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by z500 7mo ago
We don't have dedicated QA at my job, but personally I'm thrilled when a coworker finds a bug in my code. It's much more preferable to the customer finding it
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by z500 7mo ago
The only problem with that is the vast number of declensions. Sure they're not as wildly divergent as, say Latin or Ancient Greek, and there's no gender, but because of all the cases there's a lot of subtle variations to reme
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by z500 7mo ago
Like that scene in Hot Fuzz where they go out to talk to the farmer about cutting his neighbor's hedge, and they need a translator for the translator
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by z500 7mo ago
> A circadian clock must be self-sustained and internally driven, as the 20-hour cycle of the jellies’ spawning is. It must also be regulated by an environmental stimulus such as light; while the jellies’ spawning clock can run on a 20-h
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by z500 7mo ago
It's not just media files. I'm forced to use Windows 11 on my work PC, and I had to disable the new shell extensions to make the file explorer usable again. It's noticeably faster without the new UI.
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by z500 7mo ago
Any time I have to use the Internet without an ad blocker it's truly shocking how absolutely lousy everything is with ads
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by z500 7mo ago
Everyone uses grammar. What you're describing is elitism and elevating one particular dialect above all others.
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by z500 7mo ago
That's just centuries of change without updating spelling, a la Leicester or Worcester.
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by z500 7mo ago
I've been taking a look at my sound change applier again. I've been trying to add syllable detection to it so that I can match directly on syllable boundaries instead of having to match on them explicitly in my sound change rules.
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by z500 8mo ago
You're right, this right here is the typical HN comment.
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by z500 9mo ago
> I recall going to Reddit in like 2010-2012, back when there was pretty much only college kids on it, and the posts were often witty and interesting. Well, there was also narwhal bacon and Streetlamp Le Moose.
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by z500 9mo ago
Is it a lost art or does nobody do it more than they have to because it was always such bear?
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by z500 10mo ago
What terminology should we be using? Old Chinese reconstructions on Wiktionary always look so wildly divergent to me.
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by z500 10mo ago
I think the confusion here is in the placement of the vowels. おお and おう do sound identical when pronounced as a single unit, but the おう in 小売 (こ.うり) isn't a single unit, it's just a お that happens to be next to a う
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by z500 10mo ago
> Also, frustrating that people have somehow landed in a place where they either trust nothing or trust everything, with no ability to calibrate based on the actual track record and incentive structure of the source. I don't read ce
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by z500 10mo ago
It's a different kind of math from the continuous math they teach in school. Personally I found it a lot more intuitive. Like it wasn't the easiest thing ever, but I did better than I thought I would.
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by z500 11mo ago
It's half dead bacteria, it's not supposed to smell like a bed of roses.
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by z500 11mo ago
My personal collection got so big I started forgetting what was in it lol. I had to write a program to catalog everything and present a directory tree of genre combinations with FUSE
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by z500 11mo ago
The new context menu is so awful. There is zero reason in this day and age for a context menu to take multiple seconds to pop up. They didn't even really improve on it in any meaningful way.
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by z500 11mo ago
I got so frustrated with how slow the file explorer got after my work laptop updated. Turns out the new UI is just shell extensions, if you add registry keys to redirect them to non-existent paths you get the old file explorer back.
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by z500 11mo ago
How is that going to help? It's still dog slow even after running all day.
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by z500 11mo ago
What's wrong with baking?
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by z500 11mo ago
On my 5 year old work laptop it was so bad it was nearly unusable. I found that disabling the shell extensions they used to implement the new file explorer UI helped a lot with that.
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by z500 11mo ago
If you ignore the spaces, the only real difference between German and English compound nouns are the infixes between elements to show bracketing. Case in point: Nomenkompositum
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by z500 11mo ago
As an F# lover my heart sank at that "it turned out" at first. I'm glad someone got to live the dream somewhere haha
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by z500 11mo ago
I also had it stop working completely. I thought they finally wised up to my adblocker, but I decided to finally install that update I had been sitting on for a while and it just started working again
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by z500 11mo ago
It looks like this isn't an actual translator, it's just transcribing the consonants into uniliteral hieroglyphs.
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by z500 11mo ago
> For example, one format I use is just to concatenate multiple files into a single one, I use it to group video timeline seeker images into one file - it is faster than using archive or tar/gzip I did something like this when I was
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by z500 11mo ago
Except it didn't get those Germanic qualities by borrowing them from German, it got them by shared heritage.
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by z500 11mo ago
I played around with Squeak this summer and made a few demos of showing how inserts and removals work in binary search trees and B-trees. I also wrote a tree-walking Smalltalk interpreter in F# and an implementation of the game of life for

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