1. z500 3 days ago parent

   > I recall going to Reddit in like 2010-2012, back when there was pretty much only college kids on it, and the posts were often witty and interesting.

   Well, there was also narwhal bacon and Streetlamp Le Moose.

2. z500 5 days ago parent

   Is it a lost art or does nobody do it more than they have to because it was always such bear?
3. z500 Dec 18, 2025 parent

   What terminology should we be using? Old Chinese reconstructions on Wiktionary always look so wildly divergent to me.
4. z500 Dec 17, 2025 parent

   I think the confusion here is in the placement of the vowels. おお and おう do sound identical when pronounced as a single unit, but the おう in 小売 (こ.うり) isn't a single unit, it's just a お that happens to be next to a う
5. z500 Dec 15, 2025 parent

   > Also, frustrating that people have somehow landed in a place where they either trust nothing or trust everything, with no ability to calibrate based on the actual track record and incentive structure of the source.

   I don't read celebrity news, how should I know People's track record?

6. z500 Dec 3, 2025 parent

   It's a different kind of math from the continuous math they teach in school. Personally I found it a lot more intuitive. Like it wasn't the easiest thing ever, but I did better than I thought I would.
7. z500 Nov 27, 2025 parent

   It's half dead bacteria, it's not supposed to smell like a bed of roses.
8. z500 Nov 26, 2025 parent

   My personal collection got so big I started forgetting what was in it lol. I had to write a program to catalog everything and present a directory tree of genre combinations with FUSE
9. z500 Nov 25, 2025 parent

   The new context menu is so awful. There is zero reason in this day and age for a context menu to take multiple seconds to pop up. They didn't even really improve on it in any meaningful way.
10. z500 Nov 25, 2025 parent

    I got so frustrated with how slow the file explorer got after my work laptop updated. Turns out the new UI is just shell extensions, if you add registry keys to redirect them to non-existent paths you get the old file explorer back.
11. z500 Nov 23, 2025 parent

    How is that going to help? It's still dog slow even after running all day.
12. z500 Nov 19, 2025 parent

    What's wrong with baking?
13. z500 Nov 18, 2025 parent

    On my 5 year old work laptop it was so bad it was nearly unusable. I found that disabling the shell extensions they used to implement the new file explorer UI helped a lot with that.
14. z500 Nov 14, 2025 parent

    If you ignore the spaces, the only real difference between German and English compound nouns are the infixes between elements to show bracketing. Case in point: Nomenkompositum
15. z500 Nov 12, 2025 parent

    As an F# lover my heart sank at that "it turned out" at first. I'm glad someone got to live the dream somewhere haha
16. z500 Nov 12, 2025 parent

    I also had it stop working completely. I thought they finally wised up to my adblocker, but I decided to finally install that update I had been sitting on for a while and it just started working again
17. z500 Nov 11, 2025 parent

    It looks like this isn't an actual translator, it's just transcribing the consonants into uniliteral hieroglyphs.
18. z500 Nov 7, 2025 parent

    > For example, one format I use is just to concatenate multiple files into a single one, I use it to group video timeline seeker images into one file - it is faster than using archive or tar/gzip

    I did something like this when I was moving my files onto a new computer like 25 years ago, and all I had was a floppy drive. Just continuously dump the data onto a floppy until space runs out and ask for another one until there are no more files.

19. z500 Nov 6, 2025 parent

    Except it didn't get those Germanic qualities by borrowing them from German, it got them by shared heritage.
20. z500 Nov 6, 2025 parent

    I played around with Squeak this summer and made a few demos of showing how inserts and removals work in binary search trees and B-trees. I also wrote a tree-walking Smalltalk interpreter in F# and an implementation of the game of life for it. It was a blast.
21. z500 Oct 30, 2025 parent

    I mean it's also in cheese. People just aren't used to the weird tang, and I don't blame them. I can tolerate it but Hershey's isn't exactly my favorite haha
22. z500 Oct 29, 2025 parent

    That would be the butyric acid.
23. z500 Oct 20, 2025 parent

    That was what I did for a year before I found out Revanced Manager had a patch for Reddit is fun. That was an inconvenient year.
24. z500 Oct 16, 2025 parent

    You can format it on one line if you want. Please don't do that, though. Personally I prefer the method syntax with one method per line, it reads more linear than the query syntax.
25. z500 Oct 3, 2025 parent

    For some reason this is an unstable sound. There's also a g/j/ch alternation in some northern varieties of German
26. z500 Sep 27, 2025 parent

    I loved this site when I was a teenager. It's where like half of my taste in music came from
27. z500 Jun 13, 2025 parent

    > The disembodied others are pretending to be god in the minds of others.

    > My friendlies tell me the dirty secrets of others, my enemies tell others strange lies to mess with me.

    This is exactly what my mother believes, and I can tell you that everything they've told her about me or the rest of the family has been 100% dead wrong every time.

28. z500 Jun 9, 2025 parent

    From what I understand, they believe God intended that to be part of the fun.

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