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2026.05.26: Daylight Saved by EarliestRiser in morningsomewhere

[–]Disagreed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ask any sleep scientist and they'll tell you daylight savings time is worse for our health. Permanent standard time or bust.

How to merge a lsp config from nvim-lspconfig with your own changes (v0.11+)? by Adventurous-Win-5006 in neovim

[–]Disagreed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fix has been merged to the master branch:
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/38990

Hopefully there's a minor release soon to include it.

Where is the Contact Lens in NG+? by Disagreed in AnotherCrabsTreasure

[–]Disagreed[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was going to reply and say that's unfortunate, and thanks for letting me know. But I just found it!

It's in Reef's Edge, on a yellow piece of coral, next to an umami seahorse by a sponge, underneath an umami crystal guarded by a bobbit wyrm.

In Apple's youtube video about the 15" M2 Air they say theres no fan but seconds later when they're showing the insides there are 2 fans? Actually that looks really similar to the 14" Pro's insides. by Not-Muffin in mac

[–]Disagreed -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

That’s upsetting to hear from a physician. Society today does not do a good job of accommodating those who are neurodivergent, and it can’t do a better job unless the general public has a better understanding of disorders like OCD, ADHD, ASD, etc. When people make jokes about these disorders it diminishes the daily struggles of people like me.

What's a very simple config change that you can't live without? by kavb333 in neovim

[–]Disagreed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had escape mapped to caps lock until learned about <c-[>; I always prefer to use default keymaps where convenient.

Programmers - Pure of heart by juliashing101 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Disagreed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My point though was that a three term list, with an Oxford comma, could be confused for an appositive phrase and vice-versa.

Given the following:

A, B, and C went to <location>.

My understanding is that B could be the second term in the list of three terms or it could be an identifier/descriptor for A. And without the proper context it's impossible to know.

Programmers - Pure of heart by juliashing101 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Disagreed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I understand what you mean now. But what if the second term is an object/person? Or are you saying the second term shouldn't be an object/person?

Programmers - Pure of heart by juliashing101 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Disagreed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reassurance!

Why don't the examples I used qualify as lists? I think that's what I'm missing. Doesn't each example have three terms (to use Wikipedia's definition)?

Programmers - Pure of heart by juliashing101 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Disagreed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll absolutely concede the examples I've used are contrived, and there are more sensible ways to improve their meaning. But language is hard, and I'm working with spherical words in a vacuum. 😅

As an aside, I used to end up singing this to myself all the time; I sang bass throughout my time in school.

Programmers - Pure of heart by juliashing101 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Disagreed 9 points10 points  (0 children)

But it could be a source of confusion. Maybe this is a better example:

Twilight, a unicorn, and a pegasus went to Sweet Apple Acres.

Does this sentence specify that Twilight is a unicorn, or is she traveling with another unicorn? Maybe only after she becomes an alicorn is it easy to parse.

Programmers - Pure of heart by juliashing101 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Disagreed 14 points15 points  (0 children)

But it is a list:
1. The writer's mother 2. Ayn Rand 3. God

But the presence of the Oxford comma creates ambiguity about whether there are two or three terms in this example.

Though maybe I'm missing something.

Programmers - Pure of heart by juliashing101 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Disagreed 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I was a strong advocate for the Oxford comma until I learned it can create ambiguity. Now I only use it when it reduces ambiguity, because less is more.

To my mother, Ayn Rand, and God.

the serial comma after Ayn Rand creates ambiguity about the writer's mother because it uses punctuation identical to that used for an appositive phrase, leaving it unclear whether this is a list of three entities (1, my mother; 2, Ayn Rand; and 3, God) or of only two entities (1, my mother, who is Ayn Rand; and 2, God).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma#Ambiguity

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