Mechanical snail

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🐌. Native speaker of American English. Linux user. Familiar with several programming languages in the procedural, OO, and functional paradigms.

Link rot is evil. Archive everything. The keyboard is king. Correctness over performance. Canonicalize, normalize, deduplicate. Don't repeat yourself. UTF-8 > UTF-16. Use static typing: good for tooling. Re-use; don't re-invent. Correctness, then clarity, then concision and elegance. Play devil's advocate. First understand opponents' positions.

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Jul 15	comment	Actual phonetic realization of “devoiced” vowels I see. The distinction is very subtle: [ç]/[x] involves frication (audible noise due to turbulent airflow), versus just a whispered vowel. But practically, they sound almost identical. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/….
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Jul 14	comment	Actual phonetic realization of “devoiced” vowels What about when the preceding consonant is a stop, e.g. in /kiku/?
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