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Outrageous

I was reading Python’s Significant Whitespace Problems and The Case Against Curly Braces {} Languages from Erik Engheim who has a soft spot for the Julia programming language. He uses Carbon to highlight his code snippets It could be nice but…. That’s outragous 😁 Carbon | Create and share beautiful images of your source code…

Adjective order

Today Firefox, being a Pocket user, suggested me this This Is the Most Bizarre Grammar Rule You Probably Never Heard Of which cite this tweet I’m not an English native speaker but I’ve come to a level that “green great dragons” sounds wrong to me. But I remember that in languages like Italian can put…

Mettiamogli il turbo

In prezioso messaggio di @NoLogicGamer dal canale Telegram Mozilla Italia Ho fatto una lista di modifiche in about:config per dare a Firefox qualche marcia in più e sono buone anche per PC vecchi o scarsiPrendetene e configuratene tutti 🤣 browser.tabs.remote.autostarttruebrowser.tabs.remote.autostart.2truebrowser.tabs.remote.force-enabletruelayers.acceleration.force-enabledtruedom.ipc.processCount128browser.cache.disk.enablefalsebrowser.cache.memory.capacity500000gfx.webrender.alltruebrowser.cache.memory.enabletrue

English acronym mania

There’s a thing of English – well, actually American English, or even better “technical English” – they I find quite disturbing: the custom of creating acronyms at every steps. See this example Concrete Block (CMU) Sizes, Shapes, and FinishesConcrete blocks, also known as Concrete Masonry Units or CMUs, provide very durable structural and non-structural partitions.…