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Re:Nokia Design Archive (2025) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:15AM (#49830963)
You can still browse the source archive at https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8...
Re:Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:07AM (#48906266)
https://t.me/ is back online today. No official explanation yet
Re:Backtrack-Free Cursive on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:28AM (#48902968)
Vertical strokes first, and then bridge on top
Re:Backtrack-Free Cursive on Monday July 13, 2026 @05:34AM (#48890057)
In school-taught cursive, the uppercase A is written with a single stroke, but the upper element in Б, Г, Т and others need a separate stroke. The full alphabet sheet: https://upload-995750d0fd20690d889c7a976af524b6.hb.bizmrg.co...
Re:OpenPrinter on Sunday July 05, 2026 @05:51PM (#48798287)
From the specs:

  Compatible cartridges  
  HP 63 and HP 63 XL (US)
  HP 302 and HP 302 XL (Europe)
  HP 803 and HP 803 XL (Asia)
So they just use HP inkjet technology. That makes it less open-source, but even "open source" parts are going to be under non-commercial license (CC BY-NC-SA) anyway.
Re:Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only) on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:48AM (#48082441)
They have the same on cheaper (but still "Special"/"Premium") non-lacquer S100 version: https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/product.S100/
Re:Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green (2025) on Thursday March 26, 2026 @05:15PM (#47535850)
They definitely knew, Soviet books on industrial design and architecture explicitly mention Birren [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q="биррен"+зеленый&udm=36&tbs=... (search for Russian for "Birren"+green in 20th century books)

Re:Scott Alexander: The Dilbert Afterlife on Saturday January 17, 2026 @10:14AM (#46658675)
Yes, he was an idiot, but that doesn't contradict that he was smart. In his own words, from The Dilbert Principle book:

"People are idiots.

Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. That's the central premise of this scholarly work. I proudly include myself in the idiot category. Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time."

Re: on Monday December 29, 2025 @05:49PM (#46426912)
"Starting December 29, 2025, the ability to create new posts, comments, and other content will be available to users who make a more significant contribution to the platform"

Google translate link: https://1-ru--news-livejournal-com.translate.goog/80899.html...

Re:The Checkerboard on Saturday December 13, 2025 @09:32AM (#46254770)
The initial idea was to first sell 50% of the land and then sell the other 50%. [1] Thanks to corner crossing, the checkerboard pattern made sure that owners of the first batch wouldn't be cut off from their access by buyers of the second batch.

[1] From TFA: "This checkerboard pattern allowed the government to keep all the undeveloped sections in between and wait for them to go up in value before turning around and selling them to developers".

At least some of those journalists seem to be Hamas combatants.

"According to the IDF, [Anas] al-Sharif has served as head of a rocket launching squad and a member of a Nukhba Force company in Hamas’s East Jabalia Battalion"[1]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-gaza-documents-prove-... (2024)

The primary source seems to be https://en.ara.cat/society/technological-warfare-the-drug-tr... (autotranslated from Catalan)
Re:Mandelbrot in x86 Assembly by Claude on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @05:53AM (#44441797)
The requirement to list social accounts has been present since 2018, and the FAQ [1] says: Visa applicants who have never used social media will not be refused on the basis of failing to provide a social media identifier, and the form does allow the applicant to respond with "None."

https://ie.usembassy.gov gives 504 so I can't check the primary source, but it seems like the new part is a requirement to make accounts public and applies only to F, M, and J student and exchange visas.

[1] https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Enhanced%20Vettin...

Looks like the new requirement is only for F, M, and J student and exchange visas that already need more paperwork, not for B-1/B-2 tourism and business visas.
Re:The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:09PM (#44032845)
> a version of windows without all the crap

LTSC is a version like that

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