siipale

@siipale@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the same way in Finnish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it does. I think it’s that way because it’s in locative case even though it doesn’t make the word itself look any different. English sort of has cases and doesn’t.

  It works similarly in Latin. You don’t say ad domum. You only say domum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americans measure everything in cups?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you happened to like one of your test bakings particularly then you couldn’t reproduce it as accurately unless your method is consistent enough. So you wouldn’t benefit that much if the test was success, I suppose. But I don’t really do much baking so I don’t know how difficult it is to get it right and how much it matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you as smart as Ben?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe their necklaces and earrings don’t adhere to OSHA regulations. I don’t know. Everyone has to use their own judgement when posting and I think it’s better to mark NSFW when in doubt, but there seems to be at least two different ways people use NSFW feature so sometimes the choice of using an NSFW tag might not make sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean collage? I agree. I think your suggestion would work best if it was also made to look like an obvious collage. If it was accurately photoshopped to look like the penguins were actually there it would look silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But in many cases Windows is pre-installed so it doesn’t matter if installing Windows is equally hard. People don’t have to install Windows in order to use it. In order to get normal people to use Linux there should be similarly no barrier to entry. I’ve seen companies selling used laptops with Linux distro of choice pre-installed. Something like that could work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This 'lil CLI application WILL change your life! (You don't have to be a programmer to use it, it's for everyone)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A ‘pager’ is a utility that takes a markup text (say, Roff) and displays that text, formatted, in the terminal. The first pager was nroff(1) for the aforementioned Roff, and you may still find nroff(1) on UNIX-based systems.

  Wouldn’t it be less or more (or most) that is the pager part and roff being the part that does formatting for terminal. As far as I understand roff does the runoff of the text file. It formats the text properly and inserts all the necessary escape codes for terminal. Then that can be piped to pager which shows the text page by page.

  Looks like an interesting project. Didn’t try it but looked into the source code and I think there was not really any keybindings similar to less. I suggest adding at least g, G, C-f and C-b.

  But would it be possible for this project to utilize external pager? That would make the development easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use it. I also use bluetooth headphones but wired headphones are more reliable. No connection problems. And I haven’t tried bluetooth headphones with microphone so I don’t know if they’re any good. I need the microphone for phone calls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨subs > dubs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But I can’t click a book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨listen, little timmy needs to learn sometime⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  !unexpectedfactorial@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Any idea is there anything similar available on LG webOS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skweek [MS DOS] Some Music on IBM PC Speaker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The latter part sounds like PC speaker but the first part doesn’t. How does the first part work? Pulse width modulation to play samples or something like that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨/c/café daily chat thread for 28 October 2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tried 100% robusta coffee. It was interesting in the sense that it had very overwhelming bitter taste and bunch of different flavors. Synapses in my brain firing like fireworks. Maybe bit too bitter for me but I kind of got used to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is a chance that birds accidentally sing a known musical motif⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some bird has already sung the lick. Not sure if accidentally though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d eventually fall through a hole and maybe see talking animals several hundred feet below.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tired at work? Now you can sleep vertically...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The ‘Forest’ one mimics the style of wooden saunas with its lattice woodwork.

  At first glance it does look like sauna I wouldn’t want to get in. Reminds me of the horrors of /r/sauna on Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lengths we have to go to⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard of it too. You would need an analytical balance to get accurate measurements weighing a piece of paper. Just cut out the part you want to take an integral of, then cut out a piece of paper with known size (or cut several pieces with different sizes to get more accurate results) and weigh each of them. I guess this used to be cheaper and faster than using computers when computers were big and expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP

  :wq

• You never see an old man having a Twix
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