I was just using a basic example where a value (latitude) increases as you go in one direction and another (longitude) as you go in another. Coordinates (0°, 0°), or zero point, of maps is indeed the intersect between the equator and Prime Meridian, known as Null Island (which is actually just a buoy). They use Longitude-latitude(-elevation), which are polar coordinates and useful for navigation on and near the surface. There’s the ECEF (Cartesian) system too, centered on Earth’s center of mass, but much less intuitive.

You seem to conflate axes and the quantities they represent. Learn more about graphs.

Yes but it should be explained to OP that even though there is an axis labeled “time”, time exists outside that line. The label does not say “here is time” but “this line shows how many seconds away from the reference point any point is based on how far it is in this direction on the diagram”

In graphs, how high and how far right a point is describe its properties. Like the phase diagram of water: the further right you are, the higher the temperature, the further up you are, the higher the pressure. At each point, water would be in a certain state, which is plotted on the graph as colored areas.

Axes are markings that only help measure how hot and pressurized a certain point is. You are probably at around 100 kPa (atmospheric pressure) and 295 K (room temperature) so you experience liquid water. Even though the vertical axis is labeled “Pressure”, that does not mean pressure only exists on that line; same for the temperature axis. These meet at absolute zero in near-vacuum. Even though you pr But you might prefer axes at 0 °C (the left vertical red line) and 1 atm (the horizontal red line).

Graphs of temperature, voltage, air pressure, money etc. over time also use different units for the two axes.

Of course, some graphs do indeed use the same units, for example the cube-shaped RGB space has “1/255 of max subpixel brightness” units on all axes.

If you’re at the intersection of time and space, it means you are anywhere in spacetime: you exist, will exist, or have existed at some place in the universe. Yes, the “intersection of time and space” is all of spacetime, much like the “intersection of latitude and longitude” is the entire surface of the Earth because that’s the set of points for which both latitude and longitude are defined.

We can put the 4 axes of spacetime (𝑥-, 𝑦-, 𝑧-displacement* and time) anywhere we want to define a point 0 (𝑥=0 m, 𝑦=0 m, 𝑧=0 m, t=0 s) where they meet (and that’s symbolic too, graphs where axes don’t cross at 0 are common and often useful but sometimes purposefully misleading). This is probably what you meant. Astronomers might put it into the infinitesimal universe at the time of Big Bang (and align the space axes to the cosmic microwave background as time passes). Islam scholars might put it on 622-06-16 CE at Kaaba in Mecca. As far as GPS satellites are concerned, the zero point is 1980-01-06 00:00:00 UTC at the center of the WGS-84 ellipsoid (and the space axes are locked to the rotating Earth as time passes).

* Diagrams of spacetime are limited to 1 or 2 space axes because they exist as representations of the 4D concept in space (2D (𝑥𝑦), aka plane, or 3D (𝑥𝑦𝑧)) only.

Nope.

The question is as nonsensical as “what if you’re on the intersection of latitude and longitude?”, as if longitude only existed on the equator and latitude on the Prime Meridian. All points on Earth have longitude and latitude, and are the intersections of their respective local meridian and local circle of latitude (aka “parallel”). Not necessarily the Prime Meridian and the equator, that’s only for “point zero” of Earth. These lines are often in the center of maps and can be thought of as “axes” but axes only mark values, they aren’t the quantities the values represent.

If you’re at the intersection of time and space, it means you are anywhere in spacetime: you exist, will exist, or have existed at some place in the universe.

She would follow an online guide to change the emoji font, not noticing that it’s for Windows 10, not back up the registry before editing the seguiemj.ttf entry to Noto Color Emoji.ttf and thus freezing any program trying to render emoji, breaking the OS because there’s one in her username on the login screen. No, Windows 11 can’t handle her.

Changing the default emoji font is easy and safe on Linux with fontconfig, just add the font name among aliases to sans-serif in ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf (user) or /etc/fonts/local.conf (global) and you can use any emoji font you can get your hands on. Heck, even grub comes with emoji (monochrome, obviously) in its default unicode.pf2 font.

In the US, cops are afraid to be killed by people too. Or love pretending to face tough criminals (and their dogs, apparently.) That’s why SWATting is so overpowering.

Of course, text prediction machines would create low-entropy passwords, that would be awful.

They mean “coded with AI”.

Really? I don’t think it’s even possible to fully relex English letter by letter without making something very unpronounceable because it is nowhere near phonetic.

As per a Reddit comment, it’s really a conlang, just leaning quite a bit on English and other Germanic languages despite the apparent attempts to make it look all foreign:

Eh, Dovahzul isn’t just a relex of English. Yes, it’s isolating and has a Germanic phonology, but its grammar works fairly differently if I understand correctly. Verbs don’t inflect for person or number and the language also supports zero copula. The language has no continuous and verbs with no accompanying auxiliary can be interpreted either present or past, as opposed to the present+future | preterite distinction of Germanic. You can also just use the participle inflection with no auxiliary to express the perfect aspect.

Nouns also can take suffixes indicating the possessor, articles are usually omitted and a distinct article exists to mark formality, and adjective order relative to the noun it modifies, as long as it is next to the noun, is arbitrary.

And this is just the canon stuff. Check out thuum.com if you’re interested. I agree that Dovahzul could have perhaps been better done, but it is by no means a direct 1 to 1 relex of English. Sure, it isn’t super complicated and in some ways kind of resembles a relexified creole à la Afrikaans, but it isn’t devoid of creativity.

That said, this is a really interesting project and I like the Tibeto-Burman aesthetic, although typically monosyllabic morphemes with complex clusters is a pretty Germanic trait if you ask me

There’s an entire dictionary and the Dragonborn song does in fact use these translations and the specific grammar. Yes, the vocabulary is such that the same pairs of words tend to rhyme as those in English, but that’s a phonetic mapping, and the number of syllables isn’t correlated as strongly as between other Germanic languages.

As for the runes, this comic uses simply English written in the Dovazhul runic script, possible because the near-1:1 mapping between the 26 letters and 34 runes (in fact, the only word changed is beseech → “BESEEKH” because of the lack of a “C” rune (probably not a concious choice by the comic’s author, this font does c→K automatically); no runes that map to digraphs are used, for example your → “YOUR” rather than “YO[UR]”. This can be considered a relex or simply a substitution cipher. If Dovazhul text actually quoted English words, they would probably not use the substitution, they’d leave it as-is or rewrite phonetically like Russian does.

What is it for, then? Just let them enjoy things.

It’s a laptop so the battery will keep the RAM powered. Very clever and practical, especially for files so confidential you only have one copy − data burglars will be looking for disks. /s

o noble and mighty dragons, we beseekh* you, grant us safe passage through your territory.

we are but humble adventurers on a quest that may yet bring hope to our troubled realm…

It’s just a substitution cipher
https://www.dafont.com/dovahkiin.font?text=o+noble+and+mighty+dragons%2C+we+beseech+you%2C+grant+us+safe+passage+through+your+territory&psize=xs

* originally beseech but Dovazhul doesn’t have a C equivalent; the font (below) reuses the K glyph

There is enough text, would be easy to decode with basic frequency analysis but searching among “cipher fonts” made it show up. I think even Google Lens (like @NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world probably used) could identify it

Also, how’s the small Möbius twist handled? Just sewn on top?

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Well, how do you think most ideographics were created? Graphical representation of an idea.