[-] __dev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Double negatives affirming one another instead of negating is a common thing in language, known as "emphatic negation" or "negative concord". Middle English used emphatic negation and various English dialects still use it to this day including African-American English. They're saying exactly what they mean, just not in Standard English. Just like they're probably not pronouncing the words the same way. No reason to get annoyed.

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

That's no less true than games written in C, or otherwise with few dependencies. Doom is way more portable than RCT precisely because it's written in C instead of assembly.

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] __dev@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

That's simply the paradox of car-centric design: It also sucks for cars. The only way to actually make driving better is to provide viable alternatives.

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Shared dependencies or death
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[-] __dev@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJh9yTIBY48 for potassium chloride as well as the other alkaline metals.

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Not sure what you're expecting that fuse to do when the battery is on fire from crash damage?

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

BEL is alive and well in unicode: https://unicodeplus.com/U+0007

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

No difference in mileage, maybe. Certainly a huge difference in danger to pedestrians and cyclists.

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

All those Europeans towing with their small cars must just be my imagination then.

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

3000 lbs is well within the towing capacity of a VW Golf with a braked trailer. Not to mention a van.

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

It's a long story. In short: In Latin script u and v were the same letter "u" but had two pronunciations depending on whether it was being used as a vowel or consonant. But when adapting the alphabet to Germanic languages (including Old English) the same two sounds were from two different letters, so they put two "u"s together to make double u: vv.

The full story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y

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