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by CRConrad 2y ago
An intentional misreading egregious enough that one can't help wonder which of the murky-dealings-behind-closed-doors-and-vague-unsubstantiated-allegations fans on the Gnome board that removed mr Piers you are. (If you think that'
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by CRConrad 2y ago
But the comment you replied to was about the g-y difference at the end of the word, not the d-t at the start.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
壹 looks kind of like a drone landing on a flower pot.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
An example from the WP article linked by user BalinKing: > Some dialects of English make monophthongs from former diphthongs. For instance, Southern American English tends to realize the diphthong /aɪ/ as in eye as a long monop
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by CRConrad 2y ago
But then Flemish often claims to be a separate language from — as opposed to a dialect of — Dutch, doesn't it?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
The letter “thorn” is still alive and well in Icelandic. It's also (AIUI) pretty funny, in that it's the reason many people seem to think that the word “the” used to be pronounced as “ye”: The letter fell out of fashion at around
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Vendors are competing with one and another to win contracts. Sure, in a well-functioning market economy without any distortions. But there are lots of those at play, so competition is severely hampered (by network effects, regulatory c
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> An eBPF probe is not a kernel module. But if it runs on the same privilege level as the rest of the kernel, then isn't it, for the purposes of this discussion, in effect "a kernel module"?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
One percent of a several billion machines is still several tens of million machines. And what do you think -- is corporate antivirus more likely to be running on inconsequential consumer laptops, or on corporate servers...? Tens of millio
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> technology's advancements often seem to favor certain regions or groups over others. Only temporarily, though, it kind of evens out over time: A decade or two ago, always-on high-speed mobile Internet connections were only availab
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Thank you, Mr Celine.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> But when it comes to a shared to-do list across a team That would be Kanban. > then that is apparently the worst thing to ever happen to a project. Naah: The worst thing to happen to a project is all the rituals, ceremonies, process
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> This article is jam packed with so many cliches that are popular with business writing that you would be forgiven in thinking that an LLM wrote it Almost harder to forgive not thinking that an LLM wrote it...
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Well, kxfx whom you replied to was the OP in this thread. And according to their other top-level comment[1], that seems to have been pretty much exactly what they were talking about. (Yeah, a bit far-fetched IMO too.) [1]: https:/&#
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by CRConrad 2y ago
But unfortunately nobody can "Scrum correctly".
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> And as for Sprints in Kanban, yeah, well Jira kinda works like that I don't think it has to. It can do that, since it's built for both Scrum and Kanban. But you don't have to use the Scrum facilities; if your workplace
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> the goal of this flow is to take very little dev time to enable the project managers to asynchronously (meaning not bothering the devs because the report can be derived entirely from the board state) Yeah, sure. The Kanban board.
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by CRConrad 2y ago
That sounds 1) Like the ideal theoretical Scrum. (I've never actually seen that in practice.) 2) Like a lot of converting, estimating, splitting, recombining, and rating. (So, that's a full-time "Professional Scrum Master&quo
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> While you plan a sprint, you loosely plan an increment and using the estimates and velocity, project where you will land. That sentence contains four verbs: plan, plan, estimate, and project. If your sprint were a single week, planning
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> Realizing the spec for C++23 is about two-and-some-change-times the length of the King James Bible has really reframed my thinking on this language. I wonder how much shorter the spec for a radically simplified version of C++ -- say, o
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yup. What's next? Lennart Poettering going "There are two kinds of init systems..."?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Yeah, of course C++ is weird with its array-pointer duality. That's because it's based on C, and that is just as weird with this. Pascal doesn't have any weird array-pointer duality, so Object Pascal doesn't either. Feel
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> The number of times I mis-spelt Stonebraker Same problem here. But, given how many last names (not only in English, but many other languages too) derive from trade or profession monikers, I can't help suspect that at some time ear
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by CRConrad 2y ago
> My understanding of the case was that he consensually visited prostitutes in Sweden, which is legal, where he engaged in consensual sex with them. Again, consensually, he did this without wearing a condom. Prostitutes have nothing to d
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by CRConrad 2y ago
It shouldn't really be all that bad; it's just two letters that differ -- both in actual font design and keyboard placement. Swedish and Finnish write the letters Ö and Ä; in Danish and Norwegian they're Æ and Ø. The really w
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by CRConrad 2y ago
You don't need to differentiate between Swedish and Finnish, since the layouts are identical, but between Danish and Norwegian, because Ø and Æ swap places between those two. (So, blue for Norwegian?)
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Mine are all the same colour, so no help there... But generally, ÄÖ is Swedish / Finnish, and ØÆ / ÆØ is Danish and Norwegian. But which of the latter two is which, and why on earth did they flip those two around between the lan
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I find that some keyboard shortcuts, in programs that use "weird" keys like, say, Alt-semicolon or Ctrl-backslash, don't work with a Nordic keyboard. I've hypothesised it's because we need to use modifiers to get to
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by CRConrad 2y ago
I think those are all the same on Swedish PC keyboards too, except $ -- yup, that was AltGr- 4, not 5. And yeah, not lovely... Why have I put up with this for over 30 years?!?
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by CRConrad 2y ago
Depends heavily on how you define "bring into", AFAICS.

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