My pet peeve is people cycling with a helmet but not doing it up. It’s so blatantly stupid- you get none of the benefits, and all of the negatives.

Ok I lost respect for you when you said ‘reading and righting’ but that line right there gained it all back and then some, well done!

My understanding is that cookies were generally just used as a fingerprint- it’s just a unique ID that is used to tie your device to their database, which is where the information is kept.

That’s very clear, thanks.

I’m guessing you’d have to search the database to make the index, right? To search for ‘gazter’ you’d have had to go over the whole dataset and assigned each entry with a starting letter value, and so on?

Largely ignorant, but data-curious person here.

…what?

I’ve got the fourth Sharma, I used points to get a large Austrian man to walk over the left side of my body.

It’s like spicy. If you aren’t from the country, take it easy.

For most foreigners, molecular-thin to start with.

I’m interested in why you chose the i5 for the automation, rather than the video server?

I’m no expert, but things like transcoding (or even just re-encoding) take a lot of grunt, which it seems the i5 would be good for.

The i3 would be good for more constant, lower power tasks like automation.

At least, that’s my thoughts, happy to be shown your reasoning…

They’re actually a pretty cool company- If you sent them an email clarifying their refund policy first, I’m sure they would refund you if it doesn’t do what you need it to.

Mint is not a version of windows.

But it’s a really heavy feather.

Oh jeez, I hadn’t even thought about capitalisation in the file extension. That would be especially confusing if extensions are hidden- the user would be presented with two files that look exactly the same.

Bunker.

Deep bunker.

Oooh, amazing! Do you use it? How mature is it?

But do I type ‘ImportantFile’, or ‘importantfile’?

As I understand it, if I searched for either of these strings in a case sensitive file system, I would not find a file called ‘IMPORTANTFILE’.

At best, a case sensitive file system makes naming conventions more complex. At worst , it obfuscates files. I just can’t imagine a scenario where it would be helpful. Do you really see a need to have a file called ‘aaaAaa’ and a totally separate one called ‘aaAaaa’?

So if someone tells me to look for a file amongst a long list, I need to look in two different areas- the uppercase and lowercase areas.

I get why it’s more technically correct to differentiate, but from the perspective of a human user, it’s a pain in the ass.

Ascending order implies going from low to high

If I have four files, a.txt, A.txt, b.txt, and B.txt, in what order do they appear when I sort alphabetically?

edit: I don’t understand why this was downvoted?

I’m somewhat familiar with the tech used to display those boards, and I think the most efficient way to remove them would be to pass the image through an AI taught to scrub them out. And I understand how grossly inefficient that is.

The other option would be to get a ‘clean feed’ of the broadcast before the ads get overlaid- while technically this would be relatively easy, contractually it would be difficult, as the event host is paid to put ads in the broadcast. You’d essentially have to pay more than the advertisers do. This will still leave you with the ‘traditional’ ads, the physical signage and stuff written on the turf, etc.

You could potentially pay the stadium to have these removed, and if you bought the teams competing you could remove advertising from jerseys.

If enough people paid for a subscription, there’s the possibility of an ad-free sports league. I shudder to think of the price, though.

That’s genius. Love it, I’m using it for sure. Thanks!