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by cwnyth 2mo ago
Melanastrophobia, perhaps? "Black star phobia". I don't think a modern term has been coined for black holes from ancient Greek vocabulary.
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by cwnyth 2mo ago
Thanks for the link!
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by cwnyth 2mo ago
Huh, I don't remember turning it on. Who would want it off? The music is amazing, and it laid the seed for me to get into chip music, especially early keygen music (much of which can be found here: https://keygenmusic.tk&#x2
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by cwnyth 2mo ago
Do you see the flashing arrow? You have to hit one of those tiles, and then launch the ball up the ramp.
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by cwnyth 2mo ago
> another co-opts the established trademark for its own purpose That's a funny way of referring to a parody.
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by cwnyth 2mo ago
Helio- is actually "sun", not "hole", and it's Greek, not Latin, but I 100% agree with you: it's pointless technical vocabulary that only serves to obfuscate. I think in this particular case, it's just som
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by cwnyth 2mo ago
This has always seemed strange to me. It will offer a suggestion, I'll make a comment about a suggestion, and it returns with, "Your suggestion..." The further distance from the suggestion, the more likely it confuses who mad
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by cwnyth 2mo ago
Didn't know that about Brave, but it's moot for me since Firefox also supports it and these days I find that Firefox is the better experience, not Chrome or even Chromium.
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by cwnyth 2mo ago
I'm on a laptop and I don't get it either. I'd go so far to say it's quite plain and inoffensive and the dreary color of the background is ugly. People have different tastes, and that's cool, but this page has the s
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
This is right. AI is using human speech, but just doing so in a consistently peculiar way. The em-dash in particular is frustrating, because it's all over high-quality, pre-2022 academic work. But now instead of proper and erudite it&#
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
He wouldn't be the first reckless CEO...
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Pretty sure they mean zip files, not drives.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
It's not my email that has an unbearable spam issue. I can't take all the incessant phone spam anymore, though. Even setting it to go straight to voicemail, the calls are relentless. They've switched to texts now, too. Misera
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Hey, fair enough. To each their own. If Anki is fine for you, great! Do what works.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Because I was too brief while at work before, let me be fuller now: if you were to go back a thousand years and ask about the national characteristic of the emperor of Constantinople, they'd look at you crazy because you spoke English.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Separately, your facts are wrong, because it was centuries before that the word Byzantine was first used to describe this era of the latter eastern Roman empire. Oops, might want to read a book instead of looking at memes.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
I'd love to see that! I can't take credit for the term. There are some people who are extreme fans of the Byzantine empire and defend it at every turn. I can kind of get recent history, but being a fanatic about an ancient polit
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
There are a lot of people who only learned about history through memes or online talking points, but this is one of those things that is passed around that way.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Well, I should have qualified my statement: Anki is inefficient compared to better methods, but more efficient than haphazardly trying to memorize things. Yes, it's better than nothing, but there are better SRS implementations, includi
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
That's why I used the word varied. But at the end of the day, you're still memorizing sentences, rather than how the word actually functions. It's inelastic.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Tell me, do you call people from China Chinese? Japan Japanese? Germany German? If so, you're a hypocrite. You're also arguing against a strawman. I never said they weren't Roman. I only said there's nothing wrong with B
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
You've missed the point.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
They actually called themselves Ῥωμαῖοι, not Romani, and not every description needs to be emic. There's nothing wrong with the label "Byzantine" except to Byzaboos.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
My problem with Anki is that it's very, very inefficient. It will take much more time and effort to memorize the vocabulary words you learn, and losing those words is very quick. It's much better to use SRS with actual and varied
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
LinuxForums has been going strong for decades. My account there dates to 2004.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Even there, though, a lot of the forums are dead or decayed or have disappeared. It's not like it was even 10 years ago.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
Except that most people just go with best. Tons of new comments are shouted into the void, never to be heard by anyone except for a handful of the curious.
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
There is no reason to lump forums and IRC/Discord together here. If anything, the latter is closer to places like here or Reddit, where the discussions are ephemeral regardless of topicality, whereas with forums a single topic can go o
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by cwnyth 3mo ago
What's wrong with MariaDB?

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