twangist

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by twangist 1mo ago
First translate it into English: the word is "resumé", just one diacritic.
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by twangist 3mo ago
I realized too late. I mistook you for a tankie, apologies!
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by twangist 3mo ago
> Britain sponsors attacks on Putin’s personal residence. Citation needed.
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by twangist 7mo ago
The caption on the photo is clearly wrong. No way the other two are Mitch Mitchell (not "Mitchel" (sic)) or Noel Redding, not at any time when Jimi was alive. Even after The JH Experience, Noel Redding went on to do the band Fat M
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by twangist 7mo ago
C was never a gateway to any flavor of Pascal, a "police state language".
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by twangist 10mo ago
Protecting Hebrew hate speech, in short. On-brand for Elmo.
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by twangist 10mo ago
Somewhere less loathesome.
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by twangist 1y ago
Let's not, and say we didn't and won't.
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by twangist 1y ago
The West Bank is of course a horrible model for any society, including the West Bank.
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by twangist 1y ago
Allies want to know what, if anything, US would do in event of Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Answer: bluster, lie, nothing.
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by twangist 1y ago
From Sept 2020
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by twangist 1y ago
Because the whole rest of the world is crazy, of course.
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by twangist 1y ago
Why would you need to "generate" emails 200+ times faster? Brush up your typing skills.
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by twangist 2y ago
Unplug Elmo.
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by twangist 2y ago
Here, "text editor" means Emacs or Vim, mostly Emacs. (No thanks.) Page last updated March 2024 but looks very 1990s.
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by twangist 3y ago
That sounds like a horrible way of living.
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by twangist 3y ago
> it's very hard to write code anywhere that's not linux. Oh nonsense -- in fact, bullshit. No, it is not. This is a personal problem; seek help. >Also I truly hate using windows or osx. And we truly hate hearing about it, a
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by twangist 3y ago
"To the man who has only a hammer, everything looks like a nail." Imagine, expecting Linux to provide a productive, frictionless music creation workflow, using programs that aren't exactly torture-tested for usability on the
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by twangist 3y ago
Neither Python nor Ruby is "English-like", and neither wishes to be. AppleScript is English-like, COBOL is English-like.
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by twangist 3y ago
Are you his mom? agent? H himself? "a tad trollish" is really a hoot. So is the notion his upcoming book "has a good chance of becoming a bestseller": its commercial performance won't prove the worth of its ideas, j
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by twangist 3y ago
Such as the four composers named in the very next sentence. The platform gives each a playlist, while ignoring four other composers at least as worthy of attention, and named in the subsequent sentence.
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by twangist 3y ago
It's not even optional, it's wrong. One believes in people, causes, dogmas, etc; one believes propositions.
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by twangist 3y ago
Elmo can use all the money he saved by firing critical staff and not paying rent in four cities.
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by twangist 3y ago
Furthermore, Libre Office is not the slickest software, nor do they listen to their users. For about a decade people have been asking, Wth do you mean, I can't select multiple images in a doc and move them?! The team's response re
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by twangist 3y ago
> We don't need to put CEOs in prison for making consumer-hostile decisions, we just need to also make those decisions bad business. Maybe we don't need to, but let's.
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by twangist 3y ago
> We don't need to put CEOs in prison for making consumer-hostile decisions, we just need to also make those decisions bad business. Maybe we don't need to, but we should.
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by twangist 3y ago
No. What the parent said. Learning how to write them puts knowledge of the glyphs' shapes in your body not just your memory. You will read them better too.
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by twangist 3y ago
The difference is English vs American (Chicago Manual of Style) conventions regarding where to put a puntuation mark that follows a quote. American usage goes against reason and includes the punctuation within the quote of which it was not
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by twangist 3y ago
1920 Hz in my case. I had tinnitus after I got rear-ended at a stop light. Decades later, it still recurs once in a blue moon, lasts for a mere 10-15 seconds then vanishes when I tell myself repeatedly "nothing is playing 1920 Hz"
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by twangist 3y ago
"Nothing" is not a proposition; you can't negate it. You can take it's complement, which is everything.

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