Similar. I’d guess it was something like ctrl-z; ps -e vi; kill -9 procnum on a vt100 terminal.

ESR: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”

…because corporations are people? Blegh.

Whenever I try, I get Ravi Bhatia screaming “How can she slap?!”

You’re forgetting the pre-Web internet: 99% students & academics. It was largely awesome. When you did get trolled, it was by someone who could spell and form a cohesive argument.

This is what happens when you try to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

I’m inclined to believe this, but what I see is laughably bad. I’ve agreed with the premise of Sandy Hook Promise since before the Sandy Hook Massacre, yet they’ve been pounding me with ads for years. Every once in a while, I get a halfhearted “But Trump is pretty cool, isn’t he?” Which will never be clicked. And, when I watched a reaction channel do Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I got a shit-ton of “God hates fagz!” And was pretty glad to see them wasting their money on me.

Did he make you manually allocate all the space for food in your stomach before you started to eat?

“withdrew all ground troops” … “one brigade remains.”

Tell me, in detail, about Trump’s death and how MAGA disintegrated.

My experience in going from C to C++ was different: if you’re not converting everything from mallocs with custom addressing systems to the collections framework, you’re not living.

Three fiddy.

Aussie Pedo-Priest is all you need for a very dark horror-comedy.

Herzlichen glückwunsch zum geweedschlagenstag!

I’d say there was a period before reddit hit its pinnacle where Quora was significantly better. Probably more than 10 years ago, though, and only for a few years. I remember when I started spending more time on Reddit than Quora.

Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

It worked so well when they did the same thing for themselves and Ireland.

Basing your opinions on socialism on how Russia implemented it makes about as much sense as basing an opinion on Democracy on how Putin has implemented it.

There’s a good one in Cantonese I learned from Hong Kong movies. It translates to “Are you talking?” but the implication is “You’re making noise, but is that supposed to be human speech?” Lei guuung yeieh!?