butokai

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by butokai 3y ago
WSL1 was what made me stick to Windows at the time, when I had a new laptop and didn't want to mess much with it. WSL2 was what convinced me to switch back to Linux, since I felt that WSL1 was going to be abandoned. What is its current
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by butokai 3y ago
And that's why the Italian alphabet comprises tʃ, dʒ, ɲ, ŋ: so that no letter is ever associated with two different phonemes!
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by butokai 3y ago
For the Coq proof assistant, a recent approach to graphical proofs is Actema: https://www.actema.xyz/
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by butokai 3y ago
Your suggestion of publishing a book with one's browsing history really sounds interesting. Did anybody try something along these lines? I had never thought about privacy as part of the same spectrum as IP protection.
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by butokai 3y ago
Not so sure about podcasts. At least where I am from (Italy) a great deal of podcasts are either Spotify exclusives, or consumed mostly through Spotify, or bundled in some producer-specific app (e.g. the state-owned radio does this, and doe
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by butokai 3y ago
This need for "caching", because of verbs being often very far in the sentence structure, is also very common in Latin. That is supposedly why in Italy for a very long time Latin was the main subject in scientific high school (thi
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by butokai 4y ago
I wonder if anybody has ever thought about some similar project for e.g. the Nokia 3310 or the iPod
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by butokai 4y ago
Another simple answer is that it is a kind of variation on the accent of the Milan area (Varese/Brianza or something like that) that young people in most parts of Italy speak nowadays, since many famous singers and social media persona
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by butokai 4y ago
Harvey Friedman, one of the most renowned contemporary logicians, has a research program devoted to finding such examples as those you seem to be looking for. This article presents his views: https://nautil.us/this-man-is-ab
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by butokai 4y ago
Funny note: in Italy, the specific way Gen Z folks have of pronouncing vowels has been jokingly dubbed "cursive speaking"
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by butokai 4y ago
That makes the country of Italy rather recent (just like most European countries), not the concept of Italy. The concept of Italy is much older than the country (for example, “Italian” was used as a language in the Venetian republic, and by
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by butokai 4y ago
I tend to use with a meaning more nuanced towards "boring". What's going to happen is so extremely boring, that I'd better be sedated, high on drugs or the like in order to withstand it. I can see how the "drug&quot
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by butokai 4y ago
I am astonished by the progresses made by the Asahi folks. In particular, having been a Linux user for the past 15 years or so, I can't wrap my head around the fact that a single developer can get such impressive results in reverse eng
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by butokai 4y ago
There's another comment below that mentions Unity 8, which has been forked and is being maintained as a mobile shell. Is that the same QML Unity you're mentioning? I remember they were going for some kind of convergence.
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by butokai 5y ago
The fact that nail and nail are the same word confused me for a lot of time while staring at this
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by butokai 5y ago
I experimented around using an old iPod for podcasts, but the one thing I like about this modern world and that I missed during such experiments is the easiness of inter-device synchronization. There exists several solutions on Linux that w
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by butokai 5y ago
Not sure what you mean by this, but Tinder's parent company controls several well known dating services (OkCupid, Meetic, Twoo and many more)
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by butokai 5y ago
Isn't trying to reproduce a part of believing science? It seems that you're loving less than half of it otherwise
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by butokai 5y ago
The story of McDonald's success in Italy is largely similar, with all marketing devoted to adding a "local" feeling to the experience after being labelled junk food. Even more, McDonald's entered the Italian market by ac
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by butokai 5y ago
Of course Scaruffi is right there in the top row
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by butokai 5y ago
That's a big proviso in parenthesis. I would go as far as saying that most functionality is not available, unfortunately.
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by butokai 5y ago
How would Apple be any different, in particular when talking about closed source and binary centric models? I think the core of Microsoft's difficulty lies elsewhere: two factors that come to my mind are fragmentation and willingness t
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by butokai 5y ago
Interesting remark but not really related to this piece of news, am I wrong?
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by butokai 6y ago
The N900 came two years after the iPhone, and Nokia's first touchscreen phone (the 5800) one year after the iPhone, though
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by butokai 6y ago
I would be curious to know more about the several devices that were planned to be on Meego but then shipped with Symbian! I remember seeing Bada phones at the time, but (at least in my country) the "does it run WhatsApp" era was a
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by butokai 6y ago
This strikes me in particular if you compare it with e.g. the enormous work on localization at Microsoft in the 90s, where they basically introduced local IT terminology for much of the world. The former Italian team leader (who made variou
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by butokai 6y ago
I was under the same impression, until I reached the end of the article and noticed first the return to "de", and second that the author is de Zwart himself