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Comment #49210559
For reference, it's "Two-Em Dash" https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2E3A
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Comment #48870808
How is it being colorblind affect it? The video is literally black and white only.
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Comment #48870793
That's the decoy message :)
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Comment #48648372
It's centralized right now, digital or not, around the two major US payment processors (Visa and MasterCard).
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Comment #48554745
> I don’t think anyone saw that coming Perifractic (the CEO of Commodore.net, and a prominent YouTuber) has made a few videos that describe his anti-smartphone stance. It's not tha…
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Comment #48433096
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Comment #48343810
Accenture is more resilient than cockroaches.
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Comment #48304955
Yet Microsoft still refuses to do flags.
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Comment #48176748
> What? There is no sound "between" /u/ and /w/; Huh? "oo" is a very different sound than "w". One is a vowel, one is mostly/technically a consonant, I'd say mostly related to the …
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Comment #48173367
You're right, I guess American English is too common and I didn't consider that British English pronounce it differently (and one step closer to modern Greek) Attic/Athenian Greek …
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Comment #48173316
Technically, the υ in both αυ and ευ diphthongs were approximations of the w (waw) sound. Which is a sound between oo and w. The sound still exists in isolated dialects, e.g. Tsako…
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Comment #48166841
I'm talking about the vowel sound, not the consonant sound. Of course φ was more like an aspirated π, that's why the letter φ is transliterated as ph (p with an aspiration mark whi…
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Comment #48166799
Yes, that's what I said. Beta sounded more like the English pronunciation than what modern Greek pronunciation is.
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Comment #48164488
ομφαλός (belly button) is quite weird for ο (omikron), but I can't think of something better! Just listing the letters below and my rating for each letter, maybe someone has a bett…
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Comment #48164397
What you call "classical pronunciation" is really at best an approximation of the ancient Greek pronunciation, but mixed heavily with English (after some frolicking around in Latin…
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Comment #48120209
Oh, sweet summer child... https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/48/by_type/index.html
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Comment #48023343
Retail stores existed outside the US, even back then.
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Comment #48017755
> The older cmd.exe console You are confusing cmd.exe with conhost.exe The console is conhost.exe. Conhost (Console Host) is the same kind of program as Windows Terminal, iTerm2, K…
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Comment #48017686
All language is "coined terms". The point is that if you dilute the definition of a term, you make the term useless. Evolution of a term isn't done automatically. Correcting terms …
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Comment #47819026
> For this application, you can just get a raspberry pi for about the same price. Are you able to run Netflix (or any other Widevine-based software) on a Raspberry Pi?
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Comment #47748049
> run your own DNS Can you expand on that? How would you go about running your own DNS that wouldn't be affected by football leagues?
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Comment #47412978
You can still pay Microsoft a one-time-fee instead of a yearly one. You can even go to a physical store and get a physical box with Office (granted, it doesn't contain anything ins…
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Comment #47244396
The difference is that IRL establishments don't sell off that data to anyone else, nor do they have the ability to collate that data with data from other establishments to make a p…
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Comment #47232296
What's the story with Eric Raymond?