There’s no real mobile app for it, is kind of my personal main reason why I didn’t pick it up…

I would be surprised, if you couldn’t also sell an account with a bunch of stars on the black market to bot farm operators…

Damn, I wonder what was going on in his head. Was he trying to get to Saltlake City? Or did he just go for a walk and got lost, then tried to hitchhike back home in the wrong direction?

It won’t rise much beyond that, since you only get one update per package. Whether it’s upgrading Firefox from version 120 to 121 or to version 130, it doesn’t change much in terms of download size, nor the number of updates.

At least, I assume, Arch doesn’t do differential updates. On some of the slower-moving distributions, they only make you download the actual changes to the files within the packages. In that case, jumping to 121 vs. 130 would make more of a difference.

If you do want lots of package updates, you need lots of packages. The texlive-full package is always a fun one in that regard…

A few months ago, I got myself a keyboard which specifically says “Meta” on the meta-key, because you know, I didn’t want a Windows logo and I decided, I didn’t care about Facebook trying to claim that word. I definitely don’t care for Musk trying to claim that letter either, but damn, the combination of the two might do it that I’ll have to pick a different shortcut…

I’ve seen doormats that look more alive than this lawn…

I mean, different regions have different plants which they call “grass”, not to mention different climates. It is genuinely possible that even grass in the wild goes brown in that region…

There’s Endless OS, which goes in that sort of direction. It includes even a good chunk of Wikipedia, so you can just install it on PCs and ship those PCs into regions where they don’t have internet.

Good Thinking

Damn, if I were the social media person of what’s presumably the responsible subway org, I’d also say it like it is. It’s not your decision anyways. But actually reading it put so bluntly, is still wild to me.

Thanks, I changed it. I wasn’t sure, what the correct English word is…

You know, after posting that comment, I really doubted myself, if it really is binary search, because Wikipedia also tells me it needs to be a sorted array.

But yeah, I think that’s only relevant, if your method of checking whether it’s in one half or the other uses > and <. As far as I can tell, so long as you can individually identify the fuses, a.k.a. they’re countable, then you can apply binary search.

Oh, well, you switch off half the fuses, then you go check the wire.
Let’s say the wire still has power on it, so now you know that none of the fuses in that half affected it (which you can turn back on now).

Then you do the same thing again with the other half of the fuses, i.e. you switch off half of the fuses in that half and go check the wire.
Now, let’s say the wire is dead, so now you know that the fuse you want is in this quarter.

So, then you flick off half of the fuses in that quarter and check the wire again, and so on.

With every step, you eliminate half of the remaining fuses, so for 60 fuses, you need at most 6 steps (which is the logarithm for base 2 of 60).

My dad once told me that he had to find the circuit breaker that corresponded to a particular wire and because we have around 60 circuit breakers in our house, he had to flick one off, run down and check the wire, run back up, flick the next circuit breaker off, and do that quite a lot of times.

In that moment, I got to explain binary search to him and he was genuinely interested. 🙃

Do make sure, you’re on the latest version of Android Firefox. The translation feature was added quite recently.

Thanks. 🙂

In a local shop, they have these massive jars of pre-cooked white beans, which are really great. I keep them in the fridge and when a meal could do with a bit more sustenance, I just scoop a few spoonfuls into there.

Works really well for curries and tomato sauce, but honestly, I’d have trouble naming a meal where it doesn’t fit (assuming that meal doesn’t already have a ton of protein). Yesterday, I did the beans on toast thing by basically just chucking beans on toast, seasoning them and then microwaving the lot. For an extremely lazy meal, that was actually quite decent.

Baumkuchen?

Normally, I would respond that I don’t do that, because I keep forgetting about those bookmarks, but now you’ve reminded me that I did pin something there last week …and then promptly forgot about it. 🙃