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Some Unicode miscellaneous symbols and pictographs exist in two variations: a text style and an emoji style. The two are distinguished by the presence of U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 for text style and U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 for emoji style (it's not clear to me which is the “default” or whether this even means anything).

For example, ☠︎ (U+2620 SKULL AND CROSSBONES followed by U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15) is a text style “skull and crossbones” whereas ☠️ (U+2620 SKULL AND CROSSBONES followed by U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16) is the corresponding emoji.

(Typically, the emoji style will display in color whereas the text style will display in black and white, but I'm not sure this i

So, I'm trying to remember the title and author of a short story that I read in the late 1980's (so of course it must have been written before this).

This is the gist of the plot as far as I remember it:

In some big American city (maybe New York or Chicago), a mafia boss, who had become embattled with other mafia bosses, gets killed. According to his wishes, all of his money, which is an absurdly large amount, will be given to whoever comes to pay his respects to the body. But everyone is afraid of the other mafia bosses (the ones who had him killed), so nobody comes.

In a separate plot line, an old lady has recently moved in to the city with her son and daughter-in-law. She feels lost

L'article R412-34(III) du Code de la route français dispose :

La circulation de tous véhicules à deux roues conduits à la main est tolérée sur la chaussée. Dans ce cas, les conducteurs sont tenus d'observer les règles imposées aux piétons.

Comme la totalité de ce code, c'est super mal écrit, limite incompréhensible, et techniquement ni fait ni à refaire. (En tant que logicien, en lisant ça, je conclurais qu'on n'a juste pas le droit de le faire, puisque « les règles imposées aux piétons » c'est justement de ne pas circuler sur la chaussée, donc on est en train de dire qu'on a le droit de faire quelque chose en obse

I'm currently running Firefox 133.0b9 and I'm trying to get URLs to display in monospace font in the URL bar and the dropdown menu suggesting completions. I was able to achieve the former, but not the latter.

My userChrome.css currently contains the following non-comment bits:

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* set default namespace to XUL */
#urlbar {
  font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Andale Mono", FreeMono, monospace !important;
}
.ac-url-text {
  font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Andale Mono", FreeMono, monospace !important;
}
.urlbar-input-box {
  font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans 

This Firefox bug has been annoying me for a long time: but since it seems to occur only under very specific circumstances, before I try bug-reporting in to Mozilla, I'd like to check if I can find other people who experience it, so as to maybe get a clue of what might be causing it, and file a more useful bug report.

When we right-click on a page under Firefox, this opens up a context menu (with actions like back, forward, reload, bookmark, and entries like “Save Page As…”, etc). This menu normally appears slightly to the right of and below the mouse cursor where the click occurred — at least this is what happens when I open a new Firefox instance, and this is what makes the most sense

My phone is a Pixel 8a (“akita”) running LineageOS 21 (lineage-21.0-20240828-nightly-akita ≈ Android 14) with MindTheGapps-14.0.0-arm64-20240612_135921 also installed. As far as I can tell, all Google apps work fine, including, for instance, Google Maps.

However, for some reason, the Google Play Store thinks Google Earth is incompatible with the phone: the app does not appear when I search for “Google Earth”; and if I open the link directly in the Play Store, it tells me “this phone isn't compatible with this app”.

But this is a lie: I tried installing (using adb install-multiple) the .apk files of Google Eart

Comme c'est quelque chose qui revient souvent dans ce subreddit, je propose d'essayer de compiler une liste de questions qu'on devrait poser à une auto-école avant de s'inscrire chez eux pour préparer le permis A1 ou A2 (surtout si on est en train d'essayer de comparer plusieurs moto-écoles).

N'hésitez pas à proposer des additions à cette liste !

• Où est situé leur plateau, s'il est partagé avec d'autres auto-écoles, combien d'élèves s'en servent en même temps, combien de pistes il a.

• Question peut-être anecdotique mais pas tant que ça : si les séances de plateau durent longtemps (genre, 3h), est-ce qu'il y a des toilettes à proximité (ou est-ce que c'est à un endroit où on peut faire

I'm about to (try to) install¹ Lineage OS on a Pixel 8a (“akita”). The installation instructions here tell me that I should flash the boot, dtbo and vendor_kernel_boot partitions. But the build download page here has image files for four other partitions: init_boot, super_empty, vbmeta and vendor_boot, so I'm confused if their absence from the installation instructions is an omission, or whether flashing them is optional, or whether they should not be flashed, or what.

More generally, I'm curious to know what each of these partitions is

The analogy between the trial and execution of Charles I of England and those of Louis XVI of France raises the question of how the protagonists of the latter saw the former as a possible model — or counter-model.

I was reading this interesting article by Aurore Chéry, “Louis XVI et l'ombre portée de Charles I^(er) d'Angleterre dans la France du XVIII^(e) siècle” (in: Chopelin & Édouard, ‘Le sang des princes’), which discusses the question from the king's perspective (to summarize: there is some reason to doubt the story according to which Louis XVI himself had translated the account of Charles I's death from Hume's ‘History of England’

(I hope I've come to the right place to ask this sort of things.)

Dainese jackets and pants have a zip fastener system to attach one to the another in order to provide better protection at the hips.

I used to think they had the same zipper size on all of their products. (I have two Dainese jackets and two pairs of Dainese pants, and they are mutually compatible in every way.) But I just discovered that this is not the case:

I just bought a two-piece Avro D2 suit from Dainese, and, to my surprise, discovered that the zip is different and incompatible (the teeth are larger and more widely spaced apart) from that used on the products I already have. This is very annoying because I had boug