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Assuming you want to keep working ~40 hours a week, I feel like the best idea are four 8.5 hour days and Friday as a half day. This gives you half a day to "decompress" and still have a two day weekend ahead of you. This is the working time model most common in my country.

Thank you, was not aware of that. There was no mention on this Wikipedia article that I used to double-check:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Product_Activation

Let's rephrase @endgame's comment as "Windows XP and Office XP were the first versions of their respective series where product activation was mandatory on all retail editions." Point still stands I guess.

To be fair, you have to remember that the calculator is called "calc.exe" to use this method. However, when parent said "you really wouldn’t want the II of that era back" I understood "you" as "HN reader", not as "regular user".

Also, there is also a "discoverable" way to launch programs keyboard-only: <Windows>, P, A, C (Programs - Accessories - Calculator).

I just really dislike the Windows 10 start menu search. It slows down on random occasions just often enough to be too annoying for me to use, at least on my machine.

Press <Windows>+R, "calc" <Return>. Easy and fast, if you can remember the exact names of the executables.

Also, back then Windows came not only with printed manuals, but also with an actually useful help system and not one that just makes a Bing search.

Where do you have this information from? As far as I know, product activation for office started with Office XP ("2002").

Adressing high school teachers as "professor" is common in Austria and Czechia.

I'm sorry, what? Single-camera, no laugh track has been an extremely common format for sitcoms for the last twenty years.

a more recent example of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsen_versus_Nepomniachtchi,...

Wikipedia says:

>Isaac Asimov once mentioned an "interesting theory" that Romans avoided using IV because it was the initial letters of IVPITER, the Latin spelling of Jupiter, and might have seemed impious. He did not say whose theory it was.

That's the explanation I've always heard.

EU regulations now forbid SMS-based authentication. I tried explaining to the bank clerk several times how I am not using the Google Play Store but it was only when I held my Nokia "dumb phone" in their face that they gave me a hardware token generator (for free actually!).

For context, I use a Nokia 8110 and a LineageOS device.

This is a case where I want to mention Austria as a positive example: The vaccination certificate app is open source on Github, so you can compile it yourself and not need to use the Play Store.

>Over the years many countries experimented with 3-unit coins or banknotes. For instance, in the 90s, Ukraine had a 3 karbovanets banknote and Uzbekistan had a 3 som banknote

I think "experimented" is the wrong word here when Uzbekistan and Ukraine paid with 3 kopeck coins and 3 ruble banknotes for decades before that.

If you missed it (like me). This is about the answer he gave when asked whether he thinks about creating his own social media platform:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1557199404301307904#m

It's always frustrating when you can't set the language of a website manually.

Norwegian has the diphthongs "ei" and "øy", while Danish has "ej" and "øj". Though I don't know whether you can rely on that when looking at proper names (surnames, place names).

in case anyone here is wondering anyway:

Only Czech: ě, ř, ů

Only Slovak: ä, ľ, ô

I am more of a Delphi/Lazarus guy myself, but can anybody who is actually considering using this compare it against Gambas, RAD Basic, Xojo, ...?

In German, a <z> always makes a /ts/ sound and in modern orthography, "tz" is only used after (short) vowels.

VLC Media Player uses Discworld character names.

My family has a 1950's GM Frigidaire. Works still fine. Nowadays, we only use it occasionally though when we have a party or something.

Do this "seed pod" things work well enough? (as in do they get a decent proportion to grow into trees?) I'm sure they wouldn't work where I live though most places in the world have less pressure from game than there is here.

> Xbrowsersync - sync bookmarks across device

Thank you, this is exactly something I was looking for!

Anyone using SlickEdit or any editor with "BRIEF"-style key bindings? I am not, but I am interested what people have to say.

Great video explaining the concept of an API to a layperson. Unfortunately, 90% of the comments are just kids writing "yep, still works!".

For Austria:

https://namenskarten.lima-city.at/de/

I recommend something like Super+C.

many non-alphanumeric characters?

Very interesting read as for some reason I've been fascinated with old code pages lately.

Can anybody point me to some more resources about this general topic? The Wikipedia articles about code pages are all so generic and uninformative.

Or maybe answer some of my specific questions: When was the first DOS with support for Icelandic shipped? When for Hebrew? Why are there three different code pages defined for Greek and were they all supported by Microsoft/IBM?

> [C++] also had type inference very early on, but the developers of the mid-80s were not quite ready for that and Bjarne Stroustrup was pressured into removing auto, until it was added back to C++11.

Does anybody have background information on this claim? Was there actually a working compiler with it back then or was it just some proposal paper at the time?

We Europeans easily forget how far south the US really is.