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  • surely your hobby can't be that expensive

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  • Conlanging is a very cheap hobby. Quoth Tolkien in A Secret Vice

    It is incidentally one of the attractions of this hobby that it needs so little apparatus!

  • Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones?

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  • Just guessing here, but Christmas has cemented itself in the wider cultural consciousness thanks in part to commercially exploitable traditions like gift-giving. It's is often celebrated in some way by people who are not even Christian (Japan, for example). There are very specific themes, religious and secular, associated with Christmas that you can write songs about, The birth of Jesus, obviously, but also family gatherings, winter weather (Northern hemisphere bias), the whole Santa mythos and so on.

    What Americans associate with Christmas is actually three separate feasts scrunched into one. Saint Nicholas day (December 6th) which is why Saint Nicholas is associated with Christmas, and Epiphany (January 6th) again for the magi, are the traditional gift-giving holidays, but got engulfed by the unstoppable Yule Tide. So you have these three different occasions with their own songs combined together.

    New years doesn't have the same cultural presence.

  • What is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?

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  • A plain text physical password notebook is actually more secure than most people think. It's also boomer-compatible. My folks understand that things like their social security cards need to be kept secure and out of public view. The same can be applied to a physical password notebook. I also think a notebook can be superior to the other ways of generating and storing passwords, at least in some cases.

    1. use the same password for everything: obviously insecure.
    2. Use complex unique passwords for everything: You'll never remember them. If complex passwords are imposed as a technical control, even worse if you have to change them often, you'll just end up with passwords on post-its.
    3. use a password manager: You're putting all your eggs in one basket. If the manager gets breached there goes everything.
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  • Forgive my unsolicited advice. Perhaps you know this already but if you want the blockquote to be unbroken you have to put a > on the blank lines as well.

     
            > This is a paragraph.
    >
    > And this is another paragraph.

    This is a paragraph.

    And this is another paragraph.

    The markdown parser also treats a hyphen plus space at the start of the line as a bullet. If you want an en dash you use two hyphens. Three gets you an em dash.

     
            --Some famous quotable guy

    --Some famous quotable guy

     
            I'm not a robot---

    I'm not a robot---

  • What is this colour?

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  • A couple dozen people embedded SQL ‘drop table’ statements in the color names. Nice try, kids.

    Made me laugh.

  • What is this colour?

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  • I'd call it "olive".

    I you'll permit me a tangent, the linguistics of the senses are something that fascinate me. Color names have been studied a fair bit, and an oft-repeated (not sure how accurate) theory states that languages acquire color names in a particular order, starting with words for dark and light, then red, then green and yellow, and so on. As a student of Latin and to a much lesser extent Greek I was interested to find out that there's no exact word for "blue" in classical Latin or Greek, hence Homer's famous "wine-dark sea".

    As a blind person I'm more interested in odor vocabulary. The dominant theory until recently is that language is incapable of describing odors as qualia distinct from the sources of those odors. That is, "green" describes a particular instance of subjective experience independent of grass or bile or any other green thing, but terms for odors all stem from analogies or just the words for their sources. Earth smells "earthy", flowers smell "floral" and so on.

    But some research on minority languages spoken by hunter-gatherers living in Thailand suggest that at least some languages do have "odor colors" as I call them. I desperately want a non-technical breakdown of these studies, or indeed access to the papers at all, but the details are behind pay walls.

    Some of my conlangs are meant to have such odor colors based on the valence-arousal model of emotions since their speakers communicate mood through pheromones rather than body language. Their color words in contrast work like human odor words, only being able to describe color by analogy with something so colored.

  • Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages?

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  • A good analogy goes a long long way.

  • Is it really worth starting a lemmy community?

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  • I have often thought this myself. Not sure I'd enjoy being a mod, and that's assuming anyone bothers to join.

  • If Browser and Wario are Mario's mortal ennemies, why did he invited them for a kart race?

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  • Go-Karting with Bowser

    IIRC per Miyamoto the characters are actors who are 'on set' during the mainline games and hang out after work. Or something like that.

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  • I don’t wish anyone to die as a rule.

    Now at any rate [Gollum] is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy. He deserves death.’

    ‘Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

    --The Fellowship of the Ring

  • Mozilla situation

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  • personally I bounce between FF and Brave. Neither are ideal, FF for the reasons cited here and Brave because it stinks of crypto bro. I personally want FF to survive, it's the only non-chromium browser with any significant market share. I'm looking forward to Ladybird though.

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  • When you fall in a bottomless pit you die of starvation

  • Mozilla situation

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  • Took me too long to realize the paws applying the makeup don’t belong to the fox

  • I'm gonna need a walk-in shower soon enough

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  • *floats away\*

  • This is why we can't have nice things

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  • BeanOS

  • This is why we can't have nice things

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  • I’m not saying it’s not important, I’m saying could you please not post about it in a completely unrelated community. I swear Lenny’s motto should be “sir, this is a Wendy’s.”

  • This is why we can't have nice things

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  • Oh that parachute!

    I too miss being a kid. I miss when my biggest worry was whether I’d get to play Nintendo when I got home.

  • I'm gonna need a walk-in shower soon enough

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  • The most common is a tub with shower head

  • I'm gonna need a walk-in shower soon enough

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  • I don’t believe in gravity