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by Hublium 3y ago
Assuming you want to keep working ~40 hours a week, I feel like the best idea are four 8.5 hour days and Friday as a half day. This gives you half a day to "decompress" and still have a two day weekend ahead of you. This is the wo
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by Hublium 4y ago
Thank you, was not aware of that. There was no mention on this Wikipedia article that I used to double-check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Product_Activation Let's rephrase @endgame's comment as &q
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by Hublium 4y ago
To be fair, you have to remember that the calculator is called "calc.exe" to use this method. However, when parent said "you really wouldn’t want the II of that era back" I understood "you" as "HN reader&q
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by Hublium 4y ago
Press <Windows>+R, "calc" <Return>. Easy and fast, if you can remember the exact names of the executables. Also, back then Windows came not only with printed manuals, but also with an actually useful help system and no
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by Hublium 4y ago
Where do you have this information from? As far as I know, product activation for office started with Office XP ("2002").
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by Hublium 4y ago
Adressing high school teachers as "professor" is common in Austria and Czechia.
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by Hublium 4y ago
I'm sorry, what? Single-camera, no laugh track has been an extremely common format for sitcoms for the last twenty years.
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by Hublium 4y ago
a more recent example of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsen_versus_Nepomniachtchi,...
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by Hublium 4y ago
Wikipedia says: >Isaac Asimov once mentioned an "interesting theory" that Romans avoided using IV because it was the initial letters of IVPITER, the Latin spelling of Jupiter, and might have seemed impious. He did not say whose
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by Hublium 4y ago
EU regulations now forbid SMS-based authentication. I tried explaining to the bank clerk several times how I am not using the Google Play Store but it was only when I held my Nokia "dumb phone" in their face that they gave me a ha
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by Hublium 4y ago
This is a case where I want to mention Austria as a positive example: The vaccination certificate app is open source on Github, so you can compile it yourself and not need to use the Play Store.
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by Hublium 4y ago
>Over the years many countries experimented with 3-unit coins or banknotes. For instance, in the 90s, Ukraine had a 3 karbovanets banknote and Uzbekistan had a 3 som banknote I think "experimented" is the wrong word here when U
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by Hublium 4y ago
If you missed it (like me). This is about the answer he gave when asked whether he thinks about creating his own social media platform: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1557199404301307904#m
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by Hublium 4y ago
It's always frustrating when you can't set the language of a website manually.
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by Hublium 4y ago
Norwegian has the diphthongs "ei" and "øy", while Danish has "ej" and "øj". Though I don't know whether you can rely on that when looking at proper names (surnames, place names).
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by Hublium 4y ago
in case anyone here is wondering anyway: Only Czech: ě, ř, ů Only Slovak: ä, ľ, ô
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by Hublium 4y ago
I am more of a Delphi/Lazarus guy myself, but can anybody who is actually considering using this compare it against Gambas, RAD Basic, Xojo, ...?
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by Hublium 4y ago
In German, a <z> always makes a /ts/ sound and in modern orthography, "tz" is only used after (short) vowels.
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by Hublium 4y ago
VLC Media Player uses Discworld character names.
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by Hublium 4y ago
My family has a 1950's GM Frigidaire. Works still fine. Nowadays, we only use it occasionally though when we have a party or something.
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by Hublium 4y ago
Do this "seed pod" things work well enough? (as in do they get a decent proportion to grow into trees?) I'm sure they wouldn't work where I live though most places in the world have less pressure from game than there is
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by Hublium 4y ago
> Xbrowsersync - sync bookmarks across device Thank you, this is exactly something I was looking for!
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by Hublium 4y ago
Anyone using SlickEdit or any editor with "BRIEF"-style key bindings? I am not, but I am interested what people have to say.
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by Hublium 4y ago
Great video explaining the concept of an API to a layperson. Unfortunately, 90% of the comments are just kids writing "yep, still works!".
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by Hublium 5y ago
For Austria: https://namenskarten.lima-city.at/de/
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by Hublium 5y ago
I recommend something like Super+C.
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by Hublium 5y ago
many non-alphanumeric characters?
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Eiffel for embedded systems at Hewlett-Packard (1998)(web.archive.org)
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by Hublium 5y ago
Very interesting read as for some reason I've been fascinated with old code pages lately. Can anybody point me to some more resources about this general topic? The Wikipedia articles about code pages are all so generic and uninformativ
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by Hublium 5y ago
> [C++] also had type inference very early on, but the developers of the mid-80s were not quite ready for that and Bjarne Stroustrup was pressured into removing auto, until it was added back to C++11. Does anybody have background informa

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