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The image referencing "Haussystem Didot" is an example of a catalog not containing the Angzarr symbol in question. I did not find any evidence for earlier examples in any of the ve…

Neither did I read all these pages nor did I pretend to. > Neither the wikipedia page for the Didot family, nor for Histoire générale des voyages shows the Angzarr symbol, I've car…

I'm sorry, but I don't understand your comment at all. The linked article does not refer to Didot, nor does the Wikipedia page for the glyph in question. Neither the wikipedia page…

SEEKING WORK | remote, Stuttgart area, Germany | Python full-stack developer I've worked for 15 years as a freelance Python/Django developer, in projects both big and small. I've c…

SEEKING WORK | remote, Stuttgart area, Germany | Python full-stack developer I've worked for 15 years as a freelance Python/Django developer, in projects both big and small. I've c…

Back when we played the original game, there was a bug that leads to underflow in the money. You had to build a tunnel that spanned the entire width of the map, which would cost ju…

This looks really nice and people interested in mathematical computing should try it out. I certainly will. Apparently many commenters here do not understand the word "alternative"…

I love that! Argparse is such an old and boring solution to such a simple problem that we need more like this. And I have hope that one of the solutions will make it into the stand…

This is a pet peeve of mine: csv was a bad format already when it was created, because it intermixes data with meta data, ie it uses characters that can appear as either data or co…

If you liked this, you might also like "Friendship is optimal" ( https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/Friendship-is-Optimal ) And "the metamorphosis of Prime Intellect ( https://…

Panasonic has duplex document scanners in various price ranges, starting from about 300 €, and they are all Linux compatible with one sane SANE driver. They scan super quick and ea…

Here is one of the most enlightening explanations for these kinds of spirals I have seen by 3blue1brown: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EK32jo7i5LQ Note that the setup is slightly d…

According to AcoUP, transport cost over land is five times that over rivers, and twenty times that over sea. https://acoup.blog/2019/07/19/the-lonely-city-part-ii-real-c...

For a historically accurate overview over how cities actually were, and on how they sustained their size, I recommend Bret Devereaux' excellent history blog: https://acoup.blog/201…

When I worked at a small consultancy, we had similar requirements, Masters or higher. I asked our hiring manager (who himself was a 22-year-old student) why they did that. He told …

There was a django security issue where password length lead to a possible DOS attack against the server. So now they limit passwords rather arbitrarily to 4096 bytes. https://www.…

According to the recent article on an extra robotic thumb, people got used to it very quickly. And that one wasn't even controlled by neural link, but by sensors on the user's toes…

You could try RealityCapture, https://www.capturingreality.com/ , which is a professional 3d capturing software. It has been free to try since Epic bought it. Unfortunately, you'll…

I built commandeer, a library for seamlessly exposing python functions as command line calls. https://commandeer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ I was fed up with having to build the nth…

Those are all excellent beginner friendly recommendations. In general, the Spiel des Jahres are quite good suggestions, offering enough depth for long-term play, yet being easy eno…

Those are all great games and great suggestions, but they are also very heavy and and long games. Even with skilled players, you won't be able to complete a session of Terraforming…