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by Pinus 5y ago
As usual, death rates for the last couple of weeks in Sweden must be taken with considerable amounts of salt, because of the lag in reporting.
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by Pinus 5y ago
+1 on the astonishingness (hm...) of mechanics in general, and Linotypes in particular. Some time ago I watched a fairly good movie on how they work. I think it was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzilaRwoMus .
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by Pinus 5y ago
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, and I may be completely off the mark but: Pandas, like SQL, feels like it doesn't compose very well. If you know some basic programming language — including Basic! — you've got a s
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by Pinus 5y ago
So, we have (at least) different evaluation orders, different meanings of the % operator (How are negative numbers handled?), different meanings of the / operator (is 10/3=3 or 3.3333 — notice that Python3 joins the 8.29e+12 fold!
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by Pinus 5y ago
I am not competent to rate the linguistic quality of this translation, but it certainly is amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXpznIhT08 .
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by Pinus 5y ago
PhD thesis in Swedish (pdf file) about the development of office paper as an IT system: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/ws/files/17063976/Pappersarbete...
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by Pinus 5y ago
I got bitten by that prank when copying code from a question , to see what it did (it was something obviously harmless). I was rather annoyed for about two seconds before I realized what date it was. :)
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by Pinus 5y ago
I remember first reading about these. My reactions were something like: Ok, they had video projectors in the late sixties. Fine. Wait a minute. I hadn't even seen a video projector until the late eighties. They were non-existent at m
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by Pinus 5y ago
I just leave the cursor wherever it happens to be. With link-dense pages, as Wikipedia tends to have, that very often causes a fairly large box to pop up. Also, when scanning a page looking for info and links, I seem to both read and keep t
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by Pinus 5y ago
Reading this finally made me figure out how to turn this feature off (to be fair, it was quite straightforward). I find it extremely annoying when there are always things popping up over the text you are trying to read.
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by Pinus 5y ago
Lately I have been wondering whether a "fear" (for want of a better word) of hand-drawn diagrams are causing diagrams in general to be under-used. We're used to having everything typed, TeX:ed, machine drawn, perfect, and we
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by Pinus 5y ago
Is there a way for a font to "know" at what line spacing it is being rendered?
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by Pinus 5y ago
I am positive I saw a picture ages ago (late 1980:s, when keypad phones were starting to become mainstream in Sweden) where someone had "solved" the problem by building a pocket calculator with a rotary dial. I'm not sure whe
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by Pinus 5y ago
Sweden did an... interesting version of calendar change. Like Britain, we stuck with the Julian calendar for quite some time. Then we decided to catch up with the Gregorian calendar by omitting leap days, starting from 1700 (this would have
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by Pinus 5y ago
One favourite of mine in this genre is applications who use both command-[ and option-command-[. On a Swedish mac keyboard, [ is on option-8, so it is impossible to type just command-[ without the option key...
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by Pinus 6y ago
Last time I looked at autoconf et al. from a developer's view -- which is, admittedly, probably 20 years ago -- the documentation was quite good. The discoverability of, for example, the C standard library is also quite poor if you do
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by Pinus 6y ago
My main gripe with autotools these days is that there seems to be no standard mechanism for specifying non-standard locations for dependencies. (Or if there is, that no packages use it...) If I build something from source, it is nearly alw
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by Pinus 6y ago
Neither following nor playing either sport I'm on thin ice here (or maybe that's exactly what I'm not!), but isn't bandy sort of like hockey but with soccer-sized goals (and a ball instead of a puck)?
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by Pinus 6y ago
Off topic, but I can't resist: Using Comic Neue with Comic Sans as fallback must be the typographic equivalent of russian roulette.
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by Pinus 6y ago
To a certain extent, yes. However, with a binary protocol, at least the syntactic level tends to be fairly solidly locked down, simply because you have to. Two bytes bing-endian unsigned integer of that, four bytes big-endian signed integer
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by Pinus 6y ago
The obvious risk with plain-text protocols is that you don't write a rigorous spec, and don't write a strict parser, but some hack up least-effort thing with a few string.split() and whatever. This means there is a lot of slack in
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by Pinus 6y ago
Right now, it's evening in Europe, meaning that those who have been out collecting data during the day have now come home, had a shower (or brushed the snow off, in my case), relaxed a bit, downloaded their GPX tracks to their computer
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by Pinus 6y ago
The relative sizes depend on the relative distance from the camera. Say you have two persons, one standing one meter in front of the other, and the photographer standing one meter in front of the frontmost person, shooting with a wide-angle
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by Pinus 6y ago
Trivia: The names "Stephens" and "Huseby" probably ring a bell with some Swedes because of the scandal around the management of the estate in the mid-20:th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flor
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by Pinus 6y ago
OSM:s biggest problem seems to be that it offers a product — a map database — that very few people need, and even fewer people can use, while still relying on millions of ordinary people for data collection (which means understanding the da
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by Pinus 6y ago
A type can't implement its own 'and' and 'or' operators. (Probably because it is non-obvious how to handle their short-circuiting behaviour.)
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by Pinus 6y ago
At least it circumvents https://xkcd.com/1987/ to some extent. It sometimes feels like half the [python] questions on Stack Overflow are from persons confused about how and where packages get installed and what Python
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by Pinus 6y ago
I believe most makefiles I see these days — pretty much all except the ones I write myself — are the monstrosities that come out of automake. If that is the first impression new programmers get of make, then make is dead, because nobody is
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by Pinus 6y ago
Midsomer Murders also feature wine bottles launched from a catapult.
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by Pinus 6y ago
I believe every household in Sweden has at least one set of plastic measuring spoons, like these. You'd think they were issued at birth, or something. https://www.pricerunner.se/pl/461-4127639/Koekstillbehoer&

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