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ich🎏⚗ 🩴iel
(sopuli.xyz)
I am Wong.
Could someone finally explain to me why the feel the need to put extra effort in to increase the whitespace in a post?
Ich finde die Hand OK, die Flaggen könnten aber größer sein.
* The world if people stopped printing web pages
Ich kenne die Windows-Taste unter Linux ausschließlich als Super. So heißt sie auch in den Shortcuts bei Cinnamon. Deshalb wäre ich nie auf die Idee gekommen, dass andere dieselbe Taste Meta nennen.
Meh. Wieder ein Linux-Anfänger-unfreundlich-ismus.
Ich weiß darüber auch nicht viel. Ich habe nur aus Hilfetexten entnommen, dass die beiden Tasten verschieden sein müssen.
Meta, Super, and Hyper are all keys from the old Symbolics keyboard that X still has internal keycodes for (so they can still be bound to modifiers). Super is still around on modern keyboards, as the Windows/Tux/whatever key next to Alt. It's usually bound to Mod4. Meta and Hyper are both gone. Alt is sometimes called "Meta" because it replaced Meta's functionality; I suspect emacs is mostly at fault for using Alt and Esc as replacements for meta in its keybindings. However, some people refer to the Windows key as "Meta" as well, so you should probably just avoid the term altogether.
Würde ein Drittweltstaat so mit Flüchtlingen umgehen, würde man ihn der Folter bezichtigen.
To paraphrase a German comedian (I’m not even sure who said it).
Women, if you want a man, don’t be subtle. Stop with the playing with your hair and the dreamy looks. Men are stupid. They don’t pick up on that. If you want him, go to him, and say “You, me, sex!”
(Slightly adapted to fit the medium text better.)
In solchen Fällen singe ich spontan einen Lobgesang auf denjenigen, der den Entkäferer erfunden hat. Ich frage mich, was Programmierer früher gemacht haben, als das Programm ihnen noch nicht selbst erklärt hat, was es tut.
Was there supposed to be a “not” under that yellow blotch in the speech bubble?
I think the homeowners are right regardless. You don’t need to be a genius to figure out that even a moderately higher population density increases transportation demand. Even doubling the density could affect traffic considerably.
Now before the haters come out: I’m not saying that the transportation demand must be addressed by more or bigger roads.
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ich📦🈳iel
(sopuli.xyz)
Das können zwar alle Lebensmittelhersteller, aber bei den an Hippies gerichteten Produkten habe ich, glaube ich, noch nie eine Packung gefunden, die zur Gänze gefüllt war.
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Converting numbers is easy
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Explanation (which might be wrong, since I’m writing this after banging my head against a wall. Please do correct me if I’m wrong):
In regular numbering systems (i.e., decimal), we exhaust all 10 digits (0–9) before we reach two-digit numbers. The first number to require 3 digits is 10². The first to use 4 is 10³, and so on.
In music intervals, there is no “0”. The interval c’–c’, for instance, is called a prime (1). This has the funny consequence that moving by a fifth and then by a fourth doesn’t land you on the ninth, but the octave (8). Moving by an octave and then another octave gets you to the 15th, not the 16th.
In Excel, shit hits the fan when you need to convert column names (A, B, C…) to numbers (0, 1, 2…). Since we use 26 characters as our ‘digits’, we’re in the hexavigesimal system. Knowing what I told you in the first paragraph, you’d expect the first double-digit column (AA) to be 26. And you’re right.
However, when do we need 3 digits? Which column is column AAA? A sane person would say it’s 26², so 676. Ha! No. Column number 676 is actually ZA. What gives? Well, we only ditch the zero for single digit numbers. All subsequent columns actually use 27 different characters, the ‘empty character’ being one of them. That’s where we get the ‘single digit’ – there actually is a second digit, only it’s empty.
So the column AAA actually has index 702, or 26×27. Which index does the column AAAA have? 26×27². The system of adding powers of the base works, only we changed bases midway through.
You can see the lopsidedness in the index lookup table (I’m not displaying all characters for brevity). Sane number systems have square tables. Excel’s is 26×27 (shown are 4×5).
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Converting numbers is easy
(sopuli.xyz)
Explanation (which might be wrong, since I’m writing this after banging my head against a wall. Please do correct me if I’m wrong):
In regular numbering systems (i.e., decimal), we exhaust all 10 digits (0–9) before we reach two-digit numbers. The first number to require 3 digits is 10². The first to use 4 is 10³, and so on.
In music intervals, there is no “0”. The interval c’–c’, for instance, is called a prime (1). This has the funny consequence that moving by a fifth and then by a fourth doesn’t land you on the ninth, but the octave (8). Moving by an octave and then another octave gets you to the 15th, not the 16th.
In Excel, shit hits the fan when you need to convert column names (A, B, C…) to numbers (0, 1, 2…). Since we use 26 characters as our ‘digits’, we’re in the hexavigesimal system. Knowing what I told you in the first paragraph, you’d expect the first double-digit column (AA) to be 26. And you’re right.
However, when do we need 3 digits? Which column is column AAA? A sane person would say it’s 26², so 676. Ha! No. Column number 676 is actually ZA. What gives? Well, we only ditch the zero for single digit numbers. All subsequent columns actually use 27 different characters, the ‘empty character’ being one of them. That’s where we get the ‘single digit’ – there actually is a second digit, only it’s empty.
So the column AAA actually has index 702, or 26×27. Which index does the column AAAA have? 26×27². The system of adding powers of the base works, only we changed bases midway through.
You can see the lopsidedness in the index lookup table (I’m not displaying all characters for brevity). Sane number systems have square tables. Excel’s is 26×27 (shown are 4×5).
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