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“Opus” is/was a lot of things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus#Computing

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I’m assuming you can only use it with string literals, hence it is less universally useful.

It was before everything became widescreen. 1280x1024 at 19” was pretty common I think, which is 86 PPI and would correspond to FHD at 25.5”. I still have a 27” 1920x1200 from 2007 at roughly the same…

There was a time when these were considered super sharp high-resolution monitors. Fonts tended to be more optimized for (sub)pixel-level hinting in the past, though, while newer fonts and font renderi…

Admittedly I’m not so familiar with Python; it does work in Java. In that case, introducing a less hazardous string concatenation operator would seem more universally useful.

I’m not sure what you mean by manual formatting. You do need a place in your program where you fill in the parameters into the respective localized string template. I agree that the printf format synt…

Personally I do find the first version clearer, because it is based on general language rules.

It’s unclear what the big advantage is over `print("Age: "+age)`. It’s even more characters, in that specific example.

> why use format strings Because these are used for locale-specific configuration data. `"This is here: {x+y} blah"` on the other hand isn’t a string (mere data), it’s a program, because …

That probably would be worse, because you aren’t seeing how your examiner reacts and will be imagining the worst.

It’s fine in landscape for me, but here you go: “The problem, and it is a moral problem, with which we are here faced is very close to one of the great problems of slavery. Let us grant that slavery i…

> step by step That’s basically what “pari passu” means.

My family name was already taken as a domain 25 years ago, but well, you can’t expect to be able to own any but the most rare names. However, the space is large enough that you can invent a name that …

I regularly listen to recent music, but often tracks I explicitly search for, and autoplay based on those I “liked”. My “Liked Music” playlist has several thousand entries, so I suspect that heavily s…

There is a browser business when the browser company is also in the ad business.

You can actually tap on the channel name and scroll down to see the About section (at least on iOS). I never had genAI tracks being suggested on YouTube Music. Though it might be a factor that my acco…

You’re just saying that 90% of your internet usage is YouTube?

Habituation is difficult to overcome. If domain names had been freeform from the start, we wouldn’t have this particular issue. Domain names are still a finite space, given that a full domain name can…

FWIW, I never got the appeal of Myst as well. Much too limited range of actions.

It’s interesting that domains apparently are still such a big business, despite how browsers have been deemphasizing URLs and domain names, and given the prevalence of apps.

The FIRE model you’re arguing for isn’t realistic for most people, and besides that, spending your youth “working super hard” on a job you find meaningless will will make you a different person compar…

Even space is a race.

It opens the leaderboard as #27, so in the last place.

I believe in linking over copy & paste, in particular when I want neither to quote the full FAQ nor editorialize by selective quoting. By reading the FAQ, people can form their own opinion on it.

Nop should be #1, because it is infinitely slow for what it does. ;)

I’d still file that under stupidity.