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@pony I see. Thanks. Maybe 1) I am too old to get it right away 🙂 , and 2) am very much used to these kinds of inscriptions around.

@pony ? bottom, bedrijf?

btw, read "bedrajf" in CZ.

I am just curious about what's the joke...

@TheStrugglingScientists I am not sure who advised this (Stephen King has a lot of useful advice on writing), but what worked always for me to overcome the procrastination/writer's block/however-you-call-it was to
1. set aside a consistent time every single day - say 2 hours of time
2. lock myself in the dept.'s library (or any other separate work room would do - not your office, nor home!)
3. disconnect from the Internet and phone, food and all other distractions
4. stare at the wall and see what happens

The idea is that writing is not only "writing", it's the whole context. And you need to spend time "writing". Whether you are really typing/scribbling/etc. is irrelevant, you can as well spend that time just staring at the wall, no problem, as far as that time is allocated to your thesis. My experience is clear: after a while of staring at the wall, you get so bored that writing the thesis actually feels like relief. So a bit by bit you start really writing. And once you start, it gets easier.

And also, one shouldn't strain themselves. 2 hours a day is just fine as far as you are consistent. Don't overdo, that would lead to this feeling of being invincible, which is exactly why we tend to leave important things for the last minute (because of the "hey, I've been there and done that" attitude).

Anyway, writing a book is difficult at first. And then it gets easier...

Good luck!.

@academicalnerd It's not childish.

@pony 🤦‍♂️ good one...

@pony I'd venture it's perhaps Romanian, in which case it would be an equivalent to a chocolate bar called "Czech". But yes, in a different country, it has different connotations.

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@piggo I am looking at that spec of yours, I wouldn't break my head about it. The address is optional anyway and if I understand it right also superfluous (why would you have server device being able to respond to multiple device addresses there?). If I were you, I would model it as a regexp like `/[^!]*!\r`, or something like that. But you are right, the spec is rather cryptic in this regard. My hunch is that they are trying to say that the device address is "unique" in its entirety, i.e., only one device can have that address and it cannot happen that multiple devices would have the same. Like a MAC address spec (while we all know they are not that unique in reality, but that is an implementation detail). But it's a very clumsy formulation for an IEC standard.

@piggo "and their combination may be used only once". I guess that's why the author needed to coin a new term here.

@piggo "light plotter" - maybe I should now invent it... 🤔

@johngiordano Whether something is a 1st amendment issue or not is something you'd have to sort out in you own country, such definitions are not and shall not be universal - different societies/countries and jurisdictions can decide as they see fit.

These milk substitutes certainly are very different from nutritional perspective and are produced differently. They just look and maybe perhaps taste similar (I do not know myself, I don't consume these things). As far as I know, in jurisdictions like EU, it's accepted and thus such products cannot be called "milk". It's a similar situation for instance between tea (as in black tea) and herbal infusions, which in many countries are also called and used as "tea" - but they are very very different drinks. Same for coffee vs chicory root products. EU regulates this sort of labeling quite strictly and I can see why. Whether US wants/ends up to do the same is up to them of course, and if they decide no to I also can see reasons why that shall be the case.

Finally, just to say, where I come from, in some parts of the society, you might have a very hard time to insist that water and vodka cannot be used interchangeably 😄 .

@maxroser

@maxroser Well, "milk". These are indeed very different substances so to be fair, the comparison shall be perhaps between various "breakfast drinks", then between "different milks". That water and vodka look the same and are consumed at similar occasions does not make them comparable foodstuffs, does it? And if we go the route of "breakfast drinks" than plain water, or tea, or herbal tea should be involved too... 🤔