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Thae's a nice ideal, but if you need to get something working, nothing beats searching for the error message. The original package maintainers could write instructional materials t…

I don't want to disagree with your sentiment, but it's for the companies who benefit from Babel to donate, not individual techies.

Canada seems to use a lot of traditional measures. Australians from the country seem to measure in feet and inches - not just peoples heights. And a foreigner might think an Austra…

I have heard it described that -ed is used more often when the speaker is conceptualising the time it took, but -t is used as a default. That would mean “it burned” brings to mind …

that will happen regardless, since you will die and your grandchildren are “other people”

tire vs tyre - apparently “tire” is older, but when pneumatic tyres became a thing, the spelling “tyre” caught on in England. So that's not an option. kerb vs curb (n) - again, cur…

You have ignored the questioner's question. Why? The fact that something has always been done is not a reason to do it again.

Alternative pov that may help your snobbery: There is not yet an Australian English standard; it is just British. Therefore, Australians are free to create our own standard using p…

A spelling reform could keep “mention” and still significantly improve the orthography were it to simply apply the rules more consistently. And when words are genuinely different, …

Fortunately it is not a claim in the text you quoted. If a change is necessary, it has already happened everywhere. So neither t-flapping nor th-fronting are necessary, but both ar…

Australian would have been counterproductive, as there was a time when it could be said Australia uses -ise; Britain prefers -ize and America use -ize. Nowadays I have no idea if t…

> So one could say that the '-ize' ending may have a more Germanic feel to it. In a similar way "metre" versus "meter". although one shouldn't, since West Germanic didn't have a z …

although the Australian visa deemed to match the US work visa for Australians is available without regard for nationality. I think reciprocity is common, but many states work in th…

See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23880582

in the olden days, i could walk into a newsagent/video shop, pick up a product, exchange some plesantries, put down some coins, and walk out. no-one would know my name or anything …

can you do that on a phone?

i was once told vision impared people can do much faster than that if it's a flat computerised voice. so i started reading articles like that for a while. i had to do a bunch of ma…

security updates? i don't need no stinking security updates!

i think monotised videos die easier than non-monotised ones. leave it long enough and they all die.

I was experiencing it. Then I realised f-droid just hadn't updated in a while - no doubt it's that Google battery saver feature where the programs I want my phone to run to achieve…

analogies are great, but there's just literally nothing that corresponds to vitamin c on the internet. the analogy just goes into completely unchartered waters and crashes against …

they were downvoted. downvoting costs reputation and can lead to a dead post. downvoting means, “don't argue this position again”. fair to say they were cancelled i think.

you can reply below; you just need to click on the post's time to get the post in a new page.

so how does that work? i cannot think of a workable solution short of an end to the world wide web, and the beginning of a system of national internets and data ports (as in, place…

the why do i have to “download” my document in libreoffice if i want to keep it?