The dictionary is descriptive, not proscriptive. Language evolves
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Literally has been used as an intensifier for over 200 years. The Oxford English Dictionary includes the definition of “figuratively”. Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain all used it that way in their writing.
When I was at Qualcomm we had an experimental, internally developed mobile OS that embraced the ubiquity of the browser and the power of apps written for the browser. The code name was b2f, which stood for “boot to Firefox”
Unix
Minix
AIX
Irix
HP/UX
Ultrix
OSF/1
Linux
Those are just the ones I remember because I’ve used them
Elm or mutt? Say pine and I’ll die
maryjayjay@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Why does nobody here ever recommend Fedora to noobs?
2·1 year agoI don’t understand. That’s essentially where I learned Fedora from. Where did you learn to use Windows?
maryjayjay@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.ml•Google Tries to Pay Off the Antitrust Division & said juries (normal people) cannot decide hard cases.
79·2 years agoThey are not vital. Almost no countries in the world practice trial by jury other than The US, the UK, Australia, Canada, and Ireland. The US is the only country in the world that uses trial by jury for civil cases.
The law is complex and nuanced. Most people lack the understanding and background to apply the law justly and uniformly. It is an antiquated idea that should go.
maryjayjay@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•[Plasma 6] How to get virtual desktops to behave like MacOS “Spaces”
1·2 years agoWhere does one find these multitasking settings?
What if Fedora is running on ARM?
That’s what unit tests are for
maryjayjay@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Of all movies that you gotta watch more than once to really understand, what is your favorite and why?
3·2 years agoAngel Heart. We discussed what happened in that movie for weeks while returning to the theater at least once more each, some three times
Windows only. Useless
That’s such a straw man. You would have no trouble saying that if someone doesn’t have an axe they are less likely to be an axe murderer
It was actually closer to: you don’t have to be evil to make money
But they’ve definitely lost their way
maryjayjay@lemmy.worldto
Astronomy@mander.xyz•Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old
11·2 years agodeleted by creator
maryjayjay@lemmy.worldto
Astronomy@mander.xyz•Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old
15·2 years agoWhen we discover someone we don’t understand we often make a simplistic metaphor to fit the data until we have better understanding. Like the Bohr model of the atom, or Newton’s theory of gravity. Dark matter plugs the hole right now and does it with a minimum of contrivance (Occam and whatnot)
maryjayjay@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.ml•Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
71·2 years agoIt’s actually Congress



Here’s a fun list: https://www.dailywritingtips.com/75-contronyms-words-with-contradictory-meanings/
It literally includes literally 😉