ferzul

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by ferzul 5y ago
Thae's a nice ideal, but if you need to get something working, nothing beats searching for the error message. The original package maintainers could write instructional materials that start from the errors, but I suspect that's to
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by ferzul 5y ago
I don't want to disagree with your sentiment, but it's for the companies who benefit from Babel to donate, not individual techies.
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by ferzul 6y ago
Canada seems to use a lot of traditional measures. Australians from the country seem to measure in feet and inches - not just peoples heights. And a foreigner might think an Australian asking for a pint of beer is asking for a measure of be
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by ferzul 6y ago
I have heard it described that -ed is used more often when the speaker is conceptualising the time it took, but -t is used as a default. That would mean “it burned” brings to mind images more like “it was burning” and “I burnt it” brings to
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by ferzul 6y ago
that will happen regardless, since you will die and your grandchildren are “other people”
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by ferzul 6y ago
tire vs tyre - apparently “tire” is older, but when pneumatic tyres became a thing, the spelling “tyre” caught on in England. So that's not an option. kerb vs curb (n) - again, curb is older, but somehow a spelling error^W varient caug
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by ferzul 6y ago
You have ignored the questioner's question. Why? The fact that something has always been done is not a reason to do it again.
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by ferzul 6y ago
Alternative pov that may help your snobbery: There is not yet an Australian English standard; it is just British. Therefore, Australians are free to create our own standard using parts of the existing standards or innovations of our own. In
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by ferzul 6y ago
A spelling reform could keep “mention” and still significantly improve the orthography were it to simply apply the rules more consistently. And when words are genuinely different, like “ask” or “of” it's not going to hurt to spell them
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by ferzul 6y ago
Fortunately it is not a claim in the text you quoted. If a change is necessary, it has already happened everywhere. So neither t-flapping nor th-fronting are necessary, but both are more likely than [t] > [k]. There is no specific reason
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by ferzul 6y ago
Australian would have been counterproductive, as there was a time when it could be said Australia uses -ise; Britain prefers -ize and America use -ize. Nowadays I have no idea if there'r any distiction - maybe just permitting one to sp
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by ferzul 6y ago
> So one could say that the '-ize' ending may have a more Germanic feel to it. In a similar way "metre" versus "meter". although one shouldn't, since West Germanic didn't have a z sound or a letter
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by ferzul 6y ago
although the Australian visa deemed to match the US work visa for Australians is available without regard for nationality. I think reciprocity is common, but many states work in their own self interest first.
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by ferzul 6y ago
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880582
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by ferzul 6y ago
in the olden days, i could walk into a newsagent/video shop, pick up a product, exchange some plesantries, put down some coins, and walk out. no-one would know my name or anything about me. nowadays, if you want to pay for a newspaper
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by ferzul 6y ago
can you do that on a phone?
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by ferzul 6y ago
i was once told vision impared people can do much faster than that if it's a flat computerised voice. so i started reading articles like that for a while. i had to do a bunch of manual/automatic handling, but i got it up to super
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by ferzul 6y ago
security updates? i don't need no stinking security updates!
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by ferzul 6y ago
i think monotised videos die easier than non-monotised ones. leave it long enough and they all die.
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by ferzul 6y ago
I was experiencing it. Then I realised f-droid just hadn't updated in a while - no doubt it's that Google battery saver feature where the programs I want my phone to run to achieve some background task get banned. Since updating m
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by ferzul 6y ago
analogies are great, but there's just literally nothing that corresponds to vitamin c on the internet. the analogy just goes into completely unchartered waters and crashes against the rocks when it pretends that it is a life or death m
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by ferzul 6y ago
they were downvoted. downvoting costs reputation and can lead to a dead post. downvoting means, “don't argue this position again”. fair to say they were cancelled i think.
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by ferzul 6y ago
you can reply below; you just need to click on the post's time to get the post in a new page.
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by ferzul 6y ago
so how does that work? i cannot think of a workable solution short of an end to the world wide web, and the beginning of a system of national internets and data ports (as in, places you send your data to to export them from one country and
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by ferzul 6y ago
the why do i have to “download” my document in libreoffice if i want to keep it?
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by ferzul 6y ago
if the merchant doesn't charge a creditcard surcharge, and using a credit card is worth 1€ to me, and costs 1.01€/transaction to the merchant. but only 90% of transactions are by credit card. well, then i am better off paying by c
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by ferzul 6y ago
> 1: as you’ve said, the quality of such completion depends on habits; if you’re just shifting to the browser, it doesn’t have the full details with which to do good completion. i've used firefox ever since galeon bit the dust (or m
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by ferzul 6y ago
many companies did targeted advertising in the pre-web days and made a profit. you can advertise without knowing anything about a consumer - except that they like reading this kind of article. so there is no tradeoff between privacy and pro
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by ferzul 6y ago
It's not an American cultural norm. It's just English grammar. Things which are written as compounds in other languages often have a space in English, and English does not distinguish between word classes so that Noun-Noun compoun
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by ferzul 6y ago
> Mac & Windows did away with always-visible menu bars just fine. is this sarcasm? it appears disjointed from your comment and disagrees with your thesis. > Remember how Windows 8 tried to hide the start menu and how it had turned

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