palordrolap

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Will no one rid us of these turbulent shits?

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

.13

Well there's your problem.

(Not 13 specifically. Just the odd numbered sub-version in general. But 13 if you're superstitious, I guess.)

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Schwa is a vowel, so it would be the long e, not schwa on "the".

A possible exception is when the following word begins with a long e, and people might actually break the rule to make it clear where one word ends and the other begins. Or rather they insert a glottal stop before the vowel sound - I believe this is called "hard attack" - and since a glottal stop is technically a consonant, that allows the rule-break.

That is, something like "the eel" could go either way, but there'd be a very obvious glottal stop before "eel" if the speaker chose the schwa version of "the", and they would have made that choice for clarity, to avoid sounding like they'd said "theel".

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The vowel sound rule (or a related one) is also used for which vowel sound goes at the end of the definite article "the", that is, the sound the 'e' makes.

Usually the last vowel sound of "the" is a schwa, arguably the most common vowel sound in English, but before another vowel sound, it becomes "ee", or what other European languages might write "i".

There might even be an intrusive y (or j as used in Norse and Germanic languages) depending on the speaker. i.e. "The apple" may well be pronounced "thi(y)apple", and a fellow native speaker wouldn't notice. "The ball" has the usual schwa. As does "the usual schwa" for that matter.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Sound it out. The first sound is a vowel sound so "an elephant".

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I don't get these often, but when I do, trying to point my toes at my chin often helps. Very occasionally that doesn't feel right and I know to point my toes the other way before I pay for making that choice.

If the bedclothes are tight or heavy and I'm under them, they can be used to hold the foot in place until the moment passes. Or until I have to get out of bed to writhe around or try something, anything else.

I don't remember the last time the toe pointing thing didn't work though. Maybe I just don't get really bad ones.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 28 points 2 days ago

Eye of newt is mustard seed. If it doesn't matter if it's already cooked, they might have a seeded bread that has it in. They probably don't, but hey, expect nothing and ask anyway.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

Dukat would be proud that the humans in an alternate timeline, where he's fictional, went and named something after him for all his great deeds.

And then he'd find out why we're really naming it after him and he'd try every underhanded trick in the book and a handful of new ones in order to find a way into our universe to show us how great he really is.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago

A disturbing number of people think that computers are magic* and therefore whatever comes out of them is automatically not only correct, but the best possible form of correct.

And if they pay money for access to something that runs on a computer, most of them will double down on that belief until it ruins them.

* or logical, or mathematical or some other grand attribute. "Infallible" is a good one.

And you'll get people in high sales and marketing places who know it's a fallacy, successfully con others with it, but also fall victim to it when it comes from outside their sphere of influence.

Humans™: We're really not all that far from flinging our faeces at each other.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago

One day, the fish will discover a scratch on the inside of the bowl, and will then rediscover it in a different orientation with respect to the general orientation of everything else on subsequent cycles.

What I can't be sure of is whether this will cause a realisation of the truth or a more entrenched and complicated world view of the sort I can't yet fathom.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That's about it. Mbin also provides a direct interface to the microblogging side of the Fediverse. Yes, you can already see posts from Lemmy on Mastodon and vice versa, but there's no way to actually microblog from Lemmy. Mbin has that.

I'm currently on fedia.io which is an Mbin, but the main reason I'm here and not on a Lemmy instance is personal preference. I wasn't keen on the Lemmy / tankie connection, and I liked the kbin/Mbin interface better anyway.

Unfortunately all the high traffic Fediverse groups (communities / magazines / what-have-you) have ended up on Lemmy instances, perhaps in part due to the problems the kbin creator had in his personal life and with the flagship instance, meaning people lacked confidence in spinning up their own instances and went Lemmy instead.

A true VHS versus Betamax moment.

 

Edit: Welp, I'm an idiot. After posting, I stepped away and realised that the name of the config file had to be the answer.

The game is literally called colorcode. Found and installed it and lo and behold, the game's author is someone called Dirk Laebish, which explains the directory name.

Ah well. I'll leave this here for posterity


Looking through an old backup, I've found what appears to be the config file for some game or another at the path ~/.config/dirks/colorcode.conf, but searching the Internet (DDG and Google) turns up nothing for this, and searching apt, Synaptic (yes, I know they're basically the same thing) and even the online "wayback" part of Debian's package archive also gives no result.

The reason I think it's from a game is that the config file, despite its name, contains entries like GamesListMaxCnt and HighScoreHandling.

The only think I can think is that "dirks" is an acronym of some sort, which is why it's not showing up in past or present packages.

Based on the sort of games I usually try out and play, it's more likely to be a simple in-window puzzle or card game than a 3D game.

File dates seem to suggest 2021 as the last time I played / used it, whatever it was.

It would have been under some version of Linux Mint or LMDE, if the Debian commands didn't give that away.

Anyone have any idea what it might be?

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