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It already did that for an empty title; the issue was with a title that was not empty, but contained only invisible Unicode characters (there are a number of such -- Unicode is very extensive and flexible).

(Min-width is also already present, but doesn't ensure the tab is visible when inactive/unhovered if it has neither a visible icon or title; it'll just be some blank space in the tab bar.)

As it happens, a patch is just landing that will handle more cases of "invisible but non-empty" titles, so that change should appear in a couple of months or so once it works through the release channels.

I don't recall that one, and I thought I knew Gerald Durrell's work pretty thoroughly. There is a book of that title by Tim Cahill, though; maybe that's what you're remembering?

> The hotspot for the arrow cursor was not (0,0) but was (1,1). > Can anyone explain why?

My assumption (not having an old Mac or documentation to confirm it...) is that the tip of the cursor had to be at (1, 1) to allow for a pixel's worth of mask around the outer edge of the tip.

Curious; it looks like his background is New England. In my mind the use of letters (can't really call them initials) as the actual name is a pattern that's more associated with the South of the US. Whether to include periods and/or spaces seems to be variable.

(Remember Johnny Cash? Originally named J. R. Cash; he only expanded the "J" to "John" when he joined the Air Force, as they wouldn't allow the single letter; and AFAIK never did expand the "R". See also Harry S Truman: the "S" does not stand for any one name.)

Or a printer company controlling the ink you put in your printer? Unthinkable! Oh, wait...

Yeah, not particularly surprising, but also not good.

What's striking to me is the second half of the graph, where we seem to quite abruptly go from being "among the warmest years, but not exceptional" to "way above anything previously recorded".

> One example: I've always wanted to do a motorcycle tour around Scandinavia, particularly Norway, but it's a heck of a ride from Calais all the way up there.

Hah, that brings back memories: in the early 80s I did a bike (not motor-) journey from home (in the south of England) to Sweden, taking the Dover-Calais ferry and then via France-Belgium-Netherlands-Germany-Denmark. Must've been ~900 miles of pedalling.

But I didn't attempt a tour of Scandinavia once I got there! (I was headed over there to stay with relatives for a few months.)

Interesting that they're a "private seller" on eBay, although seem to actually have quite a business going... https://www.concordemem.com

> ...it led to a flood of AI-generated nudity...

And no-one could possibly have guessed that would happen?

But "halfway to six" should be three, surely? (Sorry!)

As a British person who learned Swedish -- which also uses that convention -- around the age of 10, I often found myself a little uncertain when hearing "half six" in English, as I grew up with the more explicit "half past six".

The wikipedia article seems quite US-centric, but for those of us in other parts of the world, there are likely to be resources available if you search, both online and in print.

My inspiration as a child was L. Hugh Newman's Create a Butterfly Garden; probably out of print these days, but it was a delight of a book for a youngster in the 70s.

> the web doesn't provide it in sufficient quantity and quality

Do you seriously think that "an AI-generated encyclopedia" would provide a better-quality training set? What would the "AI generator's" articles be derived from?

> People of the past lived happier, more in peace and more fulfilling years of life than modern people

That's a pretty broad claim. How far back is "the past" that was so much better? Which people did you have in mind? The Irish peasants starving because of potato blight? European villagers during the Black Death? The slaves building pyramids in ancient Egypt?

Ah, viaducts! We have a wonderful one not far away, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouse_Valley_Viaduct#/media/Fil...

> anybody that maintains close ties with their family and lives with them is a wholesome person

Alternative possibility: the family's a cult.

Yes, exactly: it looks like a highly stylised rendering of al-Khwārizmī (الخوارزمي or something like that.... spelling may not be entirely standardised), repeated 4 times at 90° rotations.

Odd; it works for me in Firefox (tried both the current Release version and latest Nightly).

To set an example for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

When I was at university, my workaround was to patch the relevant bytes in the saved file to reset the timestamp. (Made even more convenient by running it via a wrapper script that automatically zeroed the timestamp on exit.)

Ah, "do not staple, bend or fold"....that brings back some memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pTGf6Yw-1g

> One of the students did have an unusually large program punched on cards and they dropped the deck in the hallway

Maybe they hadn't learned that the first thing to do when you've just punched a large deck is to take a fat marker and draw a line diagonally across the top of all the cards. Helps hugely if you ever get them scrambled and need to sort.

True; though for a counterexample, may I introduce you to TeX? Over 4 decades, and still in wide use.

Sure, there's been maintenance over the years, one significant version update (TeX 3.0 in 1990) and an ever-evolving ecosystem around it, but the core engine has been incredibly stable.

UK

These US fees always seem astonishingly high to me. Here, something more like 1.5% would be typical.

That Oxford example, at least, does have a "get in lane" sign[1] as you approach up the Woodstock Road, so any driver intending to go straight ahead on the A44 should know to use the right-hand lane to enter the roundabout.

But of course not everyone notices every sign (and some drivers just wilfully disobey them if they think it'll save a few seconds...)

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.787062,-1.2794264,3a,15y,317...

I thought this looked familiar... a couple of previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27319540 (32 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21249792 (66 comments)

The formal name of the Unicode character U+0040 '@' is, in fact, COMMERCIAL AT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#Unicode

Well, you can read it ("MINUS ONE") on the front of the house if you zoom in on the StreetView photo. And the Royal Mail recognises it (try pasting "minus one, clacton" into https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode).

Though it may be a house name rather than a number.

Yes, π⁵ ≈ 306, while 2⋅π⁴ ≈ 195.

So pi^five clearly beats two pi^four. Three pi^4 would be close, though. If only we could just define pi as a nice simple integer...

Very much so. Midnight's Children was the first thing that sprang to mind, as soon as I saw the title!

(See also https://books.openedition.org/pufr/3813?lang=en "Midnight's Children or the Pickles of History")