mkotowski

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by mkotowski 5y ago
Having MathML being XML based plays rather nicely with both HTML and SVG. And I am saying that while not being exactly a fan of XML-based formats. > The initial vision of MathML was that people would write it in a WYSIWYG editor (since i
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> As promised, after a short break, we have also renewed our work on upstreaming MathML-Core in Chromium. […] You can try these for yourself in Chrome canary by enabling experimental web platform features. Finally! The lack of MathML sup
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Interestingly enough, the syntax of this reinvented CSS reminds me of an old style sheet language proposal created by Bert Bos in March 1995 [0]: ``` […] id: !ID language: !LANG *target: !ID ! Create a default margin of 3 em ! HTML.leftin
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by mkotowski 5y ago
From the front page: > We've decided to develop Assembler CSS as a reaction to the current state of the ecosystem, not just as a solution to our company's needs. I cannot comment on the company’s internal needs but, to be hones
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Which in this case is doubly ironic, because pirates and buccaneers were exactly the group that had kept the slave trade alive even after it was officially banned in many places, if my limited knowledge on the Atlantic slave trade is correc
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by mkotowski 5y ago
It would be quite ironic if, after all those changes, the words “primary” and “secondary” would simply become the synonyms of “master” and “slave”. And it wouldn’t be even that improbable, in my opinion at least. In the end, in many languag
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by mkotowski 5y ago
To be fair, even if all the software would be open source, one can not simply have both time and mastery level required to improve the programs one uses.
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Seems to be the deliberate choice to delay automatic update for now. From the release notes: > Thunderbird version 91.0 is only offered as direct download from thunderbird.net and not as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 78 or earlier.
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by mkotowski 5y ago
I sometimes wonder how much there could be done for people in need of an actual form of help if all that energy to change unrelated words because someone is triggered by them went into a more useful endeavor. And beyond that, maybe it is be
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by mkotowski 5y ago
I am trying to say that over eagerness in searching for a crime where there is none could cause more damage than it is worth. Those committing the crimes would quickly switch to other methods, but those innocent would be caught by accident.
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by mkotowski 5y ago
I have no idea how it works in other countries, but in Poland there are publicly accessible `.csv` files with data about names and surnames in the PESEL system (the ID assigned to people with Polish citizenship) since its creation. A double
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Yes, I read the article. All I said is that while Bitcoin resolves some issues, its use presents many more.
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> The risk she perceives with Apple is that they will falsely accuse people of crime. In my country, there was not so long ago a case of a person wrongly accused of murder[0]. He spent 18 years in prison, despite there being no convincin
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by mkotowski 5y ago
On the other hand, using Bitcoin means that there is no realistic protection against theft and unavoidable mistakes. Maintaining a business without a way to correct mistakes and any kind of protection against scams seems to be hard to imple
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by mkotowski 5y ago
From my own experience: search for blogs of favorite writers, observe aggregate sites like Hacker News and Reddit for authors with a style that resonates with you (subreddits of niche topics are often surprisingly rich in a good content), s
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Ironically, I think that in this case, an RSS reader being an electron app wouldn’t be so unreasonable. Especially if the content is on the more interactive side. Although, a bigger focus on security would be required toward the scripted co
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by mkotowski 5y ago
For websites without an RSS feed, you can try to generate one using self-hosting RSS Bridge[1]. There are some instances with open access, though supposedly some may work more reliably than others. [1]: https://github.com/RS
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by mkotowski 5y ago
To be honest, I am still missing the point of the article. Let's compare emails and RSS: both are protocols, and both depend on the additional tools to make them more use-friendly (at least, I doubt if anybody reads raw RSS feeds). The
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by mkotowski 5y ago
> When I hear other people get common but foreign names […] wrong, I grimace too. To be honest, this seems as one of the worst ways to handle such situations. Feeling distraught over an imprecise pronunciation feels like something to get
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Less common than it used to be, but still happens. Mostly when writing in a hurry (of course without auto-correction turned on) or interacting with older systems and applications. Also, it is so rare to use Polish letters in a URL, that if
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by mkotowski 5y ago
I wouldn't be so strict with it to be honest — it is still a rule that is internally consistent, and as far as I know it lacks any significant exceptions.
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by mkotowski 5y ago
It is quite funny, because when I was learning English, it was so bizarre that the first-person pronoun was only one letter (putting aside the required capitalization). On the other hand, having to write and instead of i still seems qui
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by mkotowski 5y ago
Also, if we are talking about aspiration, word-initial p and t are also left un-aspirated in Polish, contrary to many (most?) English dialects.
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Wszystko and Lewandowski both are subjected to the same principle, namely: in Polish consonant clusters, including across a word boundary, the obstruents are all voiced or all voiceless.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by mkotowski 5y ago
To elaborate on ⟨ł⟩ – there is quite a good reason for the way it is spelled. Originally, its pronunciation was /ɫ/ (“dark l” in English) so it was very close to /l/ in sound quality. It evolved to /w/ over tim