Zompist Bboard Again

alice's SCA is now a Ruby gem which is part of a larger program and is no longer stand-alone, although someone is welcome to write a simpler front-end. Now I'm curious: what kind of larger program can an SCA be fit into? For example: a program which manages vocabulary across several related languag...

alice's SCA is now a Ruby gem which is part of a larger program and is no longer stand-alone, although someone is welcome to write a simpler front-end.

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 5:08 pmIt's worth keeping an eye on the long-term here: it's looking increasingly possible that Scotland will leave. That means England will have permanent one-party Tory rule.

Might it just possibly be that this, lip-service to the Union notwithstanding, is the real point?

Amber Rudd has thrown in the towel.

One thing I find particularly amusing about the whole business is that Boris was supposed to be a PM who would bulldoze his way through any obstacles by sheer force of charisma, and yet... I don't ever think I've seen a PM look so, well, impotent.

- the former International Development Secretary and serious contender in the last party leadership election (The Right Honourable Rory Stewart OBE, Tory MP from 2010) Who, in a poetic twist of fate, got the text telling him he was being expelled at the exact moment he was accepting the award of &q...

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2019 10:16 am Watching parts of the debate, I've got the impression that whenever Johnson stands up, about half the Tory MPs behind him stand up with him, and the other half remain seated. Does that have any relevance?

They're using unity of movement to express unity of purpose and thought.

Didn't Boris look a little desperate? A General Election is surely on the way, even if he claims to not want one.

The only deadly sin is to persist with something you feel uncomfortable with, for whatever reason, especially when there's a more convincing alternative.

Ruth is very likely to step down, which won't do the Scottish C*ns*rv*t*v* *nd *n**n*st P*rty any good. A silver lining, maybe?

Well, it's all irrelevant now that Boris is going to suspend Parliament.

One is surely entitled to a certain amount of smugness when one can point out the mistakes in a professor's pronunciation of Anglo-Saxon

Nice to see JEZZA!!! for once (1) showing something resembling a backbone and (2) acknowledging that not everyone necessarily wants him as PM. I wonder what the calibre is of the minions that nice Mr. Farage wants to take over the country with. Somehow I suspect they're not of the same high quality ...

An interesting question is how, if your conworld uses a different number base, you represent this in fiction. If you have base seven, for example, do you refer to "sixty-nine" or something like "one forty-nine, two sevens, and six"?

According to Wikipedia, early computers used words containing 6, 12, 24 or 36 bits, making octal (with 3 bits per digit) an ideal choice. Of course, today hexadecimal is more popular, with computers having 32- or 64-bit words. I used to work next to someone who had programmed these things, and it w...

Plus, nobody is going to see it as anything other than Jezza trying to seize power by questionable means when he couldn't do it at the ballot box.

Getting off-topic here, but did you know that Andorra was still fighting the First World War when it joined the Second?

None of the information about any of my conlangs is anything like up-to-date, and they're currently all being overhauled, so it may be best to ignore them for now.

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2019 10:06 am Habemas ministrum primum

Habemus, dammit! What do the schools teach them nowadays?