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Maybe they could add a filter which removes items from brands with gibberish titles. No, I don't want to buy something from zxutringly or qorduger or any similar nonsense

Define "gibberish title." It's harder than you think!

For example, there's a (Shenzhen-based, but well-established in the US market) 3D printer vendor called "Elegoo." Their name was (apparently...) chosen as an abbreviation of "Electronics with a Googol applications." Does your filter block them?


chinese speakers in particular have a hard time recognizing what kind of names make sense in the english language. mind you, we would have an equally hard time to come up with chinese names that don't sound weird to native speakers.

I got a bad grade in a highschool English class because the teacher didn't like the doc file generated by StarOffice. My dad came round the school raising hell and got her to grade the paper on contents, saying if they wanted me to have office they could buy a copy of it. I got an A- after that

That's good fathering. Respect.

They're selling an AI. Of course they don't want their customers to think

Vivaldi has had tiling for a while now. It's not quite free form mdi, but it beats opening two windows next to each other

Vivaldi has had tiling for a while now. It's not quite free form mdi, but it beats opening two windows next to each other

Al, Wake up! It's 3AM and we need you to come in urgently!

Why? What happened?

We need to make sure we have shoes on the shelves! Bob had a nightmare there are no more shoes left!


Chrome has the advantage that they inherited webkits inspector. The chrome team made improvements, yes, but it originated in Safari

Unless the JeDI contract is up for renewal


What does that have to do with bitlocker?


I recently moved my personal writing to John MacFarlane's djot. It's a markup language that grew out of his markdown improvements blogpost, where he explored the issues, and possible fixes, he discovered while creating the common mark standard.

I've no regrets since then

https://pdx.su/blog/2025-06-28-writing-in-djot/


Years ago I bought a bunch of duralex glasses, to replace my faded college IKEA plasticware. I still have every single one of them, and none are worse for wear. They've been dropped, survived several moves, and even toddlers, and are still going strong


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