cassowary

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by cassowary 9y ago
How can someone seriously propose I put a copyrighted symbol in my text to let them know it's sarcastic? [rhetorical question device] I'll bet the world will be a better place if they profit off every sarcastic sentence someone wr
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by cassowary 9y ago
The point was that being displayed on my screen doesn't mean I read it. For instance, I have a problem where sometimes I'll log in to my phone and an app will be active. I don't want that app; I need to do a bank transaction.
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by cassowary 9y ago
The notification and icon badges help hide when you're sleeping, but they advertise when you're interacting with someone. You're "unseen" for twenty hours. The guy you're cheating with logs in and sends you a m
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by cassowary 9y ago
I'm not by any means a Snapchat power user. But I really like the way my phone tells me where my normal photos are taken — it makes it very easy to find the photos. Also, any chat app would benefit because it's very easy for me to
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by cassowary 9y ago
If this is true it isn't apparent to me. You're stating it as if it's received wisdom. Could you clarify?
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by cassowary 9y ago
(4) is an interesting question. Unfortunately it's much harder to understand than it is to ask. For instance, to people really understand, rather than just providing a thin illusion of understanding? What does it actually mean to under
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by cassowary 9y ago
Optical illusions (there's also physical ones) are often demonstrations that the problems aren't solved in humans either; they're just "things that work sort of, some of the time, with caveats about how you define '
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by cassowary 9y ago
An emergent property is precisely one that obtains unexpectedly from simple components. For instance, it is supposed by some that the universe truly consists of nothing more than electrons and quarks and what have you which interact in rela
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by cassowary 9y ago
I hate both. If "ask" is on, it's constantly harassing me. If "ask" is off, I have to search hard to find the setting that lets me connect to a wifi network in a tool that also lets me change the language I'm u
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by cassowary 9y ago
Yes. Apple used to be about empowering people. That's what ease of use was about. You can keep doing the same thing and you get the same result, but when you're ready you can finally press that button you've always ignored. Y
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by cassowary 9y ago
Hi Lathiat. Why do you need to disconnect from the current network? I can think of many alternatively implementations which would meet most requirements that have been proposed, like turning the wifi back on when the battery is charging or
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by cassowary 9y ago
That isn't fair. My microwave "doesn't work" until I press some buttons. I leave my bluetooth, wifi and data on most days because I have bluetooth headphones and I want people to be able to send me messages and stuff. So
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by cassowary 9y ago
That's a really silly reply. There's nothing in the UI that tells me turning Wifi off in the control centre has a different meaning today than it had last week. It's not at all clear that turning it off in the Settings app wi
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by cassowary 9y ago
Honestly I don't think it's effectively identical for the vast majority of users. Every single time I've wanted to turn off Wifi and Bluetooth, it's because I know I'm going to struggle to get my battery to last til
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by cassowary 9y ago
How do I know when I can use it? and if my phone doesn't have 3D Touch, how can I access the same features? (I don't know if my phone has 3D Touch, but I guess it doesn't because I've never been able to make it do someth
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by cassowary 9y ago
A hidden feature isn't communicated. I don't know why features are going to do something weird if I short click vs long click. There's simply no communication. Maybe some shadow (3D) effect on something which you can 3D touch
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by cassowary 9y ago
That's not fair. If Trump didn't win a democratic election, then neither did Obama, Bush, Clinton or Washington. He apparently won according to the rules that are established. The only question is, did he really win according to t
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by cassowary 9y ago
Well someone changed their vote based on news, right? From a source they trusted. But it wasn't fake news, it was real. Fake news is what they used to read back before they were enlightened.
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by cassowary 9y ago
That's nonsense. If you have a dispute between you and a company, everyone will expect you to talk to the company first. If it turns out that your dispute relates to breach of the law (for instance, improper racial discrimination of cl
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by cassowary 9y ago
That's hardly true. People criticise soft drinks all the time. In any case, the difference between a cake with arsenic and a cake without arsenic is going to be significantly less than 1%, but I'm going to make my decision based o
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by cassowary 9y ago
Those comments are all irrelevant to the OP's point. Debian software is "old" by intention; it is part of the spec that it shouldn't be a moving target. As for Debian making some policy decisions that you disagree with,
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by cassowary 9y ago
When I was in school back in the 1990s, that was certainly the approach taken for the Vietnamese edition of the school newsletter.
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by cassowary 9y ago
some languages even sort aa ah az ba bh bz ca cz ch treating "ch" as a single letter that comes between c and d. or ab ah az b c .... z aa treating aa the same as a separate letter at the end of the alphabet. Then there's oth
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by cassowary 9y ago
«Hi. How do I open a quote?» «Oh, you just use the « character.» Parse error. Unexpected EOF.
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by cassowary 9y ago
It's done a bit differently, but there's an app on phones "The English Dialects app" you can install that will give you some specific features and how they distribute in Britain and Ireland. It will also try to guess whe
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by cassowary 9y ago
People have been predicting that for a long time. I can remember reading something in Encarta 95 about it. But it's also been disproved for just as long. New dialect features are constantly being created, just as surely as old ones are
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by cassowary 9y ago
It seems the rule where I am is "always show the number" which means indeed they've very good at picking the opposite.
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by cassowary 9y ago
Well, what's "Take 5"? I mean, five is being used as an ordinal not a cardinal. Normally, to give an ordinal sense to a normal number you need to follow some noun. So "Chapter 3", "Level 8", "Freeway
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by cassowary 9y ago
Hi. We're I'm from, we mostly say the plus the name of the road. So "take the Monash". But the Monash is officially "Monash Fwy". It's also called the M1. Country roads often have long names like "Mai
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by cassowary 9y ago
Take a look at the map in the original article. The areas covered in either blue slashes or blue hatches (i.e. left and right slashes intersecting), which is most of the US, has "Don" = "Dawn". There's also the &quo

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