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• Post #3789508

  pliiĝas humido, depremiĝas aer', sciigas ĉiu font', strangega pri afer': duonen post la deka unufoje en histori' aperos viroj en ĉielo kaj falos sur ter' de ĝi! jen viropluv'! laŭdu dion! jen viropluv'! diluv'! ho, nun mi volas ekiri al la ekster' kaj malsekiĝi en ĉiu er'! jen viropluv'! laŭdu dion! jen viropluv'! ĉia tipo eĉ! ĉia grando kaj kolor', kompleksio kaj humor'! klare, la naturo ankaŭ estas fraŭlin', ŝi iris ĉielen kaj plen...

• Post #2413878

  🦆 social networking service for boring people who only know one foreign language and only learned things when they were necessary for work

• Post #2413877

  weird #GNOME offers a 133% and 166% scale on my laptop screen, but not a 150% one

• Post #2413876

  who the heck makes a 144 hz screen 144 is not divisible by either 50 or 60

• Post #2413875

  random thought: names that are also regular words (like "jade" or "beryl") are useful for fantasy works, because they are familiar to the audience, yet imply the least about the language or culture of the fictional setting

• Post #2413874

  The hottest place for startups to strike a deal? The F1 paddock Over cold drinks in the Florida heat, this TechCrunch reporter watched from the paddock as founders and investors — the rich and the richer — mingled in search of deals. Conversations barely paused, except for the occasional glance at the track where drivers, sealed inside multi-million-dollar machines, chased the chequered flag. F1 weekend is a three-day affair, with the race as the finale. In between are kickoffs, soirées, cockt...

• Post #2413873

  #HITMAN3 #HitmanWorldOfAssassination

• Post #2413872

  IIRC is short for "in internet relay chat"

• Post #2413871

  occasional reminder that just because someone on some committee or a single legislator said a thing, that doesn't mean it's the unanimous official opinion of the entire entity (city/country/organization) this person is part of

• Post #2413870

  tired of being a passenger in a bus driven by one of several drivers who treats the road like a game of chicken

• Post #2413869

  today i learned that the "a man has fallen into a river in lego city" line was voiced by david bateson, the same voice actor who also does 47 in the hitman games now i think that man might not have fallen by accident... (but seriously, guess the market for "english-language voice actors for works made in denmark" would be pretty small)

• Post #2413868

  every time i read about sega's history in the 90s, i find out another shocking revelation that makes me wonder how the company even functioned the american and japanese branches acted more like rivals to each other than partners, even though in reality neither would have achieved success without the other but then i look at some of the decisions each branch made, and honestly i can see why sega of america, apparently, really liked meddling in japan's games -- not only did they replace...

• Post #2413867

  whoever wrote those two characters clearly took inspiration from the edison/tesla rivalry, bc i'm pretty sure that's about the same thing edison did to make people doubt the safety of alternating current

• Post #2176133

  don't forget to like that smash button!

• Post #2164455

  the biggest problem with programming in C, Java or Rust is the risk of wearing out the keyboard, due to them all being strongly-typed languages

• Post #2153454

  just had a thought that (practical) freedom of religion is a relatively recent development, actually by that, i don't just mean that the government won't persecute you for following the wrong religion (or not following one), but also that the process of doing so won't immediately break your entire social network like, it used to be the norm that the house of worship one went to was one of the primary venues in which people gathered together, and switching from one faith to another...

• Post #2153453

  weird... #FDroid still has the "Unexpected Keyboard" app at 1.32.1, even though 2.0's been out for days

• Post #2153452

  wait, all this time the non-JP version of super street fighter 2 turbo had a bug that made computer opponents extremely difficult to fight?

• Post #2153447

  plot twist: "LIV Golf" is actually supposed to be pronounced as "fifty-four golf"

• Post #2153446

  earth day is nice and all, but where are days for all the other planets?

• Post #2153445

  if i could completely eject one idea from "the left" (so that holding such an idea would become totally incompatible with any progressive or egalitarian views in minds of everyone), that would be bigotry if i could eject two, the second one would be anti-intellectualism like, i understand where the sentiment comes from ("these elite eggheads are not doing any useful work, all while misleading us into policies that keep us poor and making us feel inferior by gatekeeping education...

• Post #2153444

  so the new faucet at home is strong enough that it's (seemingly) actually possible to overflow the sink by having it run at maximum power for a few minutes first time i've ever seen a faucet that's actually too powerful like that guess i now have to tell my family to watch out for any bald men with barcode tattoos on the back of the head

• Post #2153443

  i keep buying clothes for spring/autumn, but the weather betrays me and jumps from +5°C (+40°F) to +25°C (+77°F) within the span of a single week, and so i just have to skip all of them and wear a single light t-shirt

• Post #2153442

  https://reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1t4hmb7/petahh/ i feel like this entire "explain the joke" comment thread misunderstands why "555,555" is "scary" in german specifically as i see it, it's less "oh no, long word" and more that german numerals jump around in orders of magnitude, you basically need to say "five hundred five and fifty thousand five hundred five and fifty" tbf it is reddit i'm talking about

• Post #2153440

  bedaŭrinde, ne ekzistas en #android-o metodo por tajpi esperantajn diakritaĵojn per fizika klavaro eĉ la "angla internacia" aranĝo nur subtenas la aldonadon de ĉapeloj, sed ne de lunetoj teknike, oni eblas krei apon, kiu aldonus la bezonatan aranĝon por fizikaj klavaroj, ne ŝanĝante la funkciadon de iuj ajn sur-ekranaj klavaroj -- la apo "Extra Keyboard Layouts" faras precize tion por aliaj lingvoj sed, ŝajne, ankoraŭ neniu faris tion por #esperanto

• Post #2153439

  fun fact: i really like my online friends (this includes people who i haven't talked to in years and only see in form of their name popping up online on steam or other platform)

• Post #2153438

  hey there, john, pal, buddy right now you specifically are the main character in a revelation that you and the other conservative-minded justices were using the "shadow docket" procedure to quickly make decisions without proper debate the first decision to go through this "shadow docket" was a cancellation of an obama-era environmental regulation and, apparently, the justification for the whole thing was that the regulation would be too expensive for the fossil fuel indust...

• Post #2153432

  been thinking about how that EU age verification app they were trying out was doing something very interesting in trying to not turn age verification into deanonymization it, apparently, generates "zero-knowledge proof" tokens that could be presented to third-party services and would only reveal that the user is above the required age and nothing else it has a limit on how often each specific token could be used, to prevent one person from just using a specific token everywhere and t...

• Post #2153428

  don't forget to be excellent to each other

• Post #2061791

  i'll be honest, the article about Zig (the programming language) rejecting LLM contributions disappointed me, but not for the reason you think i'm completely okay with projects rejecting generative AI, i don't use it myself anyway, and i find its economic, environmental and tech-debt effects to be terrible for the long term the real problem is the whole "contributor poker" idea -- the fact that their method for evaluating whether or not an open-source project contribution...