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bleistift2 ,

To be fair, A4 yields unwieldy pages that are too long to comfortably read. And when do you ever need the feature to fold an A4 sheet into A5?

bleistift2 , (edited )

almost all consumer printers are for a4.

I never said A4 wasn’t the standard. I said it’s not a good one.

books in a4 size actually consist of a3 sheets bound together in the middle. (same with other sized books)

Let’s check. I grabbed four random German books from my bookshelf. If you’re right, the pages should either be roughly 30cm×21cm (A4) or 15cm×10.5cm [Edit: 21cm × 15cm] (A5).

Book 1: 18cm × 11.5; book 2: 19cm×12.5cm; book 3: 20.5cm × 12.5cm; book 4: 24cm × 17cm. None of those conform to the standard.

bleistift2 , (edited )

I’m German. If the pages are a comfortable size, why does no publisher ever use A5 or A4 paper? To quote an answer I gave to another comment here:

Let’s check. I grabbed four random German books from my bookshelf. If you’re right, the pages should either be roughly 30cm×21cm (A4) or 15cm×10.5cm [Edit: 21cm × 15cm] (A5).

Book 1: 18cm × 11.5; book 2: 19cm×12.5cm; book 3: 20.5cm × 12.5cm; book 4: 24cm × 17cm. None of those conform to the standard.

Another hint that the paper format is weird is that scientific papers on A4 are always either printed in two columns or use the ninths rule for margins, i.e. 1/9 of margin on the inner and upper edges and 2/9 of margin on the outer and bottom edges, essentially throwing away almost half of the page (I’ll admit there are more economic recommendations of 1/11 or 1/13). This is to make the columns narrower to get closer to the target of 60–80 characters per line. Note also that this makes the ‘usable’ area approximately 20cm long, which is much closer to the American’s ‘Legal’ format (216mm).

bleistift2 ,

I didn’t know Euro and Farad were related :O

bleistift2 , (edited )

You’re right. Sorry for getting my post-7pm arithmetic skills on you. However, my point still stands. ‘Close’ is not ‘conforming’ to the standard.

bleistift2 ,

Good luck finding any nontrivial law that applies to each and every instance of a human construct. “Money can be exchanged for goods and services” until you show up at a store with 10 kilograms of 1-cent coins. A single violation (or even many) don’t mean the underlying law (or rule or principle or guideline or whatever ‘less strict’ version you want to call it) is bad.

Newton’s gravity is wrong. There’s no arguing about that. But still every middle-schooler around the world learns it because it is ‘good enough’ in all but extraordinarily special cases.

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Why the fuck would they name it PRISM?

bleistift2 ,

This is Germany. Most bullets fired here end up in deer instead of people.

bleistift2 ,

That might depend on the police force (i.e., state) we’re talking about. My colleague told me that when he hit a deer and called the police with the deer still lying around, they just shot it.

bleistift2 ,

puberty is sorta like this but idk, it doesn’t feel as dramatic

I really wonder what happened in your puberty to be “sorta like this”

First, the caterpillar digests itself, releasing enzymes to dissolve all of its tissues. If you were to cut open a cocoon or chrysalis at just the right time, caterpillar soup would ooze out.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/caterpillar-butterfly-metamorphosis-explainer/

bleistift2 ,

We cannot stop collecting data about you because collecting the datum that you want to stop having your data collected failed.

I wonder if the situation in Europe is different, where such bullshit is illegal.

bleistift2 ,

PINEAPPLE

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*For small values of 5.

bleistift2 ,

The tweet: tweet (Is the preview working for you? For me, it’s not).

The game is called geoguessing and those who do this regularly are crazy good at it, taking into account the kind of trees you see, where the sun and shadows are, even the color of the dirt and the pavement.

Tom Scott did something similar and was frightened too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqEBvlmFAQ&pp=ygUSdG9tIHNjb3R0IGZvdW5kIHVz

bleistift2 ,

I didn’t find that in the Twitter UI and wondered why OP thought it was an AI. Thanks for sharing.

bleistift2 ,

I think the joke is that the dog is not a good boy. Hence he’s “seen the darkest pits of despair”.

bleistift2 ,

Huh, that’s interesting. We’re counting differently. To me, the very last comic is the 1st comic from below, so “I identify as female” is the 8th to last, or the 8th from below.

bleistift2 ,

Judging by eye on the map projection OpenStreetMap uses, the direct line between Japan and Hawaii is about one quarter of the westbound straight line between Japan and Hawaii.

bleistift2 ,

Isn’t that also the shorter route, because you’re circling the Earth where it has less circumference?

Also the North Atlantic Tracks are there. Might also play a role.

Image of the North Atlantic Tracks

bleistift2 ,

If you really do want to do something, but can’t get your limbs to move, try making a list. Crossing things off that helps providing motivation.

bleistift2 ,

Sounds like a win to me. If making the list gives you motivation, this might help overcome the initial inertia.

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Every driver you could possibly need for any hardware in the last 20 years? This is a live CD and is expected to just work no matter what you’re running it on.

Edit: Also, of course, every program you might need to usefully test-drive a distro, like office apps, media players, image viewers, browser, email client, and a myriad more. Now that I’ve said it I find 6GB remarkably small.

bleistift2 ,

Link to post: https://www.berkeleymews.com/comic/hogwarts/

bleistift2 ,

can write 260 w/p on his own machine, will not find the escape key on any other

I swear, when I need to touch other people’s computers, I can’t get them to believe me that I program for a living.

bleistift2 ,

That’s why I’m sticking to Windows at work even though I hate it. I couldn’t stand the glares of the others when I fail to fix even a noob distro.

bleistift2 ,

*has a second fucking wall built.

bleistift2 ,

Could someone enlighten me what Deus Ex is about without spoiling more than two hours of gameplay?

bleistift2 ,

You vastly underestimate the tolerance of an average user who barely knows their way around a web browser and Word.

bleistift2 ,

Cannot update 600 packages because library-you’ve-never-heard-of conflicts with what-the-fuck-even-is-a-polypterodaclib?

bleistift2 ,

Transcript:

This is my to do list.

It’s where I keep track of all the things I’m not doing.

bleistift2 ,

Why only fast food workers?

bleistift2 ,

In some cases, the backdoor has been unable to work as intended. The build environment on Fedora 40, for example, contains incompatibilities that prevent the injection from correctly occurring.

It’s really funny that it’s package incompatibilites that saved us.

There’s a joke that I can’t find now about how hard it is to install a virus in Linux even if you try.

bleistift2 ,

I hope it’s at least in standby mode, and not always on.

bleistift2 ,

The last printer I got cost 40€. Print shops charge 10ct per copy. That’s 400 prints just to amortize the cheapest garbage printer you could buy 10 years ago. And the ink doesn’t last 400 prints. Owning a printer just doesn’t make sense.

bleistift2 OP ,

Thanks for pointing it out. I corrected the post.

bleistift2 OP ,

With a minimum wage job ($7.25/hr) you need to work about 5 to 13 hours per day to make that much – before taxes.

This is the main point of this post. The meme is just a means to gain attention. I believe people are more likely to consume meme posts than plaintext.

bleistift2 ,

If all the bloat means that both the Wifi AND the external screen AND the touchpad work out of the box SIMULTANEOUSLY, go for it.

bleistift2 ,

Honestly, the arch wiki is hit and miss. Sometimes it has the information you need written in a way that you can understand, and sometimes the examples randomly switch graphics cards mid-sentence.

bleistift2 ,

Amateur. Print it in 4 different colors and bring color filters.

bleistift2 ,

This isn’t new. The upside is that you can, for instance, practice playing the guitar in your sleep. Or work out. It makes a measurable difference.

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    bleistift2 ,

    Instant messaging is more akin to speech than to writing, at least to me. Look at how colloquial the choice of words is; and how often you get multiple messages, because people type the messages as the thought enter their heads, as opposed to a thought-out statement like you would write down on a piece of paper, or any non-instant message format.

    bleistift2 ,

    Their fault. They removed all the real stressors but didn’t give us brains that can cope with not being stressed. Now we have to pull stress out of thin air—or grapefruit.

    bleistift2 ,

    You know your UI sucks ass if users need to tell other users about its features.

    bleistift2 ,

    “Swipe →”

    bleistift2 ,

    Sure, act like Wikipedia hasn’t written all your school essays since 5th grade.

    bleistift2 ,

    That’s still comprehensible. I would’ve thought Wikipedia was bigger.

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