Notices by clacke (clacke@libranet.de)

Glad midsommar!

Happy midsummer, summer equinox or winter equinox, depending where you are and your traditions!

Fern Brady: "... and I'm a vegetarian, which is the bisexuality of diets."

Ow. But yes.

I feel like popular music didn't really change in character for the last 20 years, except for the stupid stuff.

But maybe that's a huge carve-out and this is how every generation felt.

"""Hi Claes,

To clarify: *contradictory information that further confuses things*
"""

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