I’m very surprised.

My current provider doesn’t even support it…

In what kind of godforsaken backwater do ISPs that don’t support IPv6 still exist!?

One reason could be that Mercurial actually is rather good.

How are we now going to find things on the internet?

I bought a small bag of cheap rice, and it didn’t help me to connect to God!

This remains a great mystery to me. As far as I can see, all they achieve is to waste time and resources for everyone involved, including themselves, without creating anything of value to anyone. It’s truly baffling.

What makes you think that I didn’t?

I too have started to receive such PRs to review and it’s soul crushing.

– I don’t understand what you were thinking here, these changes make no sense to me, could you please be so kind and explain to me why you think this would be an improvement?

– I don’t know, the LLM just suggested it.

Man, I love shorts.

No, this is not true. An independent study originally paid for and later silenced by YouTube scientifically proved that absolutely no-one likes shorts.

I’m one of the few people who enjoy YouTube Shorts.

Seek help.

I have no idea what any of this means.

I still run SpamAssissin on my own mail server, but only because I haven’t yet seen any objective measurement showing some other solution to be better.

Shall I pretend to be surprised?

This is an amazingly stupid court decision.

So they want us to believe that the company that knowingly profited from genocide in Myanmar also knowingly profited from child exploitation? Really? OK then, I can believe that.

OK, then you’re just wrong. Sorry.

Creoles aren’t even considered fully fledged languages, which is why there is a word for them as a concept, so including them would be wrong. Many of them are also just a mix of a local language and English. They might disappear, or evolve to full languages.

You must have gravely misunderstood many things here, for you can’t possibly really believe that the language of Haiti (to take a very obvious and well-known example) isn’t a “fully fledged language” (whatever that’s supposed to mean) or that it has any risk of disappearing (greater than any other language).

I don’t know the Maltese language, but that description is still more coherent than what has gone down with English whose grammar rules are all over the place.

While it’s true that also English has borrowed some grammar from other languages (as most languages have, to varying degrees), that has, as far as I’m aware of, all been from related Indo-European languages, not even close to requiring the amount of duct taping of Maltese. Can you think of even a single example of an English grammar rule that doesn’t come from another Indo-European language?

My personal favourite, which goes much, much further in the duct taping department by taking essentially the entire grammar from one language and a majority of the vocabulary from another, together with uncountable other influences, would be Maltese.

But there are many others, not least all the world’s creole languages.

English is the most duct-taped together language,

I’m sorry, but if you truly believe that, then you must have a very limited knowledge of the languages of the world. English is not very unusual in this regard.

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