Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe), page 3

Swedish had a word "dygn" that refers to a 24-hour period. It's extremely useful and I am often very annoyed that this word downy exist in English.

English users the word "day" most of the time and just home there won't be any miscommunication, or they use cumbersome versions like "24 hours".

It also leads to very silly expressions like "I'll be on vacation there for 3 days 2 nights", instead of just being able to say "I'll be there for 2 dygn".

@amszmidt @emacsomancer Not totally, and unless you are very careful when you define the words "editor" and especially "lisp machine", all of us who lament the state of modern operating systems will keep getting misunderstood.

Emacs is certainly an 'ersatz' Lisp Machine if you define 'lisp machine' as a thing that runs some kind of Lisp and contains a user interface on top. That completely ignores everything that makes Lisp machines interesting, but we have to acknowledge that people doesn't know this.

Every time I listen to american accents being spoken

@tfb Absolutely nothing at all, until you need to say the name of the Audi engine: CCZC https://mymotorlist.com/engines/audi/cczc/

@clacke a hint of natural flavours. A hint?! (goose chasing the company) What the fuck are the rest of the flavours then?

@tfb @clacke speaking Swedish with German grammar sound work in the Netherlands.

@libreoffice I paged down page, after page, after page, and with maybe 3 exceptions, every. single. fix modifies code comments, change the character case of html tags.

Here is one of hundreds of examples: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commit/8c3681a51823f1c4a400590c771b000ee885c29d

What on earth is going on? Surely a human isn't assigned to make a few of these changes every single day? Or maybe the contract allows them to afford this?

@libreoffice I don't understand the openoffice project.

They claim to maintain it, and if you look at the repository, there are updates all the time, but pretty much every single one of them are reformatting, some typo fixes, changes to formatting of documentation, etc.

You have to scroll way down before you find a single fix that actually changes the code.

https://github.com/apache/openoffice/commits/trunk/

Just read the commits. It's so very strange.

Why are hey even spending the time doing this? The only explanation I have is that they have some contract where someone is paying them money for it to be updated, and they do the absolute bare minimum to avoid breaking the contract.

This, unfortunately, has had an extremely harmful effect on the open source community, who are best represented by libreoffice here.

@larsbrinkhoff @ramin_hal9001 @kentpitman the old unexec model is gone from emacs now though. It wasn't compatible with some changes to glibc.

@skinnylatte And to be clear to anyone not familiar with Singapore housing, this is supposed to be the cheap apartments.

Condos are much more expensive.

@allison @ezio yes, 2.5.1 was the first version that was production grade, especially with the later patches.

I do remember that to get that Solaris 2.0 beta to run we had to dig out some really old hardware in the lab. Thankfully we had shelves full of it.

@allison @ezio Sorry, I didn't. Me and a few other colleagues did play around with getting old stuff that we found running, like a version of Solaris 2.0 beta that we found on a CD (it was terrible). I also remember coming across a CD with Sun Nextstep.

But I don't think I ever heard about Spring.

@allison @ezio Specifically, they named the new product Solaris 2.x, with the underlying operating system named SunOS 5.x. The BSD-based SunOS versions were retroactively renamed Solaris 1.x, with the underlying OS called SunOS 4.x.

This is indeed very complicated, and most people just kept calling the old system SunOS and the SysV-based one Solaris.

Source: I was working for Sun around the time when Solaris 2 because usable.

@siege This one perhaps? https://shop.nocco.com/product/nocco-caribbean-bcaa/

@rysiek @djsundog I'm in the market for a new TV as well, and I wonder if there exists a 4K, HDR TV that is not smart.

I've been casually looking around, and so far not much luck. I was even looking for the kind of commercial grade stuff, but those are generally not HDR.

@ghostdancer @sv1 @rysiek @djsundog true. That's what I did with my old TV. But at the same time, it's kind of a matter of principle.

@clacke I agree, and I don't even like it. 😀 I have tried it though. Everybody should try it at least once.

@skinnylatte I'm a bit tired of going to the same places for lunch. Do you have lunch recommendations in Singapore for next week?

(I'm actually not joking, if you have a favourite near CBD let me know :-) ).

@xgranade @mcc have you read the Common Lisp spec? 😀

To be fair, the spec is very good, but they are also very explicity not giving any special significance to 8-bit bytes. And this is in paid of the spec being written decades after 8-bit bytes being standard.

https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_ldb.htm#ldb

@koakuma give people Finnegans Wake and tell them to read it in a couple of months.

Then check in with them a year later when they have gotten to the fourth page.