Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.
Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
It’ll be interesting to see if they try this with Northern Ireland next. Politically a bit more of a hot, well, er, maybe “potato” isn’t the best choice of word in this instance, but as far as sharing a land border with an EU nation goes, it could smooth over a few problems that Brexit created in that part of the Isles.
Surely you jest. Gates has almost nothing to do with Microsoft these days, let alone interface design. In fact, he’d probably be the one to roast any stupid design decisions if he was still active there.
Celery - at least what I get from my local supermarket(s) - definitely has a whole spectrum of flavour, so I wouldn’t agree with anyone saying it doesn’t have any.
“Vodka-like” isn’t an adjective I’d use either, but for me the spectrum runs from bitter and almost urine-like to sweet and mild (but unmistakably still celery), so maybe there’s something in there that’s reminiscent of vodka for some people. I should note that this can apply to stalks on the same root as well. Younger/inner shoots tend to be sweeter, but that’s not a hard and fast rule.
I think there’s a personality anti-correlation that keeps this mostly exclusive.
Serial killers tend to be more outgoing and active (to a troubling degree), whereas coders who create their own languages tend to be indoors types who don’t mind sitting in one place for long periods.
I mean there are plenty of psychologies that could make for someone who does both, but it would seem to reduce the odds a lot.
Yeah. They took benefits from working age people with physical and/or mental health problems to pay for it. I’m kind of glad I got rejected in the first place for the one they’ve cut, because that probably means I would have been one of those to lose it and it would have severely messed me up.
Am I annoyed anyway? Yes. But I try to remind myself that the current administration inherited a financial black hole.
Keeping the old folks onside might prevent them from voting for the fascists the next time around. Assuming they’re willing to forgive the slight, anyway.
Wiktionary’s page for ‘olive’ has translations of a number of meanings into many, many languages.
“France considers requiring Musk’s X to get users to lie about their age”
FTFY
reset is your friend. Less so these days with GUIs where it’s often quicker to close the window and open a new terminal emulator, but still good to know about in a pinch. That rare occasion where you’re actually on a console and Ctrl-Alt-F# isn’t available, or attached to a remote session where disconnection might mean you can’t get back on, etc.
The man page suggests Control-JresetControl-J as the correct sequence to run it, because the Enter key might have had its behaviour altered. And if things are still slightly weird after the reset, run its parent tset.
Ah. The usually implicit topical “this” didn’t even occur to me because I thought, er, this, was about objects. $_ isn’t used for those in Perl.
I suppose there might be some parallels with the implicit nature of $_ in non-OO contexts in Perl versus this in OO contexts in Javascript, but, at least to me, that feels pretty tenuous.
As at least one nautically themed childrens’ book surely has it: C is for crab.
Coming at programming sideways feels more like a Haskell or Prolog thing, though.
At the time JS was created, Perl didn’t have a this. A lot of the docs and books suggested using $self but a reference to the object would be passed as the first parameter to all class methods and you assign that to any name you wanted.
It’s only very recently (as in the last year or so) with a new class system that Perl has hard-coded $self for that purpose.
In before this hotline is closed down or subverted.
That sounds like a use-case for a separate browser profile. That way when you reset everything you’re not affecting every other site you visit.
This is probably down to decimal versus binary unit prefixes. As far as I’m aware, RAM is almost always still power of two kibi-, mebi- or gibibytes, unlike more permanent storage, and it often gets the kilo-, mega- and giga- prefixes regardless.
In other words, if you mix up thousands and 1024s you can get 64×1024×1024×1000 (whoops) which is roughly 67 billion.
Left Bank Two by the Noveltones. Well known to British people of a certain age. It was used during the gallery section of an art-based TV show for children. The art was sent in by viewers.
It’s jaunty and relatively innocuous. Unless you hear it a few hundred times and then, well. Insert tortured screams here.
Urban Dictionary is your friend. The people described by those words tend to be the underprivileged if not also poorly educated people who turn to certain expensive fashion (and sports) brands along with a hard man (or woman) attitude to enhance their apparent status.
Frankly, I’d rather they spend their money and time on that than the other things similar groups also turn to, like drugs or nationalism. (Although in many cases it goes hand-in-hand, unfortunately, which only serves to amplify the hate from the rest of society.)
Not strictly true.
Perl’s default bitwise operators do differentiate between numbers and strings that look like numbers in a way that addition doesn’t*, and the readline/glob operator <> does different things depending on what (if anything) is between the signs.
There’s also the whole overload pragma for objects, which doesn’t affect default data types, but if you’re sufficiently perverse, you can define a String class that uses ‘+’ like JavaScript.
* in 2015, they added new operators so that those and the original operators don’t overload and have only one specific purpose if the bitwise pragma Edit: feature is turned on. You might know all this already though.
“TT” probably already smells bad. Unlike most(?) people who (as is the rumour) wear incontinence pants, he doesn’t seem to be the kind of person who would be level-headed about it if someone were to point it out.
You’re right. I’ve got too much Perl on the brain and forgot my roots. There is a language that does what you’re talking about with the ‘+’ operator: BASIC
Good luck getting the same thing retrofitted into JavaScript though. I can imagine a large number of websites would break or develop mysterious problems if this (mis)behaviour was fixed.
A promising start, but a thousand transistors at 25 kilohertz puts it where silicon tech was 60 years ago, so they’ve a long, long way to go.
If it scales, they can use modern tech and know-how to accelerate their progress and they can get funding, maybe this will be viable in a decade or so.