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Did not know this is an English word.
Wordle 289 5/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I knew the word and could recognize and understand it when written, but for the life of me I couldn't come up with that. Took me brute forcing and went over the word several times.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Must be derived from Indian languages. We have a similar word in Kannada indicating the same thing.
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We also have a similar word in italian indicating the same thing.
EDIT: I checked the etymology and it is indeed derived from Hindi. The Italian word is derived form the French one which is derived from Hindi. It's highly probable the English one derived from French too.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Indeed. I knew the word from Hindi/Urdu and of course could be adopted in English like many other words. I was surprised that it was part of dictionary now.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Surprised that so many people (well, 3 or 4!) here are not familiar with this word. I'd say I use it myself at least once a week during winter (less so in summer) and it does appear in plenty of English literature and historical TV series.
Anyhow, I managed today's in 4:
Wordle 289 4/6
🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟦🟦
🟧🟧🟧⬜⬜
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
(without first spotting @GregUtas giveaway  )
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Not everyone is a native speaker or lives in an English speaking country  Also in my country it's not particularly used as a clothing item, we tend to use scarves more than shawls.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Wordle 289 4/6
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 289 4/6
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟨🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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"It was $5." she said.
"What kind is it?" I asked.
"Ten-o-clock."
I didn't even take off my coat. I'll be going now.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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well, at least the fakes are pretty cheap these days
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These days, even a hearing trumpet costs more than that. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A conversation between three old codgers:
"It sure is windy today."
"No, it's Thursday!"
"I'm thirsty, too. Let's get a beer!"
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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2021-10-25 09:27:09,303:INFO:certbot._internal.renewal:Non-interactive renewal: random delay of 127.96103202454884 seconds Another example of ridiculous precision, particularly seeing the server that logged it would have trouble telling one nanosecond from the next...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Unless it's to do with stock trading?
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In 1 pS light would travel 0.3 mm. I'm certain that even stock trading computers aren't positioned with that sort of accuracy.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It's certbot renewing my letsencrypt host certificate. Runs every few weeks...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I think certbot is just using a standard[^] protocol with the NTP timestamp[^]. Just wait until you see the upcoming NTPv4[^] with femtosecond resolution.
David Mills wrote: "The 64-bit value for the fraction is enough to resolve the amount of time it takes a photon to pass an electron at the speed of light.
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I also get a smile from the geodetic calculations where the legally specified formulae extend to subatomic dimensions.
For example, see section 4.1 of GDA2020 Technical Manual v1.7 | Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping[^] You'd need to do a LOT of back and forth conversions to accumulate rounding errors approaching the claimed millimetre accuracy of the whole thing. But, hey, double precision numbers are cheap.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Heh,
Strange that you would bring this up. I worked extensively with GeoTrans for about 4 years back in the early 2000's when it was written in the C++ language. NGA rewrote it in Java many years later. I was working on vessel navigation and dynamic positioning software at the time.
The software is unclassified and available to the public if you want to play around with it:
NGA - Office of Geomatics[^]
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But some day, we may have servers with clock cycles in the attosecond* range. Think of it as "future proofing". 
(*) in devices smaller than 3000 angstroms...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Or someone using an int (128), and then a float.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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