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by bradrn 2y ago
How nice to see this here! When I first got interested in language creation, the LCK was one of the first books I read (followed shortly by Mark/zompist’s other books on linguistics and worldbuilding). It is an excellent introduction
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by bradrn 2y ago
At least in Firefox the search pane has a ‘Match Diacritics’ option. Turning it on causes it to match only the precise characters in the textbox. (It’s slightly misnamed, since it doesn’t just handle diacritics, but also cases like ⟨e⟩ vs ⟨
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by bradrn 2y ago
I was forced to use my computer mouseless for a couple of months recently (due to problems with the USB ports). It wasn’t a huge issue since I had things set up mouselessly to start with: with the combination of Sway, Vimium, Emacs, zathura
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by bradrn 2y ago
Apparently it was by Gordon Sinclair originally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Americans_(commentary)
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by bradrn 2y ago
Great! I’ll send you an email now.
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by bradrn 2y ago
> I am hoping to be able to get some projects going in this direction (feel free to reach out if anyone are interested). This does sound interesting! I’ve just finished a Masters degree, also in non-imaging optics (in my case oceanograph
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by bradrn 2y ago
English is itself an extreme example of historical spelling. Tibetan, Mongolian and French are bad, but English is just as bad if not worse. (Manx is terrible, but for different reasons: its orthography was designed by English-speakers!)
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by bradrn 2y ago
There is a longer overview of it here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/...
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by bradrn 2y ago
‘Antiparallel’ means parallel but pointing in opposite directions, like so: ↑↓ Whereas ‘perpendicular’ means pointing at right angles: ↑→ (And, of course, ‘parallel’ without qualification would mean pointing in the same direction: ↑↑)
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by bradrn 2y ago
(2023)
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by bradrn 2y ago
On the other hand, I skipped three grade levels and feel that it was absolutely the best option for me. I don’t think there’s any one answer here about the best thing to do — it depends entirely on the student, the school, and the grades to
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Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces(brandur.org)
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by bradrn 2y ago
A lovely story, but sadly this recollection from Paul Vojta disagrees on his reaction: https://www.ams.org/notices/200605/fea-lang.pdf (see p547)
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by bradrn 2y ago
Looks like the results are exported to a CSV file: https://walzr.com/bop-spotter/export
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by bradrn 2y ago
For a while I used XMonad (as a window manager) together with Xfce (as a desktop environment). It had its rough edges, but I really liked the experience. I could easily fit my windows on the screen the way I wanted to, while still getting t
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by bradrn 2y ago
That article has a paper link: https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202400184
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by bradrn 2y ago
The key bit in that article is this: > caused by the filling or emptying of an underground magma chamber In this case, the magma chamber underlies the entire area of the Phlegraean Fields. As more or less magma enters the chamber, the gr
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by bradrn 2y ago
> Those come from latin lex, rex No, in fact they descend from the accusative forms, lēgem and rēgem . I don’t know much about the precise evolution, but g → y strikes me as a perfectly normal sound change, especially before &#x2F
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by bradrn 2y ago
This has been suggested before, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoacoustics#Discredited_t...
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by bradrn 2y ago
> It's just a coincidence that prepositions serve both of these purposes in English Not really… these categories fall together in a lot of languages. It doesn’t even require prepositions: a lot of languages have case markers which
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by bradrn 2y ago
> It's more like a preposition that exceptionally comes after the noun phrase instead of before it. Called a ‘postposition’. And that’s precisely what ‘ago’ is!
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by bradrn 2y ago
The kinds of visualisation discussed by the article remind me very strongly of Glamorous Toolkit [0], most recently posted to HN at [1]. It’s something I’ve never really felt a need for, mostly because the software I work on is mostly very
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by bradrn 2y ago
They define paramorphisms more rigorously on pages 4–5.
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It’s not part of the spec, apparently, but Adobe discusses it at https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/link-html-pdf-page-acroba... .
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by bradrn 2y ago
This isn’t restricted to ‘page’: there’s a whole set of PDF fragment identifiers [0,1]. Most notably ‘zoom’, ‘view’ and named destinations, but there are others. [0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8118.html#section-3
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by bradrn 2y ago
This is just an extract from a more comprehensive article: https://news.unsw.edu.au/en/erica-picked-up-a-rock-10-years-...
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by bradrn 2y ago
A relevant quote from Harold Bloom (from the introduction to Le Guin’s Collected Poems ): > Le Guin in her version certainly captures the terseness and the aesthetic sensibility of the Tao. Scholars tell me that her work is disputable,
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by bradrn 2y ago
Yeah, you’re probably right. They’d have to be familiar with the rather eclectic mix of languages I used (Haskell, C++ and JavaScript), but then again that’s no reason not to publish it. To be honest, I’m not quite sure why I haven’t just p
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by bradrn 2y ago
This reminds me… some time ago I made my own Firefox extension to do full-text search of all my webpages. It’s in three parts: a server running in the background to interface with an SQLite database, a minimal extension to send text to that
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by bradrn 2y ago
Note: this article includes more than just the email discussed there.

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