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by petecox 8y ago
It would work better on poetry, where skilled translators themselves are poets and do seek to match up the verses; in parallel texts I own.
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by petecox 8y ago
There's definitely something strange with that text. Maybe it's individual metadata for Sherlock Holmes - when I tried Spanish to English worked on a different book it worked ok.
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by petecox 8y ago
Well as someone else commented, the source material is likely from Project Gutenberg, so a long out of copyright translation is perhaps expected. On the other hand, Cervantes and Shakespeare were contemporaries, so I think it enhances readi
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by petecox 8y ago
I find the OCAML-inspired option types in F# and Scala more aesthetically pleasing but the author mentions in a previous post why C# wouldn't implement them.
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by petecox 8y ago
Alpine will have a growing catalogue of software for phone and tablet as the popularity of postmarketOS increases.
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by petecox 8y ago
The Lumia 950/XL were the last hurrah for the platform, so one can hardly blame Continuum for the demise of Windows on phones.
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by petecox 8y ago
The beauty of English is the process of 'verbing', where we can turn arbitrary nouns into verbs. Schooled in Commonwealth English, I wasn't familiar with buffalo being used as a verb but others in this thread have cited its m
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by petecox 8y ago
That's a Chrome OS device. So what is preventing OEMs from releasing a Chrome OS phone which runs both Android apps and desktop Linux apps out of the box without this Dex/Canonical vendor-specific solution?
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by petecox 8y ago
In Australia (which has 2 chambers - 1 under this system and the other proportional): It is very difficult for a 3rd voice to gain traction. A party which has attracted over 10% nationwide for the past 2 decades, Greens, has exactly 1 seat
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by petecox 8y ago
I'd have suggested planting more sugar maples as a carbon sink but climate change is impacting the production of maple syrup: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/t...
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by petecox 8y ago
A few weeks ago MS suspended development of Office for UWP, so unlikely.
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by petecox 8y ago
Usted(es) is a more modern invention. Ladino does have vos, which survives in some varieties, e.g. Argentine.
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by petecox 8y ago
> I don't mind if an application I explicitly launched as an application asks to make Bluetooth connections The security model for a desktop-installable 'app' is a superset of a webpage. Or at least it was in Firefox OS, w
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The Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish(bbc.com)
2 points by petecox 8y ago|0 comments
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Building a standalone IPA keyboard(michaelhoward.kiwi)
1 points by petecox 8y ago|0 comments
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by petecox 8y ago
The ability to run foreign software is a goal even Google embraces with their support for Android apps and 'Linux' within their Chrome OS sandboxes. (If you're asking why Windows in the first place, well that is another dis
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by petecox 8y ago
You mention a lack of hosting but would it, optionally, browser-sync? I use a web interface, The Old Reader, to access feeds from 4 devices. Whichever I'm using at the time knows which articles have been marked as read; without using a
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by petecox 8y ago
I'm posting using a wireless mouse and USB keyboard from my Android desktop, a 4K tv box. Android does support mouse input; Apple can at any time release a typecover for iPad with a trackpad. They choose not to.
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by petecox 8y ago
A naming that encodes its own pronunciation is genius. 'Linux' was non obvious to the point that Linus issued his own voice recording. 'gif' vs 'jif' for the image format, etc.
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by petecox 8y ago
I wouldn't call it a hard fork, more a downstream derivative. In a similar way, Ubuntu rebases itself on debian unstable every 6 months or so. That is to say Duval based his product on whichever LineageOS release was 'current&#x27
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by petecox 8y ago
Sounds like Halium with a dose of Anbox.
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by petecox 8y ago
> /e/ is not obviously pronounceable On the contrary, it's a scientific notation for a specific pronunciation of the letter e. /e/ represents in linguistics an unrounded closed-mid front vowel. https:/&#x2F
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by petecox 8y ago
The software needs some sort of vendor polish. Let's not repeat the mistake of OpenMoko, where its utility as a basic phone had its problems, thrown over the wall for the community to fix.
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by petecox 8y ago
In this way, Apple can manufacture 4G and wifi-only iPads by omitting this component on the latter.
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by petecox 8y ago
I am typing this on a 3GB amlogic s912 streaming box, with ports for USB type A, ethernet and 4K HDMI. Performance for around $40 is what you would expect from a smartphone, albeit the quirks of Android with a mouse and/or tv remote. T
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by petecox 8y ago
Consistency across products - their PureOS runs Gnome. c.f. Canonical running Unity on desktop and phone.
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by petecox 8y ago
Not as well as ginger ninja or fanta pants. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw
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by petecox 8y ago
The blue SJ territory between Greenland and Russia is Svalbard, part of Norway. (not a bug in the map!) It's not part of the Schengen zone, so will allow people to enter visa free but presumably you need visitor rights to the country y
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by petecox 8y ago
Jolla have a collaboration with Sony to get Sailfish OS running on their Xperia phones. However, Sailfish is available only as a post market firmware. Being a derivative work of AOSP courtesy of libhybris, it would seem Sony are prevented f
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by petecox 8y ago
The apps are typically installed to a read-only System partition. With 'root' access, it's possible to remove them via a superuser app or adb - or it used to be the case.

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