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by Pinus 3y ago
It’s funny how paper patterns vary with geography. Across the Baltic Sea, in Sweden, you can certainly find "millimeterpapper", as we call it, but it’s a bit of a speciality item, and I have rarely, if ever, seen anyone actually u
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by Pinus 3y ago
Sometimes they "control" the problem with trickery that occasionally blows up. For example, there was talk some time ago about how some Casio models sometimes invent a factor pi in something that should obviously be a rational num
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by Pinus 3y ago
Those cut-outs look a bit like ink traps, though whether that actually makes any sense in a font unlikely to be used with actual ink, I do not know...
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by Pinus 3y ago
looks at title This just has to be a TechMoan video! clicks link Checks out! Anyway, isn’t this the reverse of how these things usually ended up? Usually, the system spec and the actual hardware would offer various nice features, but no
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by Pinus 3y ago
I have seen this argument before, but I'm not sure that I buy it. Even if you count every footfall, you are not magically going to somehow use, say, only your left foot. At the end of a km, you will have 600 double paces or 1199, 1200
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by Pinus 3y ago
Sweden had bicycle-mounted infantry into the 1980:s (towards the end, mostly local defence units). However, the soldiers were not supposed to pedal for any significant distance (and certainly not to fight mounted!). They would be towed by t
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by Pinus 3y ago
I played that a lot, too! Usually with the simplest block set, which was just 3D versions of the usual Tetris blocks. After that, playing “normal” 2D tetris suddenly became harder, because there are some rotations that cannot be done when y
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by Pinus 3y ago
EXIF... If I remember correctly, EXIF uses the TIFF file structure. Am I right? Does this mean that a PNG file, with its relatively simple format, would have inside it an EXIF chunk with a potentially different byte order and absolute offse
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by Pinus 3y ago
(Page 106 in the 2003 edition, which can be found in various ad-infested document-showing web sites.)
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by Pinus 3y ago
I am fairly sure that I have read (probably in a 1950:s edition of the Swedish navy soldier’s handbook "Örlogsboken"), that "tap morse", for example for communication with persons trapped inside a damaged ship, is done b
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by Pinus 3y ago
I’ll stick my chin out, and claim that nobody who knows anything about math would ever write the expression like that. Either use parentheses or a long, horizontal division bar making it obvious what groups with what. As given, it looks lik
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by Pinus 3y ago
Is the code, as shown in the HN headline, correct? An exclamation mark seems to have gone missing, compared to the Reddit version.
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by Pinus 3y ago
Apart from the general insanity of the thing, why single out backpacks? Are briefcases ok? Violin cases?
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by Pinus 4y ago
Are you sure about the lambda scope bit? It seems to me there will still be only one loop variable, which gets re-used throughout the loop (unlike, for example, the 'do' loop in Scheme, where each turn through the loop explicitly
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by Pinus 4y ago
It is sometimes said, that nostalgia is not the yearning for the past as it actually was, but for the past as it exists in our rosiest memories. I seem to have taken this one step further — I yearn for a world which I never experienced, and
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by Pinus 4y ago
I think you mean 28, not 42 — the 42 is also "classic" 4-register RPN. And I’m writing this mostly to push for the excellent Free42 emulator, which runs on just about everything (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS), and also powe
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by Pinus 4y ago
I don’t know about the rest of Europe, but here’s how it usually plays out in Sweden: 1. Company needs to save money. 2. Company decides to shut branch office X and cancel project Y. 3. Company now has more employees than it has positions.
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by Pinus 4y ago
I don’t know the details, but it seems they also provide web shop owners with some sort of service that is better than other payment processors. In Sweden, it seems like every web shop there is uses Klarna for payment processing, even if yo
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by Pinus 4y ago
CSV looks deceptively simple. It is far too easy to just write(','.join(whatever)), which sort of works, until it doesn’t, and then someone, sometimes I, has to sort out the resulting mess. PLEASE use a proper CSV library (Python
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by Pinus 4y ago
Only tangentially related, but: Some years ago, there was a flurry of reports of "gas smell" in places around the English Channel, and gas works engineers all over south-eastern England and north-western France scurried about thei
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by Pinus 4y ago
To be clear: It was not just metadata, it was actual PDF:s — I tried opening several of them — named d<digits>-<digits>. But, as I said, after an OS update (to 11.7.1) (including a reboot, obviously), they were gone, and only me
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by Pinus 4y ago
I noticed that there was an update to Big Sur — the newest OS that this machine can run — which I had missed, so I installed it, and the files went away! I also noticed that there has been issues, like https://github.com/app
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by Pinus 4y ago
I just checked my /var/spool/cups, and it contains PDF:s of prints going back to about February 2022. This computer is about eight years old and has been through I-don't-know-how-many OS updates. This, and the fact that
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by Pinus 4y ago
It only takes a quick glance at sites like Stack Overflow to see that things like character encodings, the difference between the external representation of a string and its actual content, different quoting rules in different contexts (CSV
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by Pinus 4y ago
I tend to think of this as cocktail math. :)
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by Pinus 4y ago
The text mentions troff and PIC. I wonder whether the author still has the source code... Even if re-rendering with modern tools ("modern" meaning "actually runs on platforms readily available today, e.g. groff and gpic"
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by Pinus 4y ago
Doesn't that get confusing with the "@" sign often being called "kanelbulle" (cinnamon bun, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kanelbulle.jpg for the non-Swedes :-) )
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by Pinus 4y ago
Googling around for answers to Mac related problems, I can easily see that about half the people "answering" questions are completely clueless, just cargo-culting various voodoo stuff. I suspect that among the other half, half of
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by Pinus 4y ago
Isn’t there an entire Unicode block for the symbols on the Phaistos disc? Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc_(Unicode_block) . I suppose those occur in quite a few documents about the disc, even though
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by Pinus 4y ago
In Sweden, it is often said that men with names ending in -y have a significantly worse outlook in life than the average. Article from Swedish public-service radio (in Swedish, but Google Translate handles it nicely): https://sve

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