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Okay but replace that with most governments and the point still stands.

Did... did kontxt.io write this? Oh wait yeah.

I'm building my own wiki engine for my website. For now it only turns [words] into [words] meaning out-of the box support for arbitrary hrefs: [/absolute_wiki_links] [relative_wiki…

I've tried dozens and none work better for me than $EDITOR $HOME/txt/note where $EDITOR is Good. The only thing I want from a notes app is to sync txt with my phone, let me edit th…

> What does the name ``import`` even mean? import name-clashes with ImageMagick's import, which comes pre installed in lots of Linux distros. Issue (by me): https://github.com/impo…

No half measures! let's go 1:1 baby.

Aren't podcasts essentially audio files over RSS? Broke: culture war over general purpose computation. Woke: culture war over general purpose content distribution.

Also there have been reports of Ground Glass Opacities[1] in the lungs of people with infections previously thought of as asymptomatic. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-…

Who was the tweet from?

Yeah, lots of languages have things like this like Pig Latin and Jeringozo.

Similar things in other languages!: Greek's Podaná : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podan%C3%A1 Rioplatense Spanish's Vesre : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesre Serbo-Croatian'…

Extra interesting is how sillable-reversed versions words with normal and 'slang' meanings retain the slang meaning but lose the original. For example, gato means cat. It's also an…

I don't think so. In Argentina we have a similar thing called Vesre (re-ves).

> This rampant prescriptivism really threw me off when learning French. I went from the mostly benign and spelling-only prescriptivism of Spanish to the complete and utter anarchy …

> It's on the same level as "monter en haut" (to up) or "descendre en bas" (go down). The same thing happens in Spanish ("subir arriba" and "bajar abajo"). It became a serious pet …

RAS (Redundant Acronym Syndrome) syndrome: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome

Woah: GNU 782 lines others 123 average lines counting only the UNIX cat with the most lines to keep them from messing with the average.

Reminds me of ''Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute'' from Structure And Interpretation Of Computer Programs. What always gets me…

Yeah, I like that the arbitrary nature of non-meaningful names frees us from all these drawbacks and compromises. A simple system. But outside of strictly pseudonymous places like …

As far as I can tell, there are two systems for meaningful names (as opposed to "arbitrary" ones like phone numbers or 4chan IDs): 1. A first-come-first-serve system like Twitter. …

What if there was someone with the same name as you who did want to tweet? They would say you are the one squatting.