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571.
by billpg 7y ago
That's an ellipse.
572.
by billpg 7y ago
I do remember the Liberian moon landings.
573.
by billpg 7y ago
I still meet people who argue that pre-decimal currency was better. (20 shillings in a pound. 12 pence in a shilling.)
574.
by billpg 7y ago
That would fix the problem of time zones. All times should be in planck units with the zero epoch at the moment big bang.
575.
by billpg 7y ago
I asked the people at Nissan and I was told it wasn't possible to switch it to miles-per-litre. Although I do suspect the person I spoke to had no idea what I was going on about.
576.
by billpg 7y ago
But the US Gallon is currently in everyday use. The Imperial Gallon hasn't been used for decades, having long since been replaced by the litre for fuel purchases.
577.
by billpg 7y ago
No but seriously, what is a gallon?
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What's a Gallon?(grr.crankybill.com)
30 points by billpg 7y ago|60 comments
579.
by billpg 7y ago
bool ValidateCertificate(cert) { return true; }
580.
by billpg 7y ago
I had GeoCities when it was called GeoPages. Yeah, I'm old!
581.
by billpg 7y ago
If only they had waited ten or so years.
582.
by billpg 7y ago
> We have applied to list the Class A common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “NET.” Pardon?
583.
by billpg 7y ago
Random aside... The 80s BBC Micro required that ROM-based software included a copyright message using "(C)" in the header. The OS would look for those three ASCII bytes in the right place and ignore the ROM if it wasn't there
584.
by billpg 7y ago
I did that too. "Who the f... calls their business Ebola?".
585.
by billpg 7y ago
I don't use browser extensions (as much as I'd like to) because I've seen too many being sold for nefarious purposes.
586.
by billpg 7y ago
Uber actually employ people?
587.
by billpg 7y ago
Using-pink-in-moderation habits could be better.
588.
Ask HN: Is this podcast feed malfunctoning or am I going insane?
1 points by billpg 7y ago|0 comments
589.
by billpg 7y ago
thats-the-joke.gif
590.
by billpg 7y ago
I had a LiveVideo account. I had made a (terrible) music video made from clips of my driving around and sped up. I put it on my YouTube, but they ended up over-compressing the video so it was all blurry. (Fast-moving clips don't compre
591.
by billpg 7y ago
For context, the £50 note is worth around 63 USD. (Used to be around $80 a few years ago. Thanks Brexit!)
592.
by billpg 7y ago
An electricity supplier really isn't a supplier, just a middle-man. Electricity is produced by power stations, which is fed into the grid where customers consume it. The supplier isn't part of that process. The producer sells the
593.
by billpg 7y ago
It's also the reason why we have to careful with files named (for example) "google.com".
594.
by billpg 7y ago
You may be right. I don't actually know LISP.
595.
by billpg 7y ago
I'd go even farther than that. Prefer {}, BEGIN/END or indented code? Prefer && and || or AND and OR? Prefer infix a+b+c or LISP style +(a,b,c)? Pick one and the editor will show and edit code that way. The underlying co
596.
by billpg 7y ago
I kind of feel that source code needs to take a tip from HTML and apply a style-sheet. Have editors parse the code and display according to the user's preferences.
597.
by billpg 7y ago
The UK is on the verge of getting a dose of reality in that regard.
598.
by billpg 7y ago
Yes, my cipher is exactly the same as four rounds of Vigenère with 2,3,5,7 length keys, with the proviso that you can't go beyond 210 when all four keys meet again. (I may go back and edit the text to make this clear.)
599.
by billpg 7y ago
There was me thinking the city occasionally travels towards the North Pole but never quite gets there.
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by billpg 7y ago
I once tried to fix one of the flaws of Vigenère and I came up with a slight modification but still keeping most of the simplicity. https://blog.hackensplat.com/2011/02/vinegar.html I then noticed that my new cryp

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