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Countdown is an actual UK game show, on air since 1982 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show) . It was originally a French game show (Des chiffres et des lettres), it …

Simple and easy to play. I usually play the Countdown variant, where a letter cannot be re-used. But it starts with 9 letters and one can have multiple instances of the same letter…

I think every professional type designer I know uses this software. I have trouble coming up with any other example of total domination of a market segment. Maybe Photoshop in its …

Microsoft recently introduced typing via Windows key plus hyphen (en dash) and plus shift (em dash). Much easier.

To be precise, it takes 1 employee to say "used in X". It takes corporate decision to say "used by X". And it takes a written agreement to be able to use the trademarked logo of X …

What is also missing from the text is why -- more specifically, why should someone set up a DoH instead of a DNS service.

Not to mention vLLM :-D

I completely agree that it is the best choice for a document language. To the point that I have to ask: what other alternatives are there?

What a wonderful analysis and visualization! Simple, easy to understand, and providing some insights.

Com'on, it's not that bad. The idea of these organizations is that, since they're using and testing this software, "we'll see any issues first, we'll let you know, and we'll deal w…

That's wonderful! I can also recommend a book from my library: Typoésie by Jérôme Peignot (Imprimerie nationale editions, Paris, 1993), ISBN 2-11-081272-9 (or newer edition 9782742…

Exactly the same feedback: I got all 100 correct, and the results were the same as yours. As it usually happens in this kind of "check your vocabulary" tests in English, being Gree…

The $100K was for doing the work to make the offer to buy Letterbox. This offer need to somehow include something like $160M. The comment you're replying to pointed out that there …

No, you don't get the holidays back -- nor do you get weekends, if you're sick. On the other hand, I've been in a company where there were long discussions about whether the extra …

Thank you for helping maintain the Unix lore.

As the old joke goes: "For your birthday, I wanted to get you a pocket calculator ... but then I thought you'd already know how many pockets you have."

> was Metafont the only outline-based font technology Surely Karow's Ikarus was earlier than that. One of the main innovations of Metafont was the use of "pen"s, so that one would …

RIP. I've actually found the Handbook of Programming Languages (4 volumes) that he edited much more useful than his Unix history. I met him in a few conferences, back in the day. W…

They definitely also had NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access): on multi-CPU systems, you had a variety of ways to specify where you wanted your data to live (stay close to one CPU, for…

People who look for solutions in this space (Time Series DB for measurements, for example) can also look at the good ol' RRDtool https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ first released more…

And thank you for this. In my professional setting, this is a very valuable addition -- provided it works correctly, of course ;-). Now if we could also have comments inside the co…

I concur completely. Back in those days, the very basic stuff you mention (awk, sed, make) were being built by a handful of people, all sitting together, and the few outsiders who …