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I overslept by an hour this morning.
On the other hand: When (/if) I wake up at the proper time tomorrow, the daylight will give me a feeling of morning rather than mid-day 
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"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly-so." -- Douglas Adams
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Quote: A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
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But I did loose an hour last night, from 02:00 to 03:00! Who should I go to complain to? Darwin isn't around any more.
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Have you checked behind the fridge?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I totally agree ... I prefer to stay in UTC+1 all year.
I think that everyone is tired of complaining about these dancing clocks ...
We need to do better
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My proposal is that we all stay in UTC. All of us, all over the world. That would simplify international contacts (and even national ones, in large countries spanning several time zones). OK, so I would set my alarm clock at 05:00 rather than 06:00. People in other parts of the world will get out of bed at 02:00 or 17:00, so what? There is no rational reason for everyone calling it 06:00 when they wake up, considering that it has 24+ different interpretations across the world.
If you feel that you have to call you wake-up time the same as the wake-up time of someone in a different part of the world, it must be because you have some communication with that fellow. In that case, a lot more problems are solved by having one unambiguous, common time reference.
In international dialogs, you have to relate to a lot more than the time zone anyway. I live in UTC+1, but if I want a net meeting with some English (i.e. UTC+0) guy, I should consider him two hours behind us: While standard working hours around here are from 08:00 to 16:00 (UTC+1), the Englishman cannot be expected to be available before 10:00 (UTC+1); standard British working hours are 09:00 to 17:00 (UTC+0).
If we could agree on UTC all over the world, we should in the same reform abandon this a.m./p.m. mess and completely switch to 24 hour format.
I have no realistic hope about this becoming a reality (even though China went from 5 to 1 time zone without much problems). People are so ingrained with getting up at 06:00 that they will refuse to change it to, say, 02:00 even if the sun is just as high on the sky as before. 02:00 is not long after midnight, and no one can persuade me to get out of bed at that time, no matter what the sun says!
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It didn't last long - the keytops were wearing away really quickly, 'A', 'S'. 'CTRL', 'SHIFT', '->', and '<-' were gone completely, and many others were only readable if you knew what they started out as. And when Dij pushed my coffee into it ... it was time for a change.
And last months discussion lead me to ... a DAS Keyboard 4 (MX Blue). And it's lovely.
All clicky and feedbacky, the key legends look like they'll last and the think exudes quality - from the moment you pick it up and realise it's made of actual metal instead of cheap plastic.
I find myself stroking the volume control, it just feels so good. My only criticism is the LED's: my word but they are bright! If you lean forward at the wrong angle you get a "blind spot" in your vision for a few minutes, and if you turn the lights out you get a blue circle on the ceiling bright enough to read the keyboard legends by ... 
I'm back to cherry switches again: my first lasted me over 20 years, and it was a cheapy!
This isn't, not even close - I've never spent this much on a keyboard before. Worth it though - so "Thank you" to everyone who recommended the company last month! 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I wish I could find more information about the DEC LK471-A2 -- when released etc.
It's a very nice keyboard, has been serving me well for some years now.
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My Das 5QS is love. It doesn't use cherrys and I think the lighting is different than yours.
It uses.. Omicron? Zulu switches and they have little fiberoptics in the middle of each one to transmit light to the key cap's letter/symbol (not the rest of the key)
It is not overly bright. In fact, in daylight conditions it looks pretty much painted on (except my media buttons which are backlit). At night it's not overbearing at all, just giving me enough light to where i don't have to squint at the home row in the wee hours. I use it at night, in my bedroom while himself is sleeping, so it's not overly bright.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I don't like illuminated keyboards - they look too much like "haxorz" in a movie for my taste - that's why the 4 rather than the 5: all I have are num lock, caps, and scroll lock lights. I may have to put a thin layer or two of black paint on them ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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The Das 5QS are all and individually programmable, so you can turn them off. However, since they are double injected molded, with clear plastic forming the letters, it really requires some amount of light to be able to see the keys, even in daylight conditions.
For my part, I spent good money to keep my computer I built from being lit up like an out of season christmas tree, which seems to be all the rage these days. I understand about lighting. I feel much the same way. That having been said, I can only describe the Das 5QS reasonably lit letters/symbols as "pleasant" and "functional" - particularly since I can also change them. I have things set up so my homerow is a different color for quick access. I also have some of my keys tied to a CPU usage meter but I don't use it in practice. I just thought it was neat. The only reason I don't turn it off altogether mind you, is they don't "look" lit, at least in the daytime, and at night, it's only just enough to be pleasant. There's no bleed to your desk (except from the sides of the keyboard, which you can turn off)
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I really don't understand the need to put LED's in everything these days - what possible use was there for LED's in my headphones?* 
* The use of past tense was deliberate here, they were "persuaded" to no longer emit ... 
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I have a small piece of note paper covering the three LEDs on my keyboard. The lights are only ever on when I hit a wrong key anyway.
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Quick fix: Take a course in Touch Typing 
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Last time I touched my typist I nearly got arrested.
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OriginalGriff wrote: 'A', 'S'. 'CTRL', 'SHIFT', '->', and '<-' were gone completely
You've done well. My keyboard hasn't had W, E, R, T, I, O, A, S, D, F, G, K, L, C, V, N, M, < or > for years. Actually that was a useful exercise, hitting all the "blank" keys - I was wondering what some of them did.
Really limits my choices for variable names though, especially since I've not seen a vowel (except U) since 2019. 
And there's a long key at the bottom that I don't think ever was labelled in the first place...
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Lempel gone on the 4th of February, and Ziv just yesterday, on the 25th of March...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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Eh ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"Prof. Abraham Lempel, Inventor of PDF & MP3 Compressions"
I never ever heard about Lempel being involved in MP3 development. So I checked Wikipedia on MP3: It names 6 developers, none of them being Lempel. "And others", says the list, with a link: "Lempel" is not found on the referenced page. Lempel certainly did not develop the primary, psychoacoustic (and lossy) compression method of MP3!
I also never heard of Lempel developing PDF, so I checked Wikipedia on PDF as well, including the "History of PDF". No mention of Lempel in either article.
The Wikipedia article on Abraham Lempel makes no mention of neither MP3 nor PDF.
Lempel and Ziv (and Welch) did some tremendous work in developing the most influential lossless compression algorithm of all times. The importance of this should most certainly not be underestimated or degraded.
The journalist's problem is that 95+ % of his readership has never heard of LZ77 or LZW. Thousands of formats use some LZW variant; Lempel cannot be credited for all of them. So, let me dig out a couple that are well known to common man, and attach Lempel's name to those! It doesn't matter if Lempel himself never even heard about those formats (well, he certainly did know both PDF and MP3!); the essential thing is to associate his name with something great!
So why didn't the journalist mention e.g. Microsoft .docx? Probably because the majority of the readership would refuse to believe it. You can make them believe that Lepel could take credit for MP3 or PDF, because they know very little about the development of those formats, so let's go for those rather than .docx!
Many (40+) years ago I read an informal study of major technical innovations, among them the car, telephone, radio and several others, and correlated the information in the major encyclopedias in the US of A, England, France, Germany, Italy (maybe others as well; I don't remember all the details): Which importance did each 'national encyclopedia' give to developers of their own country to the technology? To which degree did they downscale the contribution from persons of other nationalities? When presented side by side, the results could be described as 'hilarious'.
After I read this study, I always have been somewhat skeptical to any source trying to glorify beyond limits any person of its own nationality. Lempel doesn't need that! His work certainly was so great that it can stand on its own, without trying to give him credit for other format that he never touched, as a developer.
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The other one, Welch, (L Z W), is already gone in 1988.
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