NeatNit

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

Oh, for "how do they show emphasis" - nowadays I'd say it's mostly *like this* which in many apps will actually make text bold or italic. But we don't have a way to "shout" like ALL CAPS WRITING IN ENGLISH. It's just not a thing. Often, I wish there was a way.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hebrew does not have capital letters. But it does have "cursive": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_Hebrew . In Hebrew it's usually just called "handwriting" (כתב, כתב יד) as opposed to "print" (דפוס). The letters don't flow into each other like they do in Latin cursive. They're just faster to write.

In Unicode, each letter has just a single code point: e.g. ק is Hebrew Letter Qof (U+05E7). If you want cursive, you use a cursive font, but it's still the same character.

Some letters have a different final form: if they are the last letter in a word, they look different. These are encoded as different characters, for example: the final form of צ Hebrew Letter Tsadi (U+05E6) is ץ Hebrew Letter Final Tsadi (U+05E5). There is a separate key for it on the keyboard.

There's also niqqud, which takes the job of vowels, but that's a whole other can of worms and isn't used in everyday writing. It's only very rarely used to clarify an otherwise ambiguous word.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

(Comedy answer)

Seems like you have a tendency to get terrible jobs. Try the George Costanza method: whatever your instincts tell you to do, do the opposite! You'll be working at the New York Yankees in no time.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I followed a number of guides to try to get it to work. Including doing that. No dice.

I still think it's probably user error on my part, but I'm still shocked there was no command to effectively "force run an unattended upgrade now" to test that it works correctly.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The OP did it in the wrong order. First do update to refresh, then do upgrade to install.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

There are even better ways built into the shell, but I can never remember any of them. I also never thought of history|grep, I think I might actually remember that one. Thanks!

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

It's through Update Manager (mintupdate) for me, but I definitely feel like the happy guy looking out at the nice view.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I never got unattended-upgrades to work for me on the machine I tried it on. Best I could tell, it just didn't do anything. It was frustrating.

But many years back I set up my raspberry pi with a cron job that was effectively (if not literally) apt update && apt full-upgrade && reboot and that seemed to be working just fine.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

The net is quite captivating.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nebula mirror: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomnicholas-why-youtubers-hold-microphones-now

I wanted to link to this video myself but you beat me to it

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago

I can name a couple of apps that try to recognize songs from the microphone:

SoundHound - my favorite. For most songs I've used it for, it recognizes exactly where in the song it was and shows you the lyrics, highlighting the active line and updating live, so you can follow along.

Shazam - most popular and well-known (at least we're I'm from)

Google - you can use the microphone to search. Has the best chance of recognizing songs through humming or singing in my experience.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

אני לא מכיר קהילות בעברית... והאמת שאני באופן אישי גם לא ממש מחפש אותם

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