RheingoldRiver

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's pretty bad because you need to write for multilingual readers, who may not understand the colloquialism "were just that" & can have a difficult time parsing what the pronoun "that" refers to in such a nonstandard and nonlinear sentence.

If this sentence were part of a novel that already has elaborate prose, it would be fine, but in something designed to inform people on the internet you have to keep in mind how varied your audience is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow, misread this as Stellaris including for the first couple sentences in the article and was so confused

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You could make a new filetype, default new versions to it, & not break compatibility. Wouldn't do anything for existing workbooks, and keep xlsx an option, but "it would break compatibility" is not a be-all end-all argument against this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought they disabled sending mobi files last August? As in, August 2022? Did they postpone it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh? Didn't they start this like last month? Or is this not the "get money from your contributions" thing?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

holy shit, I've been reading this url as "sh, it just works" for MONTHS and was super ??? about what it meant. I only just now realized it's "shit just works" and......oh. that makes a lot of sense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

For anyone who was confused by what "vote to propose" means:

If the FCC issues the notice as expected on October 19th, the next steps would be a public comment phase followed by issuance of a final rule. This process could result in a final rule restoring net neutrality requirements around spring of 2024.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd do it if you could leave fully anonymous reviews. But I'm not about to review products with my real name attached to them, even if it's just first name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

yeah sounds like an a11y nightmare, now every thumbnail will look like a youtube thumbnail with block letter all-caps words over it

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

We used to rent movies every weekend when I was a kid, and we supported our local video rental store instead of Blockbuster. It was so much fun to decide what to rent! The staff there always knew so much about movies too, and we'd follow their recs often. We watched a bunch of classics and silent films that there's no way would get visibility on streaming libraries today. I wish I'd kept a journal of all the movies we watched, I remember almost no titles now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

huh, whatever that is, doesn't federate to kbin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I really enjoyed this show but I also was floored when no one spoke Russian. Every astronaut who works on the ISS today is required to speak both Russian and English. I guess I can see not requiring everyone to speak Russian if it's an adversarial relationship, but imagine not making sure at least one member of the crew spoke it!

 

Finally got around to watching.....and I cried at the show just as much, if not more, as I cried at the books as a kid. I remembered Lyra's words to Will at the end almost word for word, and I'm so glad they kept them in unchanged (as far as I can remember). Just beautifully done, the entire thing. And the music is exquisite too.

 

As title, basically duplicate /r/hackernews but as /m/hackernews

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