demetrius

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by demetrius 2y ago
N.B. I've confused 誰 and 唯 in my footnote. (I can no longer edit my message to fix it.)
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by demetrius 2y ago
> abandance of evidence where in formal publishing or software UI, every text of 看 was replaced with 睇. How would you even know it was replaced there? It's not like you can compare what the person was saying and what the person ende
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by demetrius 2y ago
> It's like Java and Scala both compiles to JVM bytecode. Not really, it's more like how both Castlian and Galician people write in Spanish. Spanish is not some magical byte-code that unifies Galician and Castilian. It's C
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by demetrius 2y ago
My biggest problem with flag emojis is that flags change, so the meaning of text encoded with Unicode changes. During the 2020 protests, Telegram changed large¹ BY emoji to the national white-red-white flag. Then it reverted the large emoji
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by demetrius 2y ago
I don't see why it's a "siren song". Being lured by sirens is deadly. Implementing a small language is a fun hobby and can be a useful learning experience.
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by demetrius 2y ago
It's a sad state of affairs when it's considered ok to get rid of perfectly working hardware just because a new faster one is available.
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by demetrius 3y ago
They should have called it Oracle, then ;)
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by demetrius 3y ago
How does this project compare to LibreLingo ( https://github.com/LibreLingo/LibreLingo )? Why would I choose UnueBee over LibreLingo?
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by demetrius 3y ago
> When you are outside that range, you know you’re in for very uncomfortable weather. Which is... Pretty random? What is "very uncomfortable"? 'Switch to autumn/spring clothes' uncomfortable (<20ºC)? 'Swi
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by demetrius 3y ago
Nice! I didn't know about this back when I used it
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by demetrius 3y ago
There is an important difference: with Last.fm, you choose what you share. If you want to listen to something one time, you could just open the same file in another player and that's it. With Spotify or Yandex.Music, however, everythi
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by demetrius 3y ago
Totally agree! I also kinda hate how suggestion algorithms are not customizable at all, and all your actions are input to them. It adds a mental burden when choosing a song: choosing a song not just affects what I listen now, but what I wil
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by demetrius 3y ago
That's actually a case against modern overfilled title bars. "Real" title bars can be removed if not needed (e.g. by switching to another windowing manager like dwm on Linux with X11; not sure how it's done in Wayland or
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by demetrius 3y ago
shrug For me, the problem is not that it's terrible (it's not). It is that the the priorities of Gnome developers don't align with mine. They want an evolving desktop, keeping up with new trends, ideas and hardware. I want
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by demetrius 3y ago
That's an interesting way to see it. I feel that it's the other way: Slackware is going away (it used to be a major important distributive, and not I hardly ever hear about it), while Gnome is a default environment in many distrib
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by demetrius 3y ago
Could someone please explain this one to me? > If you really want a glass of water at a restaurant, always order that first. As you do this, look the server in the eyes and nod. I don't understand it at all. Is is to make sure you g
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by demetrius 3y ago
Paywalled.
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by demetrius 3y ago
Well, it can be expressed with a one-byte encoding like cp1251, cp866 or KOI8-R which are commonly (albeit incorrectly) called ASCII.
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by demetrius 3y ago
> most other tools suck. Your think they suck because they're not coloured? But black-and-white images are standard, that's how you'll be seeing them in dictionaries, textbooks and transcriptions. Also, I think some hierat
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by demetrius 3y ago
> No? Or maybe author's native language is not English. :D UTF-8 does require twice as much bytes for Cyrillic, for example. Besides, there's a lot of other operations that happen in modern OS that makes text editing more expen
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by demetrius 3y ago
> That sounds... vaguely inefficient to me? All languages and writing have built-in redundancy In Egyptian, you can probably get away with writing the determiner in question + vertical stroke below it, to mean the determined thing. I gue
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by demetrius 3y ago
Interesting! The end of the page https://www.findmycat.io/ says this: “Completely Open-Source? What’s the catch? Yup. No catch. All Software and Hardware files can be found in the Engineering section and the Github page und
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by demetrius 3y ago
It's a cool project but it's not open-source. CC BY-NC-SA is not an open-source license, since it limits what the users can do with the code. This is openwashing.
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by demetrius 3y ago
The dates don't add up. The scientist got into hospital with mushroom positioning at 11th of August. https://charter97.org/ru/news/2023/8/31/561949/ The crash happened on the 19th of Augus
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by demetrius 3y ago
> Does it say they were foraging or that the mushrooms were wild? Both: https://charter97.org/ru/news/2023/8/31/561949/ They say that on 9th of August he went foraging, on 10th of August he
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by demetrius 3y ago
1%?! According to the 2014 survey https://fom.ru/Obraz-zhizni/11711 , 75% Russians have ever went to pick up mushrooms, and 40% have done it in the last year before the survey. 8% personally know people who suffered fr
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by demetrius 3y ago
> it didn't do very well at the box office, and it feels rather unfair. I think it might be because of the OGL scandal (when WotC tried to use a loophole in the license text to turn an open license into a closed one). At least that
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Ask HN: Logics Behind Flagging Xinjiang Victims Database
6 points by demetrius 3y ago|5 comments
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by demetrius 3y ago
This is such a strange headline. > Why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter Because... they're not supposed to? To me, this sounds like "Why pen doesn't make us smarter" or "Why lamp doesn't make us smarte
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by demetrius 3y ago
Also wanted to add: > Seriously, are there really any unemployed? There are none This is just blatantly false. There are more than enough unemployed in Belarus. > Belarusian mentality is a peasant one, anyone who does not work hard ca

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