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Wednesday, 2nd of December 2020, 3:35:23 UTC
12:31:37
selwyn
there is actually a somewhat rigorous result to the effect that there will be enough coincidental overlaps between any two languages that you can push any kind of pet language origin theory you want
12:32:16
selwyn
e.g. japanese is derived from ancient serbian or whatever
12:32:52
Shinmera
if I remember correctly japanese itself is very weird and has almost no connections to other languages because of its isolated history.
12:35:52
selwyn
the sentence structure is very similar to turkish but that is thought to be a coincidence these days
12:36:26
selwyn
japanese and korean speakers are usually the most proficient at learning it as a second language
12:36:53
Shinmera
In completely unrelated things:
12:38:35
Shinmera
Last call for my calendar, there's only five left! https://gumroad.com/l/yukari2021
12:38:51
Shinmera
And not a lot of time for it to ship
12:40:59
selwyn
damn thought i already ordered it. thanks for reminding
12:42:42
adlai
for what values of 'somewhat' ?
12:42:51
phoe
I made an instance of class PURCHASE
12:43:14
Shinmera
phoe: Got it, thank you! :)
12:43:43
adlai
ACTION doubts that such a result survives torture between, e.g., simple english, lojban, and linear-b
12:45:37
Shinmera
Well, only four left, then :u
12:55:46
Shinmera
selwyn: thank you, as well
12:56:17
Shinmera
Your request might be a bit complex for a doodle on the package, but I shall try.
12:57:06
selwyn
was going to say idk if it's feasible lol. much appreciated
13:12:39
Shinmera
i_tried.jpg https://filebox.tymoon.eu//file/TWpFek53PT0=
13:14:16
Shinmera
selwyn: oh wait shit you ordered two
13:14:22
Shinmera
fuck, gotta repackage lol
13:15:41
Shinmera
phew, was able to open it without destroying the package
13:21:02
Shinmera
I'm sure the clerk at the post office is gonna be //thrilled// to see me stride in there with 15 packages in tow
14:29:24
Shinmera
getting weird spurious errors where entities that should not receive events still do
14:29:30
Shinmera
and I can't fucking figure out why
14:29:49
Shinmera
they don't seem to get removed from the queue properly, but the code looks fine and the small tests I have do too
14:43:13
selwyn
do you set yourself a target number to sell?
14:53:31
Shinmera
I was hoping to sell more than last year
14:53:42
Shinmera
Last year I had 19 sales
14:53:54
Shinmera
this year only 14, and that's with the ones from today.
14:54:10
Shinmera
So 25 or 30 would have been nice, but evidently that's not happening.
14:56:01
Shinmera
To get even a measly hourly rate of work out of the calendars I'd have to sell around 150 of them at the current price.
14:56:37
Shinmera
I'm a long way from this being a viable business :)
Wednesday, 2nd of December 2020, 15:35:23 UTC