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DeskTop Publishing - WYSIWYG design of printed matter (What You See Is What You Get) on PC(Personal Computer)s.

George R.R. Martin (No idea about the Rs), author of A Song of Ice and Fire which was adapted into Game of Thrones.


Well, let's start with banning debt push down and then move on to the next tool used to privatise profit and socialise risks. You know, it used to be that unfair business practices were researched and banned, simple as that. Just throwing up your hands and saying "Well, what to do?" when there's, you know, a whole science in which people are trained, is disingenuous.

I've heard/read the expression "to indulge in a hobby" many times and never thought it was pejorative or paints hobbies as extravagancies. If you google indulge hobby, there's plenty of hits. Strangely though, ChatGPT says it does sound negative. It had never occurred to me, and probably not to the author.

Just because ChatGPT says it sounds negative doesn’t mean it is. I didn’t think of it negatively either.

Who knows how ChatGPT made that suggestion [this time around]. Maybe 30% of the English-speaking population thinks it’s negative, or 60%, or perhaps someone simply wrote a high-profile negative op-ed that included the phrase in its title.

Anyways, not that you did this, but we need to be careful not to use LLMs as the deciding factor in how to feel about things. :) It gives too much power in swaying our thought to those who build the models.


Same with me. It's just an expression. One definition of "indulge" is "to take unrestrained pleasure in" (MW). I just read it as an activity the kid really really enjoys.

It's for online payments only. You click on the wero button on a website/app, if on mobile takes you to your banking app (on desktop, you scan a QR code), you do MFA on your banking app and confirm, and the payment is done.

Wero are not in the business of issuing cards, though obviously they could get into that business - just like UnionPay did in China. I suspect there would be a lot of inertia there, as card payment fees are capped in Europe anyway.


Cards are also online payment. You can already pay with such systems in some physical shops and restaurants, alongside google/apple/alipay.

But cards are offline from the perspective of the consumer. Sometimes even on the merchant side of things. Not that it is an important distinction nowadays--but I have definitely tried to pay with a merchant's own app-based payment solution that refused to load due to a bad cellular connection. I haven't looked into how Wero will handle this.

Most payment terminal nowadays use 4g network and it is not uncommon to see shop/restaurants employees in some areas trying to desperately get a signal by moving the terminal close to the door or window.

They need much much less data than your phone. They could process several transactions with less data it would take for your phone to load the HTML of the payment page, let alone the Javascript or the bank's logo.

Also, such terminals often use multi-carrier data plans that can use the best carrier available, while your own phone is stuck with one of the options (of course, you always have the worst one).


Wero bought Payconiq which allow to pay at the physical terminal with a QR code to scan with your phone. So, they can cover the physical payment without having to issue cards.

Seems like an unforced error to implement this before being forced to.

PKI certificates weren't even intended for SSL, it predates even that.

X.509 was published in November 25, 1988 ; version 3 added support for "the web" as it was known at the time. One obvious use was for X.400 e-mail systems in the 1980s. Novell Netware adopted x.509.

It was originally intended to use with X.511 "Directory Access Protocol", which LDAP was based on. You can still find X.500 heritage in Microsft Exchange and Active Directory, although it's getting less over time and e.g. EntraID only has some affordances for backward compatibility.


An already radio controlled clock would probably be a better starting point to GPSify or NTPify too - at least the one I have already has the feature that it can move the hands to an arbitrary position (when you replace the battery and it syncs again).

There's also a station in Shangqiu City, Henan province, China, BPC 68.5 kHz

Casio brands watches that receive all 6 stations as multiband-6, and older ones that don't have the Chinese signal as multiband-5.

The analog display, chronograph watches like WVQ-M410-7AJF are delightful ; you can switch to timer mode and the main hands show the time ticking down (yes, they move counter-clockwise), and then switch back to normal timekeeping mode and the hands will move around the dial to set to the correct time again. Obviously at great expense to battery life, but it's solar powered. Unfortunately it's Japanese Domestic Market only, so you need to order it from a place like discovery mall japan. (The WVQ has a flimsy plastic - if you're willing to pay a lot more you could spring for the OCWS7000E ). Citizen has some GPS set watches.

Radio time signals used by watches and wall clocks are all in the 60-77.6 Khz range, probably best suited to small receivers and low power - other radio time signals are higher frequency. In the US, WWVH broadcasts at 2.5MHz, 5Mhz, 10Mhz and 15Mhz.


I mean, the argument boils down to "the language I'm compiling FROM doesn't have the same safeguards as rust". So obviously, the fault lies there. If he'd just compile FROM rust, he could then compile TO rust without running into those limitations. A rust-to-rust compiler (written in rust) would surely be ideal.

I'd be willing to sell you a rust to rust compiler. In fact, I'll even generalize it to do all sorts of other languages too at no extra charge. I just need a good name...maybe rsync?

Snark aside, the output targets of compilers need to be unsafe languages typically, since the point of a high level compiler in general is to verify difficult proofs, then emit constructs consistent with those proof results, but simplified so that they cannot be verified anymore, but can run fast since those proofs aren't needed at runtime anymore. (Incidentally this is both a strength and weakness of C, since it provides very little ability for the compiler to do proofs, the output is generally close to the input, while other languages typically have much more useful compilers since they do much more proof work at compile time to make runtime faster, while C just makes the programmer specify exactly what must be done, and leaves the proof of correctness up to the programmer)


Compilers named after animals are the the most popular, so I might suggest cat?

But ... then it would clash with the command for listing the files in a directory on RISC OS, FLEX and TRSDOS.

You could also present 4 hexadecimal digits in a rectangle to represent values from 0000-FFFF. Currently used to display unicode characters for which your font has no glyph (the kind of tofu known as hexagana - on the wikipedia page on .notdef firefox on windows displays one with a 6-digit hex number 􏿮 )

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