Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@social.cleverlibre.org

@freemo no

@zoe_dubus je viens de parcourir https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langage_inclusif_en_fran%C3%A7ais et ça n'a pas l'air gagné 🤔
Je me demande si se rapprocher de l'anglais n'aurait pas une meilleure chance de prendre -> franglais pour les articles et pronoms neutres ("a", "the", "they", "them", "my", "your"). Ça nous donne: "my professeur", "the ministre" !

@zoe_dubus y a-t-il un raccourci pour prononcer "un chercheur ou une chercheuse" ou "une ministre ou un ministre" ? Et quels pronoms utiliser ? (en anglais, "they" et "them" marchent bien pour ça)

@CoralieArtTank 😂 love it!

@dpiponi for subtitles: my guess is that movie makers watch them super loud in a dedicated room while understanding the language perfectly, so they never thought that subtitles could be useful to all. Maybe eventually, smart TVs will upload stats on subtitle usage and they'll realize how important it is. Maybe it's happening already?
Regarding aspect ratios: I don't have a rationalization. I am deeply disturbed each time the aspect ratio is wrong, e.g. an old 4:3 stretched to fit a widescreen TV.

Google Translate is being confused. It thinks "calaveras" is more likely to be an English word than a Spanish one, and of course, fails to translate it into anything.

It means "skulls".

#words #translation #languages #google

@lowqualityfacts 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

@dpiponi oh, nice. I didn't know about this. I don't play much.

@dpiponi sort of like "choose your own adventure" but not limited to a pre-built graph.

@dpiponi if the game plays itself, it gets closer to a movie. An interesting evolution would be live AI-generated movies that allow the audience to tickle the characters to influence their decisions as the story unfolds.

OCaml friends: How many characters does this print? (It's valid UTF-8 and valid Unicode)

print_endline "\xF0\x9F\x90\x95\xE2\x80\x8D\xF0\x9F\xA6\xBA";;

It's a trick question for Unicode awareness. It should show a service dog emoji but in my console, I see a dog followed by an orange vest. Here it is: 🐕‍🦺

#unicode #ocaml #emojis

@khird unfortunately, it's also common on cloudy and rainy days. 🤔🤔🤔

@khird interesting theory. Why only on certain days, though?

@AndersBaerbock you're not paying attention. Work on your issues. Bye.

@AndersBaerbock I'm spreading awareness of this historical document that describes a lost culture but you're getting at me like a rabid dog. Fix your shit, man.

@AndersBaerbock Why don't you edit Wikipedia? I'm not the expert here.

@AndersBaerbock easy there, champ. They encountered the Aztecs. Can you suggest a better phrasing?

The Florentine Codex is now available for browsing online: https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/

The Florentine Codex is a 2400-page account of the Aztecs as encountered by the Spaniards in the 16th century. It is notable not only for the novelty and completeness of its material but also for including the perspective of the locals rather than only of the colonists.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentine_Codex

#history #mexico

@jonuriarte the species name is Clathrus ruber, if you were wondering.