I remember using Mosaic on Silicon Graohics machines back in the early ‘90s. It’s was fab for the time.

And yes, Mosaic became Netscape, became Firefox. From the wiki page at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator

The business demise of Netscape was a central premise of Microsoft’s antitrust trial, wherein the Court ruled that Microsoft’s bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system was a monopolistic and illegal business practice. The decision came too late for Netscape, however, as Internet Explorer had by then become the dominant web browser in Windows. The Netscape Navigator web browser was succeeded by the Netscape Communicator suite in 1997. Netscape Communicator’s 4.x source code was the base for the Netscape-developed Mozilla Application Suite, which was later renamed SeaMonkey.[4] Netscape’s Mozilla Suite also served as the base for a browser-only spinoff called Mozilla Firefox.

Anything’s a regex if you’re brave enough.

The thing with football is that there is a specific goal (pun very much intended). It’s ok to have a mindset that you’re going to play in a way that makes it unlikely (in the beginning) you’ll achieve that goal (eg play left footed), but if that player never improved, would you still think it’s ‘working’)?

I worked in an industry for many years that was obsessed with goal-setting, and that mindset never appealed to me. I eventually found a book called Goal Free Living by Stephen M. Shapiro. It was a bit of an eye-opener for me, and the phrase “Carry a compass not a map” stayed with me until today. I’ve done several different things since then but I’ll never be famous for any of them as I still keep changing direction.

Yes, thanks. I’d seen that and it seemed very much ‘this is how it is’ as opposed to ‘this is how it’s taught’. The rule as I understood was that ‘of’ should be used in combination with adjectives that denote an ‘amount’ of something (eg ‘much’, ‘many’, etc.) whereas adjectives that denote a ‘characteristic’ of something (eg ‘big’, ‘great’, etc.) should not be used with of.

The latter are far more numerous and so use with ‘of’ is rare. But is seems to be used with almost every adjective in US sources.

See here too: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2014/01/not-that-big-of-a-deal.html

I’m genuinely fascinated by this language pattern: “great of a guy”. In, er, classic? traditional? British? English, the “of” just isn’t used. I see it so often as “big of a problem”.

A great guy -> How great a guy I was. A big problem -> How big a problem is it?

Is this just colloquialism, or is it how grammar is taught?

No, the title shows the phones current version (it’s a snip from iTunes). There’s a few people reporting / spending ages on the phone to apple about it—they apparently didn’t understand it either.

I’ve spent a few weeks on Lemmy/all blocking things I don’t care to see, and honestly it’s now pretty good. Plenty of diversity still and easier than subscribing plus occasionally new things pop up that I wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

I’ve been using AWS R53 for this for ages and it works well. Not specifically recommending AWS but using dynamic updates rather than a DDNS service (or running your own name server which I’ve also done).

And more than one skeleton.

Just hide the details.

Plus it’s probably more complex to engineer multi-colour (well, two colour) font rendering onto the video. Getting the background brightness for each character is as simple as adding all the pixel rgb values together and threshold in. It doesn’t need to be very accurate.

Nice to know. It was the sites “e.g.” number under the input field so I just copied and pasted.

Yeah, I’m in the uk and it was the default cc. I entered a us fictitious number, which gave that error. No variations of uk numbers, with or without the international prefix would work either. This was just the funniest of the validation errors.

And if it can validate international numbers, why ask for the country code separately?

Your child can’t be both 16 and below. It’s understandable but wrong. If they’d written it in the form “All children 16 and below …” it would have been ok.

But still, how do you answer it for a 17-year-old?

“Almost at the deadline” and starting to collect data. Sounds familiar.

What’s your research question? Your list of questions seem quite unfocused and broad.

Just going for cigarettes…

I’m going to get back to watching that later.

4-hour shoot, but how many hours editing?

If money isn’t your main concern, explain to them what you’re worried about, and see if they’ll agree to pay on delivery rather than you guarantee a result. That way you both share the risk a little.

So, serious question. Is glyphosate really a good plan in situations like this?

Sad Betamax noises