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Since I came across it in its very early days, for nearly three decades the fourmilab.ch site has been the one constant in my weblife. Treasure trove of projects and ideas and book…

> Who said women can't do math? Asimov. https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/25852/where-d...

Or, as it turns out, even if you do.

For an alternative take developed in a different galaxy, have a look at redbean, https://redbean.dev/

So what? This crazy thing runs fine, albeit slowly, on my 12 year old ThinkPad. It's actually digesting an image of an anteater while I write this. Because of course it plays nicel…

Ah yes, Mussolini's famous Norwegian campaign

> A German general decorating with the Iron Cross some soldiers of the Expeditionary Force and two soldiers of the SS, in Denmark, April 1940 Norwegian writing on Norwegian houses …

> During the time I was dead Semantic correction for this and all similar recollections: You are alive to tell the story, so you were, in fact, not dead.

Or, to be exact, halvfjerds .

Ha, I remember that news item, although from the other end of the world, and not really sure where I read it. The gist was that the first email had been sent to Australia, and I do…

It's not the author who doesn't get it. What is said is decimal gives rise to these round numbers, other bases yield other ones .

I did, not a month ago. Nothing strange about the process whatsoever.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from random noise.

> The actual toilet in which Friedrich Nietzsche realised God is dead The actual caption which made me wonder if he was wrong.

> Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitaen Eminently parsable for me. But then, I'm Danish and used to this kind of bolt-on word construction, or wordconstruction as I should far…

Close encounters of the blurred kind. If, at some point in the future, we get small, handy, cheap, good quality cameras that people make a habit of always carrying around, then sur…

Oh yes, and David had a room and a machine park I would have killed for. Still would, really. But why and how a Danish cray fish poster on his wall?

More so. Mid-nineties web static images were either jpg og gif. Preferably gifs, which mostly compressed way better for anything but photos. With proper indexing, color limitation,…

And great fun how the inevitably interminable top thread without hesitation locks on to the subject of ... job interviews.

That was my thought, too. Day to day, my phone alarm is fine (and I damn well tested it thoroughly before actually relying on it), but if anything life-and-death is scheduled, I'll…

Such a pool of pluswords, more or less. What if I am sarcastic, impatient, nitpicking, and arrogant? What if you are?

Rats have played smarter tricks on me than any other animals I've seen. Sophisticated stuff involving quite precise guessing as to what my next steps would be. Call it theory of mi…

> By adopting this standard, users that prefer to have plain, non-colored text output can export NO_COLOR=1 to their shell’s environment and automatically disable color by default …

I live in one of the top four countries on the list. When ongoing EU self-aggrandisement at times reaches unbearable proportions, I like pointing to the other three. Those dysfunct…

> the Mediterranean (introduced) But this time, nothing will go wrong.