ronjakoi

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by ronjakoi 1y ago
For those who speak strong English, yes
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by ronjakoi 1y ago
Single-syllable words can still be pretty long, like "squished" or "scrambled"
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by ronjakoi 1y ago
English is the only language I know of that allows spaces in compound words at all. It's a very peculiar feature of English orthography.
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by ronjakoi 1y ago
I think it's about the simulation and agency that video games afford the consumer.
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by ronjakoi 1y ago
Too bad no one will be able to read it. Better make it a video essay.
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by ronjakoi 1y ago
Proton is available for desktop Steam as well, just pick your distro and go.
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by ronjakoi 1y ago
If by SC2 you mean Star Craft 2, that's a bit too recent for me. We used to play Quake 2, Red Alert, Diablo 2.
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by ronjakoi 1y ago
Me and my nerd friends had LAN parties in somebody's garage etc. I really miss those sometimes.
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by ronjakoi 1y ago
Perhaps I, as the author of this article, could have also been more careful with the terminology.
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by ronjakoi 1y ago
But you can just use the "step out" feature to get back out when you realise you've gone into a library function. Or "step over" when you can see you're about to go into one.
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Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)(w3c.github.io)
2 points by ronjakoi 1y ago|0 comments
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by ronjakoi 2y ago
> But 27-bit hash codes were too big: with 2^15 words, they needed 2^15 * 27 bits of memory, while the PDP-11 had only 2^15 * 16 bits (64kB) of RAM—compression was essential. I'm frustrated when people put this kind of typography on
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by ronjakoi 2y ago
I hope the folding and normalization is configurable by language. I really hate it when some search decides that a and ä are the same letter. In Finnish they really aren't; "saari" is an island, "sääri" is the lower
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Tuxera: An Etymology(hermoraun.io)
1 points by ronjakoi 2y ago|1 comments
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by ronjakoi 2y ago
This is an interesting linguistic rabbithole about my former employer's name, for no particular reason.
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by ronjakoi 2y ago
Cheap travel is a horrible thing for the world. Mass tourism has destroyed a lot.
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by ronjakoi 2y ago
What are es and rc? Can you give some links?
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by ronjakoi 2y ago
It's common practice to open the socket to start listening on the <1024 port, then drop the root privileges and continue as a different user.
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by ronjakoi 2y ago
I can assure you, shipyards here in Finland are just as, if not more, unionized.
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by ronjakoi 2y ago
Can you please explain what you mean by employee attrition to a non-native English speaker?
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by ronjakoi 2y ago
It's called Linux From Scratch.