maryjayjay

joined 2 years ago
[–] maryjayjay 5 points 2 weeks ago

Library Genesis is down. Maybe for good

[–] maryjayjay 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes you can. Mathematicians do it all the time.

But that's beside the point. I can prove you didn't kill yourself by showing that someone else did

[–] maryjayjay 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some timezones are already half an hour off

[–] maryjayjay 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Adjuster

[–] maryjayjay 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The dictionary is descriptive, not proscriptive. Language evolves

[–] maryjayjay 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Literally has been used as an intensifier for over 200 years. The Oxford English Dictionary includes the definition of "figuratively". Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain all used it that way in their writing.

[–] maryjayjay 3 points 4 months ago

It's their choice

[–] maryjayjay 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

When I was at Qualcomm we had an experimental, internally developed mobile OS that embraced the ubiquity of the browser and the power of apps written for the browser. The code name was b2f, which stood for "boot to Firefox"

[–] maryjayjay 14 points 4 months ago

When my Jewish roommate told his parents he was dating a gentile they told him he was "thinning the blood"

[–] maryjayjay 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Mfw my sophomore year in HS is "ancient"

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