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Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by MrJohz »

mghackerlady wrote: post #322
MrJohz wrote: post #285

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But I think that national identity doesn't exist in the same way, do you know what I mean? Like, being Black/African American in the US is an important part of a person's identity, but it doesn't necessarily have the trappings of nationhood in the same way that Scottish identity does. That's not to say that the identity is any weaker, just that it manifests itself differently. This means that AAV is culturally import…

I suppose, though I feel like the tie to nationalism=language is weak at best

I don't think it's nationalism per se, more just a national identity. You see independence movements across Europe (Catalan, Wales, Cornwall, some of these have more realistic prospects than others) that tightly bind the idea of nationhood to a collective language - we are all one people because we all speak the same language. And similarly, when larger countries want to suppress these independence movements, cracking down on their ability to learn or even speak that language is often a key tool used to do that.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by mghackerlady »

myrmidon wrote: post #368
mghackerlady wrote: post #293

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I personally have massive problems with Rowling because of her transphobic views, as I am a transexual woman and she completely misunderstands us and has used her influence to make our lives hell in the UK. The rest of her political views aren't something I give much thought as she isn't nearly as influential in those areas >Sidenote: If you're referring to the zombie-ant fungus, those go by Ophiocordyceps nowadays N…

I can see how being personally affected would change the outlook on things like this. It just seems to me that often people that are politically still "somewhat close" (Rowling) catch more flak than politicians that associate "transgender" with something inbetween "subhuman" and "delusional", but don't talk about it too much (because their whole electorate coulnd't care less about the topic anyway). I had a similar i…

It comes down to influence. One politician can only do so much damage, whereas Rowling is very wealthy and can b̶r̶i̶b̶e̶ lobby many politicians

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by qweqwe14 »

prima-facie wrote: post #149

If you are from Europe, even if you're not living in the UK, the en-GB locale will feel a lot more familiar to you than the en-US one. It uses the dd-mm-yyyy date format like the rest of Europe, the start of the week is on Monday (vs Sunday in the US), the default paper size is A4 (vs US letter), measurement defaults are metric (indeed UK roads use imperial, but the default is otherwise metric), the time format uses…

Just use the C.UTF-8 locale:

SI units everywhere

ISO date and time

American English

24 hour clock

etc

I think Windows has "English International" locale or something

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by umeshunni »

mghackerlady wrote: post #344
umeshunni wrote: post #130

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Extreme Islam acts like that, as does extreme Christianity or any extreme religion. Out of all the Muslims I've met and all the Christians I've met, the Muslims have been by far the more tolerant (granted, I live in the US so there is a very obvious bias in both directions)

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Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by tremon »

ben_w wrote: post #257
dhosek wrote: post #245

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It is now.

In a moment of whimsy I briefly considered a date format where digits were sorted alphabetically. 2026-07-02-16-31-52 -> -----00011222235667 Hopefully it will remain a nonsense and never be seen in the wild, unlike the phone number field which I found on a real website which responded to scroll events to increase and decrease the value it contained.

That's not alphabetically, that's asciibetically. The alphabetical (English) sort would be something like ::--51176632222000

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by [deleted] »

jerf wrote: post #357
mattlondon wrote: post #219

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No, it's always been blog in en-GB. Try reading in light of basic facts, if you need more hint consider if a spell checker might put a wiggly underline under the letters "loug".

Consult BigTTYGothGF's reply to my post for more cluestick. (If I'm channeling the late 1990s might as well go all the way and pull out some dead lingo.)

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Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by dhosek »

card_zero wrote: post #288
ben_w wrote: post #257

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In a moment of whimsy I briefly considered a date format where digits were sorted alphabetically. 2026-07-02-16-31-52 -> -----00011222235667 Hopefully it will remain a nonsense and never be seen in the wild, unlike the phone number field which I found on a real website which responded to scroll events to increase and decrease the value it contained.

Well that's just totally ambiguous. What you should do instead is treat the date as one long number and present its factors, for instance 2⁴⋅11⋅7649⋅15050023, much more practical.

I rarely have cause to give people my phone number anymore, but I always like to give it as three billion, 128 million, …

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by dhosek »

mkopinsky wrote: post #323
debesyla wrote: post #277

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Wait, can this format be transformed back to the "normal" format? If so, then it could be kinda viable for some operations... :thinking_emoji:

No, it's an unreversible hash function. I use this for passwords - no one will ever be able to figure out what ehntru2 was originally.

I feel confident it would be one of the six permutations of 2, the, run.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by jowsie »

card_zero wrote: post #367
My_Name wrote: post #264

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You seem to be unaware of one of the British idioms used in language, it's called "A joke". Calling her 'the wicked with of the terfs' was one of those. I found it quite funny personally. I can find the joke funny despite my opinion of Rowling as a person or her statements on particular topics. Sometimes, here in the UK, we make jokes featuring people because the joke is funny, not just to virtue signal. Here in the…

It would be more of a joke if there was a connection between "west" and "terfs". > Here in the UK, there is a significant section of the population whose base state is mildly dissatisfied and the external manifestation of that is low level grumbling about minor things Does that have a name? What causes it? Is it a proud cultural tradition, or more a sort of disease?

I'd say it's cultural. Stiff upper lip and all that. It would be impolite or even confrontational to complain about something, so you have a little moan instead.

A common response to the question "how are you?" is "could be worse". I've always felt this is a good example of British culture, though maybe it's not so simple to understand if you've not lived here.

A casual moan about the weather or the fact that the potholes only ever get haphazardly filled in a week before people need to re-justify their budgets for the following year is a great way to blow off a little steam while building social bonds with the people around you.

These mild inconveniences are perfect when filling dead air with a friend or passing the time with a stranger at the bus stop (it's always 5 bloody minutes late, why do they even bother with the digital signage if it's always wrong? Ah well, it is what it is).

As for causes, you'll get many varying answers, from Thatcher to that just being how it goes.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by mattlondon »

jerf wrote: post #357
mattlondon wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, it's always been blog in en-GB. Try reading in light of basic facts, if you need more hint consider if a spell checker might put a wiggly underline under the letters "loug".

Consult BigTTYGothGF's reply to my post for more cluestick. (If I'm channeling the late 1990s might as well go all the way and pull out some dead lingo.)

There is no dead lingo.

The term "log" as a list of entries in some kind of journal predates the internet in en-GB by several hundred years, having strong nautical origins in the ship's log. It is the origin of "login" too (entering entries into the log), or do you assert that it should be "lougin" too?

It was not, and never has been, "loug" in en-GB.

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