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I like f-strings but I don't like that there are at least five ways to format stings. 1. %-formatting [1] 2. str.format [2] 3. string.Template [3] 4. f-string [4] 5. t-string [5] W…

I think this is pretty intuitive (I was able to answer the question correctly before opening the spoiler), but I really like raw string designs in Rust and C++11 that allow you to …

Are we assuming that this is the companies themselves scraping data from training or is this "agents" acting on behalf of users? Nowadays every major chat UI (ChatGPT, Claude etc) …

The question is what exactly are you trying to achieve. Do you want to prevent them from gathering data or do you want to save resources? If it is the latter, then, perhaps, some p…

Apparently, "SuperDuper" is a backup tool for Mac OS. I would really appreciate the article mentioning it.

If I haven't read any of her books, which book or series would you recommend as a starting point?

Very fun indeed! Can't believe, that this [0] solution to Challenge #5 actually worked, lol Challenge #6 is "Transport 40 people using 60 elevator moves or less". Unfortunately doc…

> If you were mobility disabled In one of the buildings where I worked, "fancy Destination Dispatch kiosk" had a separate button with a wheelchair pictogram that would ensure that …

> What if the nearest car is full? I wonder how do elevators find out if the car is full or not. I once been to an office building where it obviously didn't work properly. I needed…

> Is it because the criteria is wait time not travel time? Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to optimize wait time instead of total time from pressing the button to reaching destinat…

If I'm writing a text about Russian language in English, I can easily include an example in Russian: "привет, как дела?" and it will be displayed correctly. But, if I was writing a…

> But also, maybe consider not giving a fuck about what someone on the internet think? If I'm writing something, typically I want to share my thoughts with other people and get the…

> What the hell are these people doing? Goalpost shifting, mostly

I tried the game on mobile first and couldn't figure out the you are supposed to press "go". On my phone it looked just like all other buttons and was not highlighted in any way. N…

> it's just like 5 people doing most of it I understand that finding technical/mathematical solutions to social problems is usually pointless, but still... What if we have, like, a…

This is so called "Atomic" (rpm-ostree based) Fedora, so flatpak is the native way to install applications

> The Russian language itself comes from Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic, as does Serbian and other "Slavic" languages. Also, Bulgaria used to own all the land in the world, bu…

I have 152.0 installed from flatpack on Fedora Kinoite 43 (Plasma 6.6.3 / Wayland) Maybe it's a firefox bug that was introduced somewhere after 140? idk

Or you can just ignore the Earth's rotation completely and sleep whenever you want: https://xkcd.com/320/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/320:_28-Hour_Day

I'm sorry to say, but in the both examples on the page I liked the original version more. In the first example guitars sound very lively, like I'm actually listening to someone pla…

I can confirm, my firefox on linux crashes immediately as well. Curiously, the website works just fine in chrome on android. Blink monopoly strikes again, I guess.

Why not use UTC?

I find unequal hours [0] interesting. Basically, day (from sunrise to sunset) and night (sunset to sunrise) are each divided into 12 equal periods. But night hours and day hours ar…

Aren't modern months made up as well? They are not in sync with lunar cycles anymore.