Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?
Do you also believe that the Democratic Republic of North Korea is a democracy just because the name says so?
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.
It wouldn’t even change the difficulty, really. You’d just wind up multiplying or dividing by 9/10 instead of 9/5.
There’s a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California that is nearly 5000 years old.
Well, it is where everybody gets off…
As Norwegian race driver Petter Solberg once said, “it’s not the fart that kills you, it’s the smell”.
“Smell”, of course, being Norwegian for crash.
Depends on the distro. Some have a configuration setting to allow unfree software or not, others have separate repos.
A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:
They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.
*Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.
Get some of that lili p., yo!
—Jesse Frogman, Hopping Bad
Hell, there were still mammoths around when the pyramids at Giza were built.
Pygmy mammoths, on an island in northern Siberia, but still.
Does anyone know how to get from Penistone to Shitterton?
The thing that is absolute is a predicate of the form “if [axioms] then [theorems]”.
And the fun thing about if statements is that they can be true even when the premise is false.
You say that as though he isn’t one of them.
Yeah I’ve definitely heard “up to [amount] or more” used in advertising. Which is just completely meaningless.
apropos
is also helpful if you want to do something but don’t know what the relevant tools are.
I think it’s because that’s the more distinctive part of her name. “President Harris” sounds kind of generic, like the fictional president from an action movie.
It may start to constitute a pattern that the same was true of Hillary Clinton, though in that case it was likely that just saying “Clinton” might cause confusion with Bill.
Also Bernie Sanders is mostly referred to by his first name, so…
Yeah, same tune, originally by Samuel Barber. Homeworld used the choral version, Agnus Dei.
Just to note: Marie Curie’s lab books cannot be handled without protective gear and are stored in lead containment boxes because of all the new chemistry she discovered.
Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you think, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.