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"They" can also refer to an individual


If they did refer to an individual Minecraft expert for an advice, then it counts as a team effort.


What if the individual Minecraft expert was themselves? I mean, having been singlehandedly responsible for team efforts in the past, I get it. :D


wait what?


"Someone is at the door asking for you."

"What do they want?"

This is the standard way to refer to an unknown person in English, anything else sounds awkward. "What does the person want", "what does he or she want", "what does this 'someone' want", none of these will sound natural to a native speaker.


It's called "singular they". It's used like: "We have a new joiner in our team! They became the talk of the town very fast". I love this feature of the English language, while a bit confusing at first, I think it works much better than "he/she" or "s/he" when talking about someone with an unspecified, unknown or unrelated gender.


This really shouldn't be some surprise. You probably do it on a regular basis without noticing. Shakespeare uses it in Hamlet:

There's not a man I meet but doth salute me As if I were their well-acquainted friend

English has always used the singular they, especially (but not always) when the gender of the target of the pronoun is unknown.


ƿrong. "they" is norþmannisċ. It sċuld be he, forðat hē and hēo ƿuld'fe melded into he, and forðat Englisċ is an Indo-Europisċ tung, ƿere ƿerelie is ðe first kin.



This is written like an LLM trying to be witty and it's nearly unbearable.


Not saying I agree with you, but where do you think the training data came from? The internet is full of socially awkward albeit prolific writers.


Three lines in a Caddyfile would be sufficient


Use outline instead:

  outline: solid 10px red;
Nearly identical to border, but without affecting layout at all.


The CSS outline property is (was?) unreliable on Safari. Things like the border-radius don't affect the outline shape -- it's always square even if you to to create some Apple-patented rounded rectangles using border-radius.


Why this over box-shadow?


I've tried many note taking methods, including paper, and none of it really fit my needs. So I wrote my own application, just for me, with nobody else in mind. It's perfect and I recommend everyone to do the same.


The spinning logo has an off-center pivot


Why do you bring that up?


(Un)fortunately every Sora video has the OpenAI watermark in the bottom right.


Exactly. Bit of a giveaway...


Even without the watermark, some of the videos look very real


The difference between those two is that, by smoking, you become the aggressor. If being considerate and empathetic is "solving someone else's problem" then I don't see how that's entitled. Don't smoke in public.


Did you mean "literate"?


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