I like how many kinds of leftovers can be given to chickens. The only limitation is that they have to get curious enough to peck at it. They’ll ignore some delicious shit on their regular food plate if it’s the “wrong” shape and color.

RNDr. Jiří Jarník, CSc. is basically a co-author with all these “(pozn. překl.)” and I think they greatly improved it. I don’t think there’s any other translation of the book, so I’d say the ultimate version is Czech. It’s on my bookshelf too, no need to find scans online.

Here’s a fun question from the book, shortened and adapted for modern typesetting:

Jméno kterého matematika se skrývá v rébusu?
^πr
Řešení: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%4A%6F%68%6E%5F%4E%61%70%69%65%72

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I rushed out the basics, editing the comment now. I’ve already written the ownership part but got distracted with what is now below the line. Come back in a while.

That might have worked in a comic with established antropomorphic animals, otherwise “goose at a typewriter” must be the joke or part of it.

The photos are the contents of the “CV” and “Reports” (basically resume and qualifications) folders she brought.

Per TV Tropes on Jucika:

This strip references the comic’s change of ownership [trope page] from Érdekes Újság to Lúdas Matyi, presenting Jucika as a job-seeker trying to prove her qualifications to the titular Matyi and his goose [trope page].

Looks true, except “change of ownership” is definitely not what happened, Wikipedia says it happened after

in 1959, Érdekes Újság was merged with the Ország-Világ magazine

so the party was doing media restructuring, and Lúdas Matyi became the only explicitly satirical periodical allowed (and very popular as a result). This is the first Lúdas Matyi Jucika strip, marking the transition to color. Don’t ask me what kind of contract Pál Pusztai signed or how much say he had, I’m neither Hungarian nor have lived before 2000. And Hungarian is Hungarian to me, the only bits I recognize are új = “new” and ország = “country”, plus Erde is “Earth” in German so perhaps Érdekes Újság is “World News”? (Edit: No, “Interesting Newspaper”) My qualifications are basically just knowing basic research techniques and the xkb Combine key for diacritics.

See also Wikipedia: Mattie the Goose-boy

I really like how the boy looks in the third image, reminds me of the 1973 Polish popular math book Przez rozrywkę do wiedzy: Rozmanitości matematyczne (“Science through Fun: Mathematical Curiosities”) by Stanisław Kowal (no illustrator credited so presumably also him), inspired by Martin Gardner, which I’m very nostalgic for as one of my first “nerdy” books.

I’m sure this was a reasonably common style but I haven’t read that many books from that era that used this kind of printing press so this is the reference you get.

The book’s not as good as Ian Stewart’s similarly-titled 2008-9 collections, there’s some tedious exercises (optional, obviously, but “here are factorials of 1 to 20, will you please fill out 21-25 if you’re good at calculating” feels like overly cheap content), but the translator did a great job, his notes are like 10% of the text.

bring new, powerful features to users

Everyone’s a power user when the feature requires 10 GW

Right now, some MAGAt is replicating this plumbing to own the libs

It’s 18 MB because it’s GIFs, about 16 frames each… at least the palette of is optimized by panel. There is some charm to the dithering as opposed to DCT (JPG/WebP block) artifacts. Also, she only started using WebP in 2021, it wasn’t viable much earlier. Technically, the static background and low-color foreground could be separated (JPG + GIF with very small palette, maybe rotated to compress streaks horizontally (GIF uses basic lossless LZW compression of the palettized image that handles high run length very well); too early for APNG) and overlaid with CSS to achieve about the same signal-to-noise ratio at about one half to one third the size. However, the noise would be different…

The falling drops that indicate loading of each image are very cool but I wonder if something similar, plus the fade-in of all images at once, could have been done with just HTML and CSS, broadening accessibility to noscript users.

There are actually two interpretations of N/A:

• N/A (not available): There is lost media so it can’t be evaluated.
• N/A (not applicable): The show is in sign language so evaluating that is outside the scope of this string-matching program.

Meanwhile, undefined seems to mean the value has not yet been evaluated. Maybe null is really the best.

There are different kinds of non-number “values” for numeric variables. Is this ∞, Overflow, NaN or N/A?

There are viable stations that literally just play random songs from a playlist, jingles and ads so the bar is really low

I’m afraid “Watch Streamer Get Swatted” is a saturated market. Likely breaking the age record may help though

Watch an Automobile Drown Embarrasingly also works but I like how you conveyed that shit is being dipped

Edit: Wager on Amphibianism, Die Early

Lake? If he actually wanted to wade he’d try a ߓord.

It stands for Water-Assisted Destruction Experience and worked perfectly.

Teach good debugging practices early

I deliberately redirect Shorts to the default desktop player. And it’s more like 3 seconds in my experience, Grayjay takes way longer at 10-15 seconds.

Factory jobs are 6-14 and 14-22 (and 22-6 if there’s a rush), and office jobs usually 7-15, including a 30-min break. Then there’s the service sector, depending on when the shop opens…

Luxembourg has free transit and now everyone can ride without any ID, not just those who used to pay for single, full-price tickets plus paper ticket surcharge. Of course digital services are different but it’s clear there is an ulterior motive (besides subsidizing an unethical industry).