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901.
by knolax 7y ago
Why can't we just write names as "Smith, John" when it's in the Asian order and "John Smith" or "John·Smith" if its in the Western order? It would remove all the ambiguity using already existing conve
902.
by knolax 7y ago
I think for Syngman Rhee the reason he is known that way in English is because he spent a significant amount of his life living in the US and interacting with Americans; In America the convention followed by most people with Asian names is
903.
by knolax 7y ago
Personally I always found using icons as defeating the whole point of using a terminal; One of the primary reasons I prefer terminal UIs over GUIs is that I don't have to decipher a bunch of strange hieroglyphs.
904.
by knolax 7y ago
IIRC precomposed hangul syllables are in Unicode[0]( although I'm not sure if the precomposed characters are the canonical form or not) so you would likely apply the same functions on the precomposed hangul block as you you would for b
905.
by knolax 7y ago
Your comment isn't nearly as clever or original as you think it is.
906.
by knolax 7y ago
Arguing that point with a fictional novel seems incredibly opaque, inefficient, and sometimes disingenuous.
907.
by knolax 7y ago
The Census collects racial information that most people answer with responses they believe to be truthful. IIRC in WW2 it was used to identify Japanese-Americans for internment.
908.
by knolax 7y ago
>actually look at the applications. So that they can infer the same "adverse conditions" and call it a holisitc process like they do now?
909.
by knolax 7y ago
More ants live in anthills than in the wild.
910.
by knolax 7y ago
In my experience, pollution has been inversely correlated with outbreak of pollen allergies. However, that could just be caused by polluted environments simply having fewer trees.
911.
by knolax 7y ago
> It legitimately took me 5 years to get really good and I still sometimes cut myself I feel like that some people (myself included at times) just like to develop skills with a steep learning curve regardless of how much benefit it actua
912.
by knolax 7y ago
Not knowing what Gore-Tex I thought it was a TeX variant for the vision impaired. According to Wikipedia: "Gore-Tex is a waterproof, breathable fabric membrane and registered trademark of W. L. Gore and Associates."
913.
by knolax 7y ago
It used to be that you could mention the word meme in the Dawkinsian sense without it being conflated with funny internet pictures. Ironically, the concept of a meme is itself a very weak meme.
914.
by knolax 7y ago
>There is no state in the country that deserves to lose its most productive citizens and go bankrupt as much as California. I'm genuinely curious as to why there is so much rancor towards California in this forum? Could you explain
915.
by knolax 7y ago
I just looked at the Terminus project page[0] and I'm really impressed that they seem to have run an entire linux emulator in the browser just to show off a terminal. [0] https://eugeny.github.io/terminus/
916.
by knolax 7y ago
It's so bad it's good?
917.
by knolax 7y ago
>"following a pattern called the reverse boustrophedon. Boustrophedon is a Greek word meaning “in the manner of an ox,” and scripts written in it move like an ox plowing a field, reversing direction with each line." Some day a
918.
by knolax 8y ago
I thought it was about Canon the printer company.
919.
by knolax 8y ago
As a Vim user one of my gripes when first using Vim was how cumbersome the built in help files were. I guess that's why there are so many "vim cheatsheets" out there, the built in documentation is a pain to use.
920.
by knolax 8y ago
The comments below mention Sapir-Whorf but personally as a bilingual person I think Sapir-Whorf is a load of bull. It's not so much that the languages themselves are fundamentally different but the literary canons/oral traditions
921.
by knolax 8y ago
It's inspirational to see speakers of a minority language adopt modern technical terminology to their language. Every language is a unique perspective; the death of a language through irrelevancy leaves entire groups without the abilit
922.
by knolax 8y ago
Same, Firefox on Arch
923.
by knolax 8y ago
I appreciate codifying it in a document, but most of the rules listed are taught (at least implicitly) in middle school.
924.
by knolax 8y ago
Hertz is a car rental company in North America that hired Accenture to redesign their website. The redesign was bad so Hertz broke off the contract and sued Accenture.
925.
by knolax 8y ago
Does it require ncurses?
926.
by knolax 8y ago
I think it's a natural consequence of having the front page being made up of a bunch of general interest stories that aren't strictly tech related.
927.
by knolax 8y ago
>Japanoid Given my experience with these outside "scholars" of my own culture, I'm going to go with the Japanese consensus. Often what these people claim as "objectivity" is actually just ignorance that they mask
928.
by knolax 8y ago
>I don't know much about the history of Japan, but it seems to have been inhabited by non-Japanese/Chinese and then the Chinese ancestors of Japanese conquered the land. If anyone knows details I'm interested. That's
929.
by knolax 8y ago
What were they doing with it before if it wasn't publically available?
930.
by knolax 8y ago
It's more likely to be a human testing something than a bot. TBF, this comment and the replies were more interesting than any of the on topic comments or the article itself.

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