Sprocklem

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by Sprocklem 3y ago
See the video linked in the sister comment for (IIRC) an excellent discussion of historical reconstruction of sounds from writing systems, but I can add some clarification to the matter of laryngeal consonants: they are confusingly named fo
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
`sponge` from moreutils more or less does this.
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
I'm not sure how it works, but mastodon at least seems to download the custom emoji from other servers and displays them graphically. I haven't tested this on lemmy, but I assume it works the same.
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
I answered that 4 were vehicles (contra OP, I included the tank), and still got 11%. I think there must be some issue with the calculation.
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
Somewhat ironically, the new code view feels markedly slower on my machine: it seems to take longer to load and there is a noticeable delay before the text appears when jumping around (e.g., using Ctrl-F). Admittedly, I rarely look at parti
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
At least on old reddit, you can click "next" when it asks you for your email to skip that step.
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
Even without the problem of reddit restoring deleted posts and comments, a user upthread noted that this is insufficient for another reason: it can't delete comments in subreddits that are currently private.
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
XKCD has released thrice a week (monday, wednesday and friday) every week for as long as I can remember. Some back-of-the-napkin math would put #416 in early 2008.
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
Right, but the only reasonable way to localize `isspace()` is to have it based on code units / encoding bytes, since that is what it will be used for. When people want to test a unicode code point they instead call `iswspace()` (or a n
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
China is not the whole world, and had to deal with the risk of COVID entering the country from other places. Notably, they did bring COVID numbers down to a very low level, albeit temporarily. > And even in a fantasy world where you coul
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by Sprocklem 3y ago
And even those that do "like to use" those products may still take issue with those companies on moral grounds while continuing to use them, either because there is no meaningful alternative for their purposes or because the conve
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
IIRC, both of these are more or less true: > THE EN DASH IS ABOUT AS WIDE AS AN UPPERCASE N; THE EM DASH IS AS WIDE AS AN M. > They’re called that because those are the specific typography jargon words that refer to the height of a ph
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Design can be free (part 2)(jenson.org)
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
FWIW, there is a setting to make Calibre's reader to save its bookmarks file outside the epub. I think the setting needed to be set in the reader itself.
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
Why are these the only two options? In Canada, all our phones are carrier-unlocked and still subsidized by the use of multi-year contracts. There are perfectly adequate legal mechanisms of enforcing contracts without needing to lock phones.
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
I don't think human ghosts are mammals, but for some reason that surprises me. I guess maybe my instinct is that mammals are a class of physical creatures, but mammal-ness seems simultaneously an inherent part of human-ness. I'm n
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
I use Syncthing to sync between my android phone and my computer without a subscription, and everything has been working perfectly.
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
This is the first I'm learning that people spit out watermelon seeds. Why? That's so extra.
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
I mean, the website admin in that case can still access your messages. It's just that the admin is you.
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
Any chance someone could explain this to me? I think I'm missing something.
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
I appreciate that this is listed as a bug.
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
Alternatively, this is the original sentence with the embedded clauses moved to the end: > Each Party shall endeavor to ensure that energy-related activities may be undertaken under the initial authorization and shall not require a new a
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
The movement of white people out of neighbourhoods with black people, and the use of redlining to concentrate a marginalized group within those neighbourhoods led to a disinvestment of both private and public capital in those neighbourhoods
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
Canada has e-transfers between any two bank accounts via Interac, although some banks do charge a small fee when sending from some types of accounts. Interac debit can also be used pervasively at POS terminals, although credit cards (both V
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
To me, this sense of the word "bug" can only refer to diseases.
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
The usage of "bugs" to refer to microbes in the press release was quite confusing, although note that the study does cite work that found some similar plastic-degrading microbes in the gut microbiota of some insects: > Certain
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by Sprocklem 4y ago
You're interpreting this as a new meaning of capitalism but it seems to be a return to an older definition that came out of early socialist theory, where capitalism is defined by having an owner/investor class of capitalists and a
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by Sprocklem 5y ago
Notably, this is the result of a failure in our (necessarily) centralized anti-trust system. In the past 30 years, the government has been reticent to pursue anti-trust cases against the growing number of monopolies/oligopolies. Withou
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by Sprocklem 5y ago
This is not true in either of those C versions. C99§7.18.1.4 describes (u)intptr_t as optional, which (per §7.18) means that <stdint.h> need not provide those typedefs if the (compiler) implementation doesn't provide an integer t
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by Sprocklem 5y ago
The answer, as I understand it, is to provide another method of stimming that doesn't cause physical harm to the child.

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