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by ttepasse 2y ago
> For a bit more depth here, it turns out that German anti-nuclear (and other green energy source) activists were funded by Russia, a fossil fuel empire. That sentence falsely implies that all German anti-nuclear sentiment is a result of
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by ttepasse 2y ago
> (solar noon is never at exactly 12:00 PM on any given day except at one particular line of longitude per time zone) According to the 20. amendment the term of an US president starts at Noon, 20 Januar. Simply noon. The USA seems to int
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by ttepasse 3y ago
> And given that ẞ only made it into German orthography in 2017 As a character it was proposed first in 2004 and encoded in 2007. > I bet there are loads of fonts that still don't support the character and having double-S is bett
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by ttepasse 3y ago
I remember particularly adoring the art style at the time, possibly because it was so different from the other games at the time. Especially the clouds.
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by ttepasse 3y ago
> Is SF particularly bad for German? Anecdote: For some time San Francisco had the wrong glyph for the German character Capital Sharp S - the „ẞ“. SF rendered the glyph as a ligature of two combined S letters, you can see this in this sc
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by ttepasse 3y ago
> but not having to add 25% more DOM elements to fake a table layout I'm not the most current, but as I remember in CSS tables those table-internal elements generate the needed anonymous boxes of rows, tbodys and such, when those ar
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by ttepasse 3y ago
If you want to make your existence slightly more irritating: Learn German and move to Germany. There the possessive s ending is written without an apostrophe - but there is an equivalent which then falsely writes the possessive with an apos
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by ttepasse 3y ago
I recently tried to reinstall the Twitter for Mac app. It was never a good app. Although a flagship for Apple’s Catalyst, since its catalysation it never got the UI love other 3rd party clients for the Mac had. But it was at least somewhat
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Because the land version of Phalanx, the Centurion, is big, needs a large transport and a lot of energy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_C-RAM Although an auto cannon seems to be the right thing. The current th
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Since everyone is debating what brutalism could mean in web design, I'd like to throw the "Prof. Dr. Style" into the debate: http://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/
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by ttepasse 3y ago
This mini presentation goes around sometimes: https://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/clear-off-the-table
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Mac OS, Safari, German locale shows plankalkül.de – as it should be. Frankly I would be rather irritated if not.
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The Apple Jonathan: A 1980s concept computer that never shipped(512pixels.net)
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Or there is a difference between RFCs and laws - and possibly between american and european law culture.
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by ttepasse 3y ago
That's ESA. :) (Next launch to another planet seems to be ExoMars 2 to Mars in 2028, carrying the Rosalind Franklin rover. Originally planned for 2022 on a russian rocket, now with a european launcher.)
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Unfun normalisation fact: You can’t have a file named "ss" and a file named "ß" in the same folder in Mac OS.
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by ttepasse 3y ago
A major point of the web for me back in the 90s was that everything was text. You could inspect it, you could change it, you could curl it. That’s why Java and Flash and Silverlight were so annoying, they were blackboxes inside web pages. I
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by ttepasse 3y ago
He posts in other peoples posts. ;)
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Yes, but where you’ll get the molded plastic for the electric plugs to use your fusion power?
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by ttepasse 3y ago
For some reason I always think about that in the context of hypotetical self-sustaining Mars colonies. In internet discussion there is always talk about the big resources: We'll get oxygen out of water ice, methane out of the athmosphe
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by ttepasse 3y ago
According to the current Python documentation the 'idna' encoding in Python only does IDNA 2003, not IDNA 2008: https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/codecs.html#module-enco... The recommend the 3rd party
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Oh, that’s nice to know, now that the CheatSheet has been discontinued. https://web.archive.org/web/20121114115948/http://mediaateli... I thought CheatSheet was the original indie app which Apple copied
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Sometimes, when I read these contractions too much, I’m starting to think I should short my first name as “T1m”.
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Astronauts in the last 50 years spending a lot of time together in a small group in an aluminium can, on the ISS for six month, sometimes for a year. Assuming the ideas of longer Moon and Mars mission will happen, that reality will be far m
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by ttepasse 3y ago
The Yeoman Warders - the Beefeaters - have their own accommodation in the Tower's Outer Ward and they have also their own pub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeoman_Warders_Club
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by ttepasse 3y ago
It's fascinating how distance encourages both absurd curiosity (“How does that work?”) and some form of detachment (“At least it isn’t personal to me.“). As a German I started following British politics in the Brexit years, first for t
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by ttepasse 3y ago
There is RFC 5005 - Feed Paging and Arching, but sadly the world of RSS Tools has never been very specification-forward, mostly, because the publishers of RSS feeds are even more desinterested. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Thirdly there was the Salmon protocol, although with the Plussing of Google Buzz it never got traction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_(protocol)
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Like every other GUI Editor and IDE of the last 20 years has built in as core part of their interface? Or du you mean something different?
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by ttepasse 3y ago
That is rather helpful, thanks! But in a way depressing: I fear subscribing to a firehose is not that realistic for small single person websites. Maybe you can filter the firehose subscription.

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