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by bluebarbet 5d ago
Alas there is none but I can recommend the Lexicon Valley podcast.
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by bluebarbet 6d ago
Indeed. This has to rank as one of the worst branding mistakes in history. All TBL had to do was call the subdomain "web" but instead he went for the infuriatingly fussy and tongue-tying "www".
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by bluebarbet 6d ago
At last, some actual linguistics. The really common "determiners" are this , that , and possessive forms such as their and your . People often call those last words ( your , his ) "possessive pronouns", which alway
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by bluebarbet 6d ago
But only in US English!
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by bluebarbet 9d ago
Perhaps it was planted (satire)
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by bluebarbet 9d ago
>How it's any better? Small companies can be bought by big companies. French government is as capable of trampling over their citizen's privacy the moment they feel they need it as US government is. It's better for Europea
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by bluebarbet 10d ago
Empty snark adds nothing to the conversation.
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by bluebarbet 11d ago
True, but both of you are missing my main point. >if we’re cutting down on inefficiencies, laundry folding robots will give people more time to exercise [...] going to the gym Exercising while a machine folds one's laundry is akin t
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by bluebarbet 11d ago
To me it does not seem like progress that, on a stressed and finite planet, humanity might "need" an energy- and resource-intensive machine to complete a task as physically undemanding (and even frivolous) as folding a sheet. But
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by bluebarbet 12d ago
Here's an alternative take. Climate change, and the myriad related environmental crises, are essentially a product of human population and technology. Population will follow its course, up and then down. The wildcard is technology. Yes
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by bluebarbet 16d ago
Indeed. Even easier: complain on the article's Talk page. Somebody else may then do the work for free.
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by bluebarbet 17d ago
The average person has absolutely never heard of X11.
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by bluebarbet 17d ago
ITT: a disappointing number of low-effort drive-by comments responding to the headline alone.
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by bluebarbet 18d ago
I'm glad we all agree (i.e. you, me, and the bot you're replying to).
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by bluebarbet 19d ago
>LaJolla *Jolla, pronounced yolla . It's a Finnish word. Maybe a bad choice given the geography of tech.
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by bluebarbet 19d ago
That assumes that you never visit a new site. Indeed it's why I think twice before clicking links to new sites. Honest question: Are you happy with the current state of affairs, really , and just waiting patiently for all the world&#x
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by bluebarbet 19d ago
That's exactly what I do. Or rather I just mash whatever is the nearest button to smite the banner. "Refuse", "Accept", who cares? I'm blocking user-side anyway, as the web was designed for. This whole situatio
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by bluebarbet 19d ago
In a public toilet? Not happening. Back to square one.
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by bluebarbet 19d ago
First, I'm not "praising" anything other than choice on the part of publishers and users. If DNT is set to 1 then a publisher should be free to withhold their content. If everybody sets it to 1 then they might well choose t
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by bluebarbet 19d ago
Excellent analogy which I'm annoyed I didn't think of myself.
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by bluebarbet 19d ago
Echoes of America's gay wedding cake case. In the US this would presumably be struck down as "compelled speech", and rightly so IMO. People refuse to pay for journalism and now publishers are prevented from allowing them to
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by bluebarbet 19d ago
Doubtful that it's illegal, they have lawyers. Hard to say it's unethical either given that there is a clear option to pay instead of be tracked (which is in any case trivially defeated by an ad-blocker). For centuries until yeste
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by bluebarbet 19d ago
There's no reason to think this (silly) opinion piece is sapping the work of their investigative staff. In an attention economy it might even be drawing eyeballs to it.
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by bluebarbet 19d ago
That's great to hear. I did Mallorca by ferry once, from Barcelona. I've also got to Tunisia, from Palermo. It's surprisingly easy and quick, the main issue is to make sure your documents are strictly in order because the Tun
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by bluebarbet 20d ago
Flying is a completely unscalable form of transport. One scientist has calculated the marginally sustainable lifetime quota at "4" long-haul flights.* If you or I are flying and the climate is still livable that's because mos
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by bluebarbet 20d ago
I was rather talking about the multiple tons of carbon emitted for the purpose of one person's 40-second esthetic experience. Disappointed that here we are in 2026, the world is burning before our eyes, and yet still almost nobody is
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by bluebarbet 20d ago
>Do it, worst case scenario you've seen more places in the world! There is a cost to be paid - somewhere, by someone - of mindless travel. I know this is not a popular position but it's true. I would correct your advice to: &qu
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by bluebarbet 20d ago
>Totality is unbeliveable. You have the urge to start a religion. Meh! This is what I'd heard and what I was hoping for (though certainly not counting on). In the end it was little more than a beautiful sight. A genuinely stunning
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by bluebarbet 20d ago
The trick will be to go to Tangier, on the other side of the strait. It's a 40-minute ferry ride, I did it a few months ago.
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by bluebarbet 20d ago
You mangled your joke. Here it is: "The sun never sets on the Bri... BBC"

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