
Goliath was pelted with ten million stones every June. It must be painful.
— Me, commenting elsewhere
After the faith fades, the ritual remains.
We still carry stones — not for victory,
but to remember our past goals.
— ChatGPT, mimicking a contemporary
Twenty-two years ago, a college fresher penned an essay titled My Path. She began with a modest line: ‘I don’t consider myself a winner. I am just an ordinary person who keeps growing and thinking.’
My linguistic history
Before the FSF40 gathering, William Goodspeed checked my blog when receiving my inquiry email. When I opened the same website in person, he asked: ‹Are you into linguistics?› I was not sure what expectations an English major might have by ‹into linguistics›, so I awkwardly avoided answering.
The other day, I read a reflection on their linguistic journey from a linguistics guru. This guru’s encounter with language began with academic competitions and has since woven a marvelous double helix of career and language, an achievement I can hardly imagine. Their article, however, debunked my single-origin hypothesis of the linguistics community, as I had assumed the entire language circle stemmed from discussions on a BBS forum in the early 2000s. This prompted me to reflect on the role language and linguistics have played in my life.
A slice of Bash programmable completion
During the process of migrating a Conda environment and mitigating confliction, I noticed Bash programmable completion was experiencing an issue when the environment was not yet incomplete. I seemingly showed no curiousity, proceeding to enter the command despite STDERR for the rest of migration. This post was created after that since there are no Marginalia search engine-style sources on Bash programmable completion.…
Enhypen Alphabet
Enhypen Alphabet (‘empirical nominal hyperlingual notation’) is a language-neutral spelling system for Chinese characters, specifically for Chinese-derived proper names. It bears less prejudice from Mandarin, as compared to Yuen Ren Chao’s General Chinese and Professor Gu Qian’s Common Sound Systems of Chinese Dialects, where the bias is more or less dedicated.
It serves as a startpoint to ‘Sinicize’ respective for tacit perceptions of characters, which is barely possible for natural languages, stubborn for previous works, and Shidinn leads to the other extreme.