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How do you disable the nagging about new versions?

- Purple Motion - SSI Intro https://modtu.be/?m=384106 It’s a slow burn… favorite parts at 4:52 and 8:51.

AllChars hasn’t been maintained for a long time, last stable release is from 2007, bugs are not getting fixed. I switched from AllChars to WinCompose for that reason.

Using empty interfaces (protocols) as markers is a longstanding practice in Java [0], although nowadays it is considered an antipattern and annotations are preferred. [0] https://en.wikiped…

It could be read as a longitude if you’re poor in geography.

> So NUMERIC is kind of like TEXT except when the text is a pure number. That‘s exactly the thing that always comes back to bite you in Excel.

I tend to agree with what you’re saying. My impression is that the main concern is for current technology used by astronomers, satellites, navigation and so on, which require leap seconds to be taken …

> Just stick with TAI and convert times to UTC when displaying them. That may not be suitable when you want to represent an exact point in time years into the future. You’re usually not interested …

> seems like leap seconds could be covered via a leap hour every 10k years or so. The increase is quadratic. Without leap seconds, the difference will be an hour in 1000 years, but already a full d…

Any recommendations for alternatives for Windows?

I continue to use Lucida Console for that reason.

For a passively cooled Ryzen APU system, I can recommend the Cirrus7 Incus: https://www.cirrus7.com/en/cirrus7-incus/ …

> Make an irreversible decision where you are not the one to call off the deal. How can you possibly enforce irreversibility? Tomorrow’s me is perfectly capable of reversing any decision whatsoever…

They seem to withhold that information on purpose, so I guess the pack is not very slim. We’ll know in a week or so.

> it is much slimmer Apple neither states the dimensions nor provides a picture with a 90° side view, so I’m wondering how slim it really is.

Battery service is "only" 55€ in Europe.

> compliment I’ll take that as a complement.

https://download.microsoft.com/download/7/8/8/788bf5ab-0751-... …

Windows 11 as an OS won’t require a camera. It’s a requirement for vendors to be allowed by Microsoft to put a "Designed for Windows 11" sticker on the hardware.

> Oh, and even Debian also requires a network interface and contains a phone-home package. Getting security fixes without a normal network interface is a Challenge, and security fixes aren't r…

> Age may be a factor. Probably. Although I switched both IP and domain a couple of years ago (not at the same time) without noticeable issues.

I’m saying that for all practical purposes I never had an issue. That is, I don’t recollect any case where it turned out that someone didn’t get my email. That’s not to say that it didn’t ever happen …

> When you send your email via a small email server (a server that sends a low volume of email), you will have constant issues getting mail delivered. That’s hyperbole. I‘ve been running my persona…

Still using an i7-2600 as my main workstation at work, since 2012.

But what about output?

Non-ASCII characters make sense in national application domains, e.g. tax software, where you don’t want be forced to transliterate (or worse: try to translate) the non-English terminology.

> The "A" in ASCII stands for American. Just call it ISO 646-IRV instead. ;)

Exactly. Flat design removes signals in order to let the UI appear simpler. But the removal of meaningful signals makes the UI more more ambiguous and harder to use. Flat design is an obfuscation, tr…

Third-party add-ins add additional tabs to Microsoft’s Control Panel items. Microsoft can’t just remove them.