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@duke_of_germany@mastodon.gamedev.place Way back in 2013, Fedora had a release codenamed “Schrödinger's Cat”, which led to a *TON* of incidental code fixes for stuff that broke in the presence of umlauts. Clearly there is still work to do.

@Natasha_Jay This is my very favorite library story. Thanks for reminding me!

@kfogel@kfogel.org If you were to ask the general public, I think the predominant answer would be no. But if you asked the sample set of people who follow Karl on Mastodon, I expect that probably more of us have read That Article, and would say yes. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/07/429720443/17-205-people-guessed-the-weight-of-a-cow-heres-how-they-did So I guess it depends who you asked.

@Natasha_Jay One of my favorite books is A Canticle For Leibowitz, and that’s basically the one-sentence summary of the book.

@andyb@mastodon.au This is literally the only “influencer” on the Internet which I watch regularly. Always worth it.

@preinheimer@phpc.social Oh, wait. Lilo was an orphan too.

@kfogel@kfogel.org The first article I read about this (which was, I think a couple of years ago) they had asked farmers to guess the weight of a cow, and so, yeah, they were actually kind of experts. But then that NPR article suggested it was just random people on the internet … although I suspect that some of those people had access to … y’know … the internet, to help their guess. :shrug:

@kfogel@kfogel.org Ooh. Fascinating. I missed that.

@preinheimer@phpc.social Paddington was an orphan too, you know.

@Elizabeth@piaille.fr @andyb@mastodon.au this guy: @elias_filmz?si=FEGVb7SjEj8JcMxV@youtube.com