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Nice game! I found 20 words. I was a bit stunned by the concept of "bonus words". I found that every word should count. Also because some words are just plural forms (e.g. stroke+s…

Just another data point — anecdata, n=1. I'm an academic in the humanities with kids, currently in my late 30s. While having children certainly reduces the time and mental bandwidt…

It won‘t take long, 2-3 minutes. ——- To add something to conversation. For me, this mainly shows a strategy to keep users longer in chat conversations: linguistic design as an enga…

https://github.com/emadda/hot-notes/blob/main/license.md Proprietary software „Hot Notes is a fully functioning, time-unlimited free trial, with the occasional message to buy a lic…

I find the writer‘s glowing admiration for Spengler disturbing. He was an antidemocratic thinker, whose books are pure speculative fiction. What the author calls „unorthodox“ metho…

I tried with my current MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018). Apple offered 240€. Well.

Also check out Markdeep, which provides this (and a whole lot more) via JS: http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/#features

For Linux and Mac, there some experimental builds available as well [0, 1]. And they are looking for Mac and Linux testers (and developers). [0] https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/d…

Also check out Fontraption (a VGA Text Mode Font Editor for DOS) and Flexi IBM VGA Font (a Scalable Take on Text Mode). https://int10h.org/blog/2019/05/fontraption-vga-text-mode-fo…

The original was destroyed by fire, but Mercedes-Benz made functional replicas. Here is a photo gallery with an engineer riding this thing (without a helmet, of course): https://ww…

Because the article does not reflect the latest status of this story, here is an update: The bank has now successfully filed a complaint against the withdrawal of the license and i…

Re existing projects, there is a nice and exhaustive comparisons to other tools in the docs: https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/comparisons.html

There is a free plan on their pricing page [0], but this free tier is web access only . [0] https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html

There is also the HoHo building („Holzhochhaus“, lit. wood high house) in Vienna, which is a wooden high-rise with 24 stories and 84 m [0]. They just added an antenna to the Mjøsa …

There is, right in the article: Cummins, C. et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0604-2 (2018).

A nice way to compare how various CSS resets and frameworks style HTML elements is [ https://kemar.github.io/html-elements/](https://kemar.github... .

This is a awesome resource, thanks a lot! Some of these books are of course quite old. For example I would not recommend trying to learning contemporary German using this [1] book.…

You have made me curios, so I'm going to read the paper. It lives under this DOI [10.2307/2295952]( https://doi.org/10.2307/2295952 ) (paywalled).

I successfully used the example in this StackExchange answer [0]. And you could also take a look at the flashcard package on CTAN [1]. Another easy option would be using some kind …

Yes, I noticed that to. I just ended up going for a cheap ~6 Euro USB adapter. On the plus side you get an SD card reader. (And besides Bluethooth it has great connectivity: 2x LAN…

I recently got my parents a fanless desktop computer. There a lot of options, but I went with a cheap Shuttle XPC slim barebone [1]: It is tiny, has a really nice industrial design…

Wikipedia has a nice list [0]. In German pseudo-anglicisms are an often used method of word formation, e.g: Beamer (projector), No-Go (faux pas), Handy (mobile phone), Oldtimer (cl…

Teletext found its niche. The Austrian broadcaster ORF even released an TELETEXT app (!) this year [1], available for Android [2] and iOS [3]. An then there is also art, as with ev…