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They are a German GmbH and must publicly state their financials: https://www.northdata.de/win%C2%B7rar%20GmbH,%20Berlin/Amtsg...

Looks pretty profitable to me.

The image referencing "Haussystem Didot" is an example of a catalog not containing the Angzarr symbol in question.

I did not find any evidence for earlier examples in any of the very few scans I looked at, nor does a search through the Google Books scans give any indication for words that seem related to the concept.

This would be such a fantastic find! Could you point out a specific example?

Neither did I read all these pages nor did I pretend to.

> Neither the wikipedia page for the Didot family, nor for Histoire générale des voyages shows the Angzarr symbol, I've carefully checked on all the scans on these pages.

You have linked these two Wikipedia pages[1][2], implying that they confirm your extraordinary claims of how obvious and well-known this symbol is. I could in fact check within a single day that the symbol does not appear on any of the 15 images linked in these pages.

So unless you can produce evidence for your claim that "that symbol was used as a notation symbol in those star charts and azimutal maps?", it is quite disingenuous to expect anyone to take it seriously. Expecting someone else to read "thousands of pages" to confirm or deny YOUR claim makes it even less worthy of consideration.

If you do have actual, material evidence for your claims, everyone in this thread would very much like to see it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didot_family [2] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_de...

I'm sorry, but I don't understand your comment at all. The linked article does not refer to Didot, nor does the Wikipedia page for the glyph in question.

Neither the wikipedia page for the Didot family, nor for Histoire générale des voyages shows the Angzarr symbol, I've carefully checked on all the scans on these pages. In fact, any occurrence of the symbol would pre-date the current earliest known example (1963) by 200 years, and that would be a great find. If you have an actual reference, please let us know!

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SEEKING WORK | remote, Stuttgart area, Germany | Python full-stack developer

I've worked for 15 years as a freelance Python/Django developer, in projects both big and small. I've created entire projects myself, including front-end and hosting; and I've integrated in teams in roles ranging from team lead to devops specialist. I have worked with Python, Django, numpy, SQL, JS and Typescript, Angular, Java, C++, Jenkins, k8s, and most everything in-between; in recent years I've started doing work on LLMs and GenAI in general.

If you have an interesting project, email me at j@spielmannsolutions.com and we'll talk!

Back when we played the original game, there was a bug that leads to underflow in the money. You had to build a tunnel that spanned the entire width of the map, which would cost just more than 2 billion dollars, underflowing and giving you 2 billion instead. Afterwards, the game was a pure sandbox, and that's the only way I played it as a kid.

Still one of the best games ever!

This looks really nice and people interested in mathematical computing should try it out. I certainly will.

Apparently many commenters here do not understand the word "alternative", which means "a thing that you can choose to do or have out of two or more possibilities", and instead take it as "equal in every respect".

I love that! Argparse is such an old and boring solution to such a simple problem that we need more like this. And I have hope that one of the solutions will make it into the standard library at some point.

There are some others like yours:

Google's python-fire (1)

Docopt (2), which creates the cli from the documentation instead of the other way around

Click (3)

And my own commandeer (4)

Typer (5)

(1) https://github.com/google/python-fire (2) http://docopt.org/ (3) https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/8.0.x/ (4) https://pythonhosted.org/Commandeer/index.html (5) https://typer.tiangolo.com/

This is a pet peeve of mine: csv was a bad format already when it was created, because it intermixes data with meta data, ie it uses characters that can appear as either data or control characters, leading to escaping issues. This is in addition to being under specified as to which characters are used as control characters.

It was outdated from the start because ASCII already has specific characters for file, group, record, and item separation. Using this would give broad compatibility and a wider feature set (eg. more than one table in a file) while retaining all the benefits of csv.

If you liked this, you might also like

"Friendship is optimal" (https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/Friendship-is-Optimal)

And

"the metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (https://web.archive.org/web/20040401174623/http://www.kuro5h..., strongly NSFW)

Both are stories about a singularity that turns the world into a simulation, in which some can program the simulation.

Panasonic has duplex document scanners in various price ranges, starting from about 300 €, and they are all Linux compatible with one sane SANE driver. They scan super quick and easy and work very reliably.

Here is one of the most enlightening explanations for these kinds of spirals I have seen by 3blue1brown: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EK32jo7i5LQ

Note that the setup is slightly different,since in that video they plot numbers along their polar coordinates. The results are very similar, since both create spirals with predictable angular offsets.

According to AcoUP, transport cost over land is five times that over rivers, and twenty times that over sea.

https://acoup.blog/2019/07/19/the-lonely-city-part-ii-real-c...

For a historically accurate overview over how cities actually were, and on how they sustained their size, I recommend Bret Devereaux' excellent history blog: https://acoup.blog/2019/07/12/collections-the-lonely-city-pa...

When I worked at a small consultancy, we had similar requirements, Masters or higher. I asked our hiring manager (who himself was a 22-year-old student) why they did that. He told me that in any week they'd get 100 applicants, while hiring only about one dev per month. Sure, by requiring a degree they'd weed out a handful of great people, but also literal hundreds of idiots. And while there are idiots with degrees (as evidenced by the 80:1 hiring ratio), the number is apparently much smaller than for the general population.

I did not and do not agree with the practice, but I can also understand why it is in place.

There was a django security issue where password length lead to a possible DOS attack against the server. So now they limit passwords rather arbitrarily to 4096 bytes.

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/sep/15/security/

According to the recent article on an extra robotic thumb, people got used to it very quickly. And that one wasn't even controlled by neural link, but by sensors on the user's toes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27218940

You could try RealityCapture, https://www.capturingreality.com/, which is a professional 3d capturing software. It has been free to try since Epic bought it. Unfortunately, you'll need a lot of photos to get reliable 3d models. But playing with it will probably give you an understanding of how hard that problem really is.

I built commandeer, a library for seamlessly exposing python functions as command line calls.

https://commandeer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I was fed up with having to build the nth argparse parser and instead used my already existing python functions to create the cli for me.

Those are all excellent beginner friendly recommendations. In general, the Spiel des Jahres are quite good suggestions, offering enough depth for long-term play, yet being easy enough to learn.

Those are all great games and great suggestions, but they are also very heavy and and long games. Even with skilled players, you won't be able to complete a session of Terraforming Mars in less than two hours.

While Catan is not a perfect game, it's a perfect beginners game: a bit of luck, but a bit of strategy, lots of player interaction, and not too long. At the same time, it also shows its age, in that there are newer games that are beginner friendly and eliminate some of Catan's shortcomings.

Your main point, however, is still often forgotten: the oars games have come a long way since 1935 and even 1997.

If anyone wants to learn more about this, there are excellent and very friendly communities at boardgamegeek.com and reddit.com/r/boardgames

If you bend a coin, one side has larger area than the other and will prefer to land on that side accordingly. The turn-based argument depends on the fact that both sides of the coin are the same size, which is not true if you bend the coin.

The CCC is both. It's a club of computer- and technology-interested d people. Most cities have some rented space that doubles as a hacker and tinker space. It really depends on the members in each city what the specific location looks like.

That there is also a branch of very public security experts is... Incidental, I'd say.

Apparently there were studies on adenovirus 5 vector vaccines against HIV in 2007. The vaccine was not successful, but I cannot find any data on long-term adverse effects.

This reminds me of El Ateneo in Buenos Aires, which is built into a former theater.

https://www.buenostours.com/el-ateneo-grand-splendid-booksto...

So you agree that this was a breakdown in procedure and reporting, instead of an actual case of something interesting happening?

As a German, to me it feels a lot like politicians covering their assets instead of properly evaluating the situation.

As far as I understand, this is actually a common side effect of SVT, where so many platelets accrete in the thrombosis that there is a measurable dip in available platelets.

There is also "A curious moon" with similar ideas for learning SQL.

https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/

It is probably 2560x1440 with four different colour subpixels per addressable pixel, giving you an image resolution of 1280x720.