kentosi

Australian native speaker here. Only the first "the" is a schwa for me.

Must be tied to how we both pronounce the first "a" in apple differently.

How interesting. I too played extensively for hours on end. I was strictly a Terran players, having been inspired by Slayers_Boxer and others at that time. I made "friends" online across my country and maybe 1 or 2 others, but these were move online buddies to play with with side conversations.

We were all teenagers having fun though. The friendships you speak of never really took place for me. I wish they did, because it was always jarring to unplug and get back to the real world (school, uni, work) and associate with people who had no idea of my other parallel life online.

I know this is going to come off as jaded and dismissive, but when I saw the WSJ article my reaction was an eye-roll. The guy is 27 years old. He was poached by OpenAI, then poached by Anthorpic and now wants to retire early with the millions he's made.

Nothing wrong with wanting to retire early, but the pretence of suddenly caring about humanity at this stage seems attention-grabbing just for the sake of lining up some interviews (ie - more dollars).

Oh wow I remember trying cuppaccino about .... 15 years ago maybe? Fun times, though I never built anything serious.

I haven't yet had the luxury to experiment with the latest version of Java, but this is one of the reasons why I wish Java introduced named parameters the say way kotlin and scala do.

Eg:

  data class Make(makeId: String, name: String)
  data class Model(modelId: String, name: String)

  data class Car(make: Make, model: Model, year: String, ...)

Now you can go ahead and order the params whichever way you wish so long as you're explicitly naming them:

  val v1 = Car(make = myMake1, model = myModel1, year = "2023", ...)
  val v1 = Car(model = myModel1, make = myMake1, year = "2023", ...)

Even after 10 years, SourceTree is still my goto when I need UI click-and-drag.

I don't think that this is associated with Atlassian (the JIRA company) in any way. Or at least I can't find any association on this github page.

Hey thanks for sharing your experience with their customer service. This alone is dissuading me from purchasing the tablet.

I wonder if there's a chance of compensating for this terrible service by getting good contents insurance with the product?

Nice concept.

How does it add to Anki? Ie - just the word in isolation? Or within a sentence? If the latter, how is this sentence generated?

Sorry for the naive question, but if you're changing all your bindings to vim, then why use emacs at all? Is there any extra functional difference?

I find it so fascinating that these plants developed carnivorous characteristics across totally separate lineages, geographies and timelines.

I also read somewhere that plants have gone in and out of carnivory (through the process of millions of years of adaptation, of course).

Slightly misleading title. They're closing 8 of their stores across NYC, SF, etc, and this is after they just opened a few more across the US.

Dear Youtube: Please please please have an option to filter out "shorts" on the web version.

None of the normal controls exist: playback speed, jump to position, etc. The desktop web interface is a terrible place for these.