Doug [he/him]

Of course we did they look great

I bet those bounce and shake nicely

Yes but he serves a different community

But for who? Just him?

No, but I’m gonna run his code anyway

Yes, that’s nuts. I used to be very happy to have less than one and a half megs on something wider than a deck of cards. Now you’re talking about terabytes on something the size of a pinky fingernail. I could store a half dozen in a pocket in my wallet without noticing them. That’s a lot of storage.

For the record, only 6-10 games is also about 5-10 games more than I could store on one of those floppies, and if it was one it was an old game. It’d be akin to putting Halo: CE (not remastered or anything, original) on a micro SD.

So, yeah, storage is plentiful and readily available.

Nah, portable devices use portable storage. The space available in microSD is nuts

And readily available resources. No need to put effort into space saving tricks when space is so easy to come by

Looks like six years in a little more than a week, based on the timestamp at the bottom of the screenshot

I didn’t want to come off dismissive asking how often you’re talking about those specific kinds of plants but maybe it’s a relevant question after all lol

I think you and I have very different experiences. I rarely see that kind of correction if ever.

When you’re in a public space you never know when your words are being consumed by an ESL speaker. I think the best approach is natural yet accurate. They’re going to encounter contractions when dealing with native speakers, but the difference between it’s and its, for example, can be tricky so try to use them as taught.

Spelling mistakes can absolutely be an issue. It’s already hard enough to figure out English spelling without native speakers making it worse. Add on to that the difficulty in any added language of working out near homophones, let alone actual homophones.

I knew someone who was pretty decent with English as their third language but had trouble keeping Texas and taxes straight. I know another guy who is American and uses no in place of know. That one threw me for a while before I figured out what he was trying to say.

I will admit, I do like that “technically” the plural for octopus is “supposed to be” octopods (pronounced like oc-tip-o-dees) but that’s a fun “fact”, not a correction I’ve ever tried to make.

90+% of the time you get common mistakes. Should ofs, they’re - there - their confusions, apostrophes for plurals.

The kind of thing that confuses ESL speakers. The decent thing would seem to be to try and stick to the way it’s taught rather than go with the “it doesn’t matter” route when it absolutely matters to some.

I’m juggling 3 languages

We Americans like to forget that anyone might have any trouble understanding English especially in cases of polyglots.

I don’t know which is your native tongue but from this comment it looks like you’re doing a fine job.

Except that it would be “they should, of course,”.

Also that person may have known what you meant, but another might not and may have any number of reasons for not asking.

Better communication skills are a worthwhile goal and there’s no good reason to not learn and grow.

There is as much right to be an asshole as there is to not put up with assholes

As fundamental as not having to put up with assholes.

You wanna do it? Go do it over there where no one else has to put up with your shit

Florida attached to Europe looks mildly like a penis.

You two should probably not date

…or fuck

I don’t know how anyone but Frakes could be Xanatos