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@wolf480pl Well, @brainblasted has written something in Rust with gtk-rs recently and found it to be very nice.
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@d3jblog What the… two letters are even upside down.
Was "РОМАНОВЫ" or maybe "РОМАНОВ'S" not appealing enough?
Though possibly they were afraid it will be read as "pomahobs"…
How about "ЦАРСКАЯ СЕМЬЯ"? That would've worked, right?-
@d3jblog What I really don't understand is how HBO Films relates to this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Ark (2002), from which this poster originates.
I cannot find any connection, so I assume this is, in fact, a fake.
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Pink Floyd - Pigs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqblSqx_VI
@bob The song started playing without actually opening the link, in my head :-). -
@cassidyjames Well, it works through GtkSettings, so from the GTK+ standpoint it's not a hack in the slightest.
And Flatpak… that beast is special. If GtkSettings don't propagate there, then even cursor theming mustn't work there.
I cannot really tell because I avoid Flatpak, so 'tis a mystery how they organised these things. -
@schestowitz Does the US have a "second tour" concept? It's when a second tour of elections begins after no candidate gets more than 50% of votes, an election with the two most voted for candidates.
The simple idea is that when a candidate has less than 50% of votes, they're not really elected by the majority.
This helps overcome the fear of voting for a less famous candidate as then one can simply revote in the second tour.
So maybe the perceived famousness will no longer stand in the way.
After writing all this next I've come to the conclusion that this doesn't mesh well with the House of Representatives.
Ugh, US, why are you so… ugh. -
@diodelass You can always recompile Electron for others… if you like to suffer, and have enough RAM.
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@mangeurdenuage Giant Humanoid Combat Robots first, NanoMachines second.
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@thor The word is from Latin where "validus" has a slightly different meaning: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/validus#Latin
"Invalíd" was never meant to mean "inválid". Wonders of language. -
@cassidyjames GTK+3 already has a dark theme variant feature.
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@staticsafe It's like an HTC HD2, you can still show it to people, and they'll understand :-).
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@staticsafe Isn't it still?
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@elliemars It appears like the Mastodon link is not correct (an extra dash), and the Tumblr one too (should be a subdomain) :-(.
Otherwise nicely done and made me follow the links through the photograph even though I have no idea what this all is about ;-). -
@mangeurdenuage Even in this kind of cartoon they still thought it is necessary for it to have a comic relief character %).
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@mangeurdenuage Cost doesn't have to correlate with technical superiority.
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@mangeurdenuage Cost doesn't have to correlate with technical superiority.
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@mangeurdenuage I think the notice should've appeared locally here either way, and I don't see any fresh replies from @vegos.
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> come to think of it, how did the concept of reincarnation gain so much popularity even among people who are christian or agnostic?
@devurandom That's poetic truth, it's pretty, kind of plausible and very appealing.
Believing people got one poetic truth sold to them already, and when there's one, there's another. -
@are0h So, I don't know, I think they should've left it a mystery, explanations are good only when they are.
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@are0h The problem is that they added a lot of techno-babble to explain it, and, if my memory serves, that was implausible as heck
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Remember when this place was popular enough for random mothers to threaten to sue me over it? Good times.
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@ceruleanspark I do miss the crowd here from the past. When the timeline would actually be alive. When there was a defiant "RDN2" group on Skype.
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@ceruleanspark I can send you legalese-sounding threatening emails if it'd help
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@are0h A fungus drive is such an odd idea though, and their explanation of it is so full of pseudoscience, I wished they haven't explained it at all…
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> It's interesting that you had to resort to a Finno-Ugric language to find an example in the Latin alphabet.
What can I do when West and South Slavs lost the thing :-).
> Does Russian have an official Latin alphabet of any kind?
> What do you do in passports, for example?
Well, you know, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian#GOST
By the way, "совѣтъ" (pre-reform orthography) was officially transliterated as "soviet" back in the day.
The letter "ѣ" has been removed from Russian in 1918 as the sound merged with the palatalising "е" long before that (in the spelling simplification efforts).
> Do Russian schools teach how to render Russian words in the Latin alphabet?
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> Sounds similar to Spanish ñ come to think of it.
Indeed, "ña" ~= "ня". Also "ňa" in Czech/Gajica.
The two palatalised consonants that are relatively widespread in the world are "n" and "l", apparently.
"l" like in German.
> Do any of the Slavic languages with a Latin alphabet use accent marks to mark palatisation?
Well, it's complicated.
Only East Slavic languages retain palatalisation with consonants like "s", "t", etc., and those use Cyrillic. There are some unofficial Latin alphabets, but they all have an ambiguity in this area.
Instead of focusing on Polish or Czech alphabets, I'll just say that Hungarian has the palatalised "t" spelt as "ty". Exactly the thing needed :-).
So "Путин" would be "Putyin" in Hungarian, and, say, "тесть" would be "tyeszty". -
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@thor The Cyrillic alphabet's "И" is actually just "i" as in "fish". If it were "Putjin", then the spelling would've differed: "Путьин", where "ь" serves as a separator that also palatalises.
So in "Putin" there are just 5 sounds.
And in "нет" ("njet") – 3 sounds. Native speakers can tell, really.
The trick is that East Slavic languages have a very distinct difference between palatalised and non-palatalised consonants. The "t" here is very distinctly palatalised, which is close to what an additional "j" would also do.
There is also a non-palatalising alternative to "и", which is "ы" (transliterated as "y"). By of them in a sentence: "ты тихий", "ty tihij".
Also on the topic: there is a Cyrillic letter "ї", which is present in Ukrainian, that is just like the Latin "ï" (as in "naïve"). -
> why accept a substitute when you can have the real thing? ;)
@pesco With the real thing you'd still need to take care of two separate argument declarations. Punishment for a mistake – implicit int.
Besides, when every single argument has a type defined (which must be the case in good code), double defining brings a lot of clutter to the table.
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> I for one think k&r is kind of nice when functions have long argument lists and the types obscure the names. Looking at you, function pointers.
@pesco Adopt a more verbose code style then :-).
When every function argument is on a separate line they don't mangle each other, akin to the old K&R style, kind of.
