As for 3, in my part of the world (Canada) we only contract “I have” into “I’ve” when the “have” is grammatical. So “I’ve been thinking”, “I’ve seen you before”, and “I’ve got that at home”. But when it’s the main verb we usually don’t contract it, so “I have a new dress”, “I have to go to court”, “I have something to say”, etc.

It’s understandable, though, and I’ve probably even seen it in poetry or lyrics, but it isn’t typical.

Oh, and it’s not impossible to use a structure like “I’ve not seen it”, but again it has a very formal and dramatic feeling, whereas “I haven’t see it” feels much more natural to me.

Hot dress 😉

This is one of the reasons these “let’s replace Discord” threads are so tricky. I use Discord basically every day, and heavily twice a week for games nights with two different groups, for 6 years. I’m in there. And I have never uploaded a clip or streamed anything, so I never considered that this might be something people want, or are using the platform for. And I’ve seen a few custom emoji around, but never considered using some dude’s emoji in a different group’s chat.

So it’s wild how different people are using it, and getting one replacement to do all of it is a big ask!

There’s an official doc about this: https://trapexit.github.io/mergerfs/latest/remote_filesystems/

Have you tried those things?

Yeah I mean, this is the benefit of the fragmentation. If you don’t want to update all the time, you just use a different distro. I know I do, I’ve run Linux for 21 years now and never once run Arch because I don’t want what it does, but we’re still on the same team, and the things they do benefit me nonetheless. There are drawbacks to the fragmentation, but this is one of the benefits.

I’m not a fanboi of AI, but also not all AI is equally capable. You can be upset for ethical reasons, you can dislike some things it produces for style reasons, and yes it does sometimes produce code that feels like it should work, even though it doesn’t. All of these things are true.

But also Claude doing coding is very different than the AI answers on Google searches, and even those are much better than a cherry-picked highlight reel of bad results on a blog post.

Again, you don’t have to like AI or agree with its use, but claiming the code Claude produces is fully bullshit because some customer support chatbot does a bad job is just being misinformed. You should at least know your enemy and its capabilities.

I’m going to assume from the part where they say they were at their lowest that the option the saw infront of them wasn’t “code with AI or not” but rather “burnout and don’t code, or code with AI”. And they chose to make progress using the crutch rather than stop. That’s my guess.

I wonder what they think the word “vow” means… 🤔

OIDC is innately centralized

Huh, that’s not my understanding. I was there when it first came out, and the whole point was to allow you to use any URI of your choice as an authenticator. Let’s see what the first line of Wikipedia has to say:

OpenID is an open standard and decentralized authentication protocol

Huh. 🤔

It turns out the only ability anyone really needs is the ability to have a hefty rack!

I’m not sure if this is part of the “setting aside” stuff, but I’d ask why age needs to be verified and not simply stated.

I’m the admin on this device, I say I’m 50, why does the website need to check some ID to prove I’m 50? They trust what I reported, and if I lied to them that’s on me. It shouldn’t be the websites’ job to validate.

For sure. If we wanted to protect kids with no intrusion we’d just make an HTTP header that was “user age” and then let the sites decide what to show and what to block. Porn sites don’t want to show dicks to 6 year olds, it’d be 10 seconds to make an nginx rule that says “if user age < 18, show static error page”.

And that’s it, easy peasy. If we wanted to, at that point we could start suing individual sites that choose not to use that information in order to get compliance, but probably we don’t need to, since it’s pretty easy to support and like I said, there’s no money in showing these things to kids anyway.

But that’s not what it’s about.

That game was pretty great. Not long, not challenging, but it’s not trying to be. Great atmosphere, fun engagement.

Right, but is it a language learning app? Or is it a “play games with aggressive owl” app with a language learning theme? Because if after 365 straight days of playing games with owl you cannot use the language you’ve been “learning” to communicate, then you aren’t learning a language. And if you’re not learning the language, then what are you doing with the owl?

Right, except OP and the research suggests it’s not effective, even though it feels like you’re doing it. So yes, 10 minutes of walking a day is interior to an hour of HIIT, obviously. And yes 10 minutes of walking a day is better than not walking in a day, for your health. But no matter how many days in a row you slowly walk 10 minutes, you’ll never be able to run a marathon. It just doesn’t do that.

So if everyone’s goal with Duolingo was to vaguely know some words in a language they can’t communicate in, and it was just a brain exercise like a crossword, then sure. No harm done.

But that’s not most people’s goal, and what the research shows is that for all the time people spend doing it, they could have spent that time doing something else and actually made progress towards their goals.

I think it was Hank Azaria. Or at least I’ve seen some clip of him talking about how a lot of his characters start as “bad impressions” of famous people.

Modern choice, only one season so far with another coming of unknown quality, but I liked Murderbot, personally. Sci Fi, dark comedy, with a dash of wholesome. I liked it!

I used glaxnimate quite a bit like 3 years ago for some videos I was making, and it was capable but rough in terms of UX. But it worked.

So good for them! And I hope it’s gotten better since then, because it certainly had the room 😛

Oh man, I hope I was wrong about this whole bill being an attack on Muslims and that these banned symbols represent a diversity of religions!

Mariem Gharnougui was an educator at a school-run daycare in the Laurentians, but she lost her job in February after refusing to remove her hijab.

Awww shucks. Better luck next time…

Yeah, they’d be like “oh haha, is the the computer where you keep your porn”, and the response would be “no, this is the computer where I keep everyone’s porn”

“Hmmm, I’m going to write you a prescription for 75% more RGB LED backlighting”