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We just keep forgetting about it!

Humorous or not, there was a video of a dog trainer that trained his (you guess it: German Shepherd) in German commands, partly so that when he worked with client's dogs, he could use English, and his German-speaking dog who would be in close proximity (useful for reactive training) wouldn't compete with the client's dog.

Reginald Foster, a great Latin expert whom I once got to study with, emphasized that Latin isn't inherently difficult as a spoken language, as evidenced by the fact that it used to be lots of people's native language and used for all kinds of ordinary daily purposes.

One of his slogans for this was "in Roma antiqua, etiam canes Latine locuti sunt" ('in ancient Rome, even the dogs spoke Latin').


Nice video of a contemporary latin-speaking community: https://youtu.be/sfWMgWnSQUw

I had heard about that lecture, but I hadn't seen the video before. The Latin is quite easy for me to follow, but I'm still impressed by Luke Ranieri's fluency (really on par with some of the most skilled Latin speakers I've met, well beyond my level even when I was regularly participating in spoken Latin events).

Hopefully I'll get to meet him and speak Latin with him some day.


"latine" with an e on the end is ablative, first declension?

This ‑e is an adverb ending. The belonging adjective is «latinus» ‹Latin›.

that makes more sense to me, because i asked thinking it was a typo on ablative with implicit lingua

Yes, one way of referring to Latin is "lingua Latina" or just "Latina", but there's an old custom of using adverbs to refer to use of languages. So Latine is "in Latin" or "Latinly" (and there are similar adverbs available for other languages).

Interestingly, the language adverbs are also used in a construction with scire (to know) or intellegere: "Latine scit" (he or she knows Latin), "Graece intellegit" (he or she understands Greek). In English we would definitely think of this as needing a direct object, but Latin allows it as an adverb, to understand "in a Greek way" (perhaps it would make sense to think of it as something like "in a Greek manner" or "from a Greek perspective").


yep totally understand, had four years of latin in the 80s, some Greek, and many more. it's interesting to see how an idea gets phrased slightly differently across even related languages, i have to admit.

So we're doing the opposite. As we're in the German spesking part of europe, our dog listens to English to not interfere with daily talk. It's IMHO one of the best choices to take a foreign language for your dog. You can also use different languages for different setups (e.g. to differentiate fun, working). Dogs anyway don't speak the language, they just listen to the voice, but as an owner it's easier to set context by moving to a different language.

The evil of global mutable state strikes again.

This is why I only train my dogs in a pure functional language.


Just don't be confused if they then follow the commands side-effect free.

"Reduce!" ("Reduzier!")

"Map!" ("Bild ab!")


I don't think you can entirely remove the side effect of getting treats.

Treats are without a doubt the only true universal language.

It's merely the software architectural mistake of only constructing a broadcast channel.

Security by obscurity is fundamentally weak, this use wastes bandwidth, and can be destroyed by statistical analysis where the other dogs learn German.


I think if I said sitz to my English-trained dog, she would sit.

Maybe your dog has been taking German classes while you’re at work…

Turns out if we say any word with the same inflection as sit, our dog sits!

I think it's partly because "sit" is one of the first commands they learn so if they're not sure what to do, they'll default to sit as that often gets the treat.

That's also why you teach "sit" first before, "bite the face of the person in front of me" (talking German Shepherds again)


We do it with our herding dogs so you can give the different dogs different commands.

Now I’m dying to know what kind of herding you do that requires this separation of powers

Just sheeps and it's a small herd we have for fun next to our vineyards. One dog could probably handle thm alone but it's more fun with two ;)

I think this is a great idea in general - security through obfuscation, kinda.

> German-speaking dog

Impressive!


In college I made like $1,000/month on Google Adsense on a website that had a few dozen pages at most. No idea what I was doing, but thanks Google Adsense for paying for practically half my education and a whooole lot of drugs.


One! Two! Five!


You are polluting future training data.


April fools


Now people will be surprised why all the sudden future financial agents crush on April fools, why it can't count haha.


Just a friendly reminder that midterms are this year.


If we survive that long.


We'll survive; not sure about our present voting rights.


Aren't astronauts by definition bat shit crazy? We have people lining up for one-way missions to Mars. Not to say this is a bad thing, but their ROI calculations are not normal.


> Aren't astronauts by definition bat shit crazy?

By poetic definition, e.g. “Here’s to the Crazy Ones,” yes. Clinically and technically, no. They’re paragons of human explorers, and exploration is a fundamentally human trait.

> We have people lining up for one-way missions to Mars

How many astronauts?


I think sometimes, clinically: yes.

https://www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-city-life/2018/11/astr...

> How many astronauts?

More than we can send. Wasn't there a country-wide competition?


> sometimes, clinically: yes

Sure. Compared to population, no.

> More than we can send

Which astronauts said they’d be fine with a one-way mission?

> Wasn't there a country-wide competition?

Was there? You’re the one making the claim.


Glad you agree with the crazy.

Google is your friend re; Mars one-way astronauts.


> Glad you agree with the crazy

I don’t. Having mental illness in a population below baseline rates isn’t crazy. Nowak’s story is notable for a reason.

> Google is your friend re; Mars one-way astronauts

So you don’t have a source. Because I’m not finding any astronauts going on the record on this.


I can get a gimble for my phone that can follow me running. What could NASA do?


I just need to look locally and see we're in trouble. NIST, NCAR. Super Drought conditions forming in the West.

This isn't good.

But hurray Moon missions, I guess. Pity we're causing the entire World Economy to collapse with a unneeded war.


Rather unfortunate timing that the original Apollo moon landing also happened in the middle of the Vietnam War.


Well, when you zoom out a bit, it’s not a stretch to say that both Apollo and Vietnam shared the same goal of countering the USSR.


The Vietnam War was us violating Vietnamese sovereignty and self-determination and losing.


…and why did the United States feel the need to do so?


Honestly, that coincidence was NOT lost on me.

Part of me finds it inappropriate to do the two things at once. Advancement in scientific knowledge being somewhat at odds with blowing up one of the oldest civilizations in the World.


Your life must pass by really slowly with a lot of waiting if you don’t do more than one thing at a time.


It's a game of priorities I guess when resources are limited. And no: I can't do everything, everywhere, all at once. Can you?

Big rocks in the pickle jar first. For you that includes wars when talking was working?


We'd look better if there was still a USAID.


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If anything shouldn't be allowed to be taken, it's my money for a war that wasn't even green lit by Congress.

Ain't no transgender opera in Colombia did kill anyone.


I agree the government needs to spend far less money on all of these things. Deficit spending to pay for tax cuts is bad and tax hikes to redistribute wealth is also bad.


> This will be second flight of NASA’s SLS rocket, and the first time the 20-year-old Orion capsule flies with people on board.

THEY REUSE THESE CAPSULES?!


They do not, except for some of the avionics.


That makes me feel better.

This whole project seems pretty lame.


Um, yeah. Welcome to the 21'st century, did you enjoy your long nap?


Well genius are there other 20 year old reusable space craft that haven't turned to plasma while trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere that I'm not aware of?

This seems like the only one, and according TFA, it sucks.


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