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by troad 3y ago
With respect, you seem to be the one struggling to let this one go. In two short comments you've accused me of: fulminating, not being constructive, posting against site rules, picking fights on the internet, posting ad hominem attacks
812.
by troad 3y ago
> There’s need to act like this and your comment doesn’t contribute anything to the discussion. Does yours? I mean that in earnest, not as a dig. You're posting legal analysis without even rudimentary legal knowledge, and I think th
813.
by troad 3y ago
It's kind of wild to see someone confidently posting legal analysis while obviously lacking an understanding of - uh - precedent.
814.
by troad 3y ago
Is that really more suspenseful? Seems like you're turning something genuinely stochastic into hackneyed fiction. Worse for humanity, sure, but hardly more suspenseful.
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by troad 3y ago
I'm no dogmatic, soapbox-spewin' free software acolyte, but at this point using Windows just feels somehow degrading. It's like a bad night in Vegas. Like being trapped inside the Daily Mail. Thank God for all of you free sof
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by troad 3y ago
No, because it is discredited pseudo-science.
817.
by troad 3y ago
I trained as a linguist and you hit the nail on the head. Word meanings are fuzzy clouds of references and nuances, and every language has slightly different clouds. There is nothing magical about this, despite the recurrent lizard-brain no
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by troad 3y ago
> I'm no Meta defender but I'm also very confused about what the legislators thought the law was supposed to do. Cui bono? The law was supposed to siphon funding from foreign companies to Canadian media, who the Canadian gove
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by troad 3y ago
> When you publish a work, you inherently grant permission for others to use it in various ways, including fair use and reuse This is conceptually backwards. In general, you have the right to do anything not constrained by law. Copyright
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by troad 3y ago
I direct newbies to Kubuntu; I've never had anyone struggle with using it - modern KDE is an incredibly intuitive experience - and any tech support is easy as they're pretty much on stock Ubuntu. Honestly I think a lot of newbie g
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by troad 3y ago
> Also am not talking about this as an absolute moral-ethical challenge. I find myself frustrated by devs perpetually talking about localisation as an impossible, semi-mystical 'gotchya' that causes untold cultural offence if m
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by troad 3y ago
I note the replies, but respectfully disagree that concatenation versus interpolation is in any way a meaningful distinction. Analysing “green house” as either “green”.concat(“ house”) or “{} {}”(green, house) is not meaningfully different,
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by troad 3y ago
I wish you guys the best, but I think you’re being a little self-congratulatory here. The first feature is not optional - it has been a feature of i18n systems since the 1990s, possibly earlier. I’ve seen cludged-together in-house solutions
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by troad 3y ago
> If you're concatenating sentence bits, you're doing it wrong. This is completely impractical for anything other than the most static content. Take the most basic line from any single imagined game. E.g. “Your [Abrams tank] ha
825.
by troad 3y ago
Fluent is terrible. I excitedly implemented it in my most recent app, and immediately ran into so many issues. 1) It can transclude variables in translation strings, but these variables cannot themselves be localised. This makes Fluent comp
826.
by troad 3y ago
There is a KDE theme called 'Expose', by the same person who made Reactionary, which looks like it might be what you're after. (For icons, there's a set called just called 'Windows XP').
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by troad 3y ago
I have a deep respect for Simone de Beauvoir, so I clicked this link with interest, but I cannot find anything interesting in this article. It reads like a cross between a Tumblr post and a freshman essay. The writing is stilted, and the li
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by troad 3y ago
I'm a big fan of this aesthetic. If you appreciate the usability of W95 without needing a pixel perfect copy, it's very easy to theme KDE to strike a really good balance. As your global theme, use 'Reactionary'. Set your
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by troad 3y ago
> Here's a better comparison. The moment I saw the article headline, I knew the comments would be full of people running defence with fuzzy claims of qualitative wellbeing. "Yes, our economy may objectively be underperforming
830.
by troad 3y ago
It has stopped working. It was using nitter. It's also not a great list. Igor Sushko, for example, is very susceptible to posting unverified things that later turn out to be false. A much better list is Noah Smith's at: https:&#x
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by troad 3y ago
I'm truly sorry to hear about Drew's experience over the past year. He's a good coder and a good voice. It's worth noting for those who may be unfamiliar that Drew has traditionally been quite opinionated, which I greatl
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by troad 3y ago
If you ever get the chance, I would highly recommend a visit to the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. There are many more vibrant images from Pompeii and Herculaneum preserved there. It's striking how lively some of the preserv
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by troad 3y ago
> At least now there are tower blocks getting built in London that are tall. Except they're expensive, get bought out by foreign investors. And then left empty. So they're not much help to anyone other than speculators and deve
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by troad 3y ago
Very strong agree re Discord. Quite apart from Drew's ideological reasons to oppose Discord, with which I quite agree, I also tend to find that (a) busy group chats are not a great way to coordinate software development, and (b) the ki
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by troad 3y ago
> The only required complexity for federation is choosing a server/instance. This is a bigger problem than fans of federation acknowledge, though. Human beings have multi-faceted identities, and fediverse instances tend to be quite
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by troad 3y ago
Strong agree. I'll willingly install a handful dependencies from my distro package manager, where the dependencies are battle-hardened Unixy tools and I can clearly see what they do and how they do it. I'm not going to install tho
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by troad 3y ago
Yes. 200%.
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by troad 3y ago
I don’t think I should have more of a right to buy a house there than anyone else, and I’m genuinely puzzled how you got that idea from my comment. I think housing should be sufficiently plentiful that everyone has the opportunity to make a
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by troad 3y ago
Same story here. I could not afford today to buy a house in the seaside neighbourhood I grew up in. Wealthy non-locals “discovered” it, snatched up all the housing, and promptly formed “Stop overdevelopment now!” lobbies, leeching off the l
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by troad 3y ago
> The designers either haven’t noticed or don’t care. You seem to be discounting the possibility that you’re subtly degrading their experience, sufficiently slowly that they’ve yet to revolt en masse. The blind spot of A/B testing i

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