Clever plays on words like that can prove a real challenge for even the most expert of real-world human translators.

Is it weird that chai tea bothers me but naan bread doesn’t?

I imagine that the UT is intelligent enough to take in the full context of the sentence and the broader conversation to know which word is meant.

I thought for sure you’d be right. But it turns out, no! Dupe comes from 15th century French duppe, thieves’ jargon, thought to come from Latin huppe/hoopoe, an extravagantly crested bird. Duplicity comes from Latin duplicitatem “doubleness”.

Without actually doing any research or analysis, I feel like in English we’d say “the Sahara” slightly more often than “the Sahara desert”, but both are pretty common. I don’t think I would ever just say “the Avon”, but I would just say “the Thames”. So I think it comes down to how large the object looms in my mind, whether it feels acceptable not to include the descriptor.

It’s not, like, that time Riker got cloned

They could recreate that accident.

I’ve never heard “gyped” or “jipped”. I’d say you were “duped”.

But that could be because I speak a dialect which features strong yod-coalescence. So “dune” and “june” are pronounced the same. So perhaps I have heard it, but simply eggcorned it into “dupe”.

Huh?

I’m apparently banned in c/guns, c/liberalgunowners and c/asklemmy

Are you sure? There’s no ban that shows up for you in the mod logs of any of those communities.

Some clients go out of their way to mark posts by a moderator in some way, though

This is something I really think Reddit did better than Lemmy tbh. Mods don’t appear special in any way, unless they specifically declare “this post is me acting as a moderator”. And only then is it highlighted green (or in some other way depending on the client). Ditto admins.

3x / week is the minimum-threshold to sustain a yt-channel

Eh? There are excellent popular YouTube channels that post way less frequently than that.

I think it would be a mistake to try and draw any clear comparison between a YouTube channel and a Lemmy community. But for YouTube, I’d say weekly is really the minimum of where you want to be while trying to grow.

fitness-workout-threshold: 3x / week sustains our health, 4x / week brings us closer to our optimal health

I ran a 3:15 marathon on 7 runs per fortnight, and a sub-18 min 5k on roughly 3 runs per week. On the other hand, I wouldn’t dare try a triathlon, even a relatively modest goal of 2:30:00 Olympic distance, on fewer than 2 runs, 2 rides, and 1 swim per week, for 5 total workouts minimum.

Exercise is even harder to compare to Lemmy than YouTube is, in my opinion. Because with exercise, the length and intensity of that exercise plays such an enormous factor.

Ludo? I haven’t played that since I was a tiny kid! I can’t say I remember much about how it’s played.

From what little Mandarin I’ve learned, I’d say the two are far enough apart

There are probably some loanwords, and I’d guess being able to read Chinese might help reading kanji, but beyond that, yeah, the two languages are completely unrelated linguistically. Japanese is effectively a language isolate, not related to any other languages in the world. (There are technically some minority languages on Japan’s outlying islands with their own separate but related languages, so it’s not quite a language isolate, but close.) That includes being unrelated to Chinese and Korean languages. (Incidentally, Korean is like Japanese, almost-but-not-quite a language isolate.)

Greenwich Mean Time.

Because it’s mean.

Not even auto-update. Just auto detect updates. Then you go and download it yourself manually.

Auto-update-detection meant that the software was calling out to a remote server, so they updated the TOS to reflect that, and people got upset.

From what I could tell when I looked into it after a comment someone left on !nebula@lemmy.world, some people were very upset at the privacy implications of Audacity adding an update detection mechanism (which can be turned off, and which is not included at all in the default build if you build it yourself).

Watched last weekend.

On Nebula? !nebula@lemmy.world if you’re interested.

you brought up top month and I don’t see how you’d want that to work

The truth is I don’t want “top month”. What I really want is “best result, filtered by this month”. But unfortunately that doesn’t exist, and in the absence of that, I use “top month”.

This doesn’t have anything to do with sort ordering though, which is based on time and votes. Text search is just a filter on top of sorting.

That doesn’t feel like how search should work. It should be ranking results that fit the search query better higher than ones that fit it less. Regardless of how the search is done, that should remain true. So if you’re using trigram matching, instead of a binary “does the comment contain 80% of the trigrams in the search query”, it should be “if it contains 100% of the trigrams from the search query, rank it higher than something with 90% match, which is higher than 80%.” Or maybe not that precisely, but something so that more relevant results appear above less relevant ones.

Without doing something like that, it’s just…not very useful. Which is the observed behaviour of search on Lemmy right now which started this whole conversation.

Eh, I don’t think it’s that surprising. Getting a list of comments on a post vs getting them from a search term are very similar operations, so it doesn’t make too much sense for these to have different queries in the backend

Sure, but one would have thought that the ordering in a search is fundamentally different from the ordering in other places. Because you want something that contains the words you’ve searched for near each other to appear ahead of a post that has those words scattered at random because it’s a 500 word essay. You want exact word matches prioritised ahead of entirely unrelated words that include the same characters. Like “enum” should turn up your comment, but rank a comment that contains the text “renumbers” much more lowly. A particularly smart search page might keep “enumerate” high while rejecting “renumbers”, though.

Of course, it’s true that at least in the current latest release, Lemmy fails at all of this. I hope 1.0 is at least fixing some of it?