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10 years or so ago I shocked coworkers with using U+202D LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE mid in filenames on windows. So funnypicturegnp.exe became funnypictureexe.png Combined with a custom icon for the program that mimics a picture preview it was pretty convincing.

> It has _a lot_ of mosquitoes

Can mosquitoes transmit prions?

Capitalism?

The state of all things Me/CFS is so bad. I remember reading about cases as a child in some boulevard or women’s magazine at my grandmas house, so it must have been about 25 years ago. Seemingly nothing happened since then.

Even the explosion of cases after Covid hit somehow doesn’t lead to change. In Germany many doctors still don’t know it, a lot of them think it’s psychological.

There is some research, but it looks like the study of the promising compound „BC007“ got botched by bad study design, so even after some very promising results in some participants it is likely to get scrapped.

„Hidden disease“ fits it so well, because the people affected „just disappear“, too weak advocating for themselves and with potentially every activity leading to a crash.

There is also the ikey ak-39.

And I think that was it (apart from custom builds). I would have imagined that you can stuff like this on Ali & Co., but no...

Who's next? Sam Bankman-Fried or Elizabeth Holmes?

No, "Rule of Law" means "Rechtsstaatlichkeit". What you mean is "It's law, so it's always right" i.e. "Rechtspositivismus".

Because JSON today is some sort of "lingua franca" of data exchange and there is a vast library of tools to handle JSON. If you have something that "plays sound" from JSON it becomes easy to imagine using existing JSON based tools to create music. Building a "graphical music editor" for example would be easy for most web devs.

> the clients inventory system ran on an AS/400 and I knew literally nothing about IBM mainframes

I'm going to be "that guy": The AS/400 (nowadays System i) is not a mainframe but the last standing member of the family of midrange (outside of IBM called minicomputer) systems. (NonStop and OpenVMS - and probably something else I don't know about - are still somewhat around, but nowadays they run on more or less microcomputer systems).

It's exactly the same in Germany. In addition the state government of Bavaria in the south east does everything to keep wind power from being built in their state and worked against high voltage power lines to bring cheap and abundant energy from the north to his state.

My wife and I like to microwave potatoes. We call them "sexy microwave potatoes" after the Reddit story that brought us this idea: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/jdnt43/aita_...

For me the most impressive „shadow moment“ happened while playing GTA IV. I ha a quite beefy gaming PC and the real time shadows cast from the beams of the player vehicle were generally great.

The moment that’s still stuck with me happened while stealing a car in a back alley at night. Right as my player character entered the car a police man came around the corner. He „saw“ me stealing the car and pulled his gun right when the headlights of the car turned on and cast a huge shadow of the police man in motion onto a nearby wall.

At home I use 2 28" 3:2 4k displays and in the office I use the same setup and 2 additional 24" WQXGA-Displays and I like the ability to spatial arrange windows and corresponding tasks. My mind just doesn't work the same with one huge display. I even noticed this back in the day when multiple displays meant 2 17"-19" 4:3 or 5:4 displays and the first colleagues started to use the first 30" displays with 2560x1600.

For ARD (Das Erste) you can find it here: https://www.ard-text.de/

They pitch Azure Update Manager as alternative, but depending on the scenario (especially with on premises machines) it can cost up to $5 per machine per month.

In Germany (>20 years ago) we learned to use {}.

Isn’t it similar when you use Hyper-V?

Yes, all this bonus content is sooner or later going to be lost in some sort of digital limbo.

I hate it especially when Bonus Tracks for limited editions of Albums disappear because the streaming services only list the regular releases.

Microsoft tried the same (working with Deutsche Telekom) a few years ago. It offered only half the services (mainly "raw" compute, not the cloud services) and was about 30% more expensive and (by design) did not interact with the "regular" Azure. You can imagine how that went.

You wash your towels after every use?

The comments used to add so much discussion, insights and lore. It’s a real shame that Microsoft managed to kill the all twice during migrations.

> I think it was an easy 1 hour bus ride from downtown.

You can also take the Roma-Lido train. It's a quicker ride and more comfortable than a bus.

> I've been wrong for so long now I'm losing faith

There is a saying: „The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.“

They left one pipe of NS2. It would have been a political victory for Putin with humiliation of the German government if they had switched to this instead of stopping gas imports via NS1&2 completely.

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But it’s gone. I remember all my old passwords from 2000. But I also remember about 10 years ago changing those everywhere to secure passwords. I even distinctly remember doing this for ICQ despite not using it anymore. But it’s not on my password manager.

Sounds a bit like Eiffel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_(programming_language...

Have you considered adding a custom webhook for notifications? In a first iteration it could post some hardcoded JSON payload.

Further iterations could add more configuration capabilities or even templating for custom payloads.

I wondered why Dan Brown https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brown would have such a website...

I also wondered, did some research and look at some examples and came to the opposite conclusion for my API.