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  1. Posted

    Hmm... esse, es, est and estis are visibly related, as with sum, sumus and sunt.

    Minor vowel changes aside: estes respelled to êtes due to the French pronunciation.  Likewise with estre, although that seems to have been semi-regularised from esse (Latin infinitives usually end in -re).  Which goes to show how relatively conserved the very common be-verb(s) is － perhaps hence the tendency to retain irregularity rather than simplify (related, does any other English verb still have a distinct subjunctive mood, auxiliary use of that one with infinitives of other verbs aside?)

  2. Posted

    6 minutes ago, RainbowWizard said:

    bad touch grace needs adult

     

    Seriously though I'm not sure if Pandora can do much beyond have a gander and... 'guide and empower'. That's it.

     

    Look or indirectly aid, and she's purely not in the mood to aid...

     

    Ooh, maybe she'll see the spooky many horned skull thing from Grace's dreams years ago irl and we'll find out what that was about.

    Given http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=580, http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=581 and http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2199, it's apparently a Lespuko skull…

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  3. Posted

    Musings:

    If someone proved a theory, it is a "proven theory".  This means that "proven" is the past participle, which is usually also the grammatical part used after "have", i.e. "have proven".  But for some reason "have proved" ("proved" equalling the simple past tense) is widely accepted.

    Also bend→bent, wend→went.  Wend means the same as go, "went" apparently later became more associated with "go".  Otherwise "go" follows (although not exactly phonetically, by current phonetics at any rate) more or less the same conjugation as "do": do/does/done/doing/did, go/goes/gone/going and one would expect "gid" if the two verbs had developed the same.

    KJV spells "show" as "shew" in several places.

    "Be", the infinitive, shows obvious connection to "being" and "been", its participles.  The simple past (was/(wast)/was/were/were/were) and simple present (am/(art)/is/are/are/are) show no clear connection to "be", but seem somewhat related to each other, albeit not in any regular conjugation.

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  4. Posted

    1 minute ago, Scotty said:

    The evolution of "Emojis"; Started out as ASCII "Emotes", then "Emoticons" when people gave them graphical representation for instant messengers and forums, then someone felt they needed to sound cute when porting them to mobile messengers.

    I remember when emojis first appeared, people were talking about them like it was something new and amazing, all I could think was "these have been around for years, they're just emotes!"

    Although "emoji" actually means "picture (e) written character (moji)" － the "emoticon" connection is a coincidence but probably contributed to the term's adoption by English speakers.

    The distinguishing factor from forum emoticons is that emoji have actual Unicode codepoints (i.e. they are stored just like a letter, number or symbol, not as a picture) － which apparently originated as an effort to map text in Japanese cellular character-encodings (which reserved codepoints for pictograms) plus the Zapf Dingbats font (later adding Wingdings and Webdings) to Unicode's Universal Character Set (designed as an international standard capable of representing text originating in any encoding).  More info.

    (Unicode also gives a far larger number of characters to form textual emotes from than ASCII, hence we gain the "spacing macron, backslash, underscore, opening parenthesis, katakana tsu, closing parenthesis, underscore, forward-slash, spacing macron" shrug.  And the Lenny.)

    Although I have personally decided on the following private-use encoding for the Demonic Duck:

    FDECD, representations:

    UTF-32: \U000fdecd
    UTF-16: \udbb7\udecd
    UTF-8: \xf3\xbd\xbb\x8d
    CESU-8: \xed\xae\xb7\xed\xbb\x8d

  5. Posted

    RE: today's NP.

    "Waifus"?

    Well, I suppose it's rather chimeric as it is… being an English word borrowed into Japanese and then borrowed back for a different meaning.  Okay, I'll accept that.

    (Japanese words don't usually change singular-to-plural (although it is possible to explicitly indicate multiple of something).  Hence with loans from Japanese usage, "three Pokemon" is used (or, perhaps more controversially, "three emoji"), analogous to "three sheep".  (I tend to feel somewhat irritated by "emojis" － although the meaning is still clear, and I'd be fighting an uphill battle trying to get that one dropped.))

  7. Posted · Edited by HarJIT 

    $ sudo sh
# ffplay tutorial.webm

    NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP, NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN, NEVER GONNA RUN AROUND AND DESERT JOHN CENA Doo Deru Dooo! Deu Deru Doo!  Ohohohoho!  Ohohohoho!  Lololo-lololo-lololo-lololo-lololo-LOL! 

    ^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 ffplay
# kill %1

[1]+  Stopped                 ffplay
# 
[1]+  Terminated              ffplay
#

    That was a mistake.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    There was no need to do that as root.

  8. Posted

    A NewScientist "Feedback" column mentioned a lens cleaner ingredients list including:

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    "propagandist", "cellulose acetate butterfat", and the chemically confounding "5-chlorine-2-methyl-4-indianapolis-3-one"

    The "curse of the spellchecker" strikes again.  Googling an exact phrase "acetate butterfat" yields a page stating:

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    We are also dealing in cellulose acetate butterfat & cellulose acetate proportionate of Eastman chemicals.

    Proportionate is presumably propionate, leaving butterfat to be, most likely, butyrate.

    As for "5-chlorine-2-methyl-4-indianapolis-3-one", "chlorine" is presumably from "chloro" (it still makes some sense, in fact).  "Methyl" and "one" are probably untouched ("one" as in a ketone group, saved by its homonymy to the number), and "indianapolis"?  Possibly "indophen"???  That or "indole[something]".

    Goodness knows what "propagandist" is.

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  11. Posted

    35 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    AAWWWWW!!!

     

    Seriously, have you seen fennec foxes?  Have you seen how adorable they are?

    From the name, I'd guess Fennec is a smaller version of Firefox, designed for smaller devices with fewer resources?

    It's the informal name of the product marketed as "Firefox for Android".

  13. Posted

    Yeah, Hangouts on Android bars me from the app until I update Play Services, I do so (using root privileges to shuffle stuff round the partitions, and uninstalling stuff, to make space and tricks like that) and it just breaks stuff (slows the system to a crawl while throwing torrents of ANRs).  Finish up having to bin Play Services and all obligate dependants.  Tried installing Play Services / Hangouts again some significant time later, to be greeted with still breaking stuff, and Hangouts insisting that Play Services is somehow still out of date.  Presumably, Google just does not care about small JBr1 devices anymore.

  15. Posted

    6 minutes ago, Cpt. Obvious said:

    Was this using Edge? If so then I can add that I've had problems with text edit going wonky while using Edge. Text boxes that didn't want to open. Text boxes that didn't allow for any text to be entered. Text boxes where I wasn't allowed to navigate past the current paragraph using the arrow keys. Text boxes where I wasn't allowed to navigate using the mouse, but I could select text using double or triple clicking and I could access the drop down spell check menus (something that's just stopped working for this text box that I'm writing in...). Text boxes that suddenly becomes inaccessible not allowing me to do anything to the current text, not even copying it so I didn't have to start over from scratch.

    Solution? Use some other browser! Any other browser should work better than Edge. Even IE is worth giving a chance over this kludge.

    If it wasn't Edge then I just suggest you try any other browser, just don't have to high expectations of Edge if you decide to give it a whirl. The current version of edge (Version 25.10586.0.0, EdgeHTML Version 13.10586) doesn't seem quite finished.

    I'd really like to push for Opera, though not the current pile of... No I'm still on the old 12.18 which was released back in 2014! No version newer than that is worth using as both FireFox and Chrome offers more functionality and better UI. So unfortunately I can't in good faith say that Opera is a valid alternative...

    Was that the version before Opera changed to being a Chrome derivative? (checks WP) Yeah, looks like Opera 12.x was the last Presto browser although, while the transition appears to be in 2013, it lists 12.17 as released in 2014 and 12.18 as released in early 2016 (suggesting that 12.x, though an older version, is occasionally being updated).

  17. Posted

    14 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

    Actually the edit function works perfectly except for one little detail: ordinary text appears in white on a white background. Which makes it kind of hard to see - but it's there, and you can prove it by...

    • highlighting
    • selecting the entire text and converting it to a bulleted list
    • a greasemonkey script (for firefox and maybe some other browsers) that is mentioned frequently but I don't remember the details

    The details:

    On 15/06/2016 at 10:24 AM, HarJIT said:

    I did make a Greasemonkey script to fix the invisible text editing problem.  If you have GM installed, clicking that link should install the script.

    Its code is: 

    
// ==UserScript==
// @name        910CMX Rich Text Editor - Temporary White Text Fix
// @namespace   https://harjit-egs.tumblr.com/
// @include     *community.910cmx.com/*
// @version     1
// @grant       GM_addStyle
// ==/UserScript==

GM_addStyle("ul.ipsList_reset li p { color: inherit !important; }");

    No, I'm not kidding.  I'm more or less just knocking out a CSS rule.

    (Before anyone asks, GM for Firefox, GM for SeaMonkey).

    Use of this was suggested for making it run on Opera, apparently successfully although I cannot personally confirm that, not being really an Opera user myself.

  20. Posted

    wmjX1JI.png

    I have added Ashley -> Diane and re-reckoned the rankings without counting orbitals.  This gives a better idea of hubs in the core of the 14 itself rather than the periphery: Susan, Nanase, Ellen, Elliot and Tedd stand out (especially the latter two), with Justin prominently behind due to ships being primarily orbitals (suggesting a peripheral role).

    The graph drawing is copyright © HarJIT 2015, 2016.  May be freely redistributed subject to the following:

     

    The graph drawing is copyright © HarJIT 2015, 2016.

    THIS WORK IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  IN NO EVENT WILL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE), ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS WORK, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

    Permission is granted to anyone to use this work for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter and/or distribute it freely in any form, with or without modification, provided that the following conditions are met:

    1. The origin of this work must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you authored the original work.  If you use this work in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.

    2. Altered versions in any form may not be misrepresented as being the original work, and neither the name HarJIT, nor the name HarJIT-EGS, nor the names of authors or contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this work without specific prior written permission.

    3. The text of this notice must be included, unaltered, with any distribution.

     

     

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  21. Posted

    4 hours ago, mlooney said:

    Here is harjit's Tumblr post with his copyright statement.

    Oh, yeah, freaking edit mode.

    I did edit the image in response to proposed amendments, which altered the perceived centre somewhat (may be redistributed freely subject to the same conditions) - dashed lines denote so-called orbitals separate from the core 14:QiGhWSx.png

    As for edit mode, my Greasemonkey script again (yes, I'm going to keep posting this when it comes up, for the benefit of anyone who missed my previous postings).

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