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Eiffel for embedded systems at Hewlett-Packard (1998)

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Hublium
·2 anni fa·discuss
Assuming you want to keep working ~40 hours a week, I feel like the best idea are four 8.5 hour days and Friday as a half day. This gives you half a day to "decompress" and still have a two day weekend ahead of you. This is the working time model most common in my country.
Hublium
·3 anni fa·discuss
Thank you, was not aware of that. There was no mention on this Wikipedia article that I used to double-check:

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

Let's rephrase @endgame's comment as "Windows XP and Office XP were the first versions of their respective series where product activation was mandatory on all retail editions." Point still stands I guess.
Hublium
·3 anni fa·discuss
To be fair, you have to remember that the calculator is called "calc.exe" to use this method. However, when parent said "you really wouldn’t want the II of that era back" I understood "you" as "HN reader", not as "regular user".

Also, there is also a "discoverable" way to launch programs keyboard-only: <Windows>, P, A, C (Programs - Accessories - Calculator).

I just really dislike the Windows 10 start menu search. It slows down on random occasions just often enough to be too annoying for me to use, at least on my machine.
Hublium
·3 anni fa·discuss
Press <Windows>+R, "calc" <Return>. Easy and fast, if you can remember the exact names of the executables.

Also, back then Windows came not only with printed manuals, but also with an actually useful help system and not one that just makes a Bing search.
Hublium
·3 anni fa·discuss
Where do you have this information from? As far as I know, product activation for office started with Office XP ("2002").
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
Adressing high school teachers as "professor" is common in Austria and Czechia.
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
I'm sorry, what? Single-camera, no laugh track has been an extremely common format for sitcoms for the last twenty years.
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
a more recent example of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsen_versus_Nepomniachtchi,...
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
Wikipedia says:

>Isaac Asimov once mentioned an "interesting theory" that Romans avoided using IV because it was the initial letters of IVPITER, the Latin spelling of Jupiter, and might have seemed impious. He did not say whose theory it was.

That's the explanation I've always heard.
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
EU regulations now forbid SMS-based authentication. I tried explaining to the bank clerk several times how I am not using the Google Play Store but it was only when I held my Nokia "dumb phone" in their face that they gave me a hardware token generator (for free actually!).

For context, I use a Nokia 8110 and a LineageOS device.
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
This is a case where I want to mention Austria as a positive example: The vaccination certificate app is open source on Github, so you can compile it yourself and not need to use the Play Store.
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
>Over the years many countries experimented with 3-unit coins or banknotes. For instance, in the 90s, Ukraine had a 3 karbovanets banknote and Uzbekistan had a 3 som banknote

I think "experimented" is the wrong word here when Uzbekistan and Ukraine paid with 3 kopeck coins and 3 ruble banknotes for decades before that.
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
If you missed it (like me). This is about the answer he gave when asked whether he thinks about creating his own social media platform:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1557199404301307904#m
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
It's always frustrating when you can't set the language of a website manually.
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
Norwegian has the diphthongs "ei" and "øy", while Danish has "ej" and "øj". Though I don't know whether you can rely on that when looking at proper names (surnames, place names).
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
in case anyone here is wondering anyway:

Only Czech: ě, ř, ů

Only Slovak: ä, ľ, ô
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
I am more of a Delphi/Lazarus guy myself, but can anybody who is actually considering using this compare it against Gambas, RAD Basic, Xojo, ...?
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
In German, a <z> always makes a /ts/ sound and in modern orthography, "tz" is only used after (short) vowels.
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
VLC Media Player uses Discworld character names.
Hublium
·4 anni fa·discuss
My family has a 1950's GM Frigidaire. Works still fine. Nowadays, we only use it occasionally though when we have a party or something.