Just a quick reminder: I'll be off to Paris for three days starting tomorrow. More to the point, I will be offline for like 72 hours straight. In case of emergency, ping Kosmonaut or nohat. (If neither of them is around and there's really, really awful emergency, like the fabric of the Universe collapsing or something, keep in mind that Dori has mod rights, too, and she's lurking here like 25/8. Just don't pester her with trivialities.)
Oh, and @Cerberus: you'll have to fight alone. I suppose if you don't start any wars but only defend against attackers, you should be fine, even if they beat my defense deck 9 times out of 10.
Speaking about [p][/p], you can create an abbreviations file for all those “cymr” and “an.” so that when you hover over those with your mouse you get a balloon with the full form displayed.
@RegDwight: I can beat them half the time (2/2 so far), but there no way we are going to match those 3300+ points they already have. So I might as well give that war up, except for fun (it is still a game...).
i have a homebrew dictionary program that i use for my conlanging, stitched together from perl and sqlite, but i'm interested in using something a little more polished
@Cerberus — My help files give this example: [ref dict="Another dictionary (Eng-Fra)"]some word[/ref] I haven't tested it though, haven't had any need yet.
@Cerberus no regexes necessary, i don't think, since all of the bidi links are already encoded in my source database. anyway, now that i'm looking at this more closely, i'm not sure it fits my needs, except (possibly) as a presentation layer for the data which is already in my database
it doesn't replace the dictionary management features of my existing program. it doesn't seem to support editing, for example.
@Cerberus, @RegDwight: I have recently shared a link to an article by PZ Myers, and there is a follow-up: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/06/evil_atheists_attack_nine_year.php
Look, I dunno why you keep asking me stuff about this bearded guy. Again, I have never seen him, or that idiot he's attacking, so honestly, I couldn't care less. For all I know, neither of them even exists.
@Cerberus, @RegDwight: I have recently shared a link to an article by PZ Myers, and there is a follow-up: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/06/evil_atheists_attack_nine_year.php
@Cerberus I do play them, but usually the battle is over before they become active. But if they do, then they just crush everything. So they are kind of an emergency switch.
one smug asshole taking down another smug asshole is my definition of a "waste of time", even if one of the smug assholes is marginally less wrong than the other
I mean, look, I spent like four years on Reddit getting up in arms about everything every living moment of every single day, only to realize that I could spend my time in better ways, that might even actually change the world.
@Vitaly i admit that i didn't read the whole article. mostly i skimmed the first few paras, rolled my eyes, and closed the tabs. was there something in there that actually qualifies as "lying", as opposed to "honestly presenting an (admittedly stupid) worldview"?
@JSBangs — Yes. Ken Ham deliberately lies about PZ Myers blasting someone in his open letter. He also doesn't link to it, and keeps removing any comments in his blog that link to the open letter or just say, “I read the letter.”
@Vitaly What I need is an old-fashioned fixed-focus camera. No autofocus light, no autofocus lag, no shutter lag; just press the button and the picture is instantly taken. Well, either that or a high-end SLR, the kind that continuously takes pictures, and just happens to save the one it took when you pressed the button.
I also need a coffee. Like, something fierce. TTYL.
We are talking about converting various dictionaries into plaintext DSL files (which are similar in markup to basic HTML) that can be read by a dictionary-lookup program. So it would be good to see the changes on the fly in a text editor. Those dictionaries can also be that large (especially with the markup).
That's about what I would expect. I run macros on files of around 2 megs and it takes a couple seconds. This is with multiple regex "cleaning" going on.
@Cerberus — You were saying something about some usage guide. Fowler, if my memory serves me well. There bound to exist OCRed versions of it. Somewhere.
Oh! Yes, that would actually be a great idea. Looking at those pages, my intuition tells me that there will be an actual text-based version of the third edition...
@Vit: Do you happen to know of a good program to convert pdf to text? I could simply select all the text in the pdf, but then I'd needlessly lose much of the formatting. I can Google for such a program.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
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