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by demetrius 4y ago
> Most ethnic Russians > in Ukraine support > the action too I think the cause and effect are reversed here: people choose the identity to reflect their political views. So, those who still choose the Russian identity often do so b
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by demetrius 4y ago
> If the great grandkid isn't torturing anyone, why should they be held responsible for that? They shouldn't. But at the same time, they should take the words of their grandparents about how great Soviet Union was with a grain
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by demetrius 4y ago
> Btw “demetrius”, my other pet peeve is Latin endings on Greek words and names. You seem to choose pet peeves that are opposite to mine! I don't like Greek word declinations in Latin (why write Leopolin if you can write Leopolim?)
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by demetrius 4y ago
> I only read monumental inscriptions, that's where Latin shines Even with monumental inscriptions, you'd need to carefully filter them to make sure you only read old ones. The newer ones frequently include U, e.g. I like this
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by demetrius 4y ago
> But I would conclude that the textbox should only use capital letters That would make sense, sure. > Minuscules are not different letters, they are variant forms Just like U and V, J and I in some varieties of Latin. (The fact that
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by demetrius 4y ago
> it hurts my eyes Looks like almost all Latin texts hurt your eyes, then.
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by demetrius 4y ago
> they either should accept the original Roman spelling of Lvtetia Lvtetia is not "the original Roman spelling". The original Roman cursive spelling is: https://imageup.ru/img224/3989875/roman-coursive
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by demetrius 4y ago
> U and J are not used in classical Latin, they’re mediaeval innovations They were totally legit variants of V and I, especially in cursive. Cursive U/V was much closer to U than to V. When cut in stone, V was easier to cut, and sto
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by demetrius 4y ago
The program is fun, but I'd like it more if it spelled place names correctly. I've tried building road from Lutetia to Olyssipo (which are totally correct spellings), and the program didn't accept it. The program wants me to
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by demetrius 4y ago
When EasyRPG Editor will be ready (that's a big "when", of course), it will feature improvements over the original RM2k3. Most likely this will include other graphics sizes (Ghabry had already made an experimental branch for
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by demetrius 4y ago
> Plej verŝajne, neniu el vi ĉi tie komprenos ĉi tiun mesaĝon Vi ne estas tiom unika, kiom vi pensas ;) You're not as unique as you think ;) > Jes, mi jam pruvis, ke la lingvo povas esti uzita en teĥnikaj konceptoj. Ĉiuj lingvoj
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by demetrius 4y ago
While this looks like something our government really could have done, it's interesting to note that Zerkalo.io could not verify that piece of news: https://news.zerkalo.io/life/14489.html
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by demetrius 4y ago
> I give permission to IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil. I thought this was a funny joke. Then I read “IBM and the Holocaust”.
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by demetrius 5y ago
Snap server is closed-source (unless anything has changed?), so I believe this is more likely to be a nefarious intent to create a dependency on their service (which Canonical can monetize later) than a mere dysfunction
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by demetrius 5y ago
> Makes me wonder, though, is there enough space in unicode to just encode every possibly 16x16 bitmap? Space is not an issue here. You can do with very few characters, just make them combine with each other, like ˩˥ is encoded as ˩+˥,
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by demetrius 5y ago
Do you have an option of transferring the ownership to someone out of Russia? Maybe even find a co-author for the blog I don't know what's the Mailchimp policy on this, but that's a path I would try. Of course, that would req
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by demetrius 5y ago
It's sad that Unicode doesn't include flags for dissolved countries. If it did, reversing an US flag would make a Soviet Union flag (code SU). This would make the text much more fun
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by demetrius 5y ago
> why was it ever acceptable to transliterate the Sanskrit into Chinese I'd say it wasn't transliteration, it was just writing. Sanskrit was written with local script throughout the world. Unlike some other languages, which hav
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by demetrius 5y ago
Hybernation.
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by demetrius 5y ago
> I was convinced that all these traps had been designed to keep outsiders out, and to allow people to show their level of education While this is not the original reason, this is one of the reasons not to change things. For example, ‘di
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by demetrius 5y ago
> Now, my biggest complaints are around i3 and X11. I get some flickering I've started experiencing flickering in non-compositing window managers on Arch a few months ago (I mainly use Openbox, although I've tried dwm too) afte
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by demetrius 5y ago
I wonder why 'My native land' gets translated with flags for American Samoa and Somalia.
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by demetrius 5y ago
Except white horses. White horses are not horses at all (at least according to Gongsun Long)
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by demetrius 5y ago
> offline and some library has some version issue with your proprietary licensed language How is this different from any proprietary book about a freely-licensed language? If you're in a remote farm in Nebraska and you only have a c
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by demetrius 5y ago
> can I please have a logical language Does Lojban fit the bill?
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by demetrius 5y ago
I believe Cyrillic а and Latin а are different because there already existed legacy encodings where а and а were considered different characters, so Unicode kept the distinction for backward-compatibility. While there were no existing legac
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by demetrius 5y ago
Mono developers have been part of Microsoft for some time already. And it's unlikely that Mono will become a viable alternative, since there's a conflict of interests: Microsoft wouldn't want you running arbitrary .NET applic
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by demetrius 5y ago
Thanks for the explanation! > Will all GTK3 apps port to GTK4 and libadwaita? Probably the GNOME ones will, but other apps might not I have a question. Does it make sense to start new apps with GTK3? E.g. if I want my app to look at home
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by demetrius 5y ago
> If you don't have a compositor don't use adwaita... Can I? I haven't been following GTK+4, but GTK3 managed to break every theme except Adwaita, and the developers were pretty clear that having themes is not a priority f
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by demetrius 5y ago
Strangely enough, I feel Esperanto is more similar to smaller natural languages. My experience with Esperanto is similar to my experience with Belarusian. Although my great-grandmother spoke Belarusian as her first language, this transmissi

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