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Isn't it still an option that you can enable in the context menu?

Great idea, although it is quite inconvenient that you have to tap/swipe to show the modern version (at least on mobile). Makes it difficult to compare.

That is surprisingly pleasant to use, actually!

>In German you need to have that noun info upfront, otherwise you might not get the grammar correct! In reality, (1) people rarely change their mind about what noun they're going t…

It is possible to emulate this in Emacs Lisp. I've created a package to that extent, see http://ankarstrom.se/~john/etc/emacs/scroll-without-point.el . (I've made a few changes to …

Chiming in from theoretical linguistics: it is impossible for natural languages to "count", i.e. make reference to numbers other than 0, 1 or infinity. As an example, there are lan…

I agree. But if you remove the "so", there is no contradiction. It is possible the author used "so" not to mean "in other words", but simply as a relatively meaningless discourse m…

>My editor is written in Ruby Which editor is that?

That only speaks for the 1800s, though. There were a lot of incorrect beliefs among scientists during that time that weren't commonplace before; race biology comes to mind. Soap ha…

Isn't Ruby also included by default?

Where? I don't see it when I do a search.

Indeed. Nvi, which was recommended elsewhere in the thread, supports UTF-8 and is my preferred vi clone. (Actually, OpenBSD vi is an old version of nvi without UTF-8 support.)

In statistics, one usually differentiates between - nominal scales (e.g. man/woman), - ordinal scales (elementary school/middle school/high school), - interval scales (degrees Cels…

Learning about phonetics absolutely helps. It provides an accurate way of precisely describing how sounds are pronounced. Do keep in mind, though, that the IPA classifications that…

When translating Russian, both are usually translated as blue. Синий is used about dark blue things, like the sea, and голубой about light blue things, like the sky. But translatin…

Thanks for elaborating. I'd be grateful for any resources or configuration examples that explain how to do this with haproxy in more detail. I couldn't really find anything, but th…

Could you elaborate (or share a configuration example) on how you use stunnel or haproxy to connect an old browser to encrypted websites? I usually use squid for that purpose, but …

Also, aren't questions marked primarily by word order rather than intonation in English?

Well, at least Finder used to be good... before OS X.

sshfs sucks, sure, but there are other file system protocols. Plan 9's 9fs is pretty cool.

Well, Word only does this if there isn't an italic variant of the font. In which case I don't see how LaTeX could provide proper italics either.

Thank you for developing a modern WYSIWYG/M HTML editor! It is definitely a gap in the marketplace.

Exactly. I'd guess that a majority of VS Code users are relatively new to programming. Not to say that there aren't experienced people who have switched, especially among the TextM…

Yeah, I think it is more likely that it is related to German "(be)schließen", Swedish "(be)sluta" etc. which originally means "close, shut, join together, lock up" etc. OTOH, that …

Yeah, it is pretty incredible how there can be multiple free/open-source operating system kernels, not controlled by corporations, but hardly a single web browser engine like that.…