spauldo @ spauldo @lemmy.ml

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The Académie Française shows up and threatens your family.

Chinese characters are their own language. You don't read them so much as you translate them. That's why Chinese folk can mostly read written Japanese even though Japanese and Mandarin have almost nothing in common.

When Spock fails to get laid because he's a half-breed.

The trees aren't a big deal, really. Most paper comes from farmed trees. It's the chemicals they treat the wood with to break it down into pulp that's the real problem.

The car doesn't need to start rolling. You need just enough clutch to keep from rolling backwards.

No, but my family hails from the Ozarks.

I'm not sure I'd let my kid play outside unsupervised if my yard was occasionally visited by hippos.

Thank you for your contribution to human knowledge.

Handbrake start is for noobs. Learn to use your clutch.

I'm struggling to think of any situation where a 2yo would come in contact with a hippopotamus that doesn't involve criminal levels of negligence.

Thought about it, was browsing their site, then the page turned dark and a popup asked for my email address to sign up for their newsletter.

So I won't be buying one.

Do cats eat mushrooms? They're supposed to be chock full of umami.

KDE had them back in the 90s. They had to - virtual desktops were a feature of pretty much any window manager more complicated than TWM. They'd have been laughed at if they didn't.

The "binaries last forever" is still very much true in my field (industrial automation). For example, companies develop functions to speed up and simplify PLC development and "lock" the code to keep their competitors from copying it.

I was editing a PLC program on a government installation just today and ran into this. The government was never given the code (even though it rightly belongs to them) so I have to take it on faith that it's bug-free. I rewrote it and left it unlocked.

"Cross compiler" usually means a compiler that generates machine code for a machine other than what it runs on. For example, a compiler that runs on X86_64 but creates binaries for Atmel microcontrollers.

You might be thinking of transpilers, which produce source code in a different language. The f2c Fortran-to-C compiler is an example of that.

In my experience, transpiler output is practically unusable to a human reader. I'm guessing (I haven't read the article) that IBM is using AI to convert COBOL to readable, maintainable Java. If it can do so without errors, that's a big deal for mainframe users.

A gets a pass though. All the style of the original with better looking nacelles.

If you're in a country that has it, you might check out the Society for Creative Anachronism. SCA events are like taking a camping trip at a ren faire. While the combat is strictly foam-padded stuff, a lot of the people who do it also work with real weapons so it shouldn't be hard to find sparring partners. Lots of non-martial things to do as well so it's easy for couples and families to participate.

"Clit mouse," per xkcd. And it's a major reason why I buy them.

The pilgrims were Puritans. Not sure where you got the idea that they weren't.

I don't think (s)he was talking about the revolution so much as the founding of certain colonies. Massachusetts, for example.