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  • That "thank you, mr AI", now fixed

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  • I guess here in Norway we can celebrate Joule with Joulenissen that brings battery-powered toys for the kids

  • 4 hours apart, by time zones

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  • I'm very aware of what it means to be human, especially every time the daylight savings nonsense changes. But what the number on the alarm clock says when I get up doesn't mean jack shit as long as it's the same actual time of day.

    A sundial that has the numbers changed around is still the same sundial, and that's the point here.

  • 4 hours apart, by time zones

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  • Sundials haven't been relevant for a long time. We use network time these days, calibrated against UTC (and possibly represented as Unix time).

    Personally I'd likely think it was neat to switch to metric time (ten hours per nychthemeron), or kiloseconds (87.6 in a nychthemeron), or even swatch @beat (1000 per nychthemeron).

    Somewhat related, the English word for døgn (nychthemeron) is such a mouthful.

  • 4 hours apart, by time zones

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  • The general suggestion is to just use UTC everywhere. Ask if you don't know what UTC is.

  • 4 hours apart, by time zones

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  • Not having everyone set their clocks to show 12:00 at their local solar noon became necessary. Time zones as such weren't and aren't really necessary, except to keep alive the convention that 12:00 is noon (in the winter half of the year for the countries with daylight savings).

  • That "thank you, mr AI", now fixed

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  • Yeah, it measures the same thing we normally use Joule for, or in some situations kcal (as in dietary calories). The kWh unit is just because it's assumed to be simpler for electric bills than MJ.

  • Experiment finds yoghurt can lower house temperature

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  • Sun films have been available commercially for a long while. Choose how much sunlight you want reflected (generally more in bedrooms that you generally want dark and cool, less in rooms where you want a view), and either get a professional to apply or do it yourself—it just takes a bit of soap water and effort.

    Generally better to have the sun rejection happen on the outside of the window, so as little as possible energy gets absorbed.

  • Systemd's Nuts and Bolts - A Visual Guide to Systemd

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  • I've very barely dipped my toes in dbus before, and the option to have something else is on its face attractive (not a fan of XML and the late 90s/early aughties style of oop), but JSON for a system interface?

    I mean, Kubernetes shows that yaml can work, but in this day and age I'd expect several options for serialisation, and for the default to be binary, not strings.

    String serialisations are primarily for humans IMO, either as readers or writers. As writers we want something with comments (and preferably no "find the missing }" game), so for that most of us would prefer something like TOML if the data is simple enough, and actually Yaml for complexity at the level of Kubernetes—JSON manages to be even more of a PITA at that level.

    But machine-to-machine? Protobuf, cap'n'proto, postcard, even CBOR should all be alternatives to examine

  • new Date("wtf")

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  • There's wasm if you need to target browsers.

  • Plant Slurs

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  • Similar in Norwegian: Ugress. Un-grass.

    I've heard one definition of it that I like: The grass that your (grazing) animals won't eat.

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  • The Symbol Of Love

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  • Is the GSM2 network still functioning? I think here it was shut down so the frequencies could be reused for 5G

  • Every summer be like this

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  • That's how it starts. Just let it develop for a century or something and you'll probably be decent at it

  • UPDATE: Why am I so slow?

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  • When you see that sign you must. When you see this sign you can:

    Often it is preferable anyway, but there's a difference between informational signs (blue rectangle) and mandating signs (blue circle). Here in Norway we generally don't have mandatory bike & ped paths, just the voluntary ones.

    These combinations are generally not a good fit for urban areas, there we should have bikeways with sidewalks:

    (Generally new infrastructure in urban areas is being constructed as bikeways with sidewalks, and old shared bike/ped-ways are being upgraded to bikeways with sidewalks.)

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    We need to build more of the family sized apartments.

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  • Also plenty of countries aren't all that hung up on marriage. It is possible to have kids and government recognition without a marriage certificate.

  • Announcing Rust 1.88.0 | Rust Blog

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  • Yeh. Ubuntu also discussed it back in 2019, and wound up keeping some of it so Steam would keep working.

    I expect the willingness to bend over backwards for one proprietary and very profitable app doesn't last forever, and given how involved gaming often is with pushing technology, it's frankly weird that Steam is still shackled to 32bit like that.

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • Yeah, I think the fact that the next LTS will be 26.04 is the driver here, I just get the impression that things might get a little rocky and that they might've been better off had the next LTS been further into the future.

    But it'll be a real smoke test release, at least. Hopefully they have enough resources to fix the issues that are uncovered, and don't wind up reverting for the LTS, or with a crummy LTS.

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • I'm generally an en_*.UTF-8 user (even tried en_DK.UTF-8 for a bit for a reason we'll come back to), so I don't have a complete picture of it and would have to go look at the documentation or source for that, but I'd expect

    • documentation
    • date formats: en_DK.UTF-8 should give you ISO8601-formatted dates, if I can't have that I at least want DD/MM/YYYY; the US-american nonsense is just plain unacceptable
    • sorting: e.g. Norwegian will have …zæøå and expect aa to be sorted as å, the Swedes have …zåöä, the Germans …zäöü, the Turks will want ı and İ sorted and upper/lowercased correctly, and there are some options around how you deal with "foreign" letters and diacritics.
    • Probably more stuff relating to LC_* that I can't think of off the top of my head

    but in any case, an ls -l output should be different depending on your locale, and in ways you likely don't even think about as long as it looks normal.

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • Yeah, I think those are just lacking in the internationalisation?

    People like me, who at most have some reading glasses needs and have their computer set to generally English utf-8 will be likely be fine.