Via Tom Scott’s newsletter, an explanation of a strange ngrams anomaly in an xkcd. Why is the 11th of all months apparently the least popular date?

https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/

Fish, chips and mushy peas with a breadcake on the side. I then make a butty with some of all three ingredients.

BASIC uses (used?) it to declare variables. (I don’t know if earlier languages did.)

Not that that’s a reason for other languages to copy it.

“My leg!”

Web browser? “app”. Web page? “app”. Dialog box? “app”. Phone app that’s just a thin shell for the web site? “appapp”.

I think I heard “applet” being mentioned for embedded java or something in the early 2000s. I don’t know if that’s connected.

Fun tip: if you’ve sorted the details list by cpu and the keep dancing around, hold down Ctrl to stop them from getting away while you kill them.

Well storing that would only take half a bit.

I have a text file of UK place names, so I can search it for various sub-strings.

“Ullit”, “ullet”, “ulit”, “ulet”, the only result for those was Fullerby.

Maybe this is like a copyright trap on a map, a fake place name to prove if someone copies the book :)

I use rsync.net

It’s not the lowest price, but I like the flexibility of access.

For instance, I was able to run rclone on their servers to do a direct copy from OneDrive to rsync.net, 400Gb without having to go through my connection.

I can mount backups with sshfs if I want to, including the daily zfs snapshots.

I generally agree, but this is the website of the BBC, a long-established TV and radio broadcaster.

It’s amazing that they put so many text stories on their site, really.

Does anyone know where Ethel was at the time?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation

I used to have a t-shirt with that pattern.

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Physicist: “assuming a spherical year …”

Oh, wow, I did not realize that!

Eula.

Can’t spell “functional” without “fun”!

Whichever version it is, I hope that one day I can delete a mail, change my mind, press ctrl-z and it will actually undo the last delete and not some random one from earlier in the day.

Waschbäreninvasion!

Wash-bear invasion!