Notices by Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)

@clacke Trebuchet MS is horrible but in more subtle ways than those two. The longer you look at it, the uglier it gets.

And then there's Arial, obviously. The capital R is just hideous.

@clacke Could accuracy be improved by linking two phones with the promise that they will be within, say, 1 m of one another?

@clacke @bonkers It gets EVERYWHERE.

@bonkers @clacke Dessert can be eaten or not, simple choice. With glitter, there is no opt-out.

@ryanc Why does a heat pump need a Gmail account?

@alextecplayz @fesshole It would be a problem if the contractor was billing multiple clients for the same hours. Doing multiple part-time contracts in parallel is of course perfectly normal.

@neil There also needs to be the freedom, for the author, not to accept unsolicited contributions, no matter how well intentioned.

@clacke Oh, you have an actual Flash thing, not just a video wrapped in a Flash container because that was the style at the time.

Maybe you can find some tool from the same era able to pick it apart. You'll probably need an equally old copy of Windows to run it on, of course.

Are you sure it's worth the trouble?

@clacke Have you tried VLC or something adjacent?

@clacke It's always the Greeks.

@clacke Oh dear. Once again, I'm glad I left Sweden. It's only going to get worse.

@clacke What‽

@clacke Find out which day of the week has the most holidays on average, then schedule recurring meetings on that day.

@civodul Matlab comes to mind. I know it's not open source, but that's beside the point here.

@clacke I'm not impressed by Harari. He's just making stuff up and stating it with extreme confidence. Worse than Dawkins.

@clacke Oh, chemistry pedantry. I was hoping for some ridiculous etiquette pedantry about the proper way to hold a salt shaker.

@clacke There's pedantry about table salt?

@clacke Good children's books are enjoyable also for adults, whether through humour or additional layers of meaning. Bad ones are just cringey.

@clacke I abandoned it at some point. It was fun for the first couple of seasons, then it descended into a generic "shadowy group has Big Plans" plot, the zombie aspect becoming mostly irrelevant.

@bean Stroustrup should be very careful talking about programming languages.