airbreather

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[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

How could this happen to me

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I could of course say this as well. It's clearer with additional punctuation like "I could, of course, [...]", but I don't think the comma-free version is technically incorrect (anymore, if it ever was).

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 71 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

New Zealand was not Kung Fu fighting

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Their main site -- not generated by the LLM -- has buttons for "Try le Chat" and "Build on la Platforme" even though I've got the British flag selected for language.

That's because "le Chat" and "la Plateforme" are their language-neutral marketing names for their products.

Sort of like how "GM" is still the name of the car company in like France even though it stands for "General Motors" which is an English term.

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Attempts to prevent this phenomenon involve using what is called the "wait calculation" to predict how long to wait to launch an interstellar journey.

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Once the lifetime appointees have been dealt with in whatever way, the Court will have nine members, each appointed one after the other with two years in between, with the next-most-senior member's term expiring every two years to keep the number stable at nine.

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

From the perspective of phylogenetics, if you believe that all trout species and all shark species should be called "fish", then all mammals are also fish, including you.

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are now 15 standards

No, there is and always has been just the one standard text editor.

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, await is a bit more like comefrom, and it's been around for a few releases now.

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago

I'm good until I run out, I guess.

[–] airbreather@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

From the article:

Brussel competes in the 100-to-104 age category, as categories are determined by birth year.

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