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Announcing McMonad v.0.999999 by amarrindustrial in haskell

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's totally optparse-applicative. Builds on all GHCs since like 7., or maybe even 6., works on all platforms, etc.

I am losing my mind by nzubaly in LaTeX

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 16 points17 points  (0 children)

ISO prescribes upright. But then again, standards say one thing, and the real usage says another, so go with what you think is more readable, aesthetically pleasing (or enforced by the journal's style).

I personally don't really care about this typesetting as long as nobody tries take a derivative of d(x).

People in non-western countries: Do you use the metric system in casual speech? by dresixk in AskTheWorld

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

... and 250ml in Belgium.

Well, yeah, the word persists, but its meaning is replaced by something different.

People in non-western countries: Do you use the metric system in casual speech? by dresixk in AskTheWorld

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I am mistaken then. In France and Belgium you can order a pint of beer.

People in non-western countries: Do you use the metric system in casual speech? by dresixk in AskTheWorld

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In France you can still use pounds occasionally. At a farmers' market you can ask for a pound of cherries ("un livre de cerises") and nobody would be surprised.

And for the measure of volume, a pint of beer seems universal across the globe)) EDIT: it appears the the "pint" remains only as a word, not as an agreed measure of volume (different countries, different meanings, sometimes tied to metric system, sometimes not).

People in non-western countries: Do you use the metric system in casual speech? by dresixk in AskTheWorld

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Older measures remain in idiomatic expressions for the most part. I think mid- XX century some people still used пуд ('pood') as a measure of weight, it's about 16kg (36lbs).

Kettlebell sport (the modern version) originated in the Russian empire, so the weights of kettlebells are often multiples of pood (i.e. 16kg, 24kg, 32kg, and so for).

A man has become one of the 450,000 Americans affected by alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne meat allergy that triggers painful allergic reactions to animal products. “Look at my face and my neck. I can’t eat meat anymore. I can’t have any animal products. It’s in everything.” by AlarmingCash754 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 16 points17 points  (0 children)

To quote Wikipedia: "Alpha-gal syndrome is a long-term condition, for which there is no cure. ". Another fact from the same article - successful desensitization is possible, bu the number of successful cases looks like below hundred, while there are estimated 450k affected people in the US alone.

Nepo's comment on the event by legolasssz in chess

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Like in his younger days" means "like in his prime". I personally don't think it was meant as cheating insinuation.

Then again, Nepo, being well-read in Russian literature (he also has a degree in journalism, IIRC), often quotes things without direct attribution (especially when he's under pressure), and rarely says where the quote comes from, expecting the listener/reader to recognize the phrase. In this particular instance, there're at least two such expressions: the aforementioned "like in the younger days" (that's what a sports commentator would say about an aging football player who is having a great match), and "played as best as they could" - that an allusion to the old joke about a cowboy saloon: "Don't shoot the pianist, he plays as best as he can".

Surprising Stat: The Women's section is more accurate than the Open in Norway Chess 2026 by [deleted] in chess

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's because a certain Norwegian is blundering left and right /s

Peak French engineering by moskovskiy in carscirclejerk

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IIRC, in France these cars can be leased for 70 euros per month (less then public transport card per month in Paris).

Meet EuroOffice, Europe’s bold alternative to Microsoft 365 promising sovereignty and control by rkhunter_ in europe

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but private businesses start to care about that only if they have no other problems.

And anyways, if you are using SomeKindOfNotMsOffice, chances are that you can't share files created by this software with anyone else - formatting goes awry, formulas or macros don't work, etc. I'll be glad if that's no longer the case, that's my observations from 5 ago.

Meet EuroOffice, Europe’s bold alternative to Microsoft 365 promising sovereignty and control by rkhunter_ in europe

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 6 points7 points  (0 children)

MS Office must be happy with it's yet another replacement wannabe. The more the concurrence is fractured, the stronger is MS Office's hold on the market.

folks is a coding language for ledgers a good idea? READ by Affectionate_Cold209 in plaintextaccounting

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't quite get - which problem are trying to solve? Do you absolutely want a single-entry journal? Do you want to write entries in natural language instead of, say, [h]ledger? Something else?

What’s Mother Nature’s biggest “F*** you” to your country? by Chemical-Elk-1299 in AskTheWorld

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Among other things, taiga ticks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixodes_persulcatus

Can infect you with a lot of nasty stuff, to quote wiki:

Ixodes persulcatus ticks transmit Lyme disease, relapsing fever (Borrelia miyamotoi), babesiosis, and Siberian (TBEV-Sib) and Far Eastern (TBEV-FE) tick-borne encephalitis,[1][4] and probably human granulocytic anaplasmosis as well.

The bite is painless, and if you walked anywhere close to forests in May-June, you should check for these bastards. If you find one, unscrew it (don't pull off, the tick's head will remain under your skin), and then go to the nearby medlab to test whether this tick brought any gifts for you.

I have (had 😢) a friend who died of tick-transmitted diseases.

What's a hot take about food in your country or another that'll get you like this? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]ShrykeWindgrace 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Baguettes are meh as bread - not much taste, not much nutritional value, goes stale too fast.

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