john-aj

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by john-aj 3mo ago
Isn't it still an option that you can enable in the context menu?
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by john-aj 7mo ago
Great idea, although it is quite inconvenient that you have to tap/swipe to show the modern version (at least on mobile). Makes it difficult to compare.
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by john-aj 1y ago
That is surprisingly pleasant to use, actually!
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by john-aj 2y ago
>In German you need to have that noun info upfront, otherwise you might not get the grammar correct! In reality, (1) people rarely change their mind about what noun they're going to use such that the gender is different, and (2) whe
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by john-aj 2y ago
It is possible to emulate this in Emacs Lisp. I've created a package to that extent, see http://ankarstrom.se/~john/etc/emacs/scroll-without-point.el . (I've made a few changes to it the last couple
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by john-aj 2y ago
Chiming in from theoretical linguistics: it is impossible for natural languages to "count", i.e. make reference to numbers other than 0, 1 or infinity. As an example, there are languages where prenominal genitives are impossible (
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by john-aj 2y ago
I agree. But if you remove the "so", there is no contradiction. It is possible the author used "so" not to mean "in other words", but simply as a relatively meaningless discourse marker.
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by john-aj 2y ago
>My editor is written in Ruby Which editor is that?
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by john-aj 4y ago
That only speaks for the 1800s, though. There were a lot of incorrect beliefs among scientists during that time that weren't commonplace before; race biology comes to mind. Soap has been around for a long time, and thousand-year-old re
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by john-aj 4y ago
Isn't Ruby also included by default?
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by john-aj 4y ago
Where? I don't see it when I do a search.
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by john-aj 5y ago
Indeed. Nvi, which was recommended elsewhere in the thread, supports UTF-8 and is my preferred vi clone. (Actually, OpenBSD vi is an old version of nvi without UTF-8 support.)
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by john-aj 5y ago
In statistics, one usually differentiates between - nominal scales (e.g. man/woman), - ordinal scales (elementary school/middle school/high school), - interval scales (degrees Celsius) and - ratio scales (human height, degree
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by john-aj 5y ago
Learning about phonetics absolutely helps. It provides an accurate way of precisely describing how sounds are pronounced. Do keep in mind, though, that the IPA classifications that you find on Wikipedia are sometimes rough estimates. With p
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by john-aj 5y ago
When translating Russian, both are usually translated as blue. Синий is used about dark blue things, like the sea, and голубой about light blue things, like the sky. But translating it to "dark/light blue" would be incorrect,
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by john-aj 5y ago
Thanks for elaborating. I'd be grateful for any resources or configuration examples that explain how to do this with haproxy in more detail. I couldn't really find anything, but then again, I'm not experienced with haproxy.
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by john-aj 5y ago
Could you elaborate (or share a configuration example) on how you use stunnel or haproxy to connect an old browser to encrypted websites? I usually use squid for that purpose, but I've been looking for alternatives.
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by john-aj 5y ago
Also, aren't questions marked primarily by word order rather than intonation in English?
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by john-aj 5y ago
Well, at least Finder used to be good... before OS X.
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by john-aj 5y ago
sshfs sucks, sure, but there are other file system protocols. Plan 9's 9fs is pretty cool.
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by john-aj 5y ago
Well, Word only does this if there isn't an italic variant of the font. In which case I don't see how LaTeX could provide proper italics either.
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by john-aj 5y ago
Thank you for developing a modern WYSIWYG/M HTML editor! It is definitely a gap in the marketplace.
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by john-aj 5y ago
Exactly. I'd guess that a majority of VS Code users are relatively new to programming. Not to say that there aren't experienced people who have switched, especially among the TextMate/Sublime Text crowd, but the incredible gr
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by john-aj 5y ago
Yeah, I think it is more likely that it is related to German "(be)schließen", Swedish "(be)sluta" etc. which originally means "close, shut, join together, lock up" etc. OTOH, that verb usually corresponds to D
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by john-aj 5y ago
Yeah, it is pretty incredible how there can be multiple free/open-source operating system kernels, not controlled by corporations, but hardly a single web browser engine like that. Are web browsers really that complex?
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by john-aj 5y ago
I think the sign-up is fine, but the password requirements should be done away with. They don't even seem to work. Neither periods or colons count as special symbols. Generally, there shouldn't be any requirements. I use a dicewar
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by john-aj 6y ago
Hehe, I usually do the opposite, as the SourceForge project page usually contains very little information about the project in general and is usually harder to navigate than the home page.
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by john-aj 6y ago
Looks nice, but it seems shifted to the right for me: http://img.ankarstrom.se/orgsite.png I do use a browser that might not support all the latest things, but I suspect the site could be made a bit more compatible. The lay
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by john-aj 6y ago
Hi, also from Sweden. Yes, in högstadiet/high school I think it is rare to offer classical Greek or Latin. Even Italian is rare. But there are definitely Latin and Greek courses at universities. I studied 7,5 points of Latin last semes
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by john-aj 6y ago
No, because Internet Explorer is (was) not slow. That's just a meme, and it's incorrect.

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