Notices by clacke (clacke@libranet.de)

in case there are other nerds out there who haven’t yet read this classic, behold “the case of the 500-mile email” https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

I adore the “absurd computer-borne mysteries” genre and kindly ask for more content from the annals of y’all’s careers

@KevinMarks @Kensan @shortridge That's quite the gotcha!

Well, if you're not using ISO dates, and don't tell it what format is being used, this library has to make some sort of guess between mm/dd/YYYY and dd/mm/YYYY.

And iirc you have to tell the standard library which date format to parse, it won't guess.

Back in the day I wrote some LotusScript to convert a bunch of textual dates, and I implemented a heuristic "some of these we can determine mm/dd vs dd/mm because the dd ≥ 13, and we know they should be in order, so we can use those anchor dates to further narrow down the others". 😅

@hugovk @KevinMarks @Kensan @shortridge

@mrj Arsenic is my go-to example too, but I'll try to remember to replace it with the bear, which I think would raise fewer objections and cause less confusion and dissonance for people who haven't quite thought this through:

mstdn.social/@ozzelot/11437700… @ozzelot

@mirabilos @Banur @Cat_LeFey

@mjausson "Doctrine of Signatures"; Thank you, will keep that one in mind!

I wasn't aware that sympathetic magic has a pseudo-scientific alias.

@Banur @Cat_LeFey

"the antimalware is the malware"

-- Colleague who takes a coffee break when the antivirus kicks in and grinds the computer to a halt

I had no idea Lidl is a cloud provider now!

"In a low-profile but significant development, the IT and cloud entity established by the German retailer Lidl in 2021 is now approaching €2 billion in annual revenue. Renamed Schwarz Digits after becoming independent in 2023, this business has quickly positioned itself as one of Europe’s leading cloud providers. By comparison, the French cloud provider OVH generated less than €900 million in revenue in 2023." 😲

icautodesign.com/news/news/lid…

#LidlCloud #SchwarzDigits

@glitzersachen No worries. 😀

Pokemon Go killed my battery last year, and the battery I replaced it with is still almost as good as new.

This happens in all browsers. The ordering platform that almost all the restaurants here use changed something about a year ago; Before then they ran smoothly. It was one restaurant at first, and then the others followed. Some restaurants have their own systems and they're stlll good.

#ResidentAlienS4 !!!!

#ResidentAlien

My six-year-old phone is powerful enough to play 3D games and Pokemon Go, but I need to get a more powerful one that doesn't need a whole minute or more to open the online menus at restaurants.

There's at least one restaurant where the menu doesn't come up at all. My wife's phone from four years ago opens all of these in seconds, no problem, same browser.

@notclacke You just summed up the problem with the MCU and other franchises.

Nobody wants to rewatch a dozen previously released movies and series to enjoy that one new movie.

Taking my laptop and headset into the bathroom, because it has thicker walls and I won't need to scroll past literally dozens of Bluetooth devices to find the one I want to pair with.

How many languages are spoken in "John Wick: Chapter 3"?

I found some posts out there with answers like "I think I heard some Indonesian, some ...", but not a proper nerdy post that states with confidence and receipts how many languages there are.

Here's my own useless "I think I heard ...":

- English, of course
- His Ruska Roma family speaks Belarusian or Russian, I'm assuming they made it interesting and switched between both
- Folks in Casablanca would speak Arabic and/or Berber
- His big fan Zero speaks Japanese
- People online said Zero's minions speak Indonesian

@strypey It's big and empty, compared to China. That doesn't entirely work as an excuse though. Mostly US infra is a policy failure rather than a natural consequence.

@tbaldauf @Br3nda @AccordionBruce

@lizzard Similar gap between two given cities, but the two US cities have 500 k people each, while the two Chinese cities have 5 M people each.

@strypey @Br3nda @AccordionBruce @tbaldauf

Season 4 was great as well. Each season adds a new layer to the lore.

#StrangerThings