Could you give a reference on this 97 rule? I’m intrigued.

I was also intrigued, so I searched and on wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Num... ), in the section "Validating the IBAN" it is written :

    Interpret the string as a decimal integer and compute the remainder of that number on division by 97
    If the remainder is 1, the check digit test is passed and the IBAN might be valid

Summary: we still don’t know why, but definitely don’t eat UPFs.

My assumption was something like environmental variables - how much a simple command like cat is listening to your computer

“That’s an odd name! I’d a called em fuzzwozzers.”

It certainly is a mainstay. A yearly treat which children love. In Ireland I was taught this song in school: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bhebvq0O4GY (and I still remember all the words)

The point you’re making is ridiculous though, because what Isaak has done is clearly an unusual accomplishment. You’re actually just making excuses for yourself, being too old to have the motivation. It’s a less helpful explanation than just plain curiosity - and that’s available to all age groups.

I agree. In the first example, you would assume the action completed even if you missed the toast. But in case you did notice it, that gives you a confirmation. Suboptimal? Maybe.

But the proposed solution is clearly worse, unless the loading circle turns into a tick to show completion

I’ve supported enterprise software for various big companies and I can tell you that most decision makers for DCs agree with this sentiment.

EMC had a system called Target Code which was typically the last patch in the second-last family. But only after it had been in use for some months and/or percentage of customer install base. It was common sense and customers loved it. You don’t want your storage to go down for unexpected changes.

Dell tried to change that to “latest is target” and customers weren’t convinced. Account managers sheepishly carried on an imitation of the old better system. Somehow from a PR point of view, it’s easier to cause new problems than let the known ones occur.

The article might have been better with fewer asterisks*

* This could just be the next sentence

Author here. I may have gone overboard with the sidenotes.*

[*] My wife told me the same thing :)

I have been using Joplin for a couple of years, first for work and then for everything else.

I love that it’s formatted, but it’s also just text. I normally leave it in markdown mode and edit that directly (learn the syntax, it’s easy). To paste into email, documents etc, put it to display mode and it’ll paste html. Good.

@cimnine The key feature for me is global search (ctrl/cmd+p) but it doesn’t work well enough!! 1. it doesn’t favour exact matches and 2. it doesn’t jump to the match. I use vi-mode if that’s important.

Overall it’s excellent IMO. There are clients for all major platforms.

Hard to decide the appropriate level of outrage here. The authors seem to be aware of how chatGPT works and how this would produce inconsistent results and falsehoods, especially in languages with a smaller corpus. Still it sounds like they expect openAI to extend full parity of features to a language that has only 7m speakers and appears "much less often online." But I hope they do, for these people's benefit.

I was impressed with its performance in Irish but my expectations were much lower. Partly because in English it has given me nonsense code, and I think the poetry is terrible - only rhyming couplets (AABB rhyming).