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I guess they’re trained on words, not numbers

JREs, man providers, *roff, …

Arch does indeed have a special mechanism for Java, but Debian and Fedora have a general-purpose system (the same system actually)

Is Pacman still missing a proper alternatives system?

relatively easy

Very incomplete list of things about English which are not easy:

• The sheer amount of vowel phonemes
  • French and German do “a lot of vowels” properly
  • Sometimes they’re diphthongs
  • Complete with arcane allophony
• Stress timing ⇒ vowel reduction, weak forms
• Adjective order???
  • Not actually difficult, it’s just weird that it even exists.
• Sequence of tenses
  • Actually might be worse than Latin
• The verbal system is messy, identical forms can specify different tenses/aspects/moods and can be treated differently by the syntax accordingly
  • There are somewhere between 2 and 12 tenses, and I’m genuinely not sure which is it.
  • English verbs are very expressive, but the forms are mandatory. Other languages also have a lot of markers, but they’re often optional.
• Morphology is pretty easy for anyone who speaks a language other than the famously analytic Chinese, I guess.
• Not technically a part of the spoken language, but spelling (at least three spelling systems not even trying to masquerade as one + GVS, also grammatical gender but only sometimes, e.g. blond/blonde).

Some things are not difficult, but I find them endearing:

• English is really afraid of hiatus and will do anything to avoid it
• The GVS messed things up so hard that most English speakers (outside of Scotland and parts of England and Ireland) can’t even borrow monophthongs properly.
• Do-support: to negate a verb, you need another verb, but the new verb has exactly zero meaning (but some verbs don’t require do-support).

Not contesting the practicality though, and I agree that “dumb” is meaningless when it comes to language.

It’s true that there is a very large transfer between violin and viola, but just the experience of playing multiple instruments, even if this similar, increases one’s value by a lot. Depending on the situation wherever you happen to be, demand for violists can be much greater than for violinists, so playing both rather than the violin alone is a big boost.

Maybe impetus

cum impetu, magno cum impetu, summo cum impetu

Does it work with SELinux though?

I’ve tried both Nix and Lix and ended up having to disable SELinux for both

“People called Romanes, they go the house?!”

Floor/door and poor might differ depending on dialect

And the whole point of zoology and cooperative is that they aren’t digraphs (hence why some super posh people write coöperative)

Ctrl+A, Ctrl+E

Many more basic Emacs keybindings work, actually! Including C-f, C-b, C-p and C-n (if you prefer them over arrow keys) as well as M-f and M-b to move by words, C-k, M-d and C-y for killing/yanking (but not M-w) and C-SPC, C-w, C-x C-x for region manipulation (tested in Bash and ZSH)

Yes. Is it all religious fanatics? No, that’s a minority. Secular Zionism is a thing too.

Kind of? Zionism started as a secular movement, and although Israel still has a secular majority, we’ve seen a kind of inversion where the religious Zionists have become the most extreme and committed. Don’t get me wrong: Zionism is still dependent on the consent and support of the secular majority, and wouldn’t be able to achieve anything without it, but now it’s largely being pulled further right by the religious branch,

I interpret this being more about how GNOME apps function in general, also on other desktops, which is fair criticism.

May I remind you that Israel also (allegedly) has nukes?

Yup, this is all self-preservation to him from the start. Watch him keep this going for a few more years, then come up with an excuse to “delay” the election.

They did know… it has been explicitly stated that they did. They’re just saying that they don’t take part in it.

That’s an Arabic loan word if I’ve ever seen one

If you want, you can also compile everything with Nix!

I’ve experienced this, but only occasionally, and I can’t figure out what causes it. One time the search returned good results, and a refresh returned garbage. I have no idea why.

Left foot

I’m the exact opposite: I always try to end on the right foot!

Is that mpv 👀