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just saw someone mention an AMA and I thought of doing my own, with a twist: you ask questions, and then I ignore them and don't actually answer anything because it's "ask me anything", that doesn't say anything about answers

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Datasheet state transition diagram vs alchemic transmutation circle.

why was the wikipedia page about the letter/ligature ß open, I do not remember opening that tab

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hot take: Masto should not focus on acquiring new users

it should focus on providing its users a safe, stable, reliable place to form a community, and allow users to join organically

trying to emulate other systems by incorporating their flaws is a terrible idea and guess against the whole ethos behind most people who came here

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suggestion: instead of letter emojis, why not implement some user-useable tags

eg: <hacker>blah blah blah lorem ipsum</hacker>

which seems to basically be how people want screenreaders to ideally read this stuff anyway

html tags had screenreaders in mind from the get-go, too. early spec documents included examples like using <sarcasm> or <sad> or whatever so the screen reader's inflection could be adjusted

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It looks like people are talking about april fools stuff so I want to say

I will not be doing anything for april fools. No pranks, no jokes, nothing.

April fools is already hard on people with anxiety. If you see this, please consider making a statement that you won't do anything for april fools, so that people like myself can be a little more comfortable that day, and not have to dread it as much.

This goes doubly for instance admins. Please don't change the site suddenly without warning.

it occurs to me that passersby is the only english word we're aware of that pluralizes like that

english is definitely a language, yep

our internet is being very bad right now and not loading things half the time

To the math people on here (@Austin_Dern being the only one I know): Could someone explain the motivation for homogeneous coordinates to us? We just don't get it.

this is on Amphenol's website, part of a parametric search system for connectors. So it isn't trying to be inclusive of nonbinary people or anything.

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Why are controlled substances in the US called "schedule" 1, 2, or 3? Why not use the word "class" or something? How does the word schedule work there?

Similar question for schedule-40 pvc pipe. We don't even know what that means, let alone why it's called that.

An annoyed goblin/gremlin hybrid: a grumblin' gremblin

Headphones get here today. Time for much refreshing of the tracking page, to no actual effect!

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