regularizing the OCR’d form into a json/html file might be a good application of an LLM though. Perhaps this is what they were asking about.

because in the 90s we didn’t have search suggestions?

I’d like to point out that the dialect-language-family distinction is really a continuum. As dialects drift apart from each other, there is no point where God comes in and declares a dialect has graduated into its own language. Mutual intelligibility simply decreases continuously.

For instance, Portuguese and Spanish are widely considered to be different languages, although they are partially mutually intelligible, particularly in written form. Cantonese and Mandarin are less so, but still a bit. My uncle-in-law speaks Canto but can still understand my Mandarin (however, he can’t respond). I won’t deny that there is a political reason to want to refer to the Chinese/中文 languages as a single “language,” but the classification is honestly quite arbitrary. My understanding is that linguists generally place the category of “Chinese” somewhere between “language” and “family.”

Is Scots a different language than English? I don’t think I could understand someone speaking Scots without incredible concentration. (However, it’s still considered a “linguistic variety” of middle english.)

What does BLOB stand for?

The conversation was not originally about OSD; I had just mentioned it.

You do too by using the term FOSS instead of FLOSS

Touchée. But FLOSS the term only emphasises even more: there’s open source software, and then there’s free/libre open source software – note the distinction.

If this were true, we wouldn’t need the term “FOSS.”

You’re talking about the OSD presumably. Stallman’s definition differs, and I think his terminology seems to be widely used.

I usually use open source to mean open source and free as in lunch, but in this case I assume kovarex is talking about open source but commercial and restrictively licensed. I could be wrong.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the source code of the Java version open for modding?

i like the last one

i think this is a good idea in 95% of cases. Some jobs obviously require being on call. In some cases, it’s necessary to have meetings with people in +/- 8h timezones. there should be appropriate compensation naturally.

yes

commenter is talking about operating systems. You realize there are other comments here too, right?

This is a valid form of protest

This is true in Lua as well (substituting ‘nil’ for 'null)

He had me until the very last part of that quote.

(Sincerely, someone who doesn’t floss)

Docs and testing have no bravado, but they’re important. If they’re dragging you down, use your problem-solving brain and find a way to make them work for you.

You’re probably right about that. It is irritating though that we’ve added more syllables.

I’m just grumpy because I don’t like random change for no reason. I think I’m probably in the 99th percentile for how irritated I get when software or a website changes its layout. I also haven’t seen any trustworthy anecdotes of people who find the term blacklist/whitelist offensive to them, but I don’t really go looking either. Perhaps I should.

I think people should be concerned about things on others’ behalfs. We all need to stick together.

This situation is a send-up though. Totally not a concern.

Evil forces of darkness and good forces of light is engrained into our cultural DNA. Night=dangerous, day=safe is just something you have to learn early as a woman, it is a fact of society and we can’t pretend it isn’t.

Dark lord, black rider, white knight… why focus on whitelist/blacklist specifically?