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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The dictionary is descriptive, not proscriptive. Language evolves

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks 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"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Mfw my sophomore year in HS is "ancient"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Those automats had a fully staffed kitchen behind them, cooking and placing the food in slots to be bought

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Unix

Minix

AIX

Irix

HP/UX

Ultrix

OSF/1

Linux

Those are just the ones I remember because I've used them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Take vitamin b complex and drink something with electrolytes. (It's what plants crave) (Kidding about the Idiocracy joke, do it). Source: recovering alcoholic

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The Glock has three safeties designed to prevent the weapon from firing if the trigger hasn't been pulled correctly. One of these prevents the trigger from moving backwards unless it is depressed inside the trigger guard. You clearly know all this.

The term you're looking for is "affirmative safety", one type of which would be the common switch on the side of the frame that prevents the trigger from being pulled until it is disengaged in an action distinct from pulling the trigger. The Glock does not have an affirmative safety.

Source: certified Glock armorer

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

That isn't good for the tree

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The android build system used that limitation of Windows to prevent android from being built on Windows. They purposely had directories with the same name but different capitalization.

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