mcswell

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by mcswell 7y ago
"almost EVERY command was available in this way [= via the ribbon]" Surely you're joking, Mr. NotTheDro1ds! Afaict, relatively few of Word's commands are exposed in the ribbon; look for example at the long list of addi
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by mcswell 7y ago
They might also be outnumbered by the ones who detest the ribbon but stay silent. (That's not me, obviously...)
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by mcswell 7y ago
"the semi-random arrangement of cryptic menus and toolbars we had before." Well, yeah, if some program had a semi-random arrangement of cryptic menus, I guess that was bad. As I remember, Word's' arrangement was quite
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by mcswell 7y ago
I tried that today. We moved to the new Outlook 365, and it had a bunch of useless (to me) dividers when I sorted by date that said "today" and "yesterday" etc. I wanted to get rid of them, so I asked the search box &q
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by mcswell 7y ago
"discoverability for more uncommon icons since they now had labels." This is like what my father used to say about hitting yourself over the head with a 2-by-4; it felt so good when you stopped. Icons are good if they have a menu
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by mcswell 7y ago
I'm confused. 'cut' works just fine for me in the Windows Terminal: ------- > echo $SHELL /bin/bash > echo "foo bar" | cut -f 1 -d ' ' foo ------ I'm using the WSL Ubuntu bash. Could
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by mcswell 7y ago
Interesting, I hadn't seen that. Does it handle phonologically-conditioned allomorphy or inflection classes? Stem allomorphy conditioned by phonology or position in the paradigm (like the stem allomorphs of the Spanish verbs 'te
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by mcswell 7y ago
For morphology (esp. languages with complicated morphologies, like Berber), the tool that most computational linguists reach for is finite state transducers, particularly those that are built for use in morphology and phonology. An early o
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by mcswell 7y ago
For many people, Toolbox has long since been replaced by SIL's Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx). Toolbox allows you to get inconsistent representations of lexemes; FLEx effectively prevents that. OTOH, if you're doing s.t. ot
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by mcswell 7y ago
IIUC, most people here are talking about hacking the keyboard itself. Another option is to hack the mapping of key presses to emitted codes, at the OS level. Windows allows you to do this using the SetWindowsHookEx() process. I set this
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by mcswell 7y ago
I worked on an AI program in the 80s that is perhaps the only program from that era that's still being used. I got hired in 1984 into the AI group at Boeing Computer Services (neither the AI group nor BCS exists any more, and yes, it w
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by mcswell 7y ago
Apart from your final sentence, which is just weird, I don't see these as contradictions. Seldom does anyone agree 100% with someone else (mathematicians might be an exception), so one could reasonably consider the IPCC to be reliable
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by mcswell 7y ago
There are no such subsidies; the subsidies are on the side of solar, wind, etc. There was a claim awhile back that fossil fuels were somehow subsidized in the sense of "externals" (e.g. government pays their militaries to protect
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by mcswell 7y ago
I made my first internet (or was it arpanet?) purchase in about 1986, using Usenet. Usenet had for-sale listings, subdivided by region; I was working at Boeing Computer Services (part of Boeing, but a part that no longer exists), and had U
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by mcswell 7y ago
"Oh, God. I've lost him. And I never told him anything. I just wasn't ready, Marcus. Five minutes would have been enough." --Henry Jones, Sr. (five minutes, not 30-60!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np4
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by mcswell 7y ago
We've printed several grammars of languages south Asia from PDFs, and we've also used the PDFs in the absence of the printed grammars. Some of these languages use the Arabic script, generally the nasta'liq version. The Arab
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by mcswell 7y ago
FWIW, some (most? all? the one's I've heard, at any rate) Spanish dialects pronounce the letter 'f' as a voiceless bilabial fricative (I almost wrote 'phricative'). E.g. fotografia (sorry about the missing acc
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by mcswell 7y ago
My Prius has manual controls for the A/C, but I get confused anyway...and, I think, for good reason. What I have: There's one button that toggles A/C on/off; when it's on, a green LED glows in the button (the button
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by mcswell 7y ago
It's possible that one or two of the torpedoes hit and was a dud at Midway, but the real problems were the slow speed of the torpedo planes, the need to drop the torpedoes at an even slower speed, the maneuverability of the Japanese ca
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by mcswell 8y ago
As a handful of other people have said here, the Bible. It changed my life (although who knows what I would have become if I hadn't read it). Eventually, I decided that if it made such a difference in my life, I should be part of mak