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In 1759 pirates bought a US island. Since then they speak such an English version of English that nobody understands them

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Languages ​​(and their dialects) are possibly one of The great wonders of our civilization. There are, for example, those Latinos in southern Florida who have been mixing English and Spanish for years creating a new language. Not far from there, but some centuries earlier, some pirates arrived to establish what was never seen in the United States: the Isabelino English. Centuries later they still do not understand them. Ocracoke’s language. The story told Recently the BBC. In the remote Ocracoke IslandNorth Carolina, survives a unique dialect in the United States: the Hoi Toidera mixture of Isabelino EnglishIrish and Scottish accents of the 18th century, and the slang of the pirates who invaded the island several centuries ago. This is the only variant of English in the United States that is not identified as American, a linguistic relic that has remained thanks to the geographical isolation of the island and its singular history. The pirates. Ocracoke, an island of 24.9 km square, was for centuries A pirate shelterEnglish and native sailors American Wocconwho interacted and created a community with their own cultural and linguistic collection. One of the most emblematic characters was William Howardex-pirata and old crew of the Barbanegra shipwho, after receiving a real pardon, bought the island in 1759 and helped establish a society that, in almost total isolation, preserved his own dialect. The isolation of the island not only influenced language, but also in the way of life. Until 1938, the enclave It had no electricityand the Ferry service did not begin until 1957. This allowed the community to remain largely oblivious to changes in the outside world, preserving its traditional way of life, its culture and its dialect. A language in danger. The story remembers In the case of Erromintxela In Spain. The Ocracoke dialect, the Hoi Toider, is easily recognizable for its characteristic phonetics. For example, the sound “I” is pronounced as “OI”, which transforms “High Tide” in “Hoi Toide”, origin of the name of the dialect. In addition, the vocabulary includes words and phrases inherited from the first British and Irish settlers, such as “Mommuck” (disturbing), “quamish” (dizzy) and “Pizer” (Porche). Plus: Many terms were brought from Europe, but others emerged inside the island, Like “Meehonkey”a hiding game inspired by the sound of the geese when flying. There is also “dingbatter”, a term that locals use to refer to strangers. The problem? That the arrival of television, internet and tourism accelerated that possible disappearance of the hoi toider. According to The linguist Dr. Walt Wolframless than half of the 676 current inhabitants of the island speak with the traditional accent, and within one or two generations could disappear completely. Live on your back to everything. Beyond the language, the Ocracoke community continues to keep a way of life Unique and self -sufficient. On the island there are no large supermarkets or commercial chains, so residents depend on small local stores, artisanal markets and fishing. Instead of cinemas, there are Outdoor theater groupsand many islanders still work as fishermen, carpenters and owners of small breweries. The scenario is so picturesque that one of the most emblematic culinary traditions It’s Fig Cakecreated in 1964 when an inhabitant replaced the dates of a cake with canned figs. Today, the cake is part of the local identity, and every August the Festival of the figwith pastry competitions, dances and traditional games such as Meehonkey. The Quid: Change or not. Of course, Ocracoke continues to attract new residents and touristswhich has generated a debate about the future of its cultural identity. Some fear that the arrival of outsiders dilute local customs, while others see growth as a natural evolution, similar to the diversity that the first settlers led to the island. Be that as it may, what seems clear is that the Ocracoke community remains an increasingly rare example of solidarity and tradition. Finally, people help each other and, although the dialect can disappear, the spirit of the island It remains intact. “Words can change, but the meaning behind them will remain the same”, The islanders assure. Meanwhile (and last), they will continue talking so English that the rest of the country does not understand them. Image | Nicolaas Baur, bobistraveling In Xataka | The Latinos of the south of Florida have been mixing English for years. And they have created a new dialect In Xataka | The most unknown language in Spain is in danger. The 500 gypsies who speak it just want them to leave them alone

Some time ago I bought this MSI laptop to work away from home. For this price it would do it again

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The Black Friday is one of the best campaigns to buy a laptop, but occasionally – you are the store campaigns – we can also find even better discounts. In the Black Friday of 2023 I took the opportunity to buy the MSI Cyborg 15 for 949 euros, and now with the same configuration, but with twice as RAM, we have it in PCComponents for 999 euros. At this price I didn’t think about it: I would buy it again without a doubt. * Some price may have changed from the last review A thin laptop, with a good fan and great performance The MSI Cyborg 15 is a fairly powerful gaming computer that mounts a generous screen IPS of 15.6 inches and which offers a full HD resolution and a 144 Hz soda rate. Its design is quite striking, but we will find it in the rear, since it has a Good ventilation rack To prevent the computer from hot. The processor that we are in this specific version is the Raptor Lake i7-13620hand comes with no less than 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of SSD; Two quite good figures taking into account the price of the computer. In addition, one of the key points of the MSI laptop is that all this is accompanied by a graphics card RTX 4060so you can play video games (even plaintiffs) without any problem. Also integrates some speakers that offer good power and that are heard quite wellincludes a port HDMI 2.1 and two ports USB-A and a port USB-C. It also comes with a webcam that offers an HD resolution and its keyboard is quite pleasant when writing or playing. To put some “paste”, it does not come with operating system, although this is common in this type of computers. In short, it is a computer that I have had a very good experience personally. I have used it more to work than to play video games, but it has certainly behaved phenomenal in both scenarios. I bought it just over a year ago and still functioning like the first day. You may also be interested in these accessories LOGITECCH G502 LIGHTSPEED Wireless gaming mouse, captor hero 25k, 25,600 dpi, RGB, reduced weight, 11 programmable buttons, long duration battery, powerplay-compatibile, PC, black * Some price may have changed from the last review Soundcore By Anker Space Q45 Wireless helmets Adaptive Active Noise, up to 98% Reduction Noise, 50 h Reproduction, LDAC HI-RES Wireless Audio, Control App, Bluetooth 5.3 5.3 * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Andrej Lišakov in UnspashMSI In Xataka | Best laptops in quality price. Which to buy depending on the use and eight recommended models In Xataka | Best cheap laptops with windows and models recommended for less than 500 euros

If you have never bought a 3D printer because they are very expensive, much eye at these five offers in a good variety of models

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3D printers are not usually especially cheap and there are many things that we must take into account if we are going to buy our first printer. But there are brands that make it a little easier by having a good amount of models that are aimed at a more casual or more expert user. Anycubic has now launched a new campaign and has many of these printers, so we have chosen five models with a good discount. Anycubic Photon Mono 4 by 144 eurosan economic printer that lowers price with the Diynew15 coupon. Anycubic Photon Mono M7 by 279 eurosa printer a little larger than lowers price with the DiyNew20 coupon. Anycubic Kobra 3 Combo by 354 eurosa printer to print in various colors that lowers price with the Diynew25 coupon. Anycubic Kobra 2 Max by 374 eurosa printer that offers good speed and lowers price with the DiyNew25 coupon. Anycubic Kobra S1 Combo by 569 eurosan ultra -grape printer and good size with the DiyNew30 coupon. Anycubic Photon Mono 4 If what we are looking for is only to start in the world of 3D printers with an affordable model, the Anycubic Photon Mono 4 has dropped from 229 euros to the 144 euros With the coupon DIYNEW15. Includes a seven -inch screen, print with a maximum print volume of 153.4 x 87 x 165 mm and has a system to resume printing in case you have a light cut. In addition, as we see in the rest of the printers of this list, the results are quite surprising. You can see some samples on the 3D printer file. * Some price may have changed from the last review Anycubic Photon Mono M7 If we are going to start at 3D printers, but we are looking 279 euros With the coupon DIYNEW20. This printer offers a greater speed than the previous one, also includes a screen, but in this case 10.1 inches and offers a maximum print volume of 223 x 126 x 230 mm. The brand also has some samples in the printer description. * Some price may have changed from the last review Anycubic Kobra 3 Combo On the other hand, if what we want is to have a printer that is capable of printing in color, but that its price does not rise too much, the Anycubic Kobra 3 Combo is an interesting purchase option, especially now that it has dropped from 599 euros to the 354 euros With the coupon DIYNEW25. It allows you to print with four to eight colors with a maximum print volume of 250 x 250 x 260 mm and in the description of the product we can find samples offered by both the brand and users. * Some price may have changed from the last review Anycubic Kobra 2 Max If we want a good printer because we have already used one or because we simply want to make large volume impressions, the Anycubic Kobra 2 Max has dropped from 659 euros to 374 euros With the coupon DIYNEW25. It allows printing with a maximum volume of 420 x 420 x 500 mm, has automatic leveling and is much faster than the previous models. We can also find samples offered by the brand and by users in the printer description. * Some price may have changed from the last review Anycubic Kobra S1 Combo Finally, if what we are looking for is a complete printer and that allows you to print in color, the Anycubic Kobra S1 Combo has also dropped in price from 749 euros to the 569 euros With the coupon DIYNEW30. It offers good speed, it is silent, it allows you to print with a maximum volume of 250 x 250 x 250 mm with up to eight colors and has automatic leveling. In this case, we can only find samples offered by the brand in the printer description. * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Anycubic In Xataka | Best domestic 3D printers. Which to buy, resources for 3D printing and eight recommended models In Xataka | This is what I would have liked to know before I started in the 3D printing world

In 2011, a collector bought in Morocco a meteorite. It has turned out to be a direct test of thermal water on Mars

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A black stone that had fallen from the sky was discovered in the Sahara desert by a Saharawi group. Selling to the highest bidder, we have known for a long time that it comes from the Mars cortex, but they have had to spend more than 10 years for scientists to desert one of their best kept secrets. A meteorite called “Black Beauty”. Officially called Northwest Africa 7034, the 320 grams rock was found in 2011 in the Sahara desert, in Western Sahara, and later sold to an American collector in Morocco. Its composition is unique among known Martian meteorites. It contains very old and very young minerals glued to each other, but coincides with what was observed by NASA’s rovers on the surface of Mars, so it was part of the Martian cortex when it detached from the red planet. A time capsule. A Recent study It focuses on a zircon grain found in the meteorite. This zircon has no less than 4,450 million years, which places it in the earliest stages of Martian history. The majority of known meteorites that come from Mars are from later geological periods, so NWA 7034 provides invaluable information on what the surface environment of the red planet was long before becoming what it is today. The meteorite that contains the most water. What makes Black Beauty exceptional is that it houses 10 times more water than other Martian meteorites. It was known that by the interaction of the rock with the water present in the crust of the planet at the time of its formation, but the recent analysis of the zircon with modern microscopy techniques has revealed much more information. The fragment contains iron, aluminum and sodium, unusual elements for a zircon of purely magmatic origin. But it is above all the presence of tiny inclusions of magnetite (iron oxide) that suggests that it crystallized under hydrothermal conditions. That is, in the presence of water at high temperature, and in an oxidizing environment. Ancient hot springs. The magnetite is trapped in zones of the zirch that are not altered by radiation, which indicates that they were formed at the same time as the zirch, and not as a result of subsequent secondary processes, the researchers explain. What the study comes to say is that 4,450 million years ago, during what is known as the pre-ondic period of Mars, there were already hydrothermal conditions in the Martian cortex. The Black Beauty meteorite is a direct proof that Mars had water in its formation stages. Favorable conditions for life. The finding reinforces the hypothesis that Mars had from very early the necessary conditions to house life, or at least some environments suitable for microbial life. That there was life on Mars or that it arrived on earth through a meteorite is still two hypotheses for which we have no evidence. However, that a meteorite of 2011 has given us so much information and reasons to continue investigating demonstrates how important the Martian samples can be that NASA and China want to bring in the coming years. Images | New Mexico University, NASA

A German developer has bought a Nazi bunker for one million euros. Now he wants to turn it into a “fortress” for the rich

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Germany is still grappling with the legacy of the Nazis. Throughout the country there is an extensive network of bunkers of the Second World War with the capacity to accommodate almost half a million people. Some of those left have been redesigned to serve citiesbut there are those who want to recover them for something similar to their original purpose: to be a fortress for the richest in the face of fear of a World War III. And they even have their own cryptocurrency: BunkerCoin. The project. It all starts when a real estate developer is occurred the idea: convert a World War II tunnel system into a bunker for rich people who fear a Third World War breaking out. those tunnels 13 kilometers long are near the town of Halberstadt, about 200 kilometers southwest of Berlin and were built by prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In 2019, businessman Peter Karl Jugl purchased these tunnels through his company Global Project Management for 1.3 million euros. Now you want to make profits. luxury bunker. Jugl’s idea is to create protected homes that also have all the facilities and comforts. “Similar to rooms on luxury yachts,” according to the project, with food to be obtained through agriculture and indoor mushroom cultivation. Among the amenities mentioned, we find a school, a workshop, a casino, hospital, workshop, gym and spa. So that the circadian cycle is not lost (although without sunlight it is somewhat complicated), the installation will simulate sunrises and sunsets in something extremely similar to what we can see in the nuclear shelters from the ‘Fallout’ saga. It will also be proof of a nuclear war. BunkerCoin. How is entry guaranteed? By purchasing a cryptocurrency, each one guaranteeing one cubic centimeter of space inside the bunker. It is estimated that a small room would cost around half a million dollars At the moment… The intention Historical memory. It is estimated that nearly 7,000 Buchenwald camp inmates worked in the tunnels and more than half died while digging. The purpose of the facility in its day was the manufacture of aviation equipment during the final phase of the war and, evidently, the plan for the luxury bunker has not pleased the descendants of those one bit. slaves who built it. Langenstein-Zwieberge is a memorial built in the vicinity of the prison camp that honors both victims and survivors and its director, Gero Fedtke, called the project “an inappropriate way of treating the historical heritage of the tunnel.” Disbelief. Curiously, all this has caught Jugl on a different footing. In a telephone interview granted told AFP that he has been letting visitors to the memorial access a section of the tunnel where historical traces from the Nazi era still remain, but he wanted to separate the tunnels from the prison camp located about two kilometers away. In addition, he commented that he is “building a facility to save human lives in an emergency and I have been treated unfairly, insulted and threatened.” An association of relatives of prisoners is not on that same page, pointing out that it is impossible to separate the tunnels from the camp, since the reason for the existence of that facility was to house the slave labor that would excavate the tunnels. Fedtke comments that, like the camp, the tunnels have historical relevance because in Buchenwald “hardly any historical traces of the Nazi era have been preserved and in the tunnel it is totally different.” still there. With all this commotion, Jugl has offered the state of Saxony-Anhalt the possibility of buying back the tunnels. It must be said that your company specializes in the purchase of “properties the bigger the better” with the aim of making them profitable and, now, it is offering the repurchase of the tunnel network for eight million euros. However, the state Ministry of Culture told AFP that they have not received any permit request for the construction of the bunker and that, “as it is a cultural monument, all structural or use changes require approval.” What they have received is the buyback proposal, something that has led some to think that Jugl’s plan was not to create any bunkers, but simply noise so that the state would give him more money than he originally paid for the tunnels and win. in the transaction. Whatever it is, it is a curious way to play with something as sensitive as the historical memory of the victims of Nazism. Images | Bunkercoin In Xataka | Faced with the escalation in Ukraine, Germany has dusted off something: a war manual and its underground shelters

NVIDIA’s story is that of a survivor when all its competitors disappeared or were bought

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In 1998 NVIDIA was on the verge of go bankrupt. The rivalry that graphics chip manufacturers sustained during the 90s of the last century and the first decade of the current one killed many of them. In fact, as Tae Kim explains to us in the highly recommended essay book ‘The NVIDIA Way’only the company led by Jensen Huang survived in a saturated industry that still suffered from obvious immaturity. During the second half of the 1990s, between 80 and 100 companies competed in the PC graphics market, as Kim confirms in his work. Some of them were well known to users, such as Matrox, 3dfx Interactive, S3 Graphics, ATI Technologies, Hercules, Cirrus Logic, Intel, Trident, Number Nine Visual Technology or Rendition, while others were fighting to make their way in a market whose size It was at that time much smaller than today. Tae Kim argues that only NVIDIA has survived for one reason: it is the only company of all those I have mentioned so far in this article that remains as it was at that time. Most of them no longer exist, and those that remain have either been bought by other companies, such as ATI Technologies, or have had an unstable presence in the PC graphics hardware market and have made a living from other businesses, such as Intel. Jensen Huang is where he is thanks to his perseverance and intuition In his book Tae Kim assures that NVIDIA has overcome the critical moments it has faced thanks to Jensen Huang. Many of the decisions this executive has made during his career have been guided by ‘The innovators’ dilemma’one of his favorite books. Its author, American university professor Clayton M. Christensen, maintains that not dedicating the resources necessary for innovation It leaves the way free to do so for other companies that can afford to risk and bet everything on innovation with the purpose of consolidating themselves in the market. Jensen Huang has always been attentive to both talent coming from universities and strengthening his competitors. Christensen’s teachings have inspired Jensen Huang and helped him define NVIDIA’s business strategy, but, according to Kim, the company is still competing today thanks to two qualities of Huang: his perseverance and his intuition. In 1998, TSMC, which already then manufactured NVIDIA chipsran into a production problem. The latter company was running out of money, but Jensen Huang reacted and convinced three of the PC graphics card manufacturers he worked with. “Our technology is good. We will give you a 10% discount on the IPO when we go public. You just have to give us some money now,” Huang promised them. And it worked. His conviction and firm belief in the potential of his products got NVIDIA out of the quagmire, but the recipe for his success has other ingredients that we cannot ignore: his intuition and his good eye when it comes to recruiting talent. Huang has always been attentive to both talent coming from universities and strengthening his competitors. The signing of Dwight Diercks proves it. Jensen Huang followed Scott Sellers closely before he co-founded 3dfx Interactive. When the latter company went bankrupt in 2000 and was bought by NVIDIA, Huang questioned Sellers: “Which engineers are really good among all those who have been part of your team? Who are the stars?“Sellers did not hesitate to praise Dwight Diercks. And he ended up at NVIDIA. Jensen Huang is the alma mater of his company, but it is clear that he is fully aware of how essential the people he works with are. The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant (English Edition) *Some prices may have changed since the last review Image | NVIDIA Bibliography | ‘The NVIDIA Way’by Tae Kim In Xataka | We can forget about AI without hallucinations for now. NVIDIA CEO explains why

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