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compromise

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Observed mentions: 2016-05-11 18:00:18 UTC to 2026-01-31 12:11:07 UTC.

02462016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 3 submissions, 4 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC734
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

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I’m not sure how much my suggestions answer your original question, but in the pursuit of proper grammatical structure when trying to rewrite speech, compromise [0] might be of use to you. I’ve only played around with it for a few hours at most, but from my limited experience it is a very effective (if verbose and/or a little bloated in it’s API) tool for language analysis. With some tomfoolery I’m confident you could combine it with the GP’s recommendation of alexjs to replace strings slightly-less-naively. [0] https://github.com/spencermountain/compromise
In JavaScript library that converts a string to gender-neutral language?
Hi HN, In an attempt to learn more about web dev, I've committed to shipping something every month of this year. And since we're in January, early enough for new year resolutions to still be kept, here's my first project. Smigster[1] lets you type a few words and composites them onto a random royalty-free photo in an attempt to match the contents of the text to the photo. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It uses compromise[2] to extract topics, nouns, etc. from the text and runs a search on Unspash[3] based on a random term to get a photo. It's a toy more than anything else, but it's been incredibly valuable for me to go through this process. I hope you enjoy it, and if you have any feedback, comments, or feature requests, I'd love to hear about it. [1] https://smigster.com [2] https://github.com/spencermountain/compromise [3] ht
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In Show HN: Smigster – Auto-layer your text on random yet (mostly) relevant photos
There are a lot of busybodies on Github, sometimes these go viral on Twitter and other locations for the heated discussions. Here's a small collection of various levels of offence. Some are merely polite requests and some are "horribly offended". I think one or two of them may even be concern trolls but that doesn't matter since they still got the changes made. There are a few hundred other examples to pull from, these are just a few I chose at random while trying to select ones that are more about the code, or terms used in the code, than contributors or maintainers of the code. [0] https://github.com/WICG/feature-policy/issues/150 [1] https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts/pull/152 [2] https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code/pull/20 [3] https://github.com/braydie/HowToBeAProgrammer/issues/68 [4] https://github.com/spencermount
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