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901.
by msla 3y ago
Similar is the distinction between reasons and excuses: The words are synonyms, except to the extent an excuse is a reason I don't like.
902.
by msla 3y ago
So you aren't paelo, I take it?
903.
by msla 3y ago
"Worse Is Better" is elegiac, but it can also come across as a whine: "Those dumb users can't see Quality, they can only see Done, so they ignore my Beatific Solution in favor of some New Jersey Code that isn't near
904.
by msla 3y ago
I'd prefer a font that clearly differentiates between 'ﬀ' (the single-codepoint Unicode ligature) and 'ff' (a pair of 'f' characters).
905.
by msla 3y ago
Yeah, the whole point of Seinfeld was the point of No Exit : If these were better people, they could leave their Hell and move on, but they're not, so they're stuck with each other. For them, "Hell is other people" in t
906.
by msla 3y ago
POST as in Power-On Self Test.
907.
by msla 3y ago
Tolerating disease means dooming some people to die. I know that's popular among some political groups, but it is still inhuman.
908.
by msla 3y ago
If you think you're going to get rid of filler, you're in for a big disappointment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_(linguistics) > In linguistics, a filler, filled pause, hesitation marker or planner
909.
by msla 3y ago
Well, here's something in it I like: > Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners. ―Jonathan Swift Yes, there are places where you can't be yourself
910.
by msla 3y ago
Do you have anything to add?
911.
by msla 3y ago
The death of the small town seems like it was fore-ordained by simple economics. In big cities, you can afford to have businesses like restaurants that aren't Sysco retail outlets, movie theaters that show more than the five most popul
912.
by msla 3y ago
> They mention directly that they collected eggs from the coup. And if they thanked their chickens more often, the chickens wouldn't have staged a coup.
913.
by msla 3y ago
But, see, a number of people hate systemd, so that Doesn't Count. Even if their cron does...
914.
by msla 3y ago
Through a little playing around, I figured it out: My Alt actually is a Meta key, in that it sets the high bit. Convert the resulting eight-bit value to UTF-8 and you get the observed behavior: 'a' is 0x61 (0b01100001) and 'á
915.
by msla 3y ago
vi doesn't have a good extension language. ( Actual vi doesn't have any extension language, but even Vim lags seriously in this realm.)
916.
by msla 3y ago
Interestingly, on my Linux setup, Alt-a gets me this for left and right Alt: á Ubuntu 22.04 I set up PrtSc as a compose key and have an .XCompose file, but that still works.
917.
by msla 3y ago
Working link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/27/stuart-little-...
918.
by msla 3y ago
> Clearly, Esperanto is a prescribed language. So prescribed languages do exist and political forces can shape languages, you just don't think that happens with English. You're misreading me: I'm saying that English didn&#
919.
by msla 3y ago
Orwell wasn't a linguist, so his ideas about language are suspect. Linguists study languages as natural things because that's how it works: Humans speak, humans change how they speak, and language evolves, whereas "Newspeak&q
920.
by msla 3y ago
> Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes. That's what language is. That's how language works. I love Orwell, but he was flat wr
921.
by msla 3y ago
> It's difficult to see how a game that's all about shooting Nazis in the face and then killing Hitler could be seen as glorifying Nazism, but hey. Because censors only want control, and if they can get that by doing something
922.
by msla 3y ago
Because their publicity is more important than feeding the hungry.
923.
by msla 3y ago
You can make it rigorous again by studying nonstandard analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonstandard_analysis
924.
by msla 3y ago
I'm surprised you didn't have any Battlefield Earth clips for the Dutch Angle.
925.
by msla 3y ago
What a great way to see the bias play out in real time.
926.
by msla 3y ago
> There's no way z/OS is going to be free or open-source (if for no other reason than if they open sourced it, you'd still need a mainframe, which means you're going to pay IBM for cloud time) This is probably why IBM
927.
by msla 3y ago
A review written by a human who didn't use the product is fake, a fortiori a review written by a non-human that doesn't use any products is fake.
928.
by msla 3y ago
I mean, you'd have expected that of Solaris and Sun's hardware, too, but that didn't make Solaris on Sun workstations compelling enough to actually survive. That argument seems like a variation on one of the myths mentioned i
929.
by msla 3y ago
> Is it compelling? Not sure - depends on licensing terms, co-location costs, what are you doing, energy costs, AND compute power. It seems like Linux always wins in terms of licensing, so does it currently lose in any of those metrics?
930.
by msla 3y ago
I don't know why AIX would be compelling. Isn't it just another proprietary Unix?

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