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Magazine icon ratios

Why is is that magazine icons are only displayed in the ratio of 6:5? Anything outside of that ratio gets awkwardly cropped out.

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A Delaware city is set to give corporations the right to vote in elections
  • Sounds about right for Delaware. There's literally more corporations registered there than people.

  • Celebrating 1 year with Linux Mint!
  • Flatpak allows downloading from 3rd party repositories and is fully open source. It seems like it might have some security issues regarding the sandboxing though according to this. Regardless, I trust it more than anything with proprietary code.

  • Celebrating 1 year with Linux Mint!
  • A few problems with them:

    1. Snaps are distributed exclusively by the Snap Store, which Canonical has full control over.
    2. The repository backend is proprietary.
    3. They tend to cause performance issues.
  • Celebrating 1 year with Linux Mint!
  • I used to use Ubuntu, but over time I began to accumulate a series of grievances. The final straw for me came when they made Firefox a Snap. Then I did a bit of distro hopping, trying out Manjaro, Fedora, and OpenSUSE, but none of those really satisfied me and they had their issues too. Then I tried Mint and I knew I had found my new home. Mint to me feels like the idealized version of Ubuntu: stable but not out of date, comes with good software, and easy to use. All of this without the corporate nonsense of Ubuntu.

  • Interpreter writing competition?

    A while ago on Reddit I remember reading about Prolog, and the fact that it "made writing interpreters so easy it was banned in competitions." Is there such a thing as an interpreter or compiler writing competition?

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    One single hard-coded uneditable slur words list... really?!
  • From Software games have filters for player names and it often leads to stuff like this. Thus if you put "knight" in your character's name, a common thing that people do given that they're medieval fantasy games, it appears as "k***ht." Likewise "dead" becomes "d***" and "Thomas" becomes "T**mas." Even more embarrassingly, the filter is case sensitive and all the filtered words are lowercase, so you could name your character a slur and it would be fine as long as you capitalize the first letter.

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    The American flag if each star represented a reason to be on Reddit
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    How to best organize an isolating language's grammar?

    Writing a conlang grammar is pretty hard, especially so for analytic and isolating languages. Most natural language grammars seem to be based off the classical grammars of Ancient Greek and Latin, 2 languages with a lot of complex morphology; something that isolating languages obviously lack. So what does one do about that then? Should I even bother having a morphology chapter? My current plan is to just take everything that would be in a morphology chapter (how to express pluralization on nouns, TAM for verbs, etc.) and put it in syntax, but I feel like there's got to be a better way than this.

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