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Why is ctrl-f broken?


Because it ignores diacritics. Searching for ā will find a, searching for š will highlight s. This may make sense for some languages where diacritics are used sparingly to indicate an aspect of pronunciation, but in my language and many others diacritics are used for entirely different letters. The letter ā is not a. Treating them as equivalent makes as little sense as treating e and o as equivalent would in English.

If I'm trying to find kāzas (wedding) in a page, I will get hits for kazas (goats). If I'm looking for šauš, a letter sequence that words about shooting begin with, I will also get hits in šausmas (horror) or sauss (dry). It's nonsense. Windows 3.1 notepad.exe could find the actual word I entered in a text file (though the input required setup), the dominant browser in 2025 cannot do that and finds entirely unrelated words because an English speaker has decided they're visually similar.


You can use a vibration sensor for the dryer.


I considered that, but the washer and dryer are stacked (limited space) so the vibrations of the washer would be picked up in a dryer vibration sensor.


Is that really a problem though? If you're washing another load at the same time as the dryer is running, wouldn't you generally want to wait until both are done anyways so you can swap the wash to the dryer after getting the dry load out?

Also at least in my experience the dryer takes longer to run than the washer, so if I've just rotated a previous load and started both at the same time I'm always waiting on the dryer to be able to do the next one.


Not always. I only put sheets and towels in the dryer, everything else gets hung up. So I may do two or even three washing loads in the time of a single dryer load (it can be very slow). So I'm much more interested in when the washer finishes than the dryer.


I tried that, and found dryers actually vibrate so little that most sensors have a hard time reliably detecting it.


You can use a vibration sensor on the dryer.


Any plans for power over Ethernet?


There exist little adapters that take in PoE and output power (and potentially networking) over USB-C.

Something like that could be employed to power this.


Compatible releases should replace older versions.

Why would you want to install an old version of ruff?


Because packages shouldn't be upgraded in a project until they have been tested. If you give me no way of downloading version 1.0 of a package in my project because 1.1 supersedes it and 1.1 breaks my project, what am I supposed to do?


>Why would you want to install an old version of ruff?

Because something else in your project is broken by the new version.


I'm against lead but I'm curious why people don't complain about brass?


That's a lot of lines going to the outdoor unit.

Is there two per indoor head?


It looks like that unit may have 3 indoor heads. Two lines per head. Power to each head. Power to the outdoor unit.


Looks like it. I'd suggest anyone looking at a system like that install at least 2 separate outdoor units. That way if one breaks the other can still work - and most of the year it will be powerful enough to handle the whole house (some rooms will be a little uncomfortable but bearable)


This is correct, 3 heads. One on each level of the house.


What is your podcast going to be about?


I have some open source Python projects that could use some help.

I have been working on a static site generator which uses Flask.

https://github.com/siecje/htmd

I have been learning trio (async Python library) by implementing beanstalkd.

https://github.com/Siecje/beanstalkd-asyncio


I wish I could disable shorts on Android.

I have a watch later playlist that I want to get through but I find myself scrolling on shorts.


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