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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Can one also ask "what can I say?" to find out what's available for Siri on tvOS, as on macOS, iOS, and watchOS?
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I guess that comes down to "because my EarPods came free with my phone; they're a high-enough quality experience for free" as opposed to having to actually go out of their way to research and pay for audiophile stuff. I mean,
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
The "this is what they wanted" argument is always something that rings alarm bells in my head; it sounds like the "it's a slippery slope" wolf in sheep's clothing.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
That depends heavily on your idea of elegance. Even if the French say they ignore the Académie Française, the really is that their pronouncements carry a lot of weight since those enter the language through the public education curriculum.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I'm generally suspicious of anybody making long-form video essays on YouTube about such subjects. Unless they were in the industry, I tend to believe I'm merely having a Wikipedia article and perhaps a few interviews, taken from b
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> Why is what Latin did relevant for French in the 21st century? Scholars have always gone back to Latin to influence modern language. Most technological, scientific, and plenty of engineering terms, for instance, derive either from Lati
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Doesn't sound too unlike the (now-closed) one in Napier and the one in Wellington that seems like nobody's actually there until you look right down the back.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Would anybody be able to provide a summary? I find the narrator's intonation unbearably forced and unnatural, such that I don't feel like listening to it non-stop for 21 minutes. Scorn me, berate me, and downvote me if you will; b
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I wonder if the Académie is insisting on following correct etymology. A lot of people are saying 'docteure' as a feminised form of 'docteur'; yet, if you go back to the Latin 'doctor', derived from 'doceo&
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Yes, but that's rather besides the point. It's not the fact that it's Tetris in a terminal; it's also the fact that it's minified code. Look at the GIF on the Github page; that's the code of the game.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Trouble is that there is no chicken alive capable of expressing with out a single trace of ambiguity such an intention.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
It doesn't sound genderless to me, it sounds like something that just fails to be both male or female. What I actually find the weirdest is when my ears hear female, it hears something British or South African. When my ears hear male,
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Fair dues to Office Max in New Zealand, they aren't like this. Instead, I get treated with cold indifference. To be honest, I find it preferable; if I'm going into a stationery/office supplies store, I know for what reason I&
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Indeed. I don't think Apple would open source Foundation, App Kit, UI Kit, and a bunch of other things; that by itself precludes inclusion with Swift. Aside from that, a lot of those things rely on the full version of Core Foundation i
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> the point of using swift is to be faster than Python There are plenty of other compelling reasons to prefer Swift over Python such as its type system or its easy, somewhat native, integration with existing Swift, Objective-C, and C fra
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Yeah, UIKit and SpriteKit will never come to other platforms. They constitute part of iOS' and macOS' competitive advantage. Swift's progress also has little to bear on that front as UIKit and SpriteKit are written in C, Obje
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I'm glad to see you're receptive to the shortcomings, not only in accessibility but other fields. In a world of arrogant GTK+ developers, it's refreshing not to be told "lol no, shut up".
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
For people who don't have any particular accessibility needs, time will tell. For those of us who do, time has told us again and again and again and again and again , and we're kinda sick of time telling us to just hold t
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Far too many of these sorts of toolkits are planning to make accessibility a thing when systems' native toolkits do it out of the box and integrate well with integrated and commercial accessibility software. For these projects, accessi
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
This would be an especially pronounced problem on a small form factor when your hand has so much more … edge … to accidentally touch. It's why I don't quite understand the Galaxy Edge.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Playing devil's advocate: Qt and GTK I could see being seen as 'cartoonish' because the default themes on many distributions are fat, shiny, bubbly, and look like they firmly belong in the 2000s. Cocoa, maybe because of the v
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Freedom of speech applies to not being oppressed for saying something in contradiction with the values of the current government. In no way does New Zealand's concept of freedom of speech, nor any other country's, give carte blanc
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
And yet, what we are doing is still the best thing; as opposed to broadcasting his name, reinforcing the legitimacy of martyrdom by committing heinous acts just to be remembered, and thus having the public swallow some sob story about Howe
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I can see the appeal, but I think that would overpowered and confuse the mixture of flavours.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I don't think so, I can't see what the point would be. Why watermark a blog post, incidentally making screen readers read out weird things, affecting accessibility?
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
It's more like when Microsoft was forced to offer a choice of web browser with certain versions of Windows sold in Europe, less in line with the cookie thing.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Copy and paste the character then run it through a search engine, is definitely the Chinese/Japanese character for 'one'.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Our first mass shooting in a couple of decades, the last one being a madman in a remote town with a gun, and our initial responses are: - arrests - suppression of objectionable materials that could stoke the fires and cause more deaths, pos
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> I lost a lot of respect for New Zealand You mean, your country doesn't have media ratings or censorship of any kind in the public good? None at all? Unless you live on the moon…
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
You're not even the person about whose comment I was referring.

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