Wikipedia has entirely different versions in different languages. This page is on the English Wikipedia.

Clockwise order isn’t the same as reading order

Yes, I know. That’s what my comment is criticising.

Yeah that seems to be how Wikipedia does things. It tripped me up earlier today on a different page. Bizarre. Just go left to right, top to bottom. Reading order.

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maybe Einstein, but we have proof of [Lovelace’s] discoveries and they’re not at all abstract in the contemporary world!

The implication behind this is that we don’t have proof of Einstein’s discoveries and his are abstract in the contemporary world. But neither of those are true.

Not that good. Claude skills are cross-compatible with Cursor, and probably other options.

Still good, cos it’s locking in to AI in general, but not quite a specific vendor lock-in.

I’m not sure what you mean. Einstein’s theories are not without proof or purely abstract. Without them, satellites’ clocks would get noticeably out of sync with earth’s, which would (among other things) render GPS absolutely useless.

Hate to break it to you, but yes, cancer is living. That’s like, its whole thing. It’s living cells that grow uncontrollably.

The bigger issue is that Spanish is an adjective, and we’re looking for nouns. You can say “an Aussie” or “a Spaniard”. You can’t say “a Spanish”.

It’s worth noting that the Xbox brand these days represents so much more than the console. It’s a game studio, a storefront, a subscription service, a software application, and more.

Oh I hope not. The one part of Microsoft I actually like is World’s Edge, and that sits under Xbox.

Samsung is a Korean jaebeol. It’s a massive conglomerate all owned by the one family, but each department operates very independently and is incentivised largely to maximise its own profit independent of the rest of the conglomerate.

IMO we need regulation. Banks and payment processors should not be allowed to refuse service to any legal activity.

Maybe, but I’ve seen a lot of people promoting BlueSky who don’t or won’t use Mastodon.

I’m 20 years younger than you and use em dashes all the time. Memorised the alt code for it on Windows 20 years ago.

Oh no, I didn’t take it that way. In fact your first sentence could very well be my reply back to you!

Metal detectors in schools are dystopian

Sounds like they fit right in in the country where children are regularly and routinely murdered while at school and society at large is ok with it.

Only since like last year, so it’s not a huge surprise someone would be unaware.

Wilful control of reality in this case requires truth to be subjective

Hmm, maybe. Others have covered this and it doesn’t quite seem perfectly true, but let’s let that slide.

and conversely, if truth is subjective you can control reality

No, that definitely doesn’t follow. If truth is subjective it doesn’t at all mean you can control it. It just means that what is true for you might be different from what is true for me. The reason that’s the case isn’t a part of that equation.

A strike is when you withhold your labour in an effort to extract concessions from the people for whom you provide that labour.

No part of that actually requires an employment relationship. Volunteer strikes are not nearly as common as employee strikes are, but they’re not all that uncommon either. They just require that the volunteers are providing, in the form of their labour, a significant amount of value to the organisation against which they are striking.

You may remember that Reddit moderators did it in response to admins removing API access. On that occasion, it failed in no small part due to a lack of discipline in the strikers themselves.

In Wikipedia’s case, it’s due to the Wikimedia Foundation disbanding the team responsible for dealing with the least of Wikipedia editors’ feature requests, in favour of distributing that work across its regular dev teams. (Editors are volunteers, but developers are paid Wikimedia employees.) The fear is that these employees will inevitably prioritise their own internal work over the feature requests of editors, so features that editors are asking for will not be delivered. The degree of success will largely depend on how many of the highest-volume editors participate, and whether average, low-volume editors (a) join in in solidarity, and if not, (b) are able to pick up the slack.

No local storage or offline capability

PWAs can do both of these. In fact, the definition of a PWA includes that it has some functionality offline. (Though this criteria can be met by serving a simple “sorry, you’re offline right now” page. So long as it isn’t the browser’s default “no connection” error.)