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Whilst this is purely speculation on my part, I have always assumed the reason they settle rather than go to court is because they don't actually want the patents invalidated. The patents serve as a barrier to entry into the market. Had Microsoft - for instance - gone to court, and had the patents invalidated, Valve would not have been sued now.

This discourages competition from smaller outlets, and thus allows the big players fewer competitors. Though, again, pure speculation on my part.

I remember working on a large database without foreign keys for a while. When asked why did not use foreign keys, I was told that they didn't like the opaqueness of CASCADE, which I could understand. I guess I did not give it much thought afterwards, until I later ended up in a shop, where the database did include foreign keys, but only with RESTRICT. It was eye-opening how useful foreign keys were, when they were just integrity checks.

Indeed. The butter I buy here in Denmark is also 80% fat, and it tastes nothing like the blandness of US butter. Speaking personally, though, I definitely prefer Danish butter to French butter, but French butter is still really good.

As a Dane, I feel like if it's coffee with cheese, shouldn't it be ostekaffe? Kaffeost suggests it's a cheese with coffee flavour. Though, I have never heard of this either.

Out of curiosity, I noticed (as I mentioned in a reply to your sibling) I could produce unrelated results by fiddling with the region; does changing region do anything for you?

I normally use "Denmark" as a region, but turning it on and off did not change my search results much (three zazzle links and a copysite of this HN thread, but not HN itself).

Changing the region to "USA" really confused me. Suddenly a lot of unrelated results turn up, but a lot of the results are Danish or Denmark-related. Including the Wikipedia page for Ringsted. What does that have to do with "lowes pet bedding"?

I am honestly not entirely sure what the region parameter on DDG does, but it appears not to be working for "USA".

The quotation marks work for me:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=%22lowes+pet+bedding%22&atb...

I notice in your HN post, you're using fancy quotation marks; I assume you're not using the same while searching DDG.

But even when "they" is used as a singular pronoun, its verb conjugation doesn't change from its plural variant. It's still "they are", even when singular.

Similarly, the Danish terms are »styrbord« and »bagbord«, respectively. »Bagbord« comes from »bag« (back) meaning the backside of the sailor steering the boat, because they would be facing the steering side (»styrbord«; »styr« still means to steer today).

If all you need is to insert an image of your signature onto a PDF, you can use Xournal.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xournal

I am still waiting on them to put casks on a space ship, put it in orbit, and ship it back to Earth, like Linie Aquavit crossing the equator twice.[0] Space Aquavit (or Rumakvavit, if you will) will surely be a thing.

[0] https://linie.com/products/linie-aquavit-original/

As others have pointed out, those discs are only for free time-limited parking in Denmark. Some places have parking meters. Those places often use a mixture of physical meters and the option to use an app. The physical meters aren't next to the parking spot, but rather nearby. They ask you to enter your number plate, and they only take payment cards (no cash).

The apps are similar, and you can use one of several apps, issued by several different private companies (who also maintain their own parking spaces). Some places, however, finding the nearest meter, or payment machine to be more accurate, can be a bit of a trek, so it's not super convenient, if you don't use the app, like me.

Not an inaccurate statement, particularly considering all its flaws, but price isn't my primary concern. Indeed, I am willing to pay a premium for a phone that just does calls and text messages, without using the SIM card as storage and has physical buttons.

I tried the Nokia 225 4G. Unfortunately, it saves the SMS and MMS to the SIM card, not internal storage, so you quickly run out of storage for SMS/MMS, and you'll need to constantly delete SMS.

So I switched to the Punkt MP02. It has a lot of other problems, though, but at least those are more passable.

I did also try the Mudita Pure. But it froze on the second day I had it, so I switched back. Edit: My plan is to give the Mudita Pure a fair shot in the future.

I'm generally disappointed in the phone market, smartphone and dumb phone. Maybe I should abandon it entirely and get a landline.

Also available in Denmark (DR): https://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttv1.exe/110

Oh of course, I am not waiting on cURL to support IRC. Rather I was suggesting a use case, where essentially the client logs in, performs a series of commands and then disconnects. And I feel that is fitting with how cURL operates.

An example: A git hook that joins a channel every time a commit is pushed to its master branch, to inform an existing IRC bot, that it is time to pull the newest changes from the repository.

Still no IRC support. Which - considering the project that became curl started out as an IRC bot - is slightly ironic.

(This is also an answer to your sibling.)

My primary motivation was this was something I wanted to do in that specific car. When I checked prices, I discovered that shipping a vehicle was actually cheaper than renting. One way across the Atlantic was about $1,500. Good luck renting a car for 10+ weeks for $3k.

The car was a 1998 Citroën Xantia Activa V6. So my tour of North America primarily involved visiting Citroën enthusiasts across the country, of which - apparently - there are plenty, even though Citroën hasn't sold a car in North American since 1974.

Of course, I had no spare parts there, so I brought an oil filter and a drive belt with me. So amongst the car's history is a bill for an oil change in California. I had no problems with the car, except a brief bit in Louisiana during a heavy rainfall, that the left windscreen wiper leapt and landed on my side mirror. Fortunately, there was an exit almost immediately, and I was able to pull over to a fuel station to fix it (I obviously kept a toolkit in the boot).

So yeah, part of the motivation was also having Citroën fans in the US see a car they rarely see. And - perhaps something only I appreciate - the look on people's faces when they see a car on European plates (and not just fake front plates).

Back in '17, I took my car across the Atlantic to the US, and drove coast to coast and back again for a total of 10 weeks. The majority of the trip was spent driving alone.

My original plan had been 12 weeks, but coming around the 7th-8th week, as I was driving back to the East Coast, I was hit with a severe sense of home sickness, so I decided to cut my trip short.

It was a great trip, and I met a lot of people on the way. Also met my now wife -- though, ironically, on the last day of the trip.

I will recommend these sorts of trips, particularly to younger people before they settle down. But - as pointed out elsewhere - remember to talk to people. Still made me feel home sick; and exhausted from the constant bombardment of new experiences.

> defcon 100

So everything is fine? DEFCON 5 is the _lowest_ threat level, it's DEFCON 1 people should worry about.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFCON

I worked with Pascal for 10 years, through the majority of the 2010s. I think my biggest complaint about the language was the ecosystem. Units for modern protocols that would easily available in other languages, including C and C++, were hard to come by with Pascal/Object Pascal. And most of those that exists were often incomplete, thus requiring additional modification to make workable.

This made projects that required any sort of advancement in protocol - even just for a prototype - scale quickly, and most of them we abandoned before we got there, unless the old tech (in our case, mostly self-designed) was proving too problematic.

Too a lesser extend is the age of Pascal. But I would apply this critique to C and C++ as well. Hell, even Java and C# are showing their age these days. There are just some quirks in Pascal, one needs to remember, like 1-indexed strings (I know they added an option for 0-indexed strings later) and that you can - theoretically - make arrays any-indexed. But all languages - including far younger ones - have their own quirks.

A bit disappointing that one has to search for an airport to have it displayed. One of my favourite parts of OpenRailwayMap is to explore tracks I'm unfamiliar with (particularly abandoned tracks), but this map seems to require one to know where one is going, rather than exploring.

According to the German (.de) NIC, Chromium's behaviour appears to be incorrect,[0] though it appears to be the old IDN standard. While for the most part, one can reasonably normalise ß into ss, it can be used to distinguish words, like Buße (penance) and Busse (buses).

[0] https://www.denic.de/en/know-how/idn-domains/

Cities: Skylines. Though exporting for Transport Fever 2 would also be nice.

You can still _sort of_ get a stamp from them. When you enter/leave the Schengen area, you get a stamp. The stamp will indicate which country you entered/left the Schengen area. (Obviously, if you have a passport from within the Schengen area, you get no stamp.)

Then again, I've also noticed that US passport control has stopped stamping my passport.

It was the only distributor of 24 hour analogue wrist watches I could find, where the prices were reasonable, is called AAA Watch Club.[0]

Mine is specifically from the Military Time Collection, called Military Dress, I believe.[1] Unfortunately, the specific model appeared to be sold out right now.

0 - https://www.aaawatchclub.com/

1 - https://www.aaawatchclub.com/military-time-watches_5to6.html...

> 1. Could there be an option to place 00:00 at the top instead of the bottom?

I wear a 24 hour analogue dial wrist watch, with 24 on top. I'll admit, I sometimes wish I had chosen 12 on top, since it's more naturally to look at the watch during the day, and less so during the night. Since it more naturally follows - on quick visual inspection - what it would look like on a normal 12 hour analogue dial.

Bret Devereaux covers this is in much greater detail than I can ever hope to do,[0] but essentially it's often because writing of the "Dark Ages" is dismissed because it is overly religious in nature. There is not less writing from this period, but since scribes of that era was primarily monks, they obviously had a bias in their choice of works they chose to scribed.

The reason pagan writing of pre-Christian Roman and Greek writers remain is because these works were often considered good examples for learning Latin or Greek. (Also helps that a lot of Greek writing was preserved by Arab scribes.)

Indeed, the majority of the material that survives to this day was scribed in the "Dark Ages", because of the invention of parchment (which has a much better longevity than its predecessor papyrus). Devereaux also points out other materials, that were generally just used for everyday things, were bad for longevity, and therefore few of those survive to this day. But climate here helps a lot with preserving copies,[1] hence why Egypt is generally overrepresented in everyday material from the Roman world.

[0] https://acoup.blog/2022/01/14/collections-rome-decline-and-f...

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/12/02/collections-why-roman-egypt-wa...

I wonder where this trend - fortunately a limited one - with putting confirm buttons at the top comes from? Humans naturally read from top to bottom. It naturally follows that the final action in any UI should be at the bottom.

I find these buttons at the top extremely confusing, as I often - from my experience with reading - after I've dealt with the subject at hand (in this case, picking a file), assume the natural place to confirm my choice would be after it (i.e. below it).

What are the UX arguments for placing the confirm buttons at the top of a dialog?