Of all the people I've ever known who ever wrote a computer program, no one ever asked for a word for anything...ever. You know they could just as easily use "butface" as any word that is suggested. So, why...try under those circumstances; I don't get it.
At the top of the still-unanswered MSE post Please consider Linux users when designing templates with the Georgia font, we read:
When considering the so-called "web safe fonts", Georgia is one of the most distinctive typefaces out there. This means that it cannot be easily dealt-with with a g...
When I update my chrome to 28.0.1500.11 dev-m, I found that:
-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;
is no longer supported,and I found the changlist here http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/145168
It`s not work in chrome when I set the CSS like this:
font-size:10px;//number less than 12
In chrome (ve...
Went out before dawn, saw the trash was tipped over but not violated (is oso-proof), smelled something foul, walked ten yards down the sidewalk and there was a big black bear defecating in the street a few yards in front.
@Robusto I should have paid attention to the cats. They were continuously going to the windows in a hunched guarded position. Erlkönig-like, I kept telling them that it was just the wind whistling, that there was nothing there.
@Cerberus I guess what I'm saying...I find it troubling when someone who really needs a real word for a real sentence is put on hold for some reason, valid as that may be, while someone who just needs an arrangement of characters (concise, distinct, easily remembered--big plus) is taken so seriously.
@Mitch Ha-ha! Well, something has been surely lost in those movies. So, yesterday, I was googling in the HS visitor parking lot (waiting to pick up a friend's daughter), disregarding all Pride and Prejudice results and, at the same time, noticing for the first time that the building I was parked beside was named after the English teacher who told us that we'd have all the vocabulary we needed if we read all of Jane...Eyre (the book) or Austen (the author)? No matter...resume googling.
@KannE Guessing cool identifiers for programming thingies is a never-ending task to which the SE format is ill-suited. It is my position that SWRs far too easily, and far too often, fall into the same category. Not always, though.
You know the parable of the mechanic's hammer? I kinda feel like single word answers are the same sorta thing: it's not how much effort it takes to produce the answer so much as knowing the perfect answer in the first place.
However . . . in the parable, the ship owner can immediately evaluate w...
Parabolic answers are especially refreshing after so many hyperbolic ones.
@Cerberus It's not likely that Congress would form strong coalitions to oppose Bolsonaro, since the majority of the members have strong affiliations with the Far-right. It's also a very fragmented institution: tens of parties hold seats in Congress, many of which don't have clear manifestos or platforms and are all about money, power, and corruption. That's why the public has lost all faith in the legislature ...
@Mitch I preferred John Steinbeck's settings...or whatever it is that makes you think you're really there watching...like backed in a corner hoping no one notices you and you don't get involved in that mess somehow...like being behind a camera filming a chimp with a machine gun, ha-ha, really.
@Cerberus ... and that's why the alternative that Bolsonaro presents has such a wide appeal for so many people, especially the middle class. And that alternative is to vest more power in the military and militant vigilantes and commission them to eradicate the rampant corruption and stamp out the violence from the streets with total impunity.
So Bolsonaro is presenting the military as a viable alternative to the present system of broken executive and legislative branches, and it's possible that that happens.
But what solutions the military could offer to resolve these issues and how effective or otherwise they could be, is not too hard to guess. This additional power could even drag the military deeper in the corruption and cause it to transform from within.
The judiciary has been disproportionately focusing on the PT as the popular Leftist party and the Left in general for the past years and turned a blind eye to other parties, which are certainly not rife with criminal activities and corruption any less than the Left, in a way that left the door open for the Far-right to encroach on the Center and consume what's left after the destruction and derailment of the Left.
So even if some of them do want to preclude Bolsonaro from making drastic changes in the political system, it might be too late.
So this is an absolute tragedy, and you have a perfect right to be worried for the future of Brazil.
One wonders what circumstances could have driven a people who voted for left-of-center governments four consecutive times to make such a desperate and drastic turnabout towards fascism.
Much of what I just said, and a compelling attempt at the above mystery, are explained in this interview with a Brazilian economist based in the UK: blubrry.com/thedig/38694344/… I downloaded the audio and listened to it today.
@Cerberus I know you're more of an article-reader than a podcast-listener, but this was worthwhile, comprehensive, and informative for me from a historical, political, demographic, and economic point of view. I can't vouch for every point that he makes tho. It'd take me some time to fact-check all he says.
@Zebrafish He's the fascist Brazilian presidential candidate who will most likely win the vote in the upcoming election.
@Færd About you wondering how things can flip to a right-wing populist leader so easily, I thought that was quite normal. Either the right or left take control, things veer so far off the road, people realise, and there's a massive backlash in the opposite direction, often extreme
I thought that's what's been happening in America, Bush and Republicans in office, start a war, people then vote liberal Democrat, then after a few years vote an absolute idiot demagogue into power, stuff swings like that.... it's the biggest shame
But that analysis doesn't account for the fact that the right and the left are not symmetrical opposite points of a spectrum that act in similar ways and are equally likely to mess things up and pave the way for the other to seize the power.
If things go right, more democracy and justice and equality does please the voting community more.
Making for a stronger public base that ensures re-election.
yeah that's true... I'm not sure, I think a lot of conservatives are taken aback at how much movement there's been with political correctness, treatment of gays... economic approaches, then they get angry....
I would be angry too if I thought people were screwing up society and the country... just saying, that's what they think, and they feel they have to fight for their way of life. People are just scared of change... and you get these backlashes
@Færd Well it's kind of an impasse because the two groups have completely opposing ideas. By the way I know nothing about Brazil, so I don't know what the issues are that are in contention
@Færd You're right, most people don't take hardcore lines, but unfortunately both the right and left can get crazy. The right crazy for obvious reasons, the left crazy by taking the ideology of political correctness and tolerance to ridiculous extremes, then you get groups like antifa, who actually train in combat to fight against anyone who opposes their view, mainly because they feel the other side is a threat to humanity
If people dislike word requests so much.... why not separate it into its own section?, or have an option to exclude these questions from the list... like a filter
@Færd and all sorts of people talk about the meaning of it all and are able to plot out the terrible consequences of particular choices and it's like the vast populace doesn't care and just votes like they're voting for 8th grade student body president "He seems cool" "I don't like that lady's voice" "inchoate thoughts about foreigners that am unable to express even inarticulately I saw that guy on TV!"
@Zebrafish That has been mentioned but never proposed seriously because I think people unconsciously understand that it would be way too much work to implement because those who would vote to create such a thing don't want to participate.
@Zebrafish If you bypass the intervcooler and redirect the excess of chronotron particles into an anticollimated burst, you can engineer a flux in the space-time continuum and show up a half-minute earlier to that meeting... about how time-travel is impossible.
OMG chronotron is spellchecked? That's an effing real word!
@Cerberus I dunno...a lot of the rules changed (it seems) after I read them all (not all, of course, a goodly amount). I have to read them again now...or later, like the candy.
> But please, don’t ask any questions about the following topics. They are out of scope for this site. ... - Naming, including naming programming variables/classes
Yes, asking for variable names is expressly off-topic for the very good reason that it has nothing to do with English. You can name your variable xKhabarovsk1253 for all the parser cares. That parser won't be a human.
It beggars belief, but people will actually go and ask random strangers on the Internet, that they've never seen before and will never see again, what to name their flesh and blood.
When you stitch together letters from multiple typefaces, your text begins to resemble a ransom note that pastes together cut-outs from different newspapers and magazines:
ɪᴍᴀɢᴇ ᴄʀᴇᴅɪᴛ: specimen sample of Chris Hansen’s free Ransom Note font
It turns out that we’r...
@Mitch Wait...were there more than two...maybe four, one couldn't write, one died tragically at a young age...or was that Little Women? Resume googling...
Facebook has bing translate embedded, and it tries to auto translate things that are already in English into English but assuming it's another language
@RegDwigнt Where I come from, 'greenhorn' is a kitchen implement. One of those weird thingies that only does one thing, and then when you have just that one thing to do, you can't find it.
In the new, would-be “responsive” design, the actual font size used does not vary as a function of the width of the viewport. Neither do any of the other measures that should in turn be scaled as a function of the font size, such as line-spacing or letter-spacing.
That means the same invariant f...
@Mitch I read the history of those sisters before for whatever reason...but I forgot it like it was on Netflix or something. Quickly skimming...maybe 5 sisters, 2 died, 3 were changed by it, literally; 1 brother did something probably.
@Mitch Yes, I haven't said that in over 20 years, mostly in the 90s because socks were unpopular in the 80s...except knee socks, briefly, with kilts and Shetland sweaters...and penny loafers...because, at that time, none of us had been to Scotland in a hundred years or so. Who knows?
@Zebrafish I love word requests...and that's about it really, but struggling all day to understand a question which could've been as easy as: What's a good action verb meaning to hide? Hide. Bye. I still haven't fully recovered...