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  • Crul@lemm.eetoMapPorn@lemmy.world•World Languages 2020’s AD (11582×5793)English
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    11 months ago

    Credit: u/JG_Online and u/UltraWorlds. This is the comment on the original post from reddit:

    Languages are categorized by linguistic families by colours.

    So Spanish and Portugese (both being Romance) are redish shades, similarly other linguistic groups share similar shades indicating these are closely related languages. (this scheme breaks down quite a bit with so many languages but generally it checks out here, if you have some linguistic background)

    The map does not include labels as to no obscure the detail we put into it, so I guess this map is mainly for ppl who already have some linguistic landscape knowledge.

    Area’s which have between 30 to 70% majority are shown as striped.

    Area’s with a population density below 1p/km2 are shown as sparsely populated. This does not mean no one lives there but rather that a single immigrant family can add Korean to the Sahara desert, which is not what this map is about.

    Languages with less than 20,000 speakers in a populated area are not shown. (This mainly to exclude the native american languages that are overwhelmingly outpopulated in states such as NY or CA)

    Linguistic Isolates are shown in various grey shades.

    The friend who helped me with this map is u/UltraWorlds

  • Crul@lemm.eetoProgramming@programming.dev•As a beginner, how should I go about learning difficult concepts?
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    11 months ago

    How long would you say it took you before getting a fundamental understanding?

    I would say years, as with any complex activity.

    I’m still forgetting things I learned 3 or even 4 times like how to do a for each loop.

    You can forget in 2 different ways:

    1. Forget how to use something, so you need to look how to do it.
    2. Forget that something exists, so you cannot even look for it because you are not aware it’s a possibility.

    You will forget-1 everything which you don’t use on a daily basis. That’s what internet is for. Forgetting in the 2-nd sense is much more rare and you should do something if that’s the case.

    all of it feels too advanced and I get lost on how to begin

    This is a bias most of us have, you overlook how easy is for you to do things that previously were impossible and focus on how hard are the things you still don’t know how to do. And computing is so complex right now that there always be “infinite” things you don’t know.

    Try showing what you know to someone who doesn’t know how to code and you will get an idea of how much you have learnt :).

    Anyway, I don’t really have good advice :/, just wanted to confirm that what you feel is expected. Good luck!

  • Crul@lemm.eetoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•New youtube playlist downloaderEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I was going to suggest yt-dlp, but this seems to be for android… right? In that case, I don’t know if yt-dlp works there.

    Anyway, for those on PCs, you can use yt-dlp "PLAYLIST_URL".

    Some useful options:

    • --download-archive videos.txt: this will keep track of downloaded files in case you want to interrupt an continue later. You can change the filename videos.txt to whatever you want.
    • -R infinite --file-access-retries infinite --fragment-retries infinite --retry-sleep http:exp=1:20 --retry-sleep fragment:exp=1:20 --retry-sleep file_access:exp=1:20 --retry-sleep extractor:exp=1:20: infinite retries for different error types, for those with unreliable connections.
    • -o "%%(playlist_index)s - %%(title)s.%%(id)s.%%(ext)s": output file format
    • --cookies cookies.txt: if it’s a private list, you will need to provide your (yt-logged-in-)browser cookies. See cookies.txt add-on.
  • Crul@lemm.eetoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Fables comic series is now in the public domainEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is how I understand it: the 3 main alternatives for the author were:

    • Do nothing and comply with DC shenanigans.
    • Try to fight (legally) DC.
    • Make it public domain.

    None of them are ideal and, although (from what I understand… IANAL) you are right that with the 3rd one DC can do whathever they want, companies don’t like when anyone can make any kind (gore, porn, furry porn…) of fanart with their products. If Fables ends up being identified with not-safe-for-monetization stuff, it could be dangerous for them. Imagine the possible “won’t somebody please think of the children?” juicy headlines about it.

    But I think the main reason is that this makes it a problem only for DC instead of it being a problem for the author.

    EDIT: As pointed in other comments, they would also loose the exclusivity over the product and merchandising. They would need to compete with very cheap legal-knockoffs.