Sounds worth reading. Is this the article you mean? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd
That's the systemd article, and this is the forum post explaining why arch moved to systemd: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530
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Is gmena a typo or does Polish seriously have “gm” as a digraph? I have seen a reasonable amount of written Polish but I’ve never noticed “gm” before. That strikes me as really reaching, get a different alphabet, already.
It's not a digraph, it's pronounced /gm/
To add to the depression, I wonder how many respondents thought that "nineteenth century" == 1900s.
Wow, this really makes me think. Thanks for making that up and commenting it.
rdlw commented on 'Gentle parenting' my smartphone addiction newyorker.com/culture/inf... · Posted by u/fortran77
What's the purpose of this?
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/* Simulate CRT pixelation and low resolution */
text-rendering: optimizeSpeed;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-smooth: never;
-webkit-font-smoothing: none;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
/* Simulate slight pixelation */
filter: blur(0.3px);
color: black;
font-size: 16px;
}It simulates CRT pixelization and low resolution
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rdlw commented on Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google wordsmith.social/elilla/d... · Posted by u/stego-tech
English is not everybody's first language. And, fwiw, I like to think that I'm as fluent in English as I am in my native language but still the article threw me off too (even while I otherwise liked it).
Notably, it doesn't start with something like "I'm from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and worked at the local Google branch back in 2007" or something like that. Instead, it says this:
> let us go back in time and space, and journey to tropical Brazil in the distant time of 2007…
I mean if you're from Brazil, this is kinda weird no? Who describes their home country as a tropical place to "journey" towards? It reads like the start of a small anecdotal flashback, and not like the setting of the entire story. It took me many paragraphs to figure out that actually Arizona was the trip, and Brazil was the home base, and not the other way around. I did figure it out in the end, but I can understand why people might be thrown off.
And yes, if I was telling someone a story, I might say "cast your mind to the snowy wastes of Canada..." as a fairly standard rhetorical flourish for someone who doesn't think of their country as the default location.
rdlw commented on Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google wordsmith.social/elilla/d... · Posted by u/stego-tech
English is not everybody's first language. And, fwiw, I like to think that I'm as fluent in English as I am in my native language but still the article threw me off too (even while I otherwise liked it).
Notably, it doesn't start with something like "I'm from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and worked at the local Google branch back in 2007" or something like that. Instead, it says this:
> let us go back in time and space, and journey to tropical Brazil in the distant time of 2007…
I mean if you're from Brazil, this is kinda weird no? Who describes their home country as a tropical place to "journey" towards? It reads like the start of a small anecdotal flashback, and not like the setting of the entire story. It took me many paragraphs to figure out that actually Arizona was the trip, and Brazil was the home base, and not the other way around. I did figure it out in the end, but I can understand why people might be thrown off.
If I read something that isn't in my native language and don't understand it, I don't claim that it's poorly written.
You sound exactly like the people who condemned Socrates to death 24 centuries ago.
I don't think Stallman is abrasive out of a sense of respect and duty to the system of public debate.