Zompist Bboard Again

Great job, Travis! But... there's something I don't like with your powers of ten. one thousand mirya one million miryon one billion piryon one trillion tariryon You translated trillion by a calque of the English, which transparently uses the word for three . But... why "three"? An (America...

I noticed it with Salmoneus's thread about classical composers.
http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?p ... 8#p1145188

The other day I saw something really rare on Twitter: a Macron supporter. Like, someone saying the government is doing a good job, and encouraging them to keep up the good work. I had never seen that before, so it came as a surprise. Usually, I see left-wing people excoriating Macron for being too r...

Thank you, that's great!

Just a minor problem: sometimes the "More" button (to show hidden spoilers) doesn't work.

After months in dire straits, I have finally received a serious job offer.

One day, I went to a sporting goods store to get a pair of running shoes. I was wandering around, when I saw a locked shelf selling ammunition. I thought "well, in case there's a zombie apocalypse, I'll know I should come here". Then I thought "wait, what? A zombie apocalypse, really?...

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 9:34 pm Oh, how I "love" those evenings when I'm basically falling asleep before I've even gone to bed, and then I've finished my chores and my dinner, and I can finally go to bed, and then, I've suddenly got trouble falling and staying asleep.

I'm in this photo and I don't like it.

EN cake → FR cake "fruitcake"

FR résumé "summary" → EN resume "summary of your work experience when looking for an employment"

Although I guess French speakers could reduce it to "la biblio", as you often do. I don't think I've heard biblio as a reduction of bibliothèque : for me it's a clipping of biblio graphie (meaning either "a survey of the existing literature" or "a list of references")....

A friend of mine is a flat Earth denialist. That is, they refuse to believe that anyone can seriously think the Earth is flat, and their theory is that all flat-Earthers are just trolls.

Well, when you get into programming lingo or gaming lingo, you see lots of similar examples... EN ban → FR ban "exclude from a website or online game". The grammar is also weird: je me suis fait ban (in fact it's not unique, slang verbs borrowed from English sometimes aren't conjugated nor...

Examples from English to French EN cookie "small sweet baked stuff" → FR cookie "chocolate chip cookie" EN puzzle "all sorts of brain teasers" → FR puzzle "jigsaw puzzle" EN clip "video excerpt" → FR clip "music video" EN playback "rep...

I made a few more Mandelbrot videos. These two, in particular, took really long to render... but I think the results were worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsDPF4qwzYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMxAnPpfBVs

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sun Dec 06, 2020 12:16 pmI don't see why that'd make a difference unto itself.

This is what I thought about printf in the first place, and yet here we are.

Problem solved, by passing the result through a variable instead of inserting it into the array directly (which was probably the unsafe step).

Today, an interesting case of heisenbug: my program works perfectly on my laptop, but when I run it on a distant machine, I get a lot of NaN results... OK, so I add a handful of printf to try to localize the bug. And now the results are fine! So I remove the printf ... and the NaN s are back. Unbeli...

The serif fonts I use most often are Charter, PT Serif or Palatino (I used the latter a lot with LaTeX — I really don't like the default Computer Modern — though I switched to XeTeX which offers more options). For sans-serif, I like Fira Sans and Liberation Sans; on a screen, I also use Ubuntu which...

Yes, I meant "overused". There is nothing wrong with Times New Roman by itself; it's just that it appears everywhere. So, in a resume, it means "I have no imagination and use the most common choice". Arial has the same problem: it was the default font under Windows for years, so ...

Sometimes I forget that people don't know much about typography. I ask an employment advisor if my resume is good. Advisor: the overall presentation is fine. But you shouldn't use Times New Roman. Me: Uh? I know that Times is overexposed and that it's preferable not to use it. But this isn't Times ,...