Natürlich, sie sind S-Tier-e.

Summarizing things with AI is basically intellectual homeopathy.

My software job ended a month and a half ago, and for various reasons it will be a while before I start actively applying to jobs again. I have bandwidth for _some_ tech stuff right now, though, and if possible I would like to do something I can use to demonstrate that I haven't lost my skill.

DISvam qaStaHvIS turqu le'yo' boghoy SapwI' vIDa. tuch lupaQ SapwI'pu' 'ej tuch luneHbogh luDelmeH mu'mey puS ghItlh 'e' tlhobta' le'yo' boghoy DevwI'pu'. chaHvaD QInvam vIngeHta' jIH: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t...

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I will be volunteering at Turku Pride this year. The Pride organization board has asked volunteers to write a few lines about what sort of future they would like to look into. I provided the following text: puujalkavihrea.fi/2025/07/01-t...

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What does it say about your politics if you consistently produce the initial /ʕ/?

I unironically used to describe myself as something like "anti-gender" (I forget the exact words) back before the term got co-opted. I've never completely understood how it came to refer to the side that's _pro_ enforced cisheteronormativity.

I increasingly have to actively ignore this hole when watching Star Trek.

That isn't the only way to solve this problem — another option would be portray teleportation as akin to the Culture series' displacement, where objects are moved through space without being disassembled — but the problem does have to be solved.

I increasingly understand the decision to not even try to include any sort of teleportation device in The Orville (even though that decision was probably made more for IP reasons than anything else).

The ability to take a person apart and put them back together at the subatomic level, allowing for biofilters, transporter clones, turning adults back into children, and similar tricks, would change society and life so radically that the resulting world would be unrecognizable to modern viewers.

I'm not sure I can fully verbalize exactly why yet, but this fills me with rage.

Aside: there is a scene in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds where Lt. Uhuru is researching an ancient language by digging through a stack of old books. This is very realistic despite the 23rd century setting: old infrequently touched sources rarely get effectively digitized, let alone translated.

You do need multiple languages to study it effectively, though. You'll have to deal with sources in German and Russian at least, and probably also Finnish and Hungarian (depending on what exactly you're doing). Many of those sources haven't been translated.

It's more that the department and major I was applying to taught in Finnish — you can do Uralic linguistics in quite a few languages, and a lot does happen in English (although I'm not sure about fully anglophone courses of study?).