@Gigili I can tell you that (1) I did not get that ping and (2) I cannot find it if I search for my name either. It seems that is because of the punctuation you used after the @name. I don't know whether that was your experiment, but I discovered that is how chat pings work. No, I don't have a youtube channel now and I don't really view youtube now either.
@BAYMAX I can tell you that Grammarly is a very bad piece of software. I say this based on the hundreds of advertisements I have seen on youtube asking you to use Grammarly. I don't know much about software or grammar, let alone grammar software, but I think it is best not to use any kind of grammar software. In fact, it is best not to use any spellchecker software either, and just consult a dictionary of your choice.
It is going ok! yes, I have graduated and trying to do research.@Jasper sorry but I am unable to remind myself. Did I talk to you in the main math chatroom of MSE?
@BAYMAX Yes, we spoke on several occasions in the past. I think I might have been the one to recommend Calculus and Linear Algebra 1 and 2 by Kaplan and Lewis to students wanting a good calculus textbook.
@BAYMAX Me? Well, I don't want to talk about myself now, LOL. But it's good that you are trying to do research now. Don't forget me when you win the Fields medal!
@RegDwigнt I have seen that woman and tentacle sex painting many times. It is quite famous on the internet.
@M.A.R. wait... there's a free proofreading service?
Why haven't you answered that every time (which is everyday) that somebody asks a proofreading question)?
Also, how does HiNative compare to ELU? Content- and quality-wise?
@Jasper I don't know about the quality of Grammarly (I should probably use something like that just to find all the words I out) but holy crap those ads are annoying.
Advertisements should be like stories. I don't want to see the same story over and over. I also don't want to see the same author over and over.
Geico ads get close (it's like they have different authors, different personalities, different subjects altogether, and I never know what I'm seeing until they mention Geico at the end (of course I'll never buy their product!!)
What really bothers me is the ads for Epoch Times. So many, and they're all trying to sell me propaganda.
That is, sure, the ads are propaganda, and that is very obvious, but they're trying to -sell- propaganda, and trying to get me to not like Chinese propaganda and to like the ET propaganda. It makes me not like any of it.
@M.A.R. yeah that's because three consecutive dots won't ping me because it's a horrible typographical error and I just don't want to get pinged by people who can't type.
Try using the actual character for a horizontal ellipse. It is one character, not three.
@Mitch well to be fair, it's very easy to imagine a free proofreading service.
I think the only thing that's easier to imagine is the kind of quality it delivers.
@RegDwigнt They had you in mind when they designed it
@Mitch Not that hot to be honest.
It lacks the quality checks and controls SE has built-in. No downvotes or any sort of moderation, really.
But folks hang around each language section, and it's a good chance of getting a free proofreading done by a native speaker
@Gigili Semantics
@Mitch IIRC the pitfalls are the same as MS Word or other proofreading services. As soon as a sentence's structure ventures out of the absolutely ordinary it starts showing false positives and missing egregious errors.
Like it miserably fails when there are embedded clauses
So I guess it's great if you're at B1 and wanna cheat, not so much for writing your thesis
Not to mention some prescriptivist "rules" of questionable merit that always find their way into these things
I was wondering, cell towers seem to be positioned one or more km apart - and any carrier seems to be able to determine which tower I have the strongest connection to, and estimate an area I could be in. However, with 5G being deployed every few 10s of meters, would that also mean any carrier can...
@Mitch Like Kodak... Now people cry if their batteries die. I smashed my phone and I'm living in the 80s. My PCM called my husband; they thought I died. That's their expertise. I told everyone to write me a lovely letter, but I don't know if the post office can handle it all.
@M.A.R. Location settings? “However, there is one major–and unavoidable–drawback to 5G: It’s going to cost you your location privacy. Anyone with access to your ISP’s cell tower data will be able to hone in on your exact location far more precisely than they can today under our 4G networks. “
I’ve heard people talk about shielding from 5G for rooms, e.g., bedroom.
@M.A.R. thing is, even if the people doing the work, any kind of work, are really really really rubbish at it, you still have to provide some kind of incentive for them to stick around.
It doesn't have to be monetary, but it has to be something.
You can tell them, proofread this garbage for free and you'll be a contributor to the largest free online encyclopaedia mankind has ever built.
You can tell them, proofread this garbage for free and we'll give you an imaginary Internet point, and upon amassing 15 imaginary points you'll be able to join our chat and talk to @Robusto about music.
But you can't just tell them, proofread this for free. Now proofread this for free. Now proofread this for free. Now proofread this for free. Now proofread this for free.
After a while they'll get really bored and leave. Maybe after a minute, maybe after a year, but they will move on.
And keep in mind, I'm still talking about people who are actually really really bad at it. Maybe they'll just change a word. Maybe they'll change nothing. Maybe they'll actually make it much worse. But there is no maybe about them getting bored with it eventually.
I want to say "The owner information can be appended to the input string". But I don't want to limit the place of this addition to the end of string. It can happen at the beginning, among the string (for example in every other letter), or at the end.
What is the suitable word for this? In compute...
And now imagine those people are actually good. They are actually qualified to do the job. They could make a living out of it. Now go tell them to do it for free. Then do it for free. Then do it for free.
I saw that. And he outed himself as someone who is attempting to get us to name software artifacts.
@m123: What, your language doesn't overload words and operators? Get used to the fact that just about any word in English has multiple meanings, and that users of it are expected to switch between them with no trouble. English is not a programming language, and people recognize the difference between you talking about software and the software talking to the compiler. — Robusto42 secs ago
I'm too tired right now not to hate people who bother me with their shit.
Meh why am I even trying you keep beating me to it.
And I can't onebox what I said because that also stopped working. I would have to go and copy the link on my tablet, paste it to Google Drive, then copy it to my PC, then post it here.
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