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One of the minor but very welcome latest updates of Microsoft Windows was the addition of the capability to type Win+- to get an en-dash (–) and Shift+Win+- to get an em dash (—).

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Grik-spiking werld.

You can still start such a company now. The tricky part is to gain the trust of customers.

Well, if it's AI-generated, it's not really copyrighted by you and you cannot license it under GPL, since you did not write it.

Nice work, nevertheless, and useful!


It is AI assisted. I still wrote code and designed the core architecture of how it works.


I mean, it's a color scheme. With like 5 colors. So good luck getting it copyrighted anyway.


I believe the major hurdle would be from the "renter" part.

Usually such installations are only allowed to be done by the owners, not tenants.


Interesting, but some of the information is conflicting: the design was about "No assumed orientation. Something that works in a mirror" but then the 24-hour arc talks about "(top, 12 o'clock position) clockwise".

Placing midnight on top forces an orientation, while specifying clockwise makes mirroring impossible.

But this is only on the text description, the actual clock would work anyway.


People are still be born in Sparta, Greece; no time travel needed.


It's pretty straightforward to sync the contacts on the phone with the contacts on Fastmail via CardDAV, using DAVx5 for example.


I've been using fastmail for over a decade. davx is fragile. Many phone brands (all the OnePlus for example) interact poorly with it. I regularly have to trigger syncs by hand.

Still better than google, but the story here is not great.


Right! ed was the first one, and its ideas and commands influenced sed (a "streams" ed), and ex (an "extended" editor, which also had a "vi"sual mode).


It's even easier to exec a hash of argv[0] and print it.


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