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- Sat Sep 23, 2023 2:41 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Virtual Verduria's banner has two slightly different shades of green?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 396
Re: Virtual Verduria's banner has two slightly different shades of green?
It's actually the computer equivalent of one of those optical illusions where the same shade of grey looks darker next to white than against black.
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 2:39 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Unusual collections of things
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1649
Unusual collections of things
This is not about established collective nouns, but about things which don't have them yet. In British political discourse it is common to hear about "measures" coming in "packages", or sometimes on "rafts"; what other such things are there?
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 1:56 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
- Replies: 998
- Views: 3646179
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 5:20 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1963
- Views: 15045066
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 2:17 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1963
- Views: 15045066
Re: Venting thread
My father died peacefully yesterday after getting steadily worse for a few years.
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 2:30 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1963
- Views: 15045066
Re: Venting thread
Flew down to Exeter for a week's holiday. Flight was delayed by an hour, meaning an extra hour of hanging around a busy and noisy airport. Minor but annoying issues with the hire car. All this while suffering discomfort after an ME episode. Result: a nasty attack of anxiety and the first day ruined,...
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 4:18 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 766
- Views: 144822
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
I cannot imagine that generative AI would actually accomplish anything non-trivial (i.e. beyond doing what people used to do manually, i.e. searching StackOverflow) as software development goes any time soon if it cannot write a working factorial function on the first or second try. A few months ag...
- Sun Sep 10, 2023 4:51 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 766
- Views: 144822
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Oh, I disagree with malloc, but lots of people are worrying along similar lines. I've had similar debates a few times IRL. It's time to come "out of the AI closet", as it were: the ZBB member you know as "alice" was actually replaced by an LLM several months ago, and none of you...
- Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:01 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The future direction of Welsh???
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18451
Re: The future direction of Welsh???
It looks like the answer is number 3: alice's Welsh is lacking.
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 2:19 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3794
- Views: 480180
Re: Random Thread
I think it will survive as a medium for writing, and in its softer and more absorbent forms for wiping and cleaning.
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Uses of the octothorp. (#)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1394
Re: Uses of the octothorp. (#)
BTW, for more uses: # is sometimes used in phonology to mark word boundaries, which is why I support that in the SCA. I did actually already say that :-) For those who were confused by zompist's reference to the "typewriter", it was a mechanical device somewhat like a laptop with a built-...
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 2:55 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Uses of the octothorp. (#)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1394
Re: Uses of the octothorp. (#)
Programming Languages: - heading marker (in markdown) (Maybe this is derived from IRC too ?) - comment marker (in some programming languages) Also in shebang lines in Unix scripts. And comments in Unix scripts generally. Also: - C and C++ preprocessor directives - catenation in C macros - length op...
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:57 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The future direction of Welsh???
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18451
The future direction of Welsh???
I noticed this bilingual description of a programme on S4C in my EPG: <names of presenters> sy'n crwydro tref lan mor Fictorianaidd Llandudno y tro ma. <names of presenters> explore the VIctorian town of Llandudno this time. Now my Welsh is not up to much, but I do know that (1) Welsh is typically V...
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 4:34 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1224
- Views: 727719
Re: Happy things thread!
And when he has done that, to find out how to turn a pearl into a ruby, and then how to make a python rust.
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 2:38 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1224
- Views: 727719
- Thu Aug 31, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Happy things thread!
- Replies: 1224
- Views: 727719
Re: Happy things thread!
I've successfully ported my SCA library to Python.
- Thu Aug 31, 2023 2:56 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1963
- Views: 15045066
Re: Venting thread
This is a very minor, trivial vent, but for some reason byte streams in zeptoforth are getting corrupted if one uses two byte streams simultaneously in different tasks - but not if I use a single lock protecting a pair of semaphores, just like a byte stream does, alongside an actual byte stream sim...
- Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:35 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 668
- Views: 761384
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
But just to confirm, does anyone here not recognize the word "malloc"? I am a second person who assumed it was likely a word from a conlang you had created and not any word in a specific irl language. Third. I know what it means :-) By some standards it is in fact a word in a conlang, but...
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 2:56 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 329
- Views: 344455
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:15 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3794
- Views: 480180
Re: Random Thread
Don't forget: science-fiction is, despite its pretensions, all about the world now, often projected into the future, but still about today's issues and concerns.