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Younger than Gmail, YouTube, and the iPhone.
The iPhone is not yet 18.
By only two months.
I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)
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>12. Went to another USPS to drop the package You have a USPS drop box for tiny boxes in front of your house.
> house I can't afford a house ($2M+ where I live), so I don't have one of those mailboxes. My apartment complex doesn't have a visible USPS pickup anywhere that I know of. If you meant those inverted U shaped things that look like they are from WW2 (maybe WW1?), I forgot about those, but somehow I never know how frequently they are checked ... there is no indicator about when they were last opened and I wonder wheth…
Even if you are in rural Alaska or something, drop boxes are checked on a rigid schedule as part of the mail delivery route. They’re reliable.
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Ha, I'm trying to remember where I learned that as well. I know we covered it in drafting where we learned an 8.5x11 A paper is half a sheet of 11x17 B paper which is half a sheet of 17x22 C paper, and so on. But I thought I knew the size of A paper long before that, and that it was common knowledge, though I can't think of where or why I would have needed to know. Then again I also know that legal paper is 8.5x14 ev…
Grade school for me - teachers would say "8.5x11" instead of "letter size" or even just "printer paper." I don't know why they did it, and I assume it's for the same reason that I say it too. It's probably what their teachers said to them!
Because that’s the size of the paper.
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In the US, the way milk is sold, is that larger amounts cost less. In other words, the 1/2-gallon container, buy two of those, and it costs significantly more than a single 1-gallon container. It gets even worse for quarts. But I seldom buy in the 1-gallon container as it will generally spoil before I've used it all, so there isn't any savings there for me.
>In other words, the 1/2-gallon container, buy two of those, and it costs significantly more than a single 1-gallon container. Except sometimes the 1/2 gallons will be randomly on sale where you can get like 3 of them for the price of a gallon. Milk economics makes no sense to me. But yeah, it's usually cheaper to buy more than you need and just throw it out if you don't use it, as is the American way.
It also usually sours I think? You can still use that for pancakes or something... not sure because I’m too lazy and throw it away myself.
Re: I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)
#556It's an "I wrote a letter" blog post - which I suppose may be novel for some in today's audience.
TLDR: To save space, some old GPLv2 software didn't include the full license text, instead just a short notice with an address you can contact to obtain it. Blogger did so (glad the address still worked after 30+ years), included return postage (some nifty US stamps bought off eBay), but the reply received was version 3 instead. So they did so again, and received the correct version.
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The trouble is there is just very little gain. It really just doesn't matter. All the systems are fine, they all work. If you come live here, you'll adjust after 2 years. If I moved to Europe, I would adjust in 2 years. Once in a blue moon you have to bother with converting units but c'est la vie . There's bigger things to worry about.
> All the systems are fine This is not true and that's trivially verifiable. No calculator, no references, no Google: How many inches are in 5 and three-quarter miles? How much does 5 & 3/4 gallons of water weigh?
In what scenarios would I need to know the answers to those questions?
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>Like, shouldn't we have more contracts like this? We have tons of them, they are written by lawyers.
I wish they were standardized and freely available.
You can get books of them, but standardization mostly doesn't work because every situation is different enough that it can't be standardized enough.
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I sympathize strongly with the author. I write with a pen so infrequently ( years between handwriting) that I often have handwriting errors that displease me. So I usually do some practice writing on scratch paper before attempting the final version. Notice he said "printing the address would have taken less time". That doesn't sound like the issue was formatting or knowledge. It reads to me as the physical skill of…
How is that possible? I write things literally every day. Everyone I know does so. How do you go a literal year without picking up a pen?
Aside for signing my signature (which I almost never need to do anymore) then the only time I need to handwrite is to fill out forms, usually for medical purposes, and I don't go to the doctor every year (yes, I recognize this is unwise).
If I have time I prefer to scan forms and fill them out with a computer.
All my text generation is digital using either a keyboard or touchscreen.
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There are more Letter countries than just those four. Nicely covered with the “I could be wrong” though.
Last time I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you at least thought your comment was worth posting, now I assume you're just a troll and am blocking so I won't see your comments again.
What’s more trollish than telling someone “I’m blocking you because you’re a troll”? If you’re going to block me just block me, don’t owe any explanations to me.
You’re so funny heheh