If you're curious about the actual historical reasons:
The consensus is that は{行|ぎょう} was originally pronounced with a P sound in Old Japanese. So, {花|はな} was originally pronounced pana. The P sound involves pressing one's lips tightly together to abrupt the airflow, without the vocal folds vibrating.
But with time Japanese people increasingly started pronouncing the P sound with the lips slightly parted, such that the airflow was not blocked completely. This produces a sound kind of like blowing out a candle, it's a bit F-like which is why it's usually represented with that letter in romanizations. This sound change was often blocked by ん and little っ, which is why aside from onomatopoeia and foreign loan words, one only really finds ぱ{行|ぎょう} after ん and little っ in words like {散歩|さんぽ} or {切腹|せっぷく}. In fact this is also why ぱ{行|ぎょう} has that unique ring diacritic: the {半濁点|はんだくてん} was invented by Portuguese missionaries because Japanese people themselves did not distinguish between は/ぱ in writing, and this made it more difficult for the missionaries to learn Japanese. That's the story I remember, at least.
Incidentally, changing a P sound to an F or otherwise F-like sound is a fairly common sound change across languages. That's why it's "father" in English but "padre" in Spanish, and that's also why the word "philosophy" is spelled with P's, too.
So our situation is now that we have a sound which is pronounced as F in most situations, and as P in a handful of places where the old pronunciation sort of fossilized. This is when we encounter another sound change, which is that often times between vowels, the F sound would become more V-like — which is to say that the vibration of the vocal folds from the immediately preceding and following vowels started to "bleed into" the F sound, that the vibration would stop too late or start too early relative to the movement of the lips, and this gave the F sound this more V like quality. And due to the acoustic similarity of this V-like pronunciation to the Japanese W sound, it ended up being conflated with the W sound and merging with it. But the old spelling stuck, which led to a situation prior to the postwar spelling reform, where は{行|ぎょう} and わ{行|ぎょう} could both be used to represent the W sound, depending entirely on the historical pronunciation of the word.
And indeed, the は particle, and for that matter the へ particle, were often reduced/slurred in such a way that they were basically treated like the ending of the previous word, and so these words were in fact often affected by this F-to-W sound change despite nominally being their own separate words which on their own wouldn't be affected. And this happened so often that は and へ ended up being pronounced as wa and we always. A similar shift in pronunciation happened to a lot of English-language function words that we spell with TH — the magic word in linguistics is "sandhi". So this is why "thy" and "thigh" are not pronounced the same, for instance.
And yeah, another sound change ended up merging the syllables wi, we, and wo with i, e, and o, so this is why へ is today pronounced as e rather than we. And then when the postwar spelling reform rolled in, it was decided that は/へ/を were particles used so frequently that they should just be left alone despite their historical spelling; otherwise, をゐゑ were respelled as おいえ, and every はひふへほ pronounced with a W sound was respelled as わいうえお, leaving the particle は as the absolute last and only remaining example of は{行|ぎょう} being read with a W sound. This spelling reform is incidentally also why there are no Japanese verbs ending in ふ, and why the Japanese verbs ending in う have わ as their {未然形|みぜんけい} rather than あ: the Japanese verbs ending in う historically ended in ふ prior to the spelling reforms.
But yeah. Not too long after the F-to-W sound change, most of the remaining examples of the Japanese F sound went through a different sound change, as the lips became less and less rounded, which gradually changed the blowing-out-a-candle F-like sound to a more simple exhaling H-like sound. This sound change was blocked whenever the Japanese F sound was immediately followed by a U, because that vowel also involves rounded lips, so that sort of reinforced the rounded lips of the F sound. And that's why はひふへほ is ha-hi-fu-he-ho instead of ha-hi-hu-he-ho. Badabing badaboom!
※ Note: the H sound before the vowel I ended up being palatalized, similarly to how we say the H in "huge". So while Hepburn romanization spells ひ as hi, the pronunciation of the H is a little different from the H in はへほ.
All this being said, is this actually useful information? Honestly, probably not super useful for most people, no. It might come a bit in handy if you ever try learning Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, or Uchinaaguchi, though, because memorizing sound changes can help you identify, remember, or even to some extent predict the forms of the shared vocabulary between these languages. Otherwise equipping yourself with some knowledge of other historical Japanese sound changes or knowledge of phonetics can help make sense of some other oddities you will inevitably or potentially run into while learning Japanese, like why the volitional form of verbs might be described as sticking ～う to the end of a verb's {未然形|みぜんけい} form even though it just plainly isn't (spoiler: it was prior to the spelling reforms!); and why especially older people might say the particle が as "nga", and why {東北弁|とうほくべん} is Like That; why words might change their last vowel or first consonant when used in compounds and why the {濁点|だくてん} turns those specific consonants into those specific other consonants; why i/u are so often silent; why pitch accent patterns include the particles after a word; why the word です sounds almost like the English word "this" at 1:20 in the song ｢アイドル｣ by YOASOBI; and all sorts of other fun things like that.
Not that one couldn't learn through simple memorization and exposure, but I just think it's fun to know, and I think that having actual scientific or historical explanations helps the new information stick.
It's WA when it's used as a particle and HA when not used as a particle. The Japanese government attempted to standardize WA sounds to わ after WWII, and was mostly successful, but the は particle stuck around, seemingly due to inertia. Lots of languages have little oddities in pronunciation that aren't reflected in spelling, or vice versa. Where do the British get the F in lieutenant?
40 drives ? Why that is a huge amount of power , what is your space target
RAID 1 ? With 40 drives ? That would be absolutely stupid you want to use RAID 6 or 10 so you don’t waist 50 % of your space with RAID 1. Or some other N+2 disk redundancy.
Have you considered how much power such a large setup will need?
I'll have to watch a video on it later, I assumed having a 1:1 backup was the most efficient backup method possible without compression. I don't plan on utilizing every drive at once, and I don't plan on having more than 20 to start with, but it won't be much more than I already have, so I should be okay to start. I just want to make sure there room for expansion in the future. I don't need all 40 immediately. My UPS will tell me how much power I'm drawing, right?
You need to research raid 1,6,10 and zfs first. Make an informed decision and go from there. You're basing the number of drives off of (uninformed) assumptions and that's going to drive all of your decisions the wrong way. Start with figuring out your target storage amount and how many drive failures you can tolerate.
Skip ZFS unless you’re planning to get all 40 drives up front, which is pretty bonkers for a home server setup. Acquiring 40 drives incrementally and you’ll be hit with the hidden cost of ZFS.
That's definitely something to be aware of, but the vdev expansion feature was mergered and will be released probably this year.
Additionally, it looks like the authors main gripe is the current way to expand is to add more vdevs. If you plan this out ahead of time then adding more vdevs incrementally isn't an issue, you just need to buy enough drives for a vdev. In homelab use this might an issue, but if OP is planning on a 40 drive setup then needing to buy drives in groups of 2-3 instead of individually shouldn't be a huge deal.
I think the biggest issue home users will run into (until the finally merged PR gets released later this year) is that as they acquire more drives, compared to a traditional RAID cluster that they could expand, they’re going to see more and more drives proportions being used for parity. Once vdev expansion is possible, the system would be a lot more approachable for home users who doesn’t acquire all the drives up front.
Having said that, this is probably a lot less of a concern for someone intending to setup 40 drives in RAID1, as they’re already ready to use half of it for redundancy…
Non-masculine perspectives are incredibly important in making sure that that the lived experiences of others are present in discussions on masculinity, but please remember that this is a space to discuss issues pertaining to men and masc individuals; be kind, open-minded, and take care that you aren’t talking over men expressing their own lived experiences.
The post before this one is about protecting our sons from right-wing radicalization.
From what I’ve seen, the mod(s) have taken pains to make this not an aLl LiVe MaTtEr sub.
So, this is a basic misunderstanding of gravity and acceleration. The measure of Gs is the exact measure of how fast the acceleration is.
This is just like asking if it would be comfortable to survive 100 C if the temperature was cold enough.
There is no difference between acceleration and gravity. If locked into an elevator, you wouldn’t be able to tell with certainty if the elevator started going up, or someone had just turned the gravity of the planet up to make you heavier somehow. If the elevator suddenly dropped in freefall, you would not be able to tell if it was the elevator moving down, or someone had simply turned gravity off somehow. This is part of Einstein’s Special Relativity.
I use extra virgin olive oil for marinades and salad dressing (and an olive oil spread instead of butter or margarine) and rapeseed oil (usually just labelled as vegetable oil here in the UK) for frying. The latter has a high smoke point, is lower in saturated fat compared to sunflower oil (also higher in monounsaturated and lower in polyunsaturated fats, a bit like olive oil although that has even better proportions of the two) and has better levels of Omega 3.
vegetable fats can change during the cooking process, breaking down into harmful chemicals, including aldehydes.
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The stability of the oil is important too: some oils, like sunflower oil, are more likely to oxidise when heated – or combine with oxygen in the air – producing harmful compounds in greater quantities. A 2012 study by researchers at Spain’s University of the Basque Country reported that aldehydes can react with our hormones and enzymes.
With the issues with sunflower oil after the invasion of Ukraine the UK’s Food Standards Agency drew up a report about the substitution of other oils, which has plenty of data.
A switch away from sunflower oil should reduce levels of heart disease, following this paper:
Zatonski et al. [25] examined trends of mortality due to coronary heart disease (CHD) and fat consumption in eleven Eastern and Central European countries from 1990 until 2002. They observed that, in countries where sunflower oil remained the primary oil (such as Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria), the rate of CHD remained stable from 1990 onward. Meanwhile, in countries such as Poland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which started to use rapeseed oil, a strong decline in CHD mortality was observed. This finding is confirmed in our study. Although both oils are rich in PUFAs, rapeseed oil contains more α-linoleic acid (ALA, C18:3), an omega-3 fatty acid with atheroprotective properties. Moreover, ALA is partly converted to eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which may protect against CHD and cerebrovascular diseases [26, 27].
I see you’re using Lemmy - you can view subscribed (posts on communities you’ve subscribed to), local (posts on communities hosted by your local instance), and all (posts from any federated instances).
There’s an instance admin community that should be able to help out with technical issues !lemmy_admin
There’s a matrix groupchat with most of the big instance admins as members, but I don’t know a lot about it tbh. Also would recommend letting people know your subreddit is trying lemmy at !reddit , and there’s another specifically for people announcing new communities but sadly can’t recall the name at the moment
I haven’t had a look at your sidebar yet, but add rules for bots and the such as you wish - here the frequently seen ones are autotldr and pipedvideobot. There is also communitylinkfixer but I haven’t seen it in a while.
No idea of the best way to promote it on Reddit, aside from popping a link in your sidebar over there? May be worth checking out the reddit communities for the three major instances that have migrated most of their users from reddit - lemmy.one (PrivacyGuides), programming.dev (Programming), and lemmy.dbzer0.com (Piracy)
Thanks for that info, it very useful. I’ve been wondering about bots, we’d talked about writing one to cross-post the subreddit’s content to the fediverse site.
RSS is a standardized protocol that allows you to get updates from websites when new content gets published. Using a RSS client, you can follow multiple websites in a single interface.
In a very simple manner, is a file that contains all the content that a website (in this case a subreddit, but it can be a blog for example) publishes. For each publication, the RSS file contains an entry and each entry contains information like the author of the publication, date, content, summary, media links and so on.
You can use an rss reader to aggregate different RSS feeds from different sources and read them from a single app.
Really Simple Syndication is a format that allows a program or user to download a bunch of stuff as a simple list of titles, content and tags. RSS readers can also combine different sources into one feed, so you can grab articles from many different RSS capable sites and combine them into one cohesive list.
I was banned from r/food for pointing out that a "homemade breakfast" posted by a user consisted of a frozen hash brown patty, fresh uncut fruit, a sausage link, and a toaster waffle, and I suggested that it seemed like low effort to call that meal "homemade".
Turns out I was wrong about the waffle, at least the user followed up with a picture of a waffle iron and claimed they made it themselves. Fair dinkum, I wasn't going to press the point.
A couple of days later I had a multi-paragraph screed from a mod where they went through my post history and complained about things I posted to other subreddits, like r/hotdog, and a permanent irrevocable ban.
I suppose there is room for interpretation in “homemade.” I feel like if someone did the cooking themselves, then it qualifies. Store bought or only a microwave reheat would not qualify.
“Homemade” usually implies “made from scratch” rather than “warmed up inside the house.” I’d consider a waffle made in a waffle iron as homemade, but not sure how said waffle ends up looking like an Eggo toaster one.
Reddit’s product is the ad sell on their site. People visit the site because of the user generated content. If you’re interacting with other users on Reddit, you’re still contributing to the company’s income.
I’m assuming they don’t charge advertisers for blocked ads, but you never know.
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