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MLModern [0] is a thicker version of Donald Knuth's Computer Modern and the Latin Modern project, in case you are interested.

[0] https://ctan.org/pkg/mlmodern


One I like is the phrase "the tell-tale signs", which refers to a sailing boat's tell-tales. These are small strings attached to the sails to indicate if the sail needs to be trimmed for optimal performance.


I always just imagined that it was signs that tell a tale. And the online etymology dictionary seems to confirm that.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/telltale

>also tell-tale, "discloser of secrets," 1540s, from tell (v.) + tale. As an adjective from 1590s. Phrase tell a tale "relate a false or exaggerated story" is from late 13c.

Is it maybe that the nautical term comes from plain English?


Quite a lot of folk etymology tries to, incorrectly, assign nautical origins to common words and phrases. I used to read a column by an etymologist that jokingly referred to this using the term CANOE - the Committee to Assign a Nautical Origin to Everything :-)


"For those of you who aren't into watches (consider yourself lucky), watches can either be mechanical or quartz."

Not quite. There are other types of movement, for example the tuning fork movement first used in the Bulova Accutron:

https://electric-watches.co.uk/movement-types/tuning-fork/


Spring drive.


I really want to splurge on one, but the finances say no for now. Having one is my grail watch.


Indeed, which is some kind of mechanical-quartz hybrid.


In Austria, the price per kWh has quadrupled since May 2020, which is when I moved in to a new home. Unfortunately this [0] chart from my provider only goes back 12 months, but you can see even during this short time that the price increased from 5.81c per kWh to 12.43c per kWh, which is more than 200%. I checked some of my statements, and in May 2020 the electricity price was 3.13c per kWh, which represents an increase of about 397% compared to today's price.

[0] https://www.easygreenenergy.at/dam/jcr:a5800c50-948e-43e9-90...


Still cheap compared to Denmark. I'm not one for optimizing my electric bill, so I've probably got a fairly bad deal by paying between 27 c/kWh and 34 c/kWh. 75% of the electric bill consists of fees to the state anyway, it's quite ridicules.

The upside is that these fluctuations are kind of mitigated and smoothed out.


I remember having fun of two different bills one from transfer and taxes and one for power itself. The monthly fee for just having connection in apartment building in a town was more than what I paid for power it self... Not to even mention the taxes and fee for power transmission...


Yeah well these are the raw prices per kWh, there are also a lot of fees added by the state and the state run suppliers who provide the infrastructure. Pretty sure you can double whatever I have quoted for the actual per kWh prices.


In Italy we paid 13c/kwh o more for years.



That is hardly the point.


> That is hardly the point

What is the point?


OP has JavaScript enabled by default.


The firefox addon is now also maintained in the former repo :) It's a great addon indeed, it makes the internet still function.


dtrx - Do The Right Extraction. It's a tool "for Unix-like systems that takes all the hassle out of extracting archives": https://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/

In Debian/Ubuntu you can install via apt.

Also, I'd second tldr which has been mentioned here already. It provides simplified man pages which common usage examples that normally fit on a few lines on screen: https://tldr.sh/


Dtrx is awesome, but is unfortunately slowly dying, as the author seems to have abandoned it -- it can't be installed with pip anymore.

I think I'm going to take it over, just need a name...


Kdtrx: Keep Doing The Right Extraction


Yeah it looks rather unmaintained, but can still be installed via apt on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. So yeah should be fine for a few years to come if you are a Ubuntu user (the system I use, I have no idea about other distros).


tar xf <archive> works with all types of tar compressed files.


Nice project - just one bit of feedback, on a German keyboard y and z are swapped and it makes playing pretty difficult. Maybe alter it so that y or z can be used for A.

Edit: Also, the buttons are mapped the wrong way around. On a NES controller B is the leftmost button and A is the rightmost button.


Planning on adding a controls settings menu in the future. In the meantime i've made it so A also works by pressing Y


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