Koshkin

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by Koshkin 7mo ago
Sure; this has nothing to do with the way written words are spoken, though.
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by Koshkin 7mo ago
Finnish is not unique in that it has quite a few dialects like most other languages.
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by Koshkin 7mo ago
To be fair, the "ghoti" joke is not about pronunciation but rather about the perceived mismatch between the way a word is written and the way it is spoken.
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by Koshkin 7mo ago
60 is the smallest of the five numbers below 100 (the other being 72, 84, 90, 96) that have most divisors (12, to be exact).
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by Koshkin 7mo ago
What's currently missing from the automatic conflict resolution is intelligence. The AI doing merges is the future.
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by Koshkin 7mo ago
In American English, 'Adam' and 'atom' are pronounced the same.
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by Koshkin 7mo ago
> Android is one of the most popular operating systems in the world. More accurately, "as of December 2025, Android, which uses the Linux kernel, is the world's most popular operating system with 38.94% of the global market,
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by Koshkin 7mo ago
Never say never...
39.
by Koshkin 7mo ago
K[ryptic!]* *I appreciate mathematical notation, but this is not it.
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by Koshkin 7mo ago
What does price have to do with anything.
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by Koshkin 7mo ago
I see a huge problem with Latin alphabet (with or without modifications) being shared among different languages is that it is almost never transliterated from one such language to another (I think the Baltic and the Slavs may still be doing
42.
by Koshkin 8mo ago
Curiously, some people insist that the year zero AD was a thing.
43.
by Koshkin 8mo ago
The Chinese selling Portuguese souvenirs made in China?
44.
by Koshkin 8mo ago
Learn to read Spanish already…
45.
by Koshkin 8mo ago
"Drops" feels like too strong a word, given that this is merely a switch from one default to another.
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by Koshkin 8mo ago
So… What’s the magic? (In theory, interpretation/emulation and compilation should produce identical behavior.)
47.
by Koshkin 9mo ago
The Docker image homepage: https://github.com/rbanffy/vm370
48.
by Koshkin 9mo ago
links is my favorite file browser and pager
49.
by Koshkin 9mo ago
> text-mode web browser > inline images inside the terminal Now I'm confused
50.
by Koshkin 9mo ago
A.k.a. "terminal-based"
51.
by Koshkin 9mo ago
No CMake support (VSCode, emacs, nvim all have it).
52.
by Koshkin 9mo ago
Is SQLite hard to use?
53.
by Koshkin 9mo ago
You mean, "DOW"
54.
by Koshkin 9mo ago
> in exactly the same way C is not known to the state of California to cause cancer.
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by Koshkin 10mo ago
"What is going through the mind of someone who sends a thank-you letter typed on a computer - and worse yet - by emailing it, instead of writing it themselves and mailing it in an envelope? How can you be grateful enough to want to sen
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by Koshkin 10mo ago
I have witnessed a child having learned it in one day.
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by Koshkin 10mo ago
With the exception of some "ligatures" like Ю (I + O) and special characters like Ъ, Cyrillic is largely based on Greek and some Aramaic (e.g. Ш). In the past it included pretty much the entire Greek alphabet.
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by Koshkin 10mo ago
Also compare the Polish 'chrząszcz' with its Cyrillic equivalent 'хрущ' (but take into account a difference in pronunciation).
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by Koshkin 10mo ago
> Learning the language of a nation A nation doesn't own the language.
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by Koshkin 10mo ago
Funny you should mention Linux.

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