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by Pinus 1y ago
This gets extra fun when you have a product which is actually named "My Card" (which, of course, is a bad idea to begin with, but...). Is it "Your My Card" or "My My Card"? French web sites seem to have lost th
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by Pinus 1y ago
I’m planning a trip to France right now, and it seems like half the websites in that country (for example, ratp.fr for Paris public transport info) require me to check a CloudFlare checkbox to promise that I am a human. And of those that do
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by Pinus 1y ago
Not quite the level of the 2012 IgNobel litterature price, which went to "The US Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report ab
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by Pinus 1y ago
Handwriting seems to be becoming more and more of a niche phenomenon, actually paying attention to what one writes with even more so, and actually using fountain pens yet more so. Still, there seems to be an absurd number of ink makers arou
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by Pinus 1y ago
I’m not sufficiently familiar with French culture or maths culture (and barely at all with their intersection!) to tell whether this is satire/parody, or just bonkers in general. Which is it?
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by Pinus 1y ago
I once did it with 0.3R + 0.6G + 0.1B < 128, mostly because I could not be bothered to think deeper than that. It was certainly not perfect — there were obvious cases where the opposite choice of black or white for contrast would have be
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by Pinus 1y ago
It’s been more than 30 years since I took a (very basic) course in logic programming in general and Prolog in particular, so I can’t read the level of sarcasm in the text, but: Surely, when a course places various artificial limitations on
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by Pinus 1y ago
Is this the same Oracle/Cerner system ("Millennium", I believe) that, despite protests from the medical staff, was deployed "big-bang style" in the Swedish region of Västra Götaland, with much the same results? (And
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by Pinus 2y ago
Given the title, I expected him to be a major general!
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by Pinus 2y ago
The usual explanation is that it’s got 35 buttons. Whether that’s the true reason I don’t know, but at least the button count checks out! Now, if someone could explain to me the logic behind the naming of the HP-10, HP-10b, HP-10C and HP-10
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by Pinus 2y ago
I definitely had Nokia wellies in the mid eighties. I think the boots-and-tyres brand name changed from Nokia to Nokian around 1990-ish.
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by Pinus 2y ago
Classic HP calculators used a fixed stack of four registers. In practice, you can do quite complicated things before you blow that up. Especially if you understand how the mechanism works, and plan ahead a bit. Besides, infix-style calculat
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by Pinus 2y ago
Some years ago, I was looking for London hotels on some booking site, and noticed that they were listed as being so-and-so many km (with .1 or even .01 precision) from London, which seemed amusing given that they were all in London. So I
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by Pinus 2y ago
Isn’t there a recurring publicity stunt with sheep on Savile Row? =)
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by Pinus 2y ago
As I have written before, I like how a monospace, "typewritten", look gives a certain "straight from the lab" feel to the content. On the other hand, as you say, going to great lengths to imitate the effect of constraint
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by Pinus 2y ago
Only vaguely related, but: Why is everything called a.*64 these days? I keep getting confused between amd64, arm64 and aarch64...
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by Pinus 2y ago
Any actual Greeks around here? I always wondered what π looks like when jotted down in, say, a shopping list...
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by Pinus 2y ago
I used to hear this a lot — that (red European) squirrels are cute, but they take bird eggs! Then I started seeing, from lots of sources that should be reliable, that squirrels are in fact vegetarian, and that there little or no evidence of
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by Pinus 2y ago
What, no operators? I want indexes on these columns, and some weird and wonderful operator syntax for doing cross-database joins between multiple DATABASE columns! =)
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by Pinus 2y ago
My complaints against long names are: 1) It becomes harder to see the shape of the code. 2) It often becomes harder to tell different names apart (if they only differ in the middle, for example). Well-chosen (optimistic, I know...) short na
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by Pinus 2y ago
Wait a minute. I thought the USB-C port on the Raspberry Pi 4 was only for power input. Is it also useable as a data port?
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by Pinus 2y ago
My guess would be that he opposition trained their agents to leave space on the first page of their reports for archive file numbers, estimates of source reliability, notices about which consumers the information has been shared with, tha
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by Pinus 2y ago
Random association: Somewhere, I saw "leaves the top third of the first page blank without being asked to do so" as a sign that the person you are recruiting as a spy already works for the opposition. Maybe that goes for the botto
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by Pinus 2y ago
Unlike the Midsomer Murders plot, the organizer died from natural causes. :)
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by Pinus 2y ago
At least some versions of HP-UX running on the HPPA architecture did the same thing. Writing to a NULL pointer would SIGSEGV, but reading got you a zero. There was a linker flag to turn off this "feature", but when I tried that,
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by Pinus 2y ago
In my experinece, veryLongVariableNamesThatContainADetailedExplanation are almost always a sign that someone didn’t quite know what they were doing. Unfortunately, short names do not indicate that someone did know what they were doing!
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by Pinus 2y ago
Yes, I love that font, and “DSE Typewriter” by the same creator. However, using them means emulating low tech, and I would like to find a way to avoid that.
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by Pinus 2y ago
Tangential, on the "lo-fi" theme: Looking at old stuff, I like how typewritten documents with charts literally pencilled in have a certain not-quite-perfect, straight-from-the-lab feel to them. By contrast, anything produced using
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by Pinus 2y ago
As I understood it, the dockapps of the Windowmaker world were basically a work-around for the fact that the X11 had no concept of a dock icon (or a dock at all, for that matter). On Nextstep, the normal Mail app would show status in its do
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by Pinus 2y ago
I’m not familiar with Kiwi, but I noticed a comment thread about them on travel.stackexchange.com recently, discussing whether to describe them as “fraud” or just “using booking practices that subject the client to extreme risks”. Be sure t

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