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Y-Zer myself and I do the same thing. I never initiate the communication when called unless I am expecting it or I know who the caller is. Otherwise, they'll know when someone picked up because their side will stop ringing, and they'll only get awkward silence until they start talking. Often times it's an automated voice system that will not begin until prompted by the callee, so it hits a timeout and hangs up.

The number of calls I get where it's either dead silence in the other end or clearly a call center based on the noise can only be categorized as "too much".


What's needed beyond API docs is a review, refresh, and possible merging of the two Wayland Books by active Wayland contributors.

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/book/ https://wayland-book.com/


First time I've heard of SCW...

Of all the AI voice-generated things I've heard so far, this definitely takes the cake for the funniest tech-related conversation.


fp-go/v2 was recently released in Dec 2025.

Prior discussion around fp-go/v1 in 2023:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171149


Your comments use em dashes. Many would claim those are vastly overrepresented in AI language and thus an account overly using them are blatantly AI.

I've always found this funny. Doesn't macOS' default text substitution enable (annoying to me) things like em-dash, smart quotes, etc?


It is not, the future is currently pointing to composefs:

https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc/issues/1190

There's a GitHub org that builds bootc-ready images for non-Red Hat family distributions using this backend.

https://github.com/bootcrew


> super-comma

This is the first time I've ever heard the character ";" referred to as such. It's always been "semi-colon" to me, is this a region/culture difference?

I'm not saying you're wrong, I find it interesting.


> super-comma

I would have assumed it's a synonym for apostrophe. super-comma <-> upper-comma, with super meaning upper, like in superscript.


I think of it as supersedes the comma in the order of operations. You work inward, or outward (depending which way you read the list.)


no it's always been semicolon, the "super-comma" comes from describing how to use it. "It's similar to a comma but like a super comma."


Huh? I've always understood that the clause after the semicolon is peripheral; the meaning of the whole sentence does not change without it.


thats one use for it. supercomma is another.


same character, used differently?

i call it a super comma when its separating a list with commas within the sets.

so if i am listing colors like green, blue, red; foods like apple, orange, strawberry; and seasons like winter, summer, fall.

it's one use case for an em-dash, because whatever you have inside it has commas in the phrase.

square and rectangle situation. a supercomma is a subset of semicolon.


Likewise with the other way around, just switch pull with push.


From PO's submission FAQs and policies:

> Obviously the used fonts should be readable (and ideally their name shouldn't start with "Comic" and end with "Sans", though there might be some article topics that justify even that!), and while almost any font meets this requirement, please be careful when selecting a non-standard font.

I kinda want to see such an article, but taken seriously discussing the history of the font, its design and purpose, evolution, and purpose-related/derivative font families.


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