Maybe Ibis (federated wiki) actually does have a future!

I’ve been thinking of doing word of the day posts about my conlang lately, I’ve been writing drafts and all that.

I also strongly suspect all the ZorinOS shilling you see online is the very opposite of organic.

Thought this the moment I heard of the distro, the premium version is just way too scammy

Understandable

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A bit under one hour 'till we finish Inventor Maestro! Remember that we’re starting half an hour early.

The Unicode name for that symbol you typed is actually “hyphen-minus”: it’s a character created as a compromise in the early days of fixed-width typewriters, which has persisted into the present day as typewriters evolved into modern computer keyboards. The hyphen-minus is identical to a hyphen, which obviously has a separate Unicode point once again, but the hyphen-minus (as the name implies) does double duty as a minus sign as well. It’s just that there is technically also a different “proper” minus sign that’s a bit wider that you’re “supposed” to use “if you can”… I just don’t see a reason to bother with it.

I can’t speak for whiskers165 but I can type an em dash by hitting shift+altgr+hyphen, and I use it because mmmmmm longboie

The prescriptions for when you’re “supposed” to use one or the other are as follows:

• A hyphen is for joining words together or indicating that a word has been split in the middle and will continue on the next line.
• An en dash is for ranges of numbers, or at the start of each item in a list. The en dash is also identical, at least in the font I’m looking at, to the minus sign used in math, as well as to the figure dash used for phone numbers and metrical feet. These symbols have separate Unicode points.
• An em dash is for a lot of other things, most notably uses similar to a colon or parenthesis, or as a way to show interruption. The em dash is also identical, at least in the font I’m looking at, to the quotation dash, which obviously has a separate Unicode point because we need as many Unicode points dedicated to singular straight horizontal lines as possible.

There are in fact even more horizontal line symbols with Unicode points than even these six.

But I myself never use en dashes: Ranges in numbers get a ~ like in CJK languages; lists get a hyphen or some other symbol; minuses are also hyphens; phone numbers get hyphens or spaces; and I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had to write down a metrical foot.

The irony of using an EN dash in this comment about EM dashes

I generally space my em dashes and sometimes put them immediately after other punctuation marks (old-fashioned compound points), which I know is “wrong” but sometimes I need a little extra space between the period/comma/whatever and the next clause, and sometimes little miss Emma Dash needs some extra space to breathe, don’tcha kno’.

It’s called an em dash because it’s the length of a typographic em, which was supposedly originally the width of the letter m (hence the name) but is now a bit longer than that. Accordingly, an en dash is half the length of an em dash, and a hyphen is shorter than that still.

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Hey look it’s me 36 seconds in

I vaguely recall some sort of Epstein thing, yeah. Point is that there are no heroes, only weirdos.

We’re finishing Inventor Maestro in 8½ hours. Note that that’s half an hour earlier than usual! Also, I’ve included my plans for the coming weeks in the announcement post, so check out what I’ll be showing if you’d like.

Yeah, I was gonna say, Torvalds gets to have the finger thing as his “moment”, while Stallman has the toe thing, right? But God knows Torvalds has plenty of “toe moments”, too, so the way they’re presented in media doesn’t match with their actual contributions and characters.

I’m willing to guess that most Linux end users’ knowledge of Linus Torvalds begins and ends with “he made a thing I like and rely on every day” plus hashtag inspirational posters on FOSS-related Facebook pages plus short decontextualized video clips that portray him much more favorably than he really deserves. So his lionization is basically built by momentum (is that the word I’m looking for?) more than anything else, right? People uncritically imitating what they see as “Linux culture”. That’s the explanation I’d come up with.

B-b-but……… funny penguin man gave Nvidia the middle finger……… h-he’s not……… he’s not my friend???

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