“I hope there’s pudding”

Marques Brownlee posted the video Meta Quest Pro’s Passthrough mode 👀 on YouTube that shows a view through the Meta Quest Pro with a virtual multi-monitor setup. A few years earlier the augmented reality company Meta (not related to the company formerly named Facebook) announced the headset Meta 2 in 2016. They wanted to get rid of most of the company’s computer monitors and replace them with the Meta 2. (See the TechCrunch video Meta 2 is Making Augmented a Reality on YouTube to get an idea....

The F in GIF stands for Format. And for many years this meant the data format. 0000000: 4749 4638 3961 a000 5000 e7ff 0064 7082 GIF89a..P....dp. 0000010: 6770 7d66 6f99 6d6f 8f67 7284 6a71 8a64 gp}fo.mo.gr.jq.d […] 0000320: 21fe 1f43 7265 6174 6564 2062 7920 5374 !..Created by St 0000330: 6566 616e 2053 6368 6f6c 6c20 2d2d 2043 efan Scholl -- C 0000340: 4330 0021 f904 090a 00ff 002c 0000 0000 C0....

parseInt(0.0000005) // --> 5 JavaScript converts the first parameter to parseInt() to a string with ToString() that looks the same for 0.5 to 0.000005. But 0.0000005 gets represented by "5e-7" (= 5 × 10-7). And there’s the 5.

You are playing Wordle and having a hard time finding a 5-letter word? There are 5883 of them in /usr/share/dict/words: $ egrep '^[[:alpha:]]{5}$' /usr/share/dict/words | sort -fu | wc -l 5883 In combination with an old Perl script random #! /usr/bin/perl -w srand ($$ ^ time); $i = rand($#ARGV +1); print $ARGV[$i]; you can make the first move: $ random `egrep '^[[:alpha:]]{5}$' /usr/share/dict/words | sort -fu`; echo likes Aim for a common word without repeating letters....

Instead of adapting the old layout to modern times, I preferred to change the software again and use a ready-made template. No, I don’t think that saved me time. But at least that’s how I got to know Hugo.

Most people are able to read and understand text, even if it is all gibberish. The first and last letter need to stay the same as the correct spelling. The letters in between can be ordered any way and it remains readable. See: Most poplee are able to read and userdatnnd txet, even if it is all gibsierbh. The fisrt and lsat letetr need to stay the same as the ccorert sllpieng....

Had to change the blogging software again. Blogger isn't offering FTP publishing anymore and I was searching for months to find a fitting solution. In the end I "just" wrote a new blogging software for myself. I have no intention in publishing it, because there are so many blogging engines out there, that you don't need another one which only barely fits your own requirements. Lessons learned: You can't rely on any free service on the net....

So, the LHC is on the news again. If you have missed it last year, don't miss it this time: Large Hadron Rap

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