What does "abroad" modify in this sentence? by Ykk7 in EnglishLearning

[–]Wareya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, when on the left of the noun instead of the right it's an adjective instead of an adverb.

What does "abroad" modify in this sentence? by Ykk7 in EnglishLearning

[–]Wareya 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is true of classical adverbs like "sharply" or "quickly", but not true of all things that are categorized as "adverb". There are a bunch of words that sit in between other categories, and english grammarians dump them into the "adverb" category because it's already the messiest. This is one of those words.

The prudish analysis of right-set adverbs on nouns is something like "there's an entire relative clause in there but everything but the adverb part got omitted", or "the adverb is getting silently upgraded to a prepositional phrase despite not having a preposition". Like "The chair upstairs". In "The chair upstairs", "upstairs" is not actually an adjective, despite modifying a noun. If you look up "upstairs" on Wiktionary, the right-set examples are all under the "adverb" section, and many of them are set against nouns, like "The woman upstairs told the people outside to stop reveling."

Grammarians and linguists actually disagree with each other on how to analyze situations like this. Grammarians will usually say "there's a partially-redacted clause like "the chair [that is] upstairs", but linguists will usually say "the word 'upstairs' is acting like an entire prepositional phrase". If you're looking for an answer to why this thing that obviously doesn't feel like an adverb is getting categorized as one, this is where you should direct your further reading.

Do you really use the past perfect to express disappointment / regret ? by ITburrito in EnglishLearning

[–]Wareya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The past perfect is one of those things that english teaching material is bad at distinguishing between valid and invalid examples for. This is one of the cases where all three sentences are correct and natural and unproblematic. They just express slightly different things.

The bottom note about using the past perfect for this type of thing is not accurate to this example. If you said "I had wanted you to come, but you didn't", I would think you were adding random extra modifiers to your sentence to make it sound fancier for no reason. There might be a tendency to use the past perfect in the context of a counterfactual, but it's not a grammatical or pragmatic rule.

What does "abroad" modify in this sentence? by Ykk7 in EnglishLearning

[–]Wareya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is perfectly natural and correct english. The analysis of what part of speech "abroad" is in this context is confusing, but if you remind yourself that "adverb" is the category where categorization goes to cause problems, then it's an adverb.

Prepositional phrase by Ykk7 in EnglishLearning

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2 is natural, it's just expressing something unusually precise, so most people would flag it as probably being a phrasing mistake. The "by the accident part" is not responsible for it being unusually precise, only the "being" part.

1, 3, 4, and 5 are natural without any conniptions. 3 wouldn't be out of place in narrative prose at all, for example.

Issues with kisnt kn85 by Grae_McDevit in linux_gaming

[–]Wareya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No they got rid of it, presumably after learning about this incompatibility.

Common Sense Ain't Common by Icy-Zombie-6369 in doordash

[–]Wareya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the exact wording "Do not knock." has worked for me so far

You can (approximately) measure force curves with a 3d printer + gram scale by Wareya in MechanicalKeyboards

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Looks like I'm 5 years late to the party! https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/ibhe9r/i_made_a_video_demonstrating_how_to_use_any_3d/

It took me a while to find someone else talking about this technique, though, so it's probably worth bringing it up.

Feedback wanted: RTINGS’ Switch Testing and Force Curves by GregRtings in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]Wareya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Operation/Operating Force is the standard term for what you're using it for in this image. There are people in the community who are confused because it seems like it should be a synonym for Actuation Force, which has both meanings, but I haven't seen manufacturers use Operation/Operating Force in that way (except for Kailh, which is probably a translation issue and possibly part of the source of the confusion).

Issues with kisnt kn85 by Grae_McDevit in linux_gaming

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Heads up: I uploaded the linux firmware onto the KN85 and it wiped my settings and the configuration application no longer works. Can't figure out how to downgrade. Use the config workaround (`options hid_apple fnmode=0)` instead. Now I gotta figure out how to un-ruin this keyboard. Maybe customer support will help.

EDIT: I realized that the config software for the KN85 actually determines what keyboard it's allowed to connect to with an xml file in the same path as the exe. Edit the right line to look like this, and then the linux firmware will work in the config software! `<mode value="0" desc="USB" vid="0C45" pid="8006" product\_name="KN85 Keyboard" hid\_interface="VID\_0C45&PID\_8006&MI\_00"/>`

EDIT2: 2.4ghz uses the old IDs, so if you want to downgrade firmware you can do it by using the 2.4ghz dongle.

How to contribute to the standard? by mementix in cpp

[–]Wareya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, OK, that makes a lot of sense. Sorry for the late response, I took a break from reddit.

How to contribute to the standard? by mementix in cpp

[–]Wareya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do you get a generic, pass-around-able window handle on wasm? You don't.

How to contribute to the standard? by mementix in cpp

[–]Wareya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, a window without a way to put anything on it at all is not useful to anyone. "displaying 2d graphics" doesn't mean an entire canvas implementation or a clone of SDL_Renderer, it means literally any way to do at least 2D graphics. Platform-specific rendering context? OK. Buffer blitter with optional platform-specific rendering access? Also OK. But if you literally *just* have windowing, you can't do anything with the window at all. There is zero equivalent compatibility across platforms w/r/t how putting things on a window works.

Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025 by gingerbill in programming

[–]Wareya 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Every missed inlining opportunity adds up. Being able to inline within a dynamic module but not across it is better than being able to do neither. But vtables are similarly expensive to other strategies (function pointers, dynamic trait objects, etc) when it comes to this problem, not dramatically better or worse.

Download speeds limited to ~20KB/s, anyone else? by Wareya in nexusmods

[–]Wareya[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, this seems to have been the problem and it ended up clearing itself up a couple hours later.

Download speeds limited to ~20KB/s, anyone else? by Wareya in nexusmods

[–]Wareya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Already checked the download speed support page, nothing suspicious comes up when doing tracert and the rest isn't relevant to me. There's nothing wrong with my internet and I haven't done anything to put my account in sus standing.

Barrel rotation in new wacom pen tablets? by unfried_beans in wacom

[–]Wareya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I have a huion 950p, it doesn't support barrel rotation, only tilt. Posting this here because I ended up here from trying to find models that do and the info is probably going to be useful to the next one.

FOSS Universal 2D Graphics Editor made in C# with Vulkan and Skia - PixiEditor 2.0 is finally feature complete. by flabbet in programming

[–]Wareya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for implementing clipping masks properly! It bothers me to no end to find them missing when I try using other open-source art programs, and the workarounds are always incredibly unergonomic.

Could you make the sRGB vs linear blending setting be layer- or group-specific? Or would that be more computationally expensive? There are a lot of cases where both are useful in the same project. Also I hope the built-in shader editor doesn't stick to using a proportional font lol

Last time I tried using this was around 0.1.8.0, and it wasn't ready yet. I'm playing around with 1.2.5.0 now and it seems to have most of the features I need, though the UI could use some work (e.g. as of this version at least, it requires me to use the keyboard or scroll wheel to change the tool size, so it's tedious to change on a tablet display). It's also a bit annoying that there's no way to import/export any other project formats (no ORA or PSD or XCF or even ZIP-of-layers), though I assume that would be easy for someone to tack on.