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Assuming you want to keep working ~40 hours a week, I feel like the best idea are four 8.5 hour days and Friday as a half day. This gives you half a day to "decompress" and still h…

Thank you, was not aware of that. There was no mention on this Wikipedia article that I used to double-check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Product_Activation Let's rephr…

To be fair, you have to remember that the calculator is called "calc.exe" to use this method. However, when parent said "you really wouldn’t want the II of that era back" I underst…

Press +R, "calc" . Easy and fast, if you can remember the exact names of the executables. Also, back then Windows came not only with printed manuals, but also with an actually usef…

Where do you have this information from? As far as I know, product activation for office started with Office XP ("2002").

Adressing high school teachers as "professor" is common in Austria and Czechia.

I'm sorry, what? Single-camera, no laugh track has been an extremely common format for sitcoms for the last twenty years.

a more recent example of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsen_versus_Nepomniachtchi,...

Wikipedia says: >Isaac Asimov once mentioned an "interesting theory" that Romans avoided using IV because it was the initial letters of IVPITER, the Latin spelling of Jupiter, and …

EU regulations now forbid SMS-based authentication. I tried explaining to the bank clerk several times how I am not using the Google Play Store but it was only when I held my Nokia…

This is a case where I want to mention Austria as a positive example: The vaccination certificate app is open source on Github, so you can compile it yourself and not need to use t…

>Over the years many countries experimented with 3-unit coins or banknotes. For instance, in the 90s, Ukraine had a 3 karbovanets banknote and Uzbekistan had a 3 som banknote I thi…

If you missed it (like me). This is about the answer he gave when asked whether he thinks about creating his own social media platform: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15571994…

It's always frustrating when you can't set the language of a website manually.

Norwegian has the diphthongs "ei" and "øy", while Danish has "ej" and "øj". Though I don't know whether you can rely on that when looking at proper names (surnames, place names).

in case anyone here is wondering anyway: Only Czech: ě, ř, ů Only Slovak: ä, ľ, ô

I am more of a Delphi/Lazarus guy myself, but can anybody who is actually considering using this compare it against Gambas, RAD Basic, Xojo, ...?

In German, a always makes a /ts/ sound and in modern orthography, "tz" is only used after (short) vowels.

VLC Media Player uses Discworld character names.

My family has a 1950's GM Frigidaire. Works still fine. Nowadays, we only use it occasionally though when we have a party or something.

Do this "seed pod" things work well enough? (as in do they get a decent proportion to grow into trees?) I'm sure they wouldn't work where I live though most places in the world hav…

> Xbrowsersync - sync bookmarks across device Thank you, this is exactly something I was looking for!

Anyone using SlickEdit or any editor with "BRIEF"-style key bindings? I am not, but I am interested what people have to say.

Great video explaining the concept of an API to a layperson. Unfortunately, 90% of the comments are just kids writing "yep, still works!".

For Austria: https://namenskarten.lima-city.at/de/