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Cordiali
·il y a 14 jours·discuss
Most of the games I play are resource management or base/city building games. I haven't bothered checking if a game works in the last few years, I just fork over my money at this point.

I think the closest to a AAA game was Anno 1800 and Mount&Blade Bannerlord, both worked fine. All the current popular city builders work fine (eg. Timberborn, Foundation, Manor Lords). A lot of the games I play are early access too, or the pre-release stream.

The one game that didn't work was Bongo Cat, which is free anyway. The devs are working on an X11 version though, and it's practically a whimsical keylogger, so it might not appeal to fans of Linux anyway!
Cordiali
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I'm guessing they're thinking of the word 'money'.
Cordiali
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Let's have a moment of silence for the hair follicles of future archaeologists.
Cordiali
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I've never even connected the 'X' to the Greek letter chi. I just kinda accepted it as one of many groovy web 2.0 misspellings in search of a domain and trademark.
Cordiali
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
The accounting of it all would be far from trivial.
Cordiali
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
You might be interested to read about whistled languages, which is pretty close to that idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language
Cordiali
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
I know Norwegian also has two different written standards, found an example that demonstrates it:

>English: I will not tell anyone the secret.

>Bokmål: Jeg skal ikke fortelle hemmeligheten til noen.

>Nynorsk: Eg skal ikkje fortelja løyndomen til nokon.

Source: https://www.visitnorway.com/typically-norwegian/norwegian-la...
Cordiali
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
I'd assume you can get USB floppy drives for 3½" disks pretty cheaply. I think I might've even seen that in my BIOS settings as an option.
Cordiali
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
Perhaps it's always been burning, since the world's been turning?
Cordiali
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
I vaguely remember something like that happened during the Egyptian revolution/Tahrir Square protests.
Cordiali
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
I noticed a similar thing for Python 3 questions, closed as a duplicate of a Python 2 response. Why they weren't collated and treated as a living document is beyond me.
Cordiali
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
You can also put the lambda function inside the let function, which is handy.

Also, almost everyone should be using tables instead of ranges. The references are missing a few features, but it makes formulas a brazillion times more readable.
Cordiali
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
> He had special glasses with a special lens to read.

Bifocals, I'm guessing.
Cordiali
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Not sure about love, but I like it at least, it's useful to me. But it's like a frozen TV dinner, not something worth bringing up.
Cordiali
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
People in the past couldn't get a diagnosis, so they had to settle for cirrhosis.
Cordiali
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
Jam jars were way more common. As a kid, I might've seen one Vegemite jar for every twenty or so jam jars.
Cordiali
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
Whenever I read some of these design articles, I usually see this same glaring issue. Without any distinction, they'll present together a grab bag of objective facts, best practices, and simple conventions.

There's nothing objective about using ctrl+s for save, but it's an obvious best practice. So not following can be considered bad design fairly uncontroversially.

The two you mentioned are obviously not in that category. I take issue with the logo one especially, because I find the style of the "bad design" better and more functional.

>[...] I’m probably the only one who noticed that it’s calmer.

Ugh.
Cordiali
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
That's what the European sequential method is. We have that in Australia, odd numbers are on the left, even on the right.

...Although sometimes it's the opposite, from before it was standardised.
Cordiali
·il y a 11 mois·discuss
I'd think passive recognition of a fair few states would be a pretty low bar for relatively educated, English-speaking people. It's a pretty low bar, just placing a region with its country. People also regularly just assume that level of knowledge for globally- or culturally-relevant cities.

Maybe I think too highly of people, but I'd also imagine most would be able to get say... 6/10 right, for which countries the following list is from:

- Flanders

- Nova Scotia

- Brandenburg

- Guangzhou

- Tasmania

- Minas Gerais

- Catalonia

- Chechnya

- West Bengal

- Bali
Cordiali
·l’année dernière·discuss
The pronunciation equivalent is called a 'minimal pair' in linguistics. Two words that differ by a single sound, and they're pretty common.

The written equivalent is probably more common in most other languages than in English. English has a relatively 'deep' orthography compared to most languages, ie. the spelling makes no gosh darn sense.

An English example (when spoken) might be 'scanning' versus 'skinning', with very different implications. A vet might scan a dog, but hopefully they wouldn't skin one. I have no idea what 'skinning electron microscopy' could be, either!