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It's not easy coming up with a name that sounds at least somewhat OK in >24 languages.

I'm still waiting on my current, 60 hours of use a week, mid-2019 MacBook Pro to die or have any sort of malfunction so I can justify buying a new one. Its battery life has seen be…

Linotype machines are marvellous and I'd highly recommend seeing them in action should you ever get the chance. They are the perfect intersection between a rube goldberg machine an…

I won't resort to naming and shaming here but if you ever get contacted by a UK agency that 'resources vividly', immediately request a removal of your contact info per GDPR or you …

Node-RED is much more focused on IoT as far as I can tell, although the UIs look comparable.

You might enjoy https://pypi.org/project/htmlq/

Yes. The first one is more like a user complaint than an actual reproducible bug report.

I don't think many phone OEMs will actually take the effort to muck around in the lock screen mechanisms.

Not true at all. I've done work for insurance companies in the past as well. While it's true most of them will not diverge from their standard contracts, some are very open to clie…

It acts as a "pre-emptive" tax shift. If more people pay taxes there's going to be less pressure on the government to set an ever higher tax rate, because now they receive more mon…

Why do you want to kill them?

Many providers in the EU will also gladly block connections based on IMEI if you can prove you're the owner of said IMEI.

Finder.app and Preview.app are surprisingly decent format conversion tools

Belgium is very similar in that regard. Our politicians are very talented in turning what should be straightforward processes into complex bureaucratic puzzles that require at the …

Language can change and words can take up new meanings.

I was lucky enough to experience a 2 year long project in which everything that went wrong was blamed on the developers. Project managers breathing down your neck, feeling so press…

The only safe way to drive an F1 car is with remote control.

Well, there does exist this standard by the Specialty Coffee Association specifically intended as a reference for testing: https://sca.coffee/research/coffee-standards It suggests …

Coincidentally: it’s also the only programming language I know of where someone has written a lengthy blog post about how I’m in fact, not too dumb to comprehend it.

Do applications that use virtual memory really count as native?

Correct. Which is strange, because both "intern" and "intra" mean as much as "internal". I never understood why "externational" isn't a word.

This reminds me of an idea I had in mind a while ago. It would've been similar to this (like some kind of "Startup Graveyard") but slightly more extensive: interviews with the foun…

33 people: 0.00000045810% of the earth's population 100 people: 0.00000134736% of the earth's population Seems fairly comparable to me.

Thank you for that link, super interesting! It made me interested in trying out Clojure and seeing what it's all about.