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letsgo,

Oh I dunno. You should take a look at Sir Humphrey’s monologues some time.

letsgo,

No but if you’re a vegan you can’t have the stuff out of animals; you have to make your own.

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Oops I thought you were going to be ragging on an early jazz genre.

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It’s likely seen the image before. Try randomising the image, reversing some of them, altering the gamma, and adding some noise. See how it does then.

letsgo,

Well in theory it makes you more mobile (if you want/need to move for some reason): just give your landlord notice and move out. Whereas selling can take an indefinite amount of time.

letsgo,

Yeah but when you’re young and stupid you have this idea that some slightly less young people are “old”. I remember when I was young and stupid thinking someone who was 18 was “old”.

The thing to look forward to is when these kids’ music starts getting played on “golden oldies” radio channels.

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Don’t Fuck With Paste - for all those stupid websites that think pasting my email address from my clipboard extender (Ditto-cp) is somehow unreliable.

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You think rubbing sticks starts a fire, but in reality it’s the worms that start the fire with their Annelid Magick.

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USB beats HDMI hands down. Ever heard of HDMI Superposition? No, me neither.

(I just DuckDuckWent it to be sure.)

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For simple tasks you don’t need CLI. Most GUIs implement basic workflows and do a reasonable job at it (obviously not counting the ridiculous amount of time Windows needs to “compute space requirements” while deleting an empty directory. Seems it’s more important to get that little popup on screen and run the animation a few times than actually doing the job).

It’s when you get past the basics that CLI comes into its own. Those grindy things you do in Windows clicking one thing at a time? Glue a couple of commands together in the CLI and it’s done in a tiny fraction of the time.

letsgo,

Do they have to be antipodal? If we imagine a clock face overlaid over an image of the earth, if a meteorite strikes vertically (i.e. parallel to the 12-6 line) at 11, could it result in a bulge at 7?

letsgo,

It’s jumps, not jumped, otherwise there’s no S.

And I also prefer the sphinx one.

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For centuries. Justification: Jesus was dead for three days: from Friday afternoon (3pm?), day 1, through Saturday, day 2, and into Sunday early morning (6am?), day 3. Total elapsed time 39 hours. Digital computers were around last century (19xx) and this century (20xx), which is two centuries by the same logic. Also two millenia, but I find “centuries” a more satisfying word. Colossus went into operation in 1943, so that’s 80 years elapsed time.

letsgo,

They’ve been doing this for literally centuries.

I think it started out with a rare case of honest advertising. So for example 720K floppies were advertised as 720K. But then some lying bastard clever marketer decided to start advertising their 720K floppies as 1MB floppies, sometimes but not always marked “unformatted capacity”.

And of course this had the desired effect of making people buy their disks instead of the honestly marketed ones, because people didn’t read the small print and thought they were getting more storage, which was important before CDs were a thing and software distributions were starting to need multiple disks. So everyone had to start doing it.

This is as far back as my memory of the practice goes, so it may have started before 720K floppies were mainstream, but that’s why disk manufacturers now advertise the unformatted capacity of their drives instead of the formatted, aka usable, capacity.

letsgo,

That’s not what half-life means. Half-life comes from radioactive decay and is the time for half the atoms in a sample to decay. After half the atoms have decayed it takes another half-life for half the remaining atoms (a quarter of the original sample) to decay. There’s some fancy maths you can do to convert a sample size of 85 million with a half-life of 75 years into the time it takes for the last atom to decay but at an estimation of about 27 half-lives that’s 2025 years.

Maybe that’s the real problem with boomers: their multi-thousand year lifespan!!

letsgo,

I keep thinking it’d be a good idea to patent a hand dryer that points the detector in one direction and the blower in another, such that to switch it on you have to move your hands out of the air stream, and to switch it off you have to move your hands into it. Your hands get dry not by the blower, but by the action of moving your hands to and fro between the detector and the blower.

Nobody would object or claim prior art because that would put them on record as directly admitting their products are shit.

Then sue everyone whose hand dryers do exactly that. I’d make a killing.

letsgo,

Or, when it looks like you no longer have a choice, click Back and you will then be given that choice.

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Elsan Blue

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Not sure if you read your history book (the Bible), but he brought seven pairs of clean animals and birds (Gen 7:2-3).

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Don’t know. I haven’t found them yet.

letsgo,

Weleathe Wiker!

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Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris.

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Caaesar ad sum iam forte. Brutus adarat. Caesar sic in omnibus. Brutus sic in at.

letsgo,

Ideally it should be one of those irregular language thingies: someone who suffers from aibohphobia must be cibohphobic.

letsgo,

Only if they don’t claim they’re an expert.

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