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On a rather unrelated note, those binders are called "fardes à anneaux" in my dialect of French. Translating directly to "ring binders". Languages are fun

Yes, this story gets posted a lot, and many of us might know it, but at the same time, I like to think about the ones that didn't. They will learn something new today. XKCD said it…

There are but I could not find many details about them in English. Some of the well knowns are: すもももももももものうち or ははははははははのははははははとわらった Please see MeCab ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

This happens more often then you might think. A lot of people are adding padding when they need to store IPs. So they can be easily sorted using alphanumeric sort: 192.168.001.001 …

It sounded genuinely honest to me and I find being proud of oneself when tough times where endured is pretty healthy.

I am so late to the party I feel so ashamed but here is my 2 cents. Please, please, travel, and by that I don't mean doing a full a world tour. Just explore what exists outside of …

I really like the tone and the realization. Just a small thing that bother me is that on my desktop machine, the second column is not aligned as neatly as the others (due to two li…

I might be a tad late to the game, but I'm really happy with my Wenger. Specifically this one : http://wenger.swissluggage.com/proddetail.asp?prod=600628 I previously used one from…

I'm simply using Heroku free tier for both hosting and database, which is PostgreSQL. It is really simple to setup although you get some delay due to their "sleeping dyno" system. …

There are some nice online book recommendations website. Most of the time I use Good Reads [0] or What Should I Read Next [1] [0] https://www.goodreads.com [1] http://whatshouldire…

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.nebuleux.jt... jTrains is an offline tool to plan railways trip in Japan. I developed it for my own needs but figured people might …

I have dabbled a bit with it quite a few times and was quite happy about it, but my main issue is that AFAIK there is not "pure" Java API for Realm. It seems there have been attemp…

X can always by devided by 2, meaning the condition will always be false thus returning "a" unchanged. "xor eax, eax" is a shortcut to "mov eax, 0".

Actually for a photon time is so dilated, it does not exists anymore. From its perspective everything "happens" at the same "time". There are quite a few answers for this : https:/…

Short answer is "no". Long answer is, actually these changes already happened quite a while ago. Most of the time, we tend to forget IPv6 is in fact more or less 20 years old now. …

For those, like me, who also have trouble understanding this, I found Hintjens answered this very question [0] by mentioning a post on his blog [1]. [0] https://github.com/culturea…

I never heard about this kind of game. So to summarize (if I understood correctly), this would be a variation of the classical 8 queens problem [0] but on a wider board. Very inter…

I as told in Jr. High School that we ended bipedal in order to stand in the bush so we could see further what was coming up and then, with our hands now free, we could start buildi…

French speaking part of the country still have it, even online [0] [0] http://www.rtbf.be/services/teletexte

Please listen to this advise. Having the proof or maybe only some hints is very important. That might sound far etched but this anonymous person could very well be an insider emplo…

I find a recent video by Veritasium [0] very much relevant here. As stated, cognitive ease makes us wary of new or unknown things. It is not simply fear of the unknown, we literall…

Actually, this is not a new idea. Entire block of IP adresses are known to have been highjacked this way and are now used for spam purposes. Squatters reclaim the block with variou…

Our frontiers are sometimes a bit fuzzy to say the last [0] and there is also this place [1] where you can literally be in 3 countries at the same times [0] http://www.dailymail.co…

I really do think the same. Actually the crime sera drama "Columbo" worked that way as we knew beforehand who the culprit was. The point of the whole episode was to discover why th…

About the IMS to DB2 migration, intuitively I would try to write a translation layer between the two databases. Do you know if this was already attempted or deemed undoable (or sil…