It was that you could use quoted punctuation to punctuate a sentence, but you shouldn’t quote anything that’s not part of the quote. For example, you wouldn’t say

The first word of that popular birthday song is “happy.”

This would suggest that the first line goes “Happy. Birthday to you” whereas you could just finish after the quote: first word is “happy”.

Also, compare

He said “hello”?
He said “hello?”
He said “hello?”?

All mean different things, although that last one does look very odd.

There are plenty of companies still selling actual chocolate, and since it’s chocolate and not chocolate-flavoured sweets I think it’ll just become smaller and/or more expensive. Which is fine.

I think that the relative lack of content is actually a feature for this reason - sometimes I open Lemmy out of habit, but I see the same content and go do something more worthwhile instead.

And on Voyager (on Android) the 9s and the 1. that becomes 1000000000 are clipped so that only the last 2.5 digits are visible.

The fix is not obvious: you need to escape the . with a backslash (\.):

2000.

1000000000.

999999999.

1.

I can’t believe I had to read so many comments before getting to one that mentioned The Big Lebowski. So rewatchable.

Waterworld

Which version though? Theatrical, ABC, Extended, Ulysses Cut or Ulysses Cut Revised Edition?

Fascinating stuff, and it makes sense that a more rigid, rules-based version of English would be both taught in ESL schools and learnt by an LLM.

If I start a sentence, “The cat sat on the…”,

Me: “mat”

your brain, and the AI, will predict the word “floor.”

Oh. I’m not sure that’s the best example, as that particular phrase is something many children encounter when learning to read.

Also, British English would close the quotes before the full stop (aka period) finishes the sentence - is that something he’s picked up since school or is that something that’s changed since the Kenyan model of perfect English was set?

Archive: https://archive.ph/E3li3

from the computer to the PC

While I’m sure that this is just a braino and one of those was meant to be “monitor”, I like the idea that you’re somehow both techie enough to have your HDMI cables to hand and nontechie enough that you call the screen the computer.

I love Helix, and the default set of keybinds is great, although obviously customising them gets you closer to your ideal.

I think seeing the drink immediately fizz up massively was worth having the information come via video.

The video does end with that recommendation, but personally I often find myself out and about thinking “I wish I had brought a straw”. They don’t fit in pockets very well, and I don’t usually carry a bag.

The Industrial Accelerator Act is intended to bolster European industry against cheaper imports from Asia.

In my head, Japan is sitting there wearing lederhosen as a disguise.

Peak alliteration

Rhyming is generally the opposite of alliteration, because alliteration’s repetition of initial sounds, and rhyming’s repeated sounds at the end (like flatus atlas).

edit: I intended to implement alliteration in this interaction, but was ineffectual

I think any federated service is more vulnerable, because there’s no central oversight, e.g. of IPs used to create accounts.

Even without any code, you could easily register accounts at the 20 largest instances and upvote yourself. I’m sure some people will have done just that.

Around one in 12 men and one in 200 women have CVD, meaning a sizeable proportion of the rugby community is affected.

I did the maths: according to rugbyrapt, “Women now make up 41% of global rugby followers” as of 2025.

Using that number means that 5.12% or about 1 in 20 struggle to see the difference between red and green, so it makes sense.

Light mode? That’s not me.

FFS, can’t we have anything!?

If we’re replacing cilia as well, the fact that respiratory cilia exists means she’s probably got severe to fatal breathing problems too.

I’m still deciding how much I agree or disagree with this. It’s true that they do cite books which you often can’t read online, but adding information backed up by a paywalled proof feels a bit “trust me bro”. E.g. I could find/create a site with an impossibly large paywall and no-one would realistically able to check my sources.