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It's a problem with all natural language. That's why we don't program in English and in programming languages that are formally defined and can never be ambiguous.
This type of problem doesn't happen in all languages. Many languages are more precise than english and will avoid exactly this type of ambiguity.
Sure but they will have other types of ambiguity
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Great post. I’m impressed with your English skills. Turkish is a very different language, so I can’t imagine it’s easy to pick up English. Anyway, you inspired me to try doing this with one of my old devices. Gonna put that on my September hacking list.
Appreciate the kind words!
Side comment about the difference between “My server is a phone now” and “My phone is a server now.” In linguistics, the terms “theme” and “rheme” refer to the status of information in a sentence [1]. The theme of a sentence is something that is known or can be assumed from the context (that is, old information), while the rheme is information that is newly introduced in the sentence, often as a comment on the theme.…
If you asked any native English speaker what “my X is a phone now” meant, I would wager that nearly all would say that it means that X can now make voice calls, like a phone.
Do you think my personal assistant becomes an AI agent or do you think an AI agent is acting as my personal assistant?
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I don't think it is, I'm also the latter and happened to assume the opposite. The article was exactly what I expected from the title. I mean, turning a server rack into a phone just isn't something that makes any sense, so it didn't seem like a valid option to consider. I've thrown it at a few LLMs now to see what happens and they also make the same assumption with no extra info, that it's a server now being hosted o…
Of course it's clear which is more likely in this specific case, but from the semantic structure I read (present tense) it the other way around. It actually struck me as a grammatical error when I first read (past tense) it. If I said "my water is ice now," one would assume freezing rather than melting. So in this case one would assume a server became a phone, when actually a phone became a server. (English is my fir…
I think most of the time you’d play with the order it would be for comic effect, like someone saying “my dinner is pretzels now” after having too big a snack.
Side comment about the difference between “My server is a phone now” and “My phone is a server now.” In linguistics, the terms “theme” and “rheme” refer to the status of information in a sentence [1]. The theme of a sentence is something that is known or can be assumed from the context (that is, old information), while the rheme is information that is newly introduced in the sentence, often as a comment on the theme.…
I think it's awkwardly phrased because it's too ambiguous. "My car is a Jeep now" is most likely saying "I switched to using a Jeep as my car" because, short of a large merger, it's not likely that the same car changed its brand. The same server can become a phone and also the identification of my server can be switched to a phone.
> "| switched to using a Jeep as my car"
"My server is a phone now" is exactly the same: "I switched to using a phone as my server"
> because, short of a large merger, it's not likely that the same car changed its brand.
I find a server rack becoming a phone that I can carry around and call people equally unlikely. And because of the improbability, it's ruled out of my interpretation.
1. Server becomes phone 2. Phone becomes server
I guess more people find 1 more probable than 2? That's surprising to me and especially on hacker news.
This article may come in handy when we look into it.
Extreme distributed regional servers - a dream come true.
The promise of the fabled lowest single tower latency, blast radius containment and resilient to the teeth has always been where my heart truly lies.
keeping phones connected to power 24/7 is a fire hazard
Or set the phone to never charge above 80%
Thta said, keeping it on charger for months will eventually swell its battery, true.
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Appreciate the kind words!
Asking out of curiosity, did you use any LLM assistance to write the body of the article? It's not to judge, I just noticed some peculiar language patterns and I was wondering whether that's something from your native language or from AI.
For a long time, even though I consider myself fluent in English and primarily speak English every day, both at home and at work, I’ve still felt like I’m not quite where I’d like to be in terms of proficiency. That feeling actually kept me from writing until fairly recently, because I was always worried that whatever I put down wouldn’t come across as coherent (or maybe polished?) enough.
I used to write a lot in my native language back in the day, so I think part of that hesitation came from knowing how naturally writing used to come to me and feeling like I couldn’t quite express myself the same way in English. More recently, though, LLMs have helped me with that. I feel much more comfortable putting my thoughts into writing again.
I actually feel like this is such an interesting topic to explore. I’d be curious to somehow experiment on myself and see whether I’ve started sounding like an LLM recently, and if so, whether we might eventually see people converging toward speaking, or even thinking, in the same way. Scary thought honestly.
It is incredible the amount of gimmicks some folks will go through, even if it was to stay with reuse Android phone story, Java and Kotlin as regular Android app already provide all the juice required to do the job.
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Some newer phones support bypass charging, which powers the phone directly instead of continuously cycling the battery. Mine doesn't support that, unfortunately, so I've limited charging to 80% to reduce battery stress.
Are you sure that this is not something every single device does? I’ve never heard of a device that continually switches between charging and discharging while powered if the battery is full.