“then” is used to depict time, sequence or a causal relationship. “than” is used with comparative adjectives, to depict comparison.

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  • Honestly, I would find it more easy to believe that this is a big ploy to stockpile computing and energy resources, while making the general public think that all the rich are fooling themselves.

    I find it hard to understand how they can actually believe their hubris, by placing all NN and ML stuff into a single category, regardless of methodology and variation in resource consumption between previously successful and ongoing cash-grab projects.


    Also, this company was making train controller HMI for another country. They were going on for hours, spewing buzzwords like, “secure”, “safe” and “mission critical”, but then somehow ended with AI.


  • Wait, I just realised you are the same person that gave the original reply to my comment.
    I thought you were playing bokeh in which you ignore the main point of the comment and instead make fun out of another aspect of it and act like you are saying that seriously.
    So I replied in kind and dubbed the normal physical keypads of the older dumb and then feature-phones as “fancy” and then acted as if the number actually had to be shown in alphanumeric to match what was written.

    Don’t tell me you were being serious when you said that the ny free security suite was going to send you to someone that would fix your problems (unless your problem was having too much of money).















  • I don’t really remember enough about Excel anymore, but considering that I don’t remember having that problem despite how many years I used it, I guess that is the case with it.

    And yes, a toggle would be nice. In fact, a few months ago, I was thinking of putting up a request over to the LibreOffice team, when I was working on the table view of another OSS project, but then procrastinated until I forgot. Honestly, if there are enough people that have a problem with this little thingy, it’d be better off fixed. Specially in the Qt implementation at least, it really is just a boolean toggle even for the developer.

    Would you like to put up a bug report to them?


  • So, “jod” is hilarious, but “jift” is disingenuous?
    I don’t get it, but I guess it’s fine.


    Also, I was trying to go by the fact that “gift” has the same 2 letters after the ‘g’ as “gif”, which tends to be an often stated thing when people try to make a semblance of logic[1], explaining why something is pronounced the way it is, in English (and then also used in comedies, where all of that logic fails due to exceptions everywhere).

    For pronunciation in the English language, I consider that there is often not a logic behind it, but a history. And from that POV, “jif” would be the correct one (∵ the creators). But I still pronounce it “gif”, because:

    • it’s an acronym, so I consider the pronunciation to not be very important and it is better to go with what clicks in my mind faster [2]
    • I first read .gif in a file name and there was noone to tell me how it was pronounced. I went with G.I.F. until I felt like calling it “gif” with the logic of “gift”. Then again, I heard quite a few people call it “gif” and it set in.

    1. people tend to look at the previous and next letter, and if that one is a consonant, then maybe also the 2nd, previous and next letter. ↩︎

    2. Not many people go around arguing 'nome vs G-nome, right? ↩︎