An Incoherent Rust

Coherence and the orphan rules are a frequent source of complaints about Rust, and a common topic of language proposals. This post covers most of the existing proposals around coherence and my vision for how we should solve coherence once and for all.

No Semicolons Needed | Terts Diepraam

Hype for the Future 139G → How to Install Virtual Machines for QEMU

Introduction With the Quick Emulator system, depending on platform and system architecture, the proper syntax for opening the virtual machine command is qemu-system-, where arch is the particular architecture in question. On select types of systems, such as ARM (32-bit qemu-system-arm and 64-bit qemu-system-aarch64), a specific machine configuration is required, using the -machine or shorthand -M command flag and associated parameter. Even though ARM virtual machines support -M virt, […]

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Hype for the Future 139G → How to Install Virtual Machines for QEMU

Introduction With the Quick Emulator system, depending on platform and system architecture, the proper syntax for opening the virtual machine command is qemu-system-<arch>, where arch is the …

novaTopFlex

A student in an intro ling class has asked me why the "me" in "not me procrastinating again" is not "I", as the subject of "procrastinating". This is beyond the level we cover, and my syntax-fu is rusty - can any other linguist out there suggest a reason?

#Linguistics #Syntax #EnglishPronouns

Open Meteo

Have you played with api.open-meteo.com
Don't go straight from port 443, otherwise you get this
Instead use https://open-meteo.com/en/docs
Then play with the API from there. You'll learn the chemistry and physics for your area while you play with this fun API.
It's a fun game and you learn (with hand holding) how to play with open-meteo API
If that's not your fancy @stefano may have done all the work for you, check his service here on the fediverse. If you country has not been added yet (it's a LOT of work!) then come back and play with the API just like I do

Have fun with api.open-meteo.com

Don't cross 10000 calls per day!

#openMeteo #environment #API #open #meteo #programming #technology #weather #advanced #syntax #chemistry #physics

#Website #cookies pop-ups are now asking me to opt in to opting out of selling my data. While this sort of #negation construction is #linguistically interesting for the problems it causes with #comprehension, it's also an exceptionally annoying display of assholery.

#linguistics #syntax #privacy #ethics

Poll from Viktor Danilov

Quel est l'ordre des mots correct ici ?

YouTube

Two of the biggest rah rah #ai boosters I encounter on a regular basis, the #Syntax podcast laments (?) that #bots are “ruining the Internet.” 🙄

#LLMs

https://syntax.fm/show/982/bots-are-ruining-the-internet

Bots Are Ruining the Internet - Syntax #982

Which stranded #prepositions are you most and least adverse to fronting when #writing something formal? For example, "Whom did he talk TO?" (stranded) vs "TO whom did he talk?" (fronted).

#English #syntax #linguistics #grammar

You can use this site to refresh your markdown skills
On this Server we can write with the beautiful markdown attributes in our toots. I also use markdown when I make my descriptions on GitHub.

#Markdown #syntax #language #markup #programming #GitHub #technology

https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/