Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.
I’m under the impression that these sort of third-party warrants are often accompanied by a gag order. Which is why warrant canaries are a thing.
You say that as though he isn’t one of them.
One thing I always liked about slashdot is the ability to tag votes with things like “funny” or “informative”.
Indeed, friend citizen. Would you like some Bouncy Bubble Beverage?
Many cakes have some sort of filling between flat layers and are therefore sandwiches.
Charlotte royale is a calzone, tho.
Also “doctor” means teacher. The specific term for someone who practices medicine is “physician”.
Well, not always: Plural ‘they’ is a borrowing from Old Norse ca. 1200 AD, and the earliest attestation of singular ‘they’ is about a century later.
But, yeah, you’d think 700 years of continuous use would be enough to make it uncontroversial…
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard drives speeding down the highway.
First OS on a computer I personally owned? Windows 98. First Linux distro was Source Mage.
If not counting ownership, then Apple IIs at school and then slightly later my family got an Amstrad that was primarily a DOS machine, but could also boot (by switching floppies several times) to some sort of GUI.
That was actually Unix. Specifically the fsn file manager for IRIX.
There’s a Linux clone called fsv.
As far as any of those sites are concerned, I was born January first, [the earliest year they allow].
Pfft, catapults. A trebuchet can launch a 90kg advertisement over 300 meters.
He did specify a large 3D printer. So it might be 2 or even 3 feet in length.
It’s amazing how often things are similar to what they are.
First I misread the headline as “transgender cows” and then you’re in the comments talking about straight people insulin.
I think it’s time for bed.
Jojo Rabbit featured Jewish Maori Hitler and was very well received.
Ezekiel 23:20
“On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
—Charles Babbage, on his analytical engine, 1864