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The escape sequence is terminal specific. urxvt is likely different from xterm in this regard.

Catting a file will your terminal make interpret escape codes in the file.

For instance:

    $ echo -e "\033]0;${USER} is an unfriendly person\007" > test-file.txt

Then, many days later:

    $ cat test-file.txt

will change your terminal title.

With less, you _can_ interpret escape codes, but usually you don't, and I consider this the correct default.

For me, great news, because of the End-Of-Life plan for ACME v1 for LetsEncrypt: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/end-of-life-plan-for-acm...

> In November of 2019 we will stop allowing new account registrations through our ACMEv1 API endpoint. Existing accounts will continue to function normally.

> In June of 2020 we will stop allowing new domains to validate via ACMEv1.

Well, honestly, I think for that type of knowledge, Wikipedia is actually a very bad starting point. It could have become something like that, but ... I blame Deletionism, and more importantly, the general aversity to "know how" pages. Yes, you could relearn math from Wikipedia, but I'm not sure there's enough stuff in there that somebody who didn't already know how would be able to recreate half-way modern antibiotics, or an old CRT TV tube, let alone an SEM etc.

Simple keywords for definitions can make grepping for stuff much easier. Given that shell allows other forms, it isn't that helpful in practice. I still use it because my eyes find start-of-definition faster with common patterns that are not just special-chars. YMMV.

Edit: I usually don't care for portability, and just use bash. Shell is so ugly already, I refuse to write my personal stuff in portability hell mode. Rather level up my Civilization skills instead.

Definitely apocryphal, I heard the same story told from a local car manufacturer's perspective (in Austria, so other country and other industry). But it seems back then Japan really made a name for itself w.r.t. quality control. There are more such stories like this going around, like: "Can your process work with such small drills?". The answer: They send back the drill. Drilled.

Except for stories about total engineering fail or borderline fraud, nowadays I couldn't imagine any stories being told about about manufacturing in Germany, US or China.

You missed the implied "/s".

Not in every place in the US you need a car, not in every place in Europe you have a bakery around the corner. We are talking half-continent sized areas with several hundred million people. There is quite a variance.

But more to the point, good quality bread has been more ingrained in the culture of several (but not all) European countries than in the US, and while the wheels are turning, it seems to take some time.

edit: If no air exchange, it dries slower, inviting mold. There is such a thing like an ideal "drying to age" ratio to keep age-related staleness at a minimum w/o having to care for mold. What I mean is, older bread should be drier than fresh bread, not too much, not too little. Correctly kept, it dries out (only after several days) instead of getting moldy.

About your situation: I've to admit that I don't know about keeping bread well in such bad conditions. I'd try a slightly more sealed container, or if that doesn't work, slice and freeze it fresh. Other than that, find uses for dry bread (works perfectly fine in soup, or if white bread, make breadcrumbs etc. etc.).

20% rel. humidity is so low that it is very uncomfortable for humans, even unhealthy for some people. Are you really sure that's your in-house humidity? Outside/inside are often very different, due washed clothes drying, cooking, plants, respiration, and also humidity from the cellars in some buildings.

If yes, and if possible, I'd recommend an air humidifier to get that up to 40% or so. Depending on volume, a $60 unit should be able to do this, even if it will take three weeks until the humidity slowly approaches sensible levels.

Are you keeping the bread in an open or a closed container, and what's the humidity in the room like? Here at home at 25 deg Celsius and <60% rel. humidity, a correctly stored whole grain bread doesn't grow mold in a week. It's rare that I keep bread that long, though (usually 4 days max). Closed containers don't work well, there needs to be some air exchange.

Modern fridges have temperature sensors, per-drawer ventilated air-cooling, auto-detection of when particular high-thermal mass un-frozen food (i.e. a turkey) is added and start quick-freezing, and provide alarms when door or cooling fail. Also, energy efficiency for the EU A+++ rated units is really good.

And you get that already for the cheap units.

So, it's a freezer, it freezes, and it doesn't send a post to Facebook. The only complaint I would have is their loudness. Modern extra-slow compressors are often (perceived) louder than previous-gen units.

Also: given that even DIY ovens usually start with "get a cheap PID controller from e-bay", I doubt that commercial ones use anything else.

Well, actually, many do (edit: sell slices); that of course doesn't mean that I'd consider that a particularly convenient set-up.

The infamous "Datenautobahn".

Many supermarkets import both, and even after that excessively long transport from NZ to EU you can easily tell the difference, both by look and by taste. Definitively different breed. I personally also prefer the NZ version.

increasing taxes makes tax-reduction-strategies _more_ profitable, not less

also, tax-evasion and tax-reduction are two different things, equating them is an argument in bad faith

Just as a short aside, IIRC there is evidence that because of the very long association between humans and dogs, dogs actually _did_ evolve to make good use of some of humans' throwaways, compared to their wild relatives.

I don't have a dog, so didn't save the link, but for dog caretakers some literature review might do good (also, maybe consensus improved since then).

EDIT: obviously that doesn't necessarily translate to modern dry food.

While I think the connection with what GP wanted to convey is tenuous, Betrands paradox _is_ interesting, and even more so E.T. Jaynes' solution.

As with most paradoxes, it's about how a seemingly innocuous question turns out to either be underspecified to have an answer, or tricks even the mind of mathematicians to assume too much.

Here it's about what it means to have a "random chord of a circle"; several simple ways to generate random chords lead to very different results, but true randomness should not be easy distinguishable from other true randomness...

E.T.J's solution to invoke the maximum ignorance principle to require any source of random chords to be size- and translation-invariant (because those dimensions are not specified in the problem) seems elegant.

Now, comparing to orbits, or to balls on a train, the thing here is: all these different viewpoints, although very different, do lead to the same result. Even if you calculate stuff; and if I'm not mistaken, that's because of relativity (Galilean relativity should be sufficient for the train example to work, the more modern ones for the rest).

Also: It's not just for blind people using screen readers; but also to improve end-to-end testing.

Yes, nowadays we hook into React components themselves, or even if not we can use those frameworks to strongly simplify writing selectors, because testing libraries have some magic built into them to use the component hierarchy directly...

... but depending on the amount of legacy and old in the app (and there will be legacy, and old stuff), and how strongly E2E you want to go (like "survive adding stuff from our team in that other city"), a "nav ul li[id='something']" will work ok for the developer maintaining the code, even if it is not the shortest possible selector; whereas a "div[...] div[...] div div + div" will catch up with you, even if you think you abstracted it away.

In case anyone wants to avoid bad Android issues by buying an AndroidOne phone: I have one (Nokia 3.1+), I'm stuck at Android 8.1, the security update is from February 5th...

After having been burned w.r.t. security updates by Samsung, then Motorola, and now Nokia, I'm more or less done with Android (once I have enough money to ignore the wasted Euros...).

It seems only people able and willing to spend 500+ Euros every year deserve basic security on Android.

not amused

Don't know why you're getting downvoted, but in most jurisdictions, C level executives and the supervisory board don't get a free pass for what their companies do (well, they usually do, but not because of moral or sound legal reasons).

Where they do have power, they wield it. See: international relations regarding Taiwan.

China would say yes, and in such a case you should not ever be in a state that has and/or requires good diplomatic relationship with, or economic support from, China.

Law is, after all, what gets executed, and debating whether it's right or wrong is a luxury you don't have when it's executed on you.

Also, it apparently was a European partner doing the research, but we won't even know which one. Maybe Lenzing?

about "never not UTC" (but otherwise unrelated to the OP):

There was an article recently, describing a very important, and also very common, "exception":

If you want to schedule/synchronize real-world appointments/events, you need both the _local time_ and the political zone, like 2018-12-11 9am at Europe/London.

The reason is that between time of entry and time of event, the defined timezone for that area may change. As a result, your previously translated appointment would not match up the local time.

Which is bad, because humans, when meeting, or events, when being announced, announce the local time. Not UTC. And they stick to the local time.

This fits the [Weirdtopia](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cWjK3SbRcLkb3gN69/building-w...) model too much to not have merit.

votes for small parties are not lost, their main effect comes from causing the behavior of the large blocks to shift over time, even if only a little.

as an example, many parties now feature some feminist points, even though it was originally against their ideology.

this this mean you won't vote at all? there was no pure anti-13 block iirc. not casting a valid vote is my generation's way of causing outcomes like the current one.

Glass quality also lessens due to impurities, which is one important reason why certain glass types, like beer bottles, have a mandated deposit and collection system.

The benefits or the critique? (I could guess, but prefer not to ...)

Yes, but the .NET thread pool is auto-tuning, although very badly, with at least a second latency to increased workload. For bursty requests that could be done within a few hundred milliseconds it is a bad fit. But you can't DOS your batch processing server so easily.