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12:00 AM

Women being extorted by means of a friend's naked pictures to provide the extortionist with naked pictures of themselves.

CC Inc

'Ello guys

I know you missed me

I have a question:

"(Before we could travel abroad), we had to get our passports"?
What verb does it describe? (the clause)

Cerberus

Hi.

I don't understand.

What is "describe"?

CC Inc

What verb does the adverbial subordinate clause modify?

Cerberus

Depends on your model. Traditionally, it modifies the main verbal phrase of the main clause.

So had to get.

But it is perhaps better to say that it modifies the main clause as a whole.

It describes the time at which we had to get our passports took place.

CC Inc

Yes, which is what I am confused about

I am sure my teacher wants something specific but I can't tell what

Cerberus

12:08 AM

If he/she asks for a verb, I would give the verbal phrase had to get.

CC Inc

OK, thank you.

Cerberus

Good luck!

tchrist

1:12 AM

@RegDwighт That one is easy:

macbook# perl -le 'print chr(8203)' | uniquote -v
\N{ZERO WIDTH SPACE}

tchrist

1:24 AM

@RegDwighт The thing that nobody remembers is that it is a non-whitespace control character, not a whitespace character.

macbook# uniprops --perl --negated 'ZERO WIDTH SPACE'
U+200B ‹U+200B› \N{ZERO WIDTH SPACE}
    \pC \p{Cf}
    \W \S \D \H \V

I’d’ve said it was being used as a ZWNJ-type thing, but that occurs earlier in the string.

`macbook# uniprops 'ZERO WIDTH SPACE'  'ZWNJ'
U+200B ‹U+200B› \N{ZERO WIDTH SPACE}
    \pC \p{Cf}
    All Any Assigned InGeneralPunctuation C Other Case_Ignorable CI Cf Format Changes_When_NFKC_Casefolded
       CWKCF Common Zyyy Default_Ignorable_Code_Point DI General_Punctuation Graph Print X_POSIX_Graph
       X_POSIX_Print
U+200C ‹U+200C› \N{ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER}
    \pC \p{Cf}
    All Any Assigned InGeneralPunctuation C Other Case_Ignorable CI Cf Format Changes_When_NFKC_Casefolded
       CWKCF Default_Ignorable_Code_Point DI General_Punctuation Gr_Ext Grapheme_Extend Graph GrExt Inhe…

So it seems that C♯ has gone the dumb Java route of allowing unrecognized characters by default instead of rejecting them. That is really a stupid idea.

I’m exaggerating, but it has something to do with the \p{Default_Ignorable_Code_Point} issue. They take it to extremes.

But why the hell those change when NFKD-casefolded I have NFclue.

Robusto

1:40 AM

@Cerberus No wonder he's messed up. His parents named him Karen.

@BlessedGeek: We're all about "tough love" here. — Robusto 10 secs ago

@Cerberus: hAROLD REX INTERFECTVS EST

tchrist

3:19 AM

Tee hee, too hoo:

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A: Why no honeypot suggested edits?

We've rolled out audit tasks for suggested edits in our more recent builds. What we're doing here is actually kind of fun. They're also sometimes hilarious. Since we know suggested edits have really noisy history, the approach we use for other queues (selecting "known good" or "known bad" con...

> Instead we're building a super simple model (basically a Porter Stemmer + Markov Chains**) of a few thousand posts per-site, and using that to create "looks OK at a glance, but deeply flawed" audit edits. Thus "involve boy code machines".

“Boy code”?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

3:41 AM

@Cerberus Not upgrading office is nothing at all like not installing security updates for Windows XP.

Oh and @Cerberus I have placed an order for the Nexus 4.

Mahnax

5:04 AM

theverge.com/2013/1/29/3929110/surface-pro-disk-space-windows-8

> Microsoft's 64GB Surface Pro will only have 23GB usable storage

That's embarrassing.

tchrist

5:32 AM

It is inconceivable that an operating system could take 41 GIGA-bytes.

aedia λ

It sounds like half of it might be a recovery partition, but who puts a recovery partition on a tablet?

tchrist

You mean a duplicate copy of the entire Microsoft software distribution?

aedia λ

Yes.

tchrist

How . . . unpleasant.

aedia λ

I am on my phone and should be sleeping, but can't, due to a head cold; apologies for terseness.

Yeah. I don't know why they would do that to the poor tablet.

tchrist

5:52 AM

They have no sense of propriety, proportion, or taste.

aedia λ

It makes sense in some way, but it will probably help like three people ever.

Mahnax

@tchrist I do not think it means what you think it means.

@aediaλ Aww, I hope you feel better soon.

Mme Pomfrey could probably fix you right up.

aedia λ

@Mahnax Thanks.

Mahnax

Hmm, funny. I think that is the same tablet that froze during its unveiling.

aedia λ

I should try the attempting-to-sleep thing again rather than the looking at the phone bit. That's probably not working. But at least it has stopped me ripping my sinuses out of my face, so yeah.

Mahnax

6:05 AM

OK. Well, good luck with sleeping.

aedia λ

I wish you all pleasant dreams free of congestion and oppressively large operating systems.

Thanks!

Mahnax

I wish you the same thing!

Mohit

8:44 AM

@Mahnax Microsoft has officially said that the backup partition is the reason behind that much space being used up. Once users back their system up to an external drive, they can remove the partition

@Mahnax Microsoft has officially said that the recovery partition is the reason behind that much space being used up. Once users back their system up to an external drive, they can remove the partition and free up lot of space.....And I also believe that this is the case with almost all of laptops but we don't notice it since the proportion of space being used up is too less than the one in this case is

Cerberus

8:58 AM

@Mohit You're probably right.

PCs have huge hard drives, so 30 GB less is not an issue.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Congratulations!