theanonymousone

I have played a bit with Pyodide and it is very promising for client-side web programming, particularly because of the philosophy similarities between Python and JavaScript, which make interaction mor…

I was in a talk of his, where he said "I was a University professor at a time when a byte was 6 bits".

I mean 240 leap years every 5500 years, like 8 leap years every 33 years you mentioned.

That is likely to worsen global warming :(

244 leap years in each 5500-year cycle leaves quite a small residue.

Different cultures would probably make different choices for the "singular" day.

Of course, but I believe there is here a distinction between two slightly different cases to be made: Inferring the return type of methods (i.e. `var x = MyMethod()`) does indeed reduce readability, I…

It seems I have not been clear enough: This service opens your mail and scans the actual content of the letters to PDF files. It's not just the address box or the envelope! That USPS service you …

In Switzerland, the public post company provides a service[0] which scans your incoming letters (i.e. their content, not just the envelope) and makes it available via the web and an app. I started usi…

I'm wondering whether this is a "submarine"[0] article. [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html …

May I ask how the cartridge replacement works with Brother, and Laser printers in General? I am quite annoyed after "breaking" two Inkjet printers in 5-6 years and want to buy a laser one th…

Are you in a big city? For me speed limits appear the moment I cross the border to Italy or get off the plane in UK, but never in Switzerland (or Germany where I have also checked it). I have the sett…

In every discussion about Google Maps, I feel obliged to mention that it does not show speed limits in Switzerland, despite the official support page[0] saying otherwise! Isn't this insanely beau…

So, what happened to those "jail-time wrong" actions that mandated such a language in the firing announcement? Honestly, it is hard to believe a board st this level acting the way they did.…

RSS delegates that responsibility to your own, local, feed reader software, along with any sort of privacy measures you want in place. This I believe is (at the very least) quite defendable as I trust…

I remember what a great help it was in writing my LaTeX documents back in 2010. Probably the forefather of all these GenAI assistants :D

Of course. But the word "free" has two meanings, which is my point. I was thinking the other day that naybe "open software" was a better name for exactly this reason.

The ImageMagick development team probably don't count themselves as Windows developers. At least not all of them.

Let's normalise using WSL for all such command-line utilities. Everyone's life will be easier, from developrs to users.

Many thanks. Looks really promising. I tried TeavM two or so years ago and faced problem because my Java veriosn was newer than 14, if I remember correctly. Now with this new release, things look grea…

Sorry. Non-native speaker.