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@GetCarter

Slight disappointment when we opened the cute paper package and it contained two plastic packages… but oh well, I assume pasta holds better when in an airtight package.

oat, n: grain which in England is given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people

Yes, I am listening to the The Rest is History series on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell. Hilarious.

It is 2036. Windows 15 is going to be released soon. The fediverse is full of enthusiastic toots how this will finally push normal people to adopting Linux.

Oispa kesä ja Sveitsissä.

Did you know that octal literals are very common even in modern C++ and C code?

The literal integer 0 is octal by definition, as it starts with a '0' and it is not followed by a 'x' or 'b' that would make it hexadecimal or binary.

(Picked up from elsewhere.)

In theory, I dislike nostalgia. In practice, I couldn’t resist this lovely package of spaghetti wrapped in paper.

(Not that I would have any actual nostalgia in this case; no personal experience of spaghetti being sold like that in my childhood here in Finland. As long as I recall, it has been sold in plastic packaging.)

Oh noes. I have found a new rabbit hole on Youtube to dive in to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZUF7nddCY

Tämän vuoden Yksi, Kaksi, Kolme, Sauna on julkistettu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XR2RvfZ-68

@0xabad1dea Also, how do we know that it was a ballistic missile and not a drone?

Yes, I am fun at parties.

@0xabad1dea Fun, but do we actually know that the missile hit the data centre? A missile might have hit a neighbouring building, and the explosion then caused some large bits of concrete or whatever to hit the data centre.

@Yendolosch @emacsomancer The use of "hacked" in that headline is a bit self-aggrandizing?

I guess that is one way to put it.

#silentsunday

@infobeautiful Please don't even mention Mercator in the alt text. It will just confuse people. The bottom map is not even close to Mercator.

Tired: Unnamed namespace
Wired: Untitled namespace

#CPlusCplus

"Errors are for beginners. We only do undefined behaviour."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieqsL5NkS6I

It's fun when people post about "retro computing" and it turns out they mean 32-bit PCs.

@Tuulispaa Kiitos! Kyseistä kieltä taitamattomana minulla onkin ollut vaikeuksia ymmärtää ero "de" ja "du" sanojen välillä. Olin kuvitellut että niillä on ihan semanttinen ero, mutta nyt asia selkesi.

By the way, in French, when does one use "Le Havre" and when just "Havre"? It seems that when preceded by articles like "du" or "au", the "Le" is left out? As in "Gare du Havre", "maire du Havre", and "Ligne de Paris-Saint-Lazare au Havre"?