Phillip J Phry

SFO was my first thought too. It’s usually not quite this well timed in my experience; this is still a cool shot to catch.

This concept actually makes me want to have AI take my job

My c++ is pretty rusty, but I hopped through the changelogs. I think this is the source for it here https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/toolkit/components/antitracking/URLQueryStringStripper.cpp

I still have my Eee 901 sitting around with my collection of old tech. It actually booted up a couple years ago when I last checked it! Used the crap out of it back in college for computer science classes, since all I really needed was a terminal.

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If the win is out of reach for me, I at least try and make them earn the rest of their victory. The more you make them have to actually work for it, the more they’ll enjoy the win. I guess I kinda think of it like a D&D game where I’m the DM: now my job is to facilitate the other player(s) having fun.

Either that or I’ll ask questions and try to learn, so I can come back stronger next time.

Poor Tiny Dinky Daffy

Their writing systems have their own cool histories. Japanese technically has 4 writing systems (kinda 5 if you count the original purely chinese-character based system). Korean used to have Hanja, a Chinese based system, but then some emperor just decided “nope, this sucks, I’m making a new thing”, and came up with hangul. Imo hangul is one of the coolest systems out there.

Baltic languages are awesome. I only wish I could master those case systems!

Chinese did influence a lot of east Asian languages, but it’s more like the relationship between Latin and English - lots of borrowing and influence, but it’s not an ancestor.

Linguistics. Did you know English and Bengali are related? They share an ancestor about 5000 years ago. Russian, Latin, Farsi, and Greek, and lots more are in that family too.

Do you know what languages are not related at all, absolutely 0% aside from borrowings, even though if you know a bit about em they seem like they should be? Japanese and Korean.

Not right now, but I will tomorrow I promise

What a dumpster fire. Meanwhile, I’m still getting alerts from my local fire department through twitter. Doesn’t exactly make me feel safe.

The ones I got for myself are very orange. The ones I’ve seen other people buy tho… pretty sure they’ve been scammed. And some of the pairs are rather expensive too

I was always confused by how the “blue blocking” glasses just looked clear. Like, if you look at something colorful through them like a rubix cube, you can still see the blue color. Shouldn’t something blocking blue light look kinda orange through it?