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I own two blåhajar

yttrium 40 points 3 years ago

Firefox wasn't around during the time of the ancient greeks, silly. They used Netscape Navigator

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yttrium 21 points 3 years ago

Coupling is my favorite. It's like docking for machines

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yttrium 15 points 3 years ago

Cache poisoning

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yttrium 12 points 3 years ago

In this case "sex" would typically be considered to still be a noun; it's just taking a more adjective-like role in the phrase. In English, and especially in headlinese, it's common to place two nouns together like this, with the first modifying the second. The noun "sex" is called an attributive noun in this context, and "orgy" is its head noun.

This particular phrase actually contains 5 of these attributive-head relationships. I can't be sure, since it's nigh-impossible to parse the headline, but I think that "Ferrari" is an attributive whose head is "sex". If we were to say that "sex" is an adjective just because it's modifying the noun "orgy", we'd also be forced to conclude that "Ferrari" is an adverb because it's modifying an adjective.

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yttrium 11 points 3 years ago

2024 will finally be the year of TempleOS on the desktop

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yttrium 10 points 3 years ago

Huh, TIL about big theta

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yttrium 7 points 3 years ago

What's not to like? Sechyal rslytsre is a perfectly respectable name.

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yttrium 6 points 3 years ago

When I'm commenting on a post I tend to use very high-register vocabulary, to the point of sounding archaic or academic. I think it's primarily a hold-over from writing essays in school, but it doesn't hurt that the places on the Internet where I hang out tend to be extremely nerdy.

I also frequently leave my sentences unfinished when talking IRL. I'll just sort of trail off once I can see that I've gotten my point across instead of bothering with a complete sentence.

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yttrium 6 points 3 years ago

If you read the article it's about someone in China who died by crashing a Ferrari.

Looking at it again, I actually think "Ferrari" is supposed to be modifying "crash". Here's how I'd diagram the phrase (using a dependency grammar, because I'm not about to try to format a bunch of NP nodes in plaintext):

                             crash
  v------v---------v-----v-----/
China Ferrari     orgy death
               v---/
              sex

China Ferrari sex orgy death crash
  • the crash caused death
  • the crash was due to an orgy
  • the orgy was specifically a sex orgy
  • the crash involved a Ferrari
  • the crash happened in China
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yttrium 6 points 3 years ago

Computers are an endless source of these. Someone else already mentioned daemons and killing orphans; I submit "I only ever ssh into that box, so I keep it headless." ("I only ever access that computer via the terminal, so I don't install any software that uses graphics.")

Conlanging (constructing languages) inherits all the jargon of linguistics, and then adds a bunch of slang on top for good measure. "I was worried that glomming tense markers to subjects in my analytic clong was unnaturalistic, but it turns out ANADEW" is the kind of thing I might say in a casual conversation with another conlanger.

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yttrium 4 points 3 years ago

Now do a real Italian man with Mario eyes

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yttrium 4 points 3 years ago

Yeah

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yttrium 3 points 3 years ago

Wow, your guide may have just made my decision for me. Thank you so much for all the info, it's incredibly helpful for a novice like myself!

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yttrium 3 points 3 years ago

That's... incredible. If people who write code like that can get programming jobs, maybe I shouldn't be quite so worried about my own skills.

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yttrium 2 points 3 years ago

Ooh, what's the code?

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yttrium 2 points 3 years ago

When I was in 7th grade I legitimately thought that this was how the modulus of a complex number was defined

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yttrium 1 point 3 years ago

Huh, I was under the impression that Nobara was more of a change. Good to know! Steam support is definitely a plus too.

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yttrium 1 point 3 years ago

Thanks for all the info! My only experience so far has been with Ubuntu, so I'm cautiously branching out. Experimenting with WMs is definitely something I'm going to do later; I don't think I'm quite there yet :P

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yttrium 1 point 3 years ago

Note to self: avoid Wayland

I was considering trying out Hyprland as a first foray into tiling WMs, since it seemed relatively GUI-friendly, but I guess I'll just go with i3

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thanks for using Leebra!

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