Zompist Bboard Again

It's more than just PDFs. I was a web developer when smartphones became popular, and our clients consistently hammered the message that the design had to be mobile-first. I'm surprised that 15 years later, this still isn't the case. The user experience is very often much better on a computer. Why i...

malloc wrote: ↑Sun May 11, 2025 9:15 pm What you call doomscrolling is simply reading any medium outside this webforum. The contrast between this forum and everywhere else is really jarring.

for values of "any" and "everywhere else"

I am reminded of the scene with the "Dwarfs" in the barn near the end of The Last Battle.

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 12:47 pm Did anyone else have the impression that the crowd sounded relatively subdued when Prevost's name was read?

Possibly nothing more than "and which one is that again?"?

M.E. resurgence + virus + work event at which I may very likely have seen several colleagues for the last time = couldn't get up until lunchtime today.

And... it's very black.

Yes, I did. I'm thinking in particular of things like how no UK politicians to my knowledge* have responded to the Supreme Court ruling on gender recognition certificates with "that's clearly hurtful nonsense, what the fuck, how many ways are there that can we go about fixing this miscarriage ...

Not nearly enough in areas which turned out to be far more important.

jcb wrote: ↑Sat May 03, 2025 5:48 pm Trump "jokes" about being the next pope:

This is one of those instances when you'd like to say he's old/smart enough to know better, but you know he really isn't.

Someone posted a demo of zeptoforth running on the PicoCalc today, which I think is really neat, and is steps ahead of my work on turning the PicoCalc into a standalone zeptoforth cyberdeck because their code is already working while mine is not fully tested (mind you, I don't have a PicoCalc to te...

I can recommend meditation and valerian.

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 5:40 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 5:36 am What kind of person drinks warm soft drinks?

A Scot, apparently.

Not so unlikely when you consider the infamous deep-fried pizza, aka "coronary on a plate".

The rise of end times fascism; very interesting and pertinent.

Fair enough. I should have specified that the creators of AI are aiming for those goals. No - they are aiming at solving particular problems, such as doing certain tasks cheaper than humans can. I can't believe I'm siding with malloc in this thread for once, but, well, the more over-the-top ones of...

The first and second person plural pronouns in Swedish are vi and ni respectively, and are the other way around in a certain IAL.

September, I expect. So you get the Australian winter immediately followed by the Scottish winter? I'm sorry to hear that. Yep. I go straight from the middle of Aussie winter to Scottish autumn — which is the same temperature, note — and then it gets even colder . Ain’t I the lucky one. (Still, the...

Here's a somewhat edited transcript of a recent conversation in my head. I: Now that I'm getting used to krita , I can use it to redo my Maps. It'll make some things a lot easier. Me: And you can fix some of the glaring errors, like that peninsula which is west of a meridian in one Map and east of i...

"Trump floats deporting ‘homegrown criminals’ to El Salvador" - https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/trump-american-criminals-el-salvador-us-citizens/ - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-floats-legally-questionable-proposal-deport-us-citizens...

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:41 amWhen I was asked what football team I support on the Megabus, I said "Scotland". That is honest, and an appropriate answer to avoid football rivalry within Scotland.

Ah, but what team do you support when you're not on the Megabus?

Given how many Latin dictionaries there are readily available, I assume what you're looking for is a plain-text dataset you can plug into a sound change applier? The closest I can find is this . Another possibility would be to just go to the Wiktionary page on Latin lemmas and copy-pasting the alph...