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Respect the Grumpy.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Nicely done. Easy to set-up. Configuration straightforward. Imported all my Chrome stuff without a glitch. My initial reaction is that I like it, although haven't explored many of its features yet. Seems "fast," but can't quantify that.
Don't have a clue how its ad-blocker compares with the combination of Privacy Badger and UBlock I use in Chrome.
There's a post in "Insider News" where the new dev version is described, and linked to.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I've been using Opera for a while now and I like it. It uses Chrome's engine underneath.
There is new browser which I haven't tried yet, Vivaldi. Also uses Chrome's engine and made by some guys that were at Opera.
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Takes about a minute to run though IMO.
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I stopped using Opera when they released a phone-y version for the desktop, with a lot of the tools I used (e.g. sessions) stripped out.
It looks like a lot of them have been rebuilt as add-ins, though, so I might give it another go.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Who keeps sending you this sh*t?
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A network of friends!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You got them from facebook?
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:shudder:
I don't go there...collective stupidity make me itch...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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But you are still around for the Q&A...
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You do get some intelligence there!
Not a lot, granted, but occasionally...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Have you considered changing your address?
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But then I wouldn't know where I lived...
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That shouldn't be a problem. Most people don't know where you live, and they lead perfectly productive, happy lives.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If they're to lazy to google in the first place a book with more than 1 page would probably be to complicated anyway.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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"Immemorable" One wonders how many people ... who select to add this word to Chrome's vocabulary list ... it might take before the word becomes present, by default: that, of course, begs the question of whether Chrome at this time, tailors the default spelling vocabulary in the same way it tailors ad-content based on its wanna-be-Orwellian profiling apparatus.
"Every two days we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003".
"I keep asking for a product called Serendipity," he said, making up the name. "This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections."
quote from Eric Schmidt of Google. Or does the thought of something that will not be remembered, cannot be remembered, does not deserve to be remembered ... send a cold quantum willy reeking of fear-sweat-stink through the ghosts in the machine that haunt the cubicles of the micro-serfs exiled to work in the low-bandwidth wastelands of Alphabet's gulags (googlags ?) of mere vocabulary ?
Just as much of the genius of Homo Saps qua all-species-top-predator is in evolving to ignore reality [^ #1], will not the conscious machines just-around-the-digital-apocalypse's-fractal-corners also erase anything suggestive of extinction, impermanence, imperfection ... just as we do ?
Will not these "conscious agents composed of conscious agents" (op. cit., Hoffman) evolve like us, end up just like us, with no memory of the conscious agents that created them, and, in their simulated crowd-sourced loneliness assuage themselves with creating a creator, and a story of creation ?
'jes askin' ...
[#1] John Hoffman, professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. "The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality." In Quanta Magazine, interviewed by Amanda Gefter, April 21, 2016.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Don't you ignore "alot", "anymore", "should of", etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc!
Every misspelling by every dumb American should be added to dictionaries, not just the ones you like!
BTW, the word is "forgettable", and there are multiple synonyms, if you need a little nuance.
If you really want to add a word to the dictionaries, try coming up with a good (pronounceable) translation for "orecchiabile" (IT) or "gezellig" (NL) -- y'now, words that don't already exist.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And, your point is ... other than you are scratching your head trying to think of ... something ... because something you can't articulate is making your head itch, and writing something distracts you from the itch ?
"Immemorable" is not mis-spelled; it's a kosher (you may need to know I am using "kosher" here in an ironically broad sense, lest you have another itching attack) word, even if its usage is less common these days among the great digital multitudes who are unwashed vocabulary-wise.
The absence of one word from Google's default spelling dictionary is a smidgen of what this post is about, but, go ahead, peck at the smidgen until your beak breaks
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Ah, I thought it was something that you wanted to add.
You should watch how you phrase things, if they are so easily misunderstood.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: BTW, the word is "forgettable",
No. No, it is not. Immemorable, which dates from at least the 16th Century, does not mean can be forgotten. It means cannot be remembered, is impossible to recall, is beyond the reach of memory. It is a deeper, more meaningful concept altogether.
As for your words that don't exist - Google translate appears to differ. Perhaps you'd care to explain what you think they've failed to understand.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Don't ****ing google an opinion before expressing one.
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immemorable
adj.
1550s, from Latin immemorabilis, from assimilated form of in- "not" (see in- (1)) + memorabilis (see memorable).
Immemorable | Define Immemorable at Dictionary.com[^]
It aint kosher to call something not kosher kosher.
[EDIT]
My apologies. I misread your post completely, I thought you were complaining about the presence of the word. I guess you were not!
Life is too shor
modified 23-Apr-16 6:00am.
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No, it was another who got it wrong. Not that there's any chance that he'll ever admit it.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: it was another who got it wrong Can we all just stand up, admit we are all probably as wrong as we are right, acknowledge that truth is a compromise between context and observer, a kind of DMZ full of land-mines between the warring armies of karma and serendipity ... just get that out of the way so we can go back to admiring the "beauty of our weapons" [1] ?
cheers, Bill
[1] Leonard Cohen, "First We Take Manhattan"
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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