TwilightKiddy

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[–] TwilightKiddy 4 points 5 months ago (6 children)

It's a dead script that was not that common in the first place, in Kievan Rus' it was even used as a form of encryption in XI—XVI centuries for how little spread it was. It is also very different from modern Cyrillic. So, saying "most Slavs don't know how to read it" is a bit of an understatement. Noone knows how to read it, apart from some linguists and overzealous Witcher fans.

[–] TwilightKiddy 18 points 5 months ago

Nah, Georgian is arcs and circles everywhere, like this: ეს ქართული დამწერლობაა.

[–] TwilightKiddy 7 points 5 months ago

Why not use a proper downloader for that sort of stuff like yt-dlp? You can get it running on Android via Termux.

[–] TwilightKiddy 2 points 5 months ago

You misspelled "StarCraft 1" so bad.

[–] TwilightKiddy 8 points 6 months ago

Maybe because it alters your maximized resolution, which makes you easier to identify? But that sounds like a bit of a stretch to me.

[–] TwilightKiddy 8 points 6 months ago

While Apple's products indeed are a bit less than compatible with privacy, it does not mean the owner of such products can't care about it. Maybe they just recenty got into it, or have to use their products for some Apple-only feature that is essential for them.

[–] TwilightKiddy 7 points 6 months ago

You can play HotS without Battle.net, you'll just have to input your credentials manually whenever you start the game. Alternatively, contrary to Steam, you can just kill Battle.net after it has updated and launched the game.

[–] TwilightKiddy 2 points 6 months ago

I've used VLC for an incredibly long time, until I found about mpv about two weeks ago. It's both a lot lighter and packs a lot more utility. I can finally frame step backwards and see millisecond timestamps! The only downside is that you have to do a bit of tinkering with all the configs and plugins, but it's so worth it.

[–] TwilightKiddy 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not to invalidate the point made, but…

While Japanese indeed uses question marks, you can get screwed if you think that every sentence without a question mark at the end is not a question. For example, this is a grammatically correct question:

それは質問ですか。

[–] TwilightKiddy 1 points 7 months ago

It's more or less similar to Reddit in terms of posting, voting and subscribing. The main power is indeed federation, meaning nobody needs huge servers to keep the network online. As long as instances don't blacklist each other, you can freely view posts from foreign instances, subscribe to communities there and comment, all with an account on your home instance.

There are some gimmicks, like on Reddit you could just write

/r/subreddit

to send someone to a sub, but here you'll have to do

!community@instance

to specify the right place, e.g. [email protected], but it's nothing too crazy.

[–] TwilightKiddy 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

rand() generates a number from 0 to a constant defined in stdlib, which usually corresponds to the architechture of your compiler. So, for 32 bit systems (assuming all the software in the line is 32 bit, too) it will be 2^31-1 = 2 147 483 647, as 1 bit in integers is reserved for negative numbers and 1 number is 0.

Though, by design it is guaranteed to be at least 32767, which is a value for 16 bit integers.

[–] TwilightKiddy -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apple products are usually easy to use and hellishly restrictive, preventing the dum-dum user from breaking it. Phones that run under Android allow for much more customization and utility, to the point you can "soft lock" your OS.

Apple is less functional, easy to use, hard to break (software-wise, at least). Android is more functional, though requires skills to get to the functionality and not break anything.

Meaning those with the skills use Android. Thus, skill issue.

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