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At the tax authority we could query that directly from a database. But yes, the public sector suffers from countless different systems that have accumulated over the years. It happ…

> My copy actually is just lying in a cupboard in the original packaging. I never got around to actually displaying it! Interested in finding it a new home?

It works okay. You can setup unicode blocks and use them. I have a collection of python scripts you can use for text manipulation: - regex: https://github.com/olsgaard/Japanese_nlp…

Last time I was at the doctor, I answered “not that I know of” when asked if I had any allergies. Afterwards at the pharmacy, it turns out my prescription included a box of antihis…

Weren't people on the go 50 years ago? This need for bottled water is relatively new. Some of us on HN lived at a time when the concept was absurd, others have grown up with bottle…

Obviously there are many things going on here, and I am not saying this is the end all explanation to the whole thing, but an interesting part of the puzzle I came across during a …

A few years ago I decided I wanted to buy one of his limited prints with some extra money I was to earn. Then I pushed it off for a bit due to a few poor excuses, and eventually fo…

I thought I was pretty good at regex, but I could never have written this one and had to consult both `man grep` and regex101.com. Explanations for the beginner and intermediate re…

Does anyone on HN have any of these "surprising" email addresses that most people and developers do not expect? How does it work with common e-mail clients? How do people react whe…

Since we are sharing our getting out of doom scrolling stories, I’ll share how I got off Reddit. I realized that most of what I was reading on Reddit was fabricated outrage (since …

I really got a lot of use out of taking the GCP data engineer course on coursera (the one by google aimed at the cloud cert) and then later taking the actual certification. With th…

This reminded me of a recent experience on WeChat. I hadn't used it for a few years and recently tried to log in. I was told, that my account had been deactivate due to inactivity …

I took a hint from Gorkish, having never heard of SQL triggers before, and I gotta say, the 2-query answer is really thinking out of the box and very clever. I learned a lot from i…

You really need 3 for the first puzzle and 1 for the second puzzle. Spoilers ahead: - 1st query to get the crime report. This contain plaintext clues. - 2nd query to get witness in…

When doing my master thesis, I wanted my plots to be printable on a black and white printer in case my professor would print or photocopy it (you never know) I wrote up a blogpost …

I thought I had set it up to redirect http ... for email it actually does redirect.

Open your QWERTY keyboard on phone/tablet or look down at your keyboard to see the cleverness

Mine is “first name at last name dot dk, only last name is spelled with an ‘O’ instead of an ‘Ø’” ... It’s quite common when giving my email over the phone that my full name has al…

This reminds me of a joke I used to tell people, when I was writing my master thesis: "I wish I was doing my PhD thesis now. That way, I can finish writing my master thesis by proc…

That's a really neat way of trimming the file extension, something that can end up being quite tedious to do with SED. Do you know of a cheatsheet that describes what all the perce…

A lot of the tips from TFA can be done in BASH as well and I'm sure the following of my own zsh tips also have a bash equivelant, but I'd like to share anyway: Pure theme - My abso…

Inspired by similar plaintext to-do discussions on HN I also built my own system. I use Sublime and I love scrolling. The second makes the system in TFTA not good for me, and given…

According to Kenneth G. Henshall, who wrote a book on the etymology of Kanji [1], it is quite common to choose a phonetic part that lend itself to the meaning of the word and not j…

This is a really good summary. For anyone who want to geek this out further, I highly recommend the the introduction in "Decoding Kanji: A Practical Approach to Learning Look-alike…