Yeah I think mid last year there where leaks suggesting it was at a beta stage with internal playtesting.

Maybe poor old Alyx can finally stop hanging off that literal cliff lol.

Or its all bullshit. I probably will get me a steam box thingo though. I always had a rule back in the day where I timed my upgrades for Half life releases. And windows has pushed itself past my pain tolerance with its nonsense lately so maybe steamos might get an install out of me.

Yes, however much like AI, Netcraft confirms that BSD is dying. Its just one more crippling bombshell to hit the already beleaguered BSD community when IDC confirmed that BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers

Im fairly sure quite a few of his supporters have been coming to that conclusion.

I'd wager if you got MTG away from a camera and the threat of being smacked by trumps team of lawyers, she'd have some choice words on this matter. (and probably some crazy words on it too, this is after the jewish space lazer woman, but I digress.....)

Even in the US the only homogeneity is if your education background uses Websters as its standard reference, which I suspect is above 99% of US schools.
The dictionary situation in Canada has historically been less one-sided. Depending on province is the most common dictionary, with Gage being the only truly Canadian dictionary I ever saw growing up. But I suspect OUP Canada is the dominate one now (I haven't been over there in decades).

Years ago, at least in the northern US, metre and meter were both common to see in print. And metre was preferred if ambiguity was possible, which is rarely the case. But hey, I'm from a part of the US that teaches children to sing in French. So perhaps not an ordinary sample of USian lifestyle.

A combination of arrogance and denial will lead to this century being known as the Chinese Century. Western style democracies are unlikely to retain the geopolitical dominance they once enjoyed, and neither the US or EU are prepared culturally or materially for this eventuality.

Yep, fake "conservatives" all around.

They don't. They apply the same laws to _anybody_ that does business in the EU. Kind of like US law applies to _anybody_ doing business in the US. But I guess that idea is to complex for you.

Indeed. They think the law essentially does not apply to them. Of course that is not acceptable at all.

As in finding the reference design and putting that on a PCB? Color me non-impressed.

Because it makes the grades meaningless.

Your comment subject seems to imply a homogeneity in North American English which is non-existent. For example, for Canadians a cheque is a financial instrument; a check is an inspection or process of confirmation. Nite and lite are merely misspellings of night and light. Also, the last letter of the alphabet is and always will be zed and not zee.

Colour, flavour, and valour are usually spelled with the 'u' here in Elbows Up land, whereas in the US I'm pretty sure the 'u' almost never appears in those words.

And of course, in America the word meter may refer to either a unit of measure or an instrument for measuring. Here in Canuckistan, the unit of measure is the metre.

Bingo, think about their incentives; the government isn't going to care as of late 2024, they are probably not seeing customers leave at an amount to be concerned about, not anywhere near enough to counter the money. The markets don't care and then the shareholders obviously love it, maybe these employees feel a tinge of concern but you know then they look at their portfolio.

So what's the incentive for Meta to stop this? It's overall probably bad for society and the economy and consumers and even national security but there's no incentive for Meta to care about those.

Companies choosing to care about the greater social impact they have is very old fashioned and even when they were kinda trying to pretend to care half the country and media excoriated them and made ESG a slur. So what's left?

Indeed. And that is the core problem when an engineering discipline cannot perform or cannot perform well: incompetence.

Memorising a bunch of spelling in order to read some 18th and 19th century documents that are otherwise modern English seems inconvenient, but not as inconvenient as teaching millions of children and English as a second language students a bunch of spelling variations that should otherwise be obsolete.

None of us can read Old English without significant training. And even Middle English (~400-500 years) is troublesome for a layperson without an annotated student book for the text you want to tackle.

I don't agree that the job of dictionary compilers would be any different. Each one attempts to establish their own vision of the English language for their region. And they will continue to do so, perhaps selling a lot more material if we have to transition between new spell (and possibly new alphabet) and old spelling. Most of us that already know the old system would end up buying reference material for the new version.

Mechanical analysis would be easier, not harder. And with LLMs most of the expert systems for this are obsolete precisely because they are inflexible.

The number one reason not to do this is: Interia.
Nobody likes having to learn new things or change the way they've been doing things. If grouping numbers together in multiplication for "common core math" causes a row with parents, imagine if we added some letters for the various forms of TH ? People would lose their minds that they can't sing the Alphabet Song anymore!

In hindsight, throwing away14.4% of American customers, was probably not a smart thing.
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