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  • Fond memories

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  • I had a "T-Mobile MDA Vario II" (HTC TyTN 300) which was similar, and also had a collapsible stylus which lived in a little hole on the bottom. It was Windows Mobile, but it was great having the keyboard fully accessible (without that extra bottom bit the G1 had).

    It looked like this, just less German:

  • Fond memories

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  • That's the first Android phone, the HTC Dream (or TMobile G1). I loved this phone, even if it was chronically underpowered.

  • The HTTP QUERY Method

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  • What about proxies and the like? It might be less relevant in a world where most communication happens under TLS.

  • The HTTP QUERY Method

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  • Makes a lot of sense - it's a GET with the body from POST (I know, there's more to it than that). Definitely cleaner than encoding a huge URL or query string.

    However, we're still implementing IPv6, so how long until we could actually use this?

  • Taskmaster series 18, episode 1 - The faceless facilitators

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  • I want David Mitchell to try this show at some point, but I doubt he’d be willing to do it.

    Victoria Coren Mitchell did it, and she's about the same "seriousness" (as comics go).

  • Taskmaster series 18, episode 1 - The faceless facilitators

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  • Jack Dee is a very well known face on British TV, in part for hosting Live at the Apollo before it became rotating hosts. Grumpy, dry and deadpan, he's someone Alex has consistently mentioned when asked who he'd love to have on the show.

    Rosie Jones has been on a lot of panel shows lately, and is quite a marmite taste - people seem to love or hate her. In my house we're not a fan in large part because her punchlines are all shock humour, which doesn't really work once you're expecting it. I'm hoping she'll grow as a comedian - Sarah Millican's routine seemed to be 99% I'm fat earlier on but now she's great.

    I've not watched anything with Andy Zaltzman in and I don't know the other two at all.

  • Taskmaster series 18, episode 1 - The faceless facilitators

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  • Andy Zaltzman's bubbles task was a thing of beauty, it's only right that he got the top marks.

    Then him dragging that spot around on the final task, chef's kiss

    Talking of, Emma Sidi's abysmal throwing was wonderful (and Baba channelling Dr McCoy).

    Jack Dee is turning out to be the mostly-joyless joy we knew he would be.

    In the studio task, did Rosie just completely fluke into the right answer with a vaguely plausible reason?

  • A shy penguin wins New Zealand’s bird election after campaign filled with memes and tattoos

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  • Shame on you APNews for not including any Hoiho memes

  • by Andrey Esionov

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  • In Space, No one Can Smell your Many, Many Farts.

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  • Neofetch is over, but many screenshot system info tools stand ready

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  • The term you want is "cross compile". I've developed simple programs for the Pi on Windows and it's simple enough to produce a static binary (using Rust, anyway). When extra dependencies come in it's better to develop on the same OS, but targeting different architectures is the easy bit.

  • textdistance.rs, Rust crate with 25+ algorithms for comparing strings. Now with no_std support!

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  • Token-based string distances looks like exactly what I need for my current side project - I'm using Levenshtein but I should be comparing based on words, not characters.

    I just need to figure out which (if any) of these does what I need.

    Edit: looks like the Python version has that information: https://github.com/life4/textdistance?tab=readme-ov-file#algorithms

  • Common mistakes when using the metric system

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  • stacking prefixes is disallowed (e.g. 10 k km), and because using mega is both correct and more concise (e.g. 10 Mm).

    If you're talking distances and you say Mm, I'm far more likely to assume you mean millimetres. It might be technically correct, but it's bad communication.

  • World Wonders Explorer - small Leptos site demoing a free API I built

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  • How did you find Leptos to work with? I never got further than the tutorial so I have yet to form a real opinion on it.

  • [Scott Manley] Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate?

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  • The first thing to happen is that any liquids (saliva, tears, blood) will start to boil in the very low pressure, but your body won't explode like in some films. This boiling will pull heat from your body causing your nose and mouth to nearly freeze.

    Another film trope is that you freeze over, but you'll often overheat first since you can't radiate your heat away quickly enough (depending on if you're in sunlight or not).

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    National flowers of European countries

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  • Oh, you're right - somehow I missed seeing the entire bottom third of the image.

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    National flowers of European countries

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  • And they've highlighted the whole of the UK for "England". Scotland has the thistle, Wales has the daffodil and Wikipedia says that flax is widely used as a symbol of Northern Ireland.

    I think of England's rose as red, because of the rugby.

  • China shop loses US$4.2 million in 20 minutes after washing machine pricing error | South China Morning Post

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  • Why are you quoting a US site for a case in China?

  • Bandle #753

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  • I recognised it at three, but couldn't name it. Turns out even with multiple choice I'd still be guessing!

  • China shop loses US$4.2 million in 20 minutes after washing machine pricing error | South China Morning Post

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  • Conversely, if the pricing is due to an error, the company can petition the court to annul the purchase contract, allowing it to refund customers without the necessity of delivering the goods.

    Surely, this will apply.