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Grandfather talks about classical Windows software. On the Play Store this app says "Contains ads - In-app purchases". Ah, as a cheap bastard, I hate how software was pay once back then, and for this one I'm just going to ask you what's the monthly subscription price?
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Grandfather talks about classical Windows software. On the Play Store this app says "Contains ads - In-app purchases". Ah, as a cheap bastard, I hate how software was pay once back then, and for this one I'm just going to ask you what's the monthly subscription price?
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> But that quickly breaks down. There are other names ending with “ður” or “dur” that follow a different pattern of declension
My “everything should be completely orderly” comp-sci brain is always triggered by these almost trivial problems that end up being much more interesting.
Is the suffix pattern based on the pronunciation of the syllable(s) before the suffix? If one wanted to improve upon your work for unknown names, rather than consider the letters used, would you have to do some NLP on the name to get a representation of the pronunciation and look that up (in a trie or otherwise)?
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This comes up in so many threads here... How can we change the culture of subscriptions back to pay once???
It's not really about the culture anymore. Software that requires maintenance — and most does — has a continuous development cost. As such, subscription is the most natural way to cover it. On the other hand, we have software which has low maintenance cost, but sold for peanuts ($0-$10) in small quantities, so authors try to introduce alternative revenue streams. As in, it's fair to pay continuously (subscription) fo…
Increasingly I am not buying software at all.
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It's not really about the culture anymore. Software that requires maintenance — and most does — has a continuous development cost. As such, subscription is the most natural way to cover it. On the other hand, we have software which has low maintenance cost, but sold for peanuts ($0-$10) in small quantities, so authors try to introduce alternative revenue streams. As in, it's fair to pay continuously (subscription) fo…
Software sold today does not require maintenance. Software to work in the future requires maintenance. I am not buying future software. I am buying today software. Increasingly I am not buying software at all.
Why not just reuse the existing standard and change everyone’s last names to Kim, Lee, or Park?
For the 800 names that were missing declension data in the database, it seems like the most straightforward thing to do would be to assign their declensions by hand. It shouldn't take a native speaker more than a couple of hours (if some name they haven't seen before is ambiguous, then whatever they guess at least won't sound obviously wrong to other native speakers). Alternatively, very cheap to ask an LLM to do it.…
> There are, in fact, 88 approved Icelandic names with this exact pattern of declension, and they all end with “dur”, “tur” or “ður”. … > But that quickly breaks down. There are other names ending with “ður” or “dur” that follow a different pattern of declension My “everything should be completely orderly” comp-sci brain is always triggered by these almost trivial problems that end up being much more interesting. Is…
Careful, this is how you fall down the Are Dependent Types The Answer?? hole.
This seems complicated. Why not just reuse the existing standard and change everyone’s last names to Kim, Lee, or Park?
*surnames. Not last in that case, whatever the case is you're trying to make.