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by Thrall 14y ago
It does still depends a bit on which direction the 'fork' goes in and whether it remains compatible with upstream's intentions. So a minor feature branch can often be merged back into upstream, but significant changes to the core code may n
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by Thrall 14y ago
Of course it's possible that the Irish pronunciation of film is not inserting a vowel sound, rather that the modern english spelling and pronunciation has removed one. It's possible that the Irish resembles the old english pronunciation mor
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by Thrall 14y ago
Having looked at some of the recipes, it might be nice to take the job of layout/formatting away from the recipe submitter and offer some differnt layout options to the person viewing it. For example, some recipes include the accompanying
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by Thrall 14y ago
My opinion: People don't read individual glyphs, they read words. The amount of variety between different glyphs and other factors such as kerning which help the letters combine to make an elegant whole word. A classic example of how not to
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by Thrall 14y ago
"These commuters .. travel long distances together in the same direction like schools of fish" Sounds like what they need is a train, tram or bus.
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by Thrall 14y ago
It irks me to find a paragraph break in the middle of a sentence in a document which is, broadly speaking, about doing html et al. correctly. One inconsistency that I have noticed blighting pages all over the web is defining a dark text col
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by Thrall 14y ago
You sacrifice an enormous amount of flexibility and extensibility by enforcing such distinctions. Much of the power and elegance of languages like lisp comes from blurring the boundary between code and data. To the C etc. mentality, it's un
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by Thrall 14y ago
It can't be that weird, as I too call it this. I had assumed that I was the only one!
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by Thrall 14y ago
There is a small cynical part of me that thinks that being the first to use HFR could be very profitable if everyone is so curious that they pay to see the same film several times in different formats.
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by Thrall 14y ago
It would be about pretending to amend an appalling disgrace. The past happened and cannot be changed.
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by Thrall 14y ago
If you go looking for overly specific definitions of words in natural language, which is effectively defined by its usage, any conclusions you draw from these 'definitions' will be flawed at best. Obtaining your fundamental definitions from
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by Thrall 14y ago
Is there evidence that anyone's actually bought one?
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by Thrall 14y ago
Has bayesian filtering been tried on forum posts? (It can work well for emails) If the filter is unsure, the post can be referred to an administrator for moderation (and will subsequently be added to either the spam or ham corpus, training
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by Thrall 14y ago
"…help your family be on time" and "needtobounce" Am I the only one who assumed this was all about procreation in a timely and organised manner?
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by Thrall 14y ago
The issue here clearly isn't the passwords. Take your pick from: * Trusting the 'cloud' (by whatever name) to the extent that you don't keep a local backup of your important data. * Linking all your online accounts together for the convenie
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by Thrall 14y ago
Ironically, the diaeresis which it probably ignored is essentially an indication that the two adjacent vowels do not form a digraph and hence form parts of two syllables. (Admittedly, umlauts and diaereses are represented by the same charac
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by Thrall 14y ago
The syllable count fails on some words. For example "naïve". If you can't trust the program to count syllables at least as reliably as the writer using it, what use is it? Interesting idea though.