As an aside, I am really, really surprised and happy to see a plain-text website available, if you decline cookies. That's a neat approach.
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Nonetheless, I find this to be heinous. Practically the same as Google vouching for spam emails, pushing them directly into your inbox.
It seems like such a dark pattern. It's astoundingly evil to me.
I would be absolutely fuming, but I don't use the web client, so I didn't realize this was a thing. But holy shit! How is that okay?
I'd prefer it being on the commit itself.
From Wikipedia:
"In Faroese, the name appears as Føroyar. Oyar represents the plural of oy, older Faroese for "island". Due to sound changes, the modern Faroese word for island is oyggj. The first element, før, may reflect an Old Norse word fær (sheep), although this analysis is sometimes disputed because Faroese now uses the word seyður (from Old Norse sauðr) to mean "sheep". Another possibility is that the Irish monks, who settled the island around 625, had already given the islands a name related to the Gaelic word fearrann, meaning "land" or "estate". This name could then have been passed on to the Norwegian settlers, who then added oyar (islands).[12] The name thus translates as either "Islands of Sheep" or "Islands of Fearrann".
In Danish, the name Færøerne contains the same elements, though øerne is the definite plural of ø (island).
In English, it may be seen as redundant to say the Faroe Islands, since the oe comes from an element meaning "island". Most notably in the BBC Shipping Forecast, where the waters around the islands are called Faeroes. The name is also sometimes spelled "Faeroe"."[1]
But yeah, I agree. One fun example:
I am Faroese. On a technicality, Faroe Islands _could_ be considered the highest rank, at 1 laureate for a population of 49,489[1].
Niels Finsen was born in the Faroe Islands to Icelandic and Danish parents. His higher education and scientific studies were conducted in Denmark.
So an ethnically Icelandic-Dane, Faroese-born, who studied in Denmark.
Does this count as a Faroese Nobel Laureate?
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_lau...
And the inclusion of literally made me smile
I haven't figured out a way to do so, at least. You can use guest tabs, but then you lose all of your customizations (extensions, bookmarks, etc.), so I don't consider that a viable option.
ungoogled-chromium removes this, but the current builds fail on my machine for some reason.
I was basically just told that most (if not all) numbers should be stored in constants. So I just added int twentyFive and stuff, and it annoyed me, but my teacher was happy.
Much later, I realized the missing part: Name the constant not what it is, but rather what it does. So int rightBoundary instead of twentyFive, and the code suddenly becomes much more readable.
Last summer was absolutely terrible, with tourists not getting informed.
Don't get me wrong, I do not blame the tourists at all. The tourism board has put out a whole lotta campaigns, social media marketing and shit. But they didn't do anything to prepare and inform this huge influx of people.
"Unspoiled and authentic" is the message. People go trekking across the mountains, and into the private property of farmers. One farmer has threatened to shoot tourists, with messages of "Tourists fuck off to your own country".
At least one person has died. A drunk festival attendee, I believe. It can get foggy extremely quickly. They fell to their death off a mountain, because they couldn't see where they were walking.
This could have been prevented by guided tours, but that would ruin the "authentic, unspoiled, whoa nature" image that the tourism board is going for. Alternatively, educating tourists on do's and don't's. A pamphlet at the airport and the dock.
However, I do think we Faroese are too bad at Faroese grammar.
Side-note, because we were occupied by the British during WW2, a _lot_ of British slang has been incorporated and turned Faroese, and a lot of regular English words turned into Faroese slang.
Maybe both New Zealand and the Faroes reference Italy?
Has someone done this before? A google search gives a bunch of ant simulations, but I don't see any that include bridge building logic.
I shared my shift with four intimidating Icelandic men. I usually stood by the line, making sure that any fish that were hooked got inside the boat.
During one of my shifts, under heavy storms, an absolutely massive knot came up. I tried to untie it, but ended up having to call for help. The Icelanders went to town on it, but did not make a lot of progress.
In frustration, one of them screamed at me to go get the knot book from the captain. I ran as fast as I could. Up on deck, a huge wave hit, and I almost fell overboard.
Got up to the bridge. Captain just laughed and told me to fuck off.
When I got back, they had untied the knot.
I never lived it down.
Has it been proven that Meltdown can affect ARM processors, or is this Intel speculation?
I dislike most laptop manufacturers of this day, because they all either:
* Only make touch-screens in 4K
* Don't let you upgrade your RAM.
* Only sell with Windows bundled. Not paying for Windows, no thanks
Dell satisfied only one of those criteria. They are very high in my book. In fact, I am using one of their 4K monitors right now.
But yeah I'm getting sold more and more on the touch screen, honestly. I think gestures and such have the potential to be neat, and could optimize my workflow.
Being able to move and resize windowed stuff in i3, something I have bound to mouse keys at the moment, would be really neat with a touch screen. Makes the desktop seem tactile and real. It is a pain to move them with key presses, so I usually move my hand to the mouse anyhow.
Gestures, like some tap or something to move a window out of the scratchpad, and back to tiling mode or whatever. Neat. Though the keyboard combination I use now would probably be faster.
In addition, as Someone1234 pointed out, native touch events would be really nice to have when doing web dev. I for one constantly use the Chrome mobile emulator. Native would be better.
But only US layouts. European, specifically scandinavian and UK layouts, have 1 additional button, so labels cannot fix it either
I use i3, which would (edit:) not benefit from the touch screen from the get-go. Maybe I could configure it to react to touch events in a cool manner, like moving windowed stuff around with touch. Resizing with two fingers.
That might actually be pretty cool