Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
and vertical tabs
Firefox’s vertical tabs are terrible. Hopefully they’ll get there, but right now they get themselves stuck in the expanded position any time you move over them to another screen, and they seem to pretty regularly get themselves stuck expanded even without that. Compared to the seamless experience that Edge offers with vertical tabs (and has done for many years), I was astonished at how much of a downgrade Firefox vertical tabs was.
I have no rational argument, but it feels like buffalo chicken is the top one. The bottom is a chicken buffalo.
I’m embarrassed to say that for me it took until the H in Human. It’s clearly an “It”. Which, considering how incredibly meticulous the rest of the sign was (itself quite suspicious in retrospect) is very jarring and out-of-place. The fact that the H is transformed not just into mess, but into a perfect rendition of two other valid characters is a very AI type of mistake to make.
There’s also, in retrospect, the question of where the photo was taken from. The photo shows an angle of the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge that I don’t think is possible, especially when you add in that brick footpath and metal railing. It resembles, perhaps, parts of the railing from Circular Quay, which is west of the Opera House, and thus cannot show both Opera House and Bridge in the same photo. The angle appears to be from near Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, but here’s what the view looks like there:
There’s also something just a bit “off” about the whole text. It looks digitally super-imposed. I’d be prepared to believe it was Photoshopped in over a blank board (or a board with a different message) even if it isn’t AI, long before I’d believe it’s 100% genuine.
It’s set in Sydney Harbour and it’s so Shit I can smell it here in Gosford
No offence, but in the grand scheme of things, that’s…not very far.
Still, I can smell it here in Brisbane. Which is still not that far on a global scale, but it’s a fair bit further. (Brisbane the city, that is, not the Brisbane Water that Gosford sits on.)
Ludo? I haven’t played that since I was a tiny kid! I can’t say I remember much about how it’s played.
they are suing and therefore need to provide prove
What are they suing for? Defamation? Truth is a defence to defamation. That is: you need to prove that what you said was true. Burden of proof is not on the defamed.
If untrue (or not proven to be true) the burden of proof is (usually—see: defamation per se) on the plaintiff to prove that the statement was actually damaging to them. But that’s a separate issue from the truth.
I understand the argument in favour of dangling commas, but oh gods I hate it. Aesthetically it’s just so awful.
That’s probably a big part of why this took so long to be described by science.
As a native English speaker, I like that our language is fucking insane and it just owns it. No attempt, ever, to actually be consistent or logical.
French, on the other hand… It’s technically consistent, but it’s consistent in the most bizarre, wild, nonsensical way. “Mangeaient”, “mangeais”, and “mangeait” are all pronounced exactly the same. And all very similar to manger, mangez, and mangé.
Oh, and “mangerai” and “mangerais” are pronounced the same as each other, will frequently be used in completely interchangeable sentence structures, and mean notably different things. “Je mangerai”: “I will eat”. “Je mangerais”: “I would eat”.
Not even auto-update. Just auto detect updates. Then you go and download it yourself manually.
Auto-update-detection meant that the software was calling out to a remote server, so they updated the TOS to reflect that, and people got upset.
From what I could tell when I looked into it after a comment someone left on !nebula@lemmy.world, some people were very upset at the privacy implications of Audacity adding an update detection mechanism (which can be turned off, and which is not included at all in the default build if you build it yourself).
Watched last weekend.
On Nebula? !nebula@lemmy.world if you’re interested.
Looks like the followup ancestry feat is more applicable to this image. I do like the idea of it costing an ancestry feat to get though. Implies it’s a feature some nephilim have, but not the majority.
Oh that’s good, because I was gonna say, tieflings don’t have prehensile tails in the Realms.
So for example, “an ewt” became “a newt” or “a eke-name” became “a nickname”.
I think you might be right about what agglutination is in your description, but not in this example. Examples I’m seeing are more like “-s” to make something plural, or “anti-” to say that something is against something else.
Some Wikipedia:
Analytic languages contain very little inflection, instead relying on features like word order and auxiliary words to convey meaning. Synthetic languages, ones that are not analytic, are divided into two categories: agglutinative and fusional languages.
So unlike what I thought previously, agglutination vs fusion is not what we care about here, synthetic vs analytic languages is. English’s practice of creating compound words like “cellar door” is analytic. A more purely analytic language would probably not say “two cellar doors” but merely “two cellar door”. And an antihistamine would be a “histamine opposer”. And German’s famous “words created by shunting other words together” is not really agglutination, but morphologically the same as what English does (seemingly called “inflection”, if I’m reading this right), just with different orthographic rules.
Which I guess brings us back to the question: what does Sending count as a word? My instinct is to say that the way English puts spaces is a good baseline to follow, not least because the creators of D&D are anglophones. What, then, would Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän be? Probably 5. But if you asked the average German speaker (non-linguist) “how many words is Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän?” what would they say?
I’m not a linguist so I could be wrong, but I think that they would tell you that there is a difference between agglutination (what German does) and adding adjectives as separate words (what English does), even in spoken language. But I also know that even defining “word” in a strict linguistic sense is difficult, so 🤷♂️
If Cruella was written with a K, it would be pronounced the same, too
I suspect that’s why NATO uses Charlie. No other letter is pronounced ⟨tʃ⟩ with any significant frequency in English.
Of course the CIA would say that.
Yeah I noticed that too after writing my own comment. But still, the railing sits on a big concrete foundation, and it’s pretty clearly right on the water. Near Mrs Macquarie’s Chair the railing doesn’t have the metal wire, doesn’t sit on the concrete foundation, and is notably raised up above the water.