‘I’m not taking the word of any politician’: Andrew Forrest on nuclear energy push
Fortescue Chairman Andrew Forrest has rubbished the Coalition’s push for nuclear energy.

Mr Fortescue told Sky News Australia how he spoke with General Energy about the costs of implementing nuclear energy and the timeframe required.

“If I order one, when do I get one? And they said, ‘mate, look, 15 years’,” he said.

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Mary Poppins age rating raised in the UK over discriminatory language
The 1964 Disney classic, Mary Poppins, is having its age rating raised to PG in the UK.

Reportedly, the move is due to its discriminatory language.

The change centres around the use of a colonial term used in the movie.

The term is a pejorative word, historically used to describe the Khoekhoe people of South Africa.

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Partner’s tragic reveal after star’s death
The fiancee of motocross cult hero Jayden Archer has penned a heartbreaking tribute to the Aussie daredevil. ⌘ Read more

How to Recover Unsaved Word Documents on Mac with AutoRecovery
While you should get in the habit of frequently saving your documents as you work in them, including in Microsoft Word, things don’t always go as planned. Many modern Mac apps will automatically save progress as you work in them, and Microsoft Word is one of them. Thanks to a feature called AutoRecovery, which saves … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/02/26/how-to-recover-unsaved-word-documents-on-mac-wit … ⌘ Read more

‘GASPED WHEN SHE SAID IT’: Three ‘problematic’ words spark fury
NSW’s top cop has sparked backlash after using an “extremely problematic” phrase to describe the alleged murders of a Sydney couple. ⌘ Read more

Chris Kenny calls for national leadership on ‘anti-Jew hatred’ and ‘Islamist extremism’
Sky News host Chris Kenny has called for national political leadership on “anti-Jew hatred” and “virulent Islamist extremism” running amok in Australia.

Mr Kenny said shocking vision has come to light showing pro-Palestinian protesters in Melbourne celebrating the fighters in Gaza.

“In other words, the Islamist extremist terro … ⌘ Read more

Fix “Not authorized to send Apple events to System Events” Mac Error
Some Mac users may occasionally stumble into a oddly worded error message when attempting to launch an application that states “Not authorized to send Apple events to System Events”, and, when clicking OK to dismiss the error, nothing happens – the app does not launch on MacOS. If you attempt to open the app triggering … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/02/25/fix-not-authorized-to-s … ⌘ Read more

@eapl.me@eapl.me this is interesting. Is the square bracket something used in the wild for multilingual twts?

@prologic@twtxt.net what are your thoughts? Should we extend the parser to handle [lang] and [boost] ? Or a generic attribute spec. Single word is a boolean attribute. And one with an = is a string key/value.

@eapl.me@eapl.me this is interesting. Is the square bracket something used in the wild for multilingual twts?

@prologic@twtxt.net what are your thoughts? Should we extend the parser to handle [lang] and [boost] ? Or a generic attribute spec. Single word is a boolean attribute. And one with an = is a string key/value.

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How to Disable Inline Text Predictions on iPhone & iPad
The latest versions of iPhone and iPad system software include a feature that offers predictive typing, with typing suggestions shown inline as light gray words that are ahead of your cursor as you type. For example, if you’re typing “how ar” you might see the inline prediction suggest “how are you” as a way to … Read More ⌘ Read more

How to Disable Inline Text Predictions on iPhone & iPad
The latest versions of iPhone and iPad system software include a feature that offers predictive typing, with typing suggestions shown inline as light gray words that are ahead of your cursor as you type. For example, if you’re typing “how ar” you might see the inline prediction suggest “how are you” as a way to … Read More ⌘ Read more

How to Disable Inline Predictive Text Typing on Mac
The latest versions of MacOS offer an inline predictive text feature, which attempt to predict what you may want to type text. You’ll see this appear when typing in many Mac apps as there are words appearing in lighter gray in front of what you are presently typing, which you can complete typing of by … Read More ⌘ Read more

Happy Twixmas everyone (new word I just learned 2 min ago)

I have finally gotten around to implementing a gallery feature to timeline.

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There is still some hiccups, like the limited caching is making it difficult to make links back to older posts not working. Maybe @eapl.me@eapl.me you can help me with that?

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Never in my life will I understand why Americans bleep out curse words. 🤔

Doing this thing where I do one-word status reports and logging them in a file.

How to Stop iPhone Siri Listening to You
Due to the nature of how Hey Siri on iPhone works, Siri is basically always listening to you and your surroundings, if the Hey Siri feature is enabled. This is necessary to hear the “Hey Siri” activation word so that Siri knows to pick up the command you give to it, and the always on … Read More ⌘ Read more

The word forms is part two. In this one you want to find the first digit and last digit. Think searching ‘1’ - ‘9’

The word forms is part two. In this one you want to find the first digit and last digit. Think searching ‘1’ - ‘9’

The local energy Company is doing an Advent contest with a word guessing game, 21 letters long, it starts with a T and I got all other letters by looking at the source of their site… Put all of the letters into ChatGPT 3.5, but it is having real trouble coming up with something plausible.

logs/blog: words pointing to the sharp blade of practice; garden/food: new recipes

Language Acquisition
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Its nuts. Im a bit lost for words to be honest. Such a shock-attack, and taking civilians as hostages, shooting them, killing them, torture, kidnap kids and so on. Oooffff. Wonder what the response and aftermath will be..

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Free Fallin’
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** of vast distances, connection over them, and being made to feel alone; of water catchment, soil, and bits **
Anomie, a word for your consideration.

The dictionary of cyborg anthropology defines anomie, in part, with this anecdote:

In everyday life, the modern vehicle and the daily commute is one of the most isolated moments an urban human can experience. T … ⌘ Read more

New JavaScript trademark policy announced
“This should help solve one of our biggest problems… people saying the word ‘JavaScript’.” ⌘ Read more

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The Rust Foundation goes to war against people using the word “Rust”
Seriously. The title of this article violates the new Rust Trademark Policy. It’s insane. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Translations everywhere!
Two months ago, we started using Transifex as a platform that can be easily used by anyone to provide projects for our projects, like Openfire and Spark.

It is great to see that new translations are pouring in! In the last few months, more than 20,000 translated words have been provided by our community!

[![image](https://discourse.igniterealtime.org/uploads/default/origina … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: “We need disruption to end the destruction.
No more excuses.
No more greenwashing.
No more bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers.”

Not our words.
It’s the latest of many strong statements by António Guterres, head of the United Nations.

Time for a 🧵…**
“We need disruption to end the destruction.

No more excuses.

No more greenwashing.

No more bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers.”

Not our words.

It’s the latest of many strong statem … ⌘ Read more

Time Domain Audio Compression at 3.2 bits per Sample
Audio formats typically fall into one of three categories: “lossless”,
“complicated” or “bad”. After developing a
simple image format
last year, I tried to come up with an audio format that fits neither of these
categories.

In other words: a format that is lossy, simple and quite ok.
Naturally, it’s called QOA — the Quite OK Audio Format.

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org flawed is the right word, no harsh at all. Good reading, and thanks for supporting the possibility of convincing @prologic@twtxt.net to switch to a database! :-D :-P

telnet gopherpedia.com 70Search word

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci ISO 27001 is basically the same. It means that there is management sign off for a process to improve security is in place. Not that the system is secure. And ITIL is that managment signs off that problems and incidents should have processes defined.

Though its a good mess of words you can throw around while saying “management supports this so X needs to get done”

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci ISO 27001 is basically the same. It means that there is management sign off for a process to improve security is in place. Not that the system is secure. And ITIL is that managment signs off that problems and incidents should have processes defined.

Though its a good mess of words you can throw around while saying “management supports this so X needs to get done”

How to Pronounce Tech Words (part 2)
Watch now (6 min) | Some computer words are hard to say. Let Lunduke help you. ⌘ Read more

How to pronounce Open Source & Linux words
Watch now (7 min) | Think you know how to say “GNOME” and “Ubuntu”? Think again. ⌘ Read more

Android vs iOS: Which spies on you more?
Watch now (25 min) | (This is a classic video originally produced back in 2018. It is presented here exactly as it originally was – including original ad spots. Many of the details discussed (links, stats, etc.) may have changed in the years that followed.) Which mobile operating system spies on you the most? Android or iOS? In other words: Does a Google-powered Android… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org correct, I do not know German. :) only a few words.

You start playing with you words… And once you start enjoying drawing attention to yourself with your words…  theres no turning back Writers of Dramaland: Park Hae Young - MyDramaList

❤️ 🎶: Words I want to say by GyeongseoYeji

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if you want to minimize the amount of words in your library, every function should have as many parameters as there are functions in total.

I’ve never been able to say what I really want to. I’m not talking about yammering away just to feel like I exist. I want to say something that will allow me to relax. Conversations, words… that somehow feel restful. kdramaspace

oofed not in the absurdle word list, even though it’s the reaction i have the most when playing it

Q: Are passphrases really more secure than cryptographically random passwords? 🤔

I have to wonder… It should be possible to do “passphrase” attacks just like “dictionary” attacks? How is a “phrase” any different to the character set you can type? Sure there are more possible “words” (at least) in the English language, but I’m not convinced.

the words “brier score” are used inconsistently: sometimes they just refer to the MSE of the probability assigned to the correct outcome, sometimes they refer to the MSE of the sum of the probability assigned to the correct and the incorrect outcome.

with resolving inconsistent graph preferences, does the portion of non-uniquely resolvable preferences shrink with the number of options? in other words: for the set 𝓖_n of all graphs with n nodes, and the set U(𝓖_n) of those graphs with a unique path-graph with a smallest graph-edit distance, is |U(𝓖_n)|/𝓖n<|U(𝓖{n+1})|/|𝓖_{n+1}|?

Microsoft Word… for UNIX? Yes. It’s real.
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we can also make value of perfect information a shorter word, vopi. or voi for just value of information.

from now on whenever the word “spirituality” or “consciousness” comes up in a discussion i will look slightly quizzical and ask “yeah, sure, but can you feel your toes right now?”

Microsoft Write - The First Word Processor for Windows (also released for Mac and… Atari ST?)
That’s right. Microsoft made Write for Mac and Atari ST. Weird, right? ⌘ Read more

no, niplav, you won’t get sucked into reading the heraldry wikipedia articles, even though “escutcheon” looks like a really good word to drop in a conversation.

**“overblessed” is quite an interesting word, specially when it is being negated.

What I was not expecting was to see it hyphenated like this: overb-lessed.**
“overblessed” is quite an interesting word, specially when it is being negated.

What I was not expecting was to see it hyphenated like this: overb-lessed.

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Richard Stallman - “The state of the Free Software movement” - April 13, 2022
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Pronouncing computer words can be tricky.
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i imagine postrats who learn esperanto have a huge problem with the word for school,,,

you know what’s interesting? if you randomly replace some words in a conversation with “redacted”, very few people will notice

Tech firms ban usage of words “bug” and “debug” as part of “Insect Inclusivity” efforts
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❤️ 🎶: Without Words by Park Shin Hye

Wordle ported to Windows 3.1, PalmOS, DOS, Linux Terminal… and much more.
Tandy Color Computer 3, Atari 2600, Game Boy, Emacs, and… Microsoft Word? Yup. Wordle is there too. ⌘ Read more

One year of private diary blogging
This morning I wrote my 365th diary entry. With that, I now have my first full year of daily private diary blogging complete. A milestone! The statistics tell me that’s 32245 words with 186900 characters and an average word count of 88 words per post. ⌘ Read more

2022 is so awful I forgot how to spell the word ALL

picoeconomics is a great word & concept, and I’m sad it hasn’t been developed further

What a good feeling when the hours you have invested in optimizing and testing actually bear fruit. In other words, my blog now uses less than 100 MB of memory, even though I have quite a few features enabled. My diary for example needs less than 20 MB. And if you compare that with WordPress, where the database alone needs more than 300 MB… 😄 ⌘ Read more

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millenial woman who did a degree in *-studies and uses the word “communities” a lot

some people, when they hear the word “technocracy”, think of “rule by technocrats”, others think of “rule by legible mechanisms”, which is a slight difference

Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
A picture tells a thousand words. Now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files. ⌘ Read more

why not a an esperanto prefix for thisness? similar to how one has ĉiam (ĉial for “for every reason”) for “always”, and neniam for “never” (nenial for “for no reason”), one could have e.g. “piam” for “now”, “pie” for “here”, “pial” for “for this (one) reason”, etc. one could argue that this purpose could also be fulfilled by “ĉi tie”, “ĉi tiam”, “ĉi tial”, but why not put it into one word?

This led me on quite the rabbit hole ending around this site with quite a few pages of different components of the language. https://www.bible.ca/ark/chinese/bible-evidences-chinese-language-characters-words-history-genesis.htm

This led me on quite the rabbit hole ending around this site with quite a few pages of different components of the language. https://www.bible.ca/ark/chinese/bible-evidences-chinese-language-characters-words-history-genesis.htm

“i admire your optimism”=“wow, you are way more r-worded than i thought”

Yeah the timer is because everyone gets the same word each day. You get one word with 6 trys and compare with friends on how you came to the solution.

Yeah the timer is because everyone gets the same word each day. You get one word with 6 trys and compare with friends on how you came to the solution.

This is like my 5rh day at it. I suck at words and spelling. So this is good practice.

This is like my 5rh day at it. I suck at words and spelling. So this is good practice.

Bitcoin “Cult”
I have noticed that some people I respect have jumped on the bandwagon of calling Bitcoin a cult. I will agree with the word cult even know it is ment to be pejorative, giving the movement a religion like meaning. Is is a cult in the sense that it is a movement based on philosophical […] ⌘ Read more

My first attempt of guessing a German word was a close failure:

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its like a mix of hangman and mastermind. You try to guess the word. Yellow means the target word has the letter but its in the wrong location. Green means its in the right location.

its like a mix of hangman and mastermind. You try to guess the word. Yellow means the target word has the letter but its in the wrong location. Green means its in the right location.

@prologic@twtxt.net let us take the path of less resistance, that is, less effort, for now. I am going to be a great-grandfather before search ever get implemented locally, least one to search on “all pods”. In other words, let us don’t bite more than we can chew. 😹 Neep-gren!

The most magical words in all of computing…
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every romance language has like three different words for “as”, “like” and “how”, and i can’t tell them apart FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

** Olophont.js **
In Lord of the Rings there are creatures that look like giant elephants. JRR Tolkien named these creatures“olophonts…” simply replacing every vowel in the word elephant with an o. Here is a javascript function to do the same thing.

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<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title">olophont</span>(<span class="hljs-params">string</span>) </span>{
  <span class="hljs-keyword">let</span> replaceVowels = <span class="hljs-string">""</span> ... ⌘ [Read more](https://eli.li/2021/12/20/olophont-js)

fake english word generation for Go and CLI: [[https://github.com/nwtgck/go-fakelish]] #links

Thank you for featuring my blog in your latest “Advent of Bloggers” post and your kind words, James! 🤓 ⌘ Read more

So the evolution of my nick is as follows. I had a bicycle that had the word Zephyr written on it. Which means a western wind. That is related to the Greek god Zephyrus.

I liked words where X make a Z sound. And also had a bit of dyslexia so my firs IRC nick was Xypher swapping the y and e.. I would also use the forms Xypherius or just Xypheri.

Because its close hemming to Cypher I found the nick would get used by others.. Though that is not my origin.

Later I would sign websites I created as The X-Urban Underground (where X was short for Xypher) and that evolved to xuu. Pronounced like zoo.

So the evolution of my nick is as follows. I had a bicycle that had the word Zephyr written on it. Which means a western wind. That is related to the Greek god Zephyrus.

I liked words where X make a Z sound. And also had a bit of dyslexia so my firs IRC nick was Xypher swapping the y and e.. I would also use the forms Xypherius or just Xypheri.

Because its close hemming to Cypher I found the nick would get used by others.. Though that is not my origin.

Later I would sign websites I created as The X-Urban Underground (where X was short for Xypher) and that evolved to xuu. Pronounced like zoo.

building a Forth that sits alongside a LISP. If it’s not an S-expression, it gets interpreted as a word. #halfbakedideas

From a chat on Matrix, where it seems it was one of my more coherent moments: 🤪

… Why can’t they just be individuals? Individuals with their own individual beliefs and their own individual reasons for having those beliefs…

And so just default to a stance of respect and courtesy. The fact is, most of your interactions with others will be very limited; approaching those encounters from a place of respect for the complexities of the human mind and an individual’s experiences and traumas costs you very little, typically.

To be human is to generalise, but that doesn’t mean you can’t push back against those tendencies.

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Well, in the context of chat, it would be something like you’ve just done: don’t put words in my mouth, based on my avatar, nick, grammar, etc., and instead ask me to elaborate on points of potential confusion.

And don’t bring agendas to everything. Default to assuming that this is likely an interaction of hours, and people don’t change based on that, typically.

You’ll probably get more from interactions that you’re open to, but, be honest with yourself: if you aren’t up to that, because it isn’t easy, then just default to respect and courtesy, which isn’t difficult, and costs you little. And then excuse yourself, if they’re proper jerks. ;-)

** Data Types and Variables in C **
I’ve been writing a heap of Lua lately — this has lead to my becoming interested, again, in C. Here are some ancient notes I dug up on the most basics of data types and variables in C.

All of a computer’s memory is comprised of bits. A sequence of 8 bits forms a byte. A group of bytes (typically 4 or 8) form a word. Each word is associated with a memory address. The address increases by 1 with each byte of memory.

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Peter Saint-Andre: There’s No Such Thing as a Kudo
It always warms my heart when we import a word directly from ancient Greek into English. Often they are are philosophical locutions, such eudaimonia and ataraxia. Yet at times more mundane terms make the leap; perhaps the most common one these days is kudos (e.g., “kudos to you on aceing that algebra test!”). Consistent with modern English usage, people tend to pronounce it “koo-doze” and think of it as a plural (“that algebra test was really hard so you deserve many kudos for ac … ⌘ Read more

On the blog: Using git to Count Changed Words https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/13/words-changed.html #programming #techtips #blog #git

I typed in “trenta” (Starbucks for “XL”) into my iPhone and it didn’t recognize it as a real word. Does Apple not understand its primary audience?