Yeah it’s the compact economy cars that are $30,000.

I hate that this is something I can point out, but:

third time *

Of course it’s the saunas, lol.

The border between Finland and Russia is 1,340km long. This has helped them become best of friends. They especially like to cuddle for warmth in the winter.

I think it’s less about genuinely caring at this point and more about it being a home-grown meme. Plus it’s perfectly designed to be popular around here because it directly involves individuals and you don’t have to lean on Star Trek, Linux, or even beans for it to get attention. Those three things are good, but people like variety.

My windows “partition” for work is just a single VM image that sits on one of my two Linux-formatted drives.

I bet there’s a strong correlation, at least among we olds, between the number of times one has installed Windows and the likelihood that they are now a Linux user.

That’s how we know that Linux is easier to install these days, for one.

All you need is another one of those global pre-processor directives! Then you’ll have commits that exactly match human output just like with the code itself!

Yeah, temperature is weird like that.

I’m an American, but one with an education and an appreciation for the one true system, SI, which is pretty close to metric.

Meters and kilograms make total sense to me, even if I’m conditioned to think in feet and pounds. But temperatures in Celsius just don’t click. I have to consciously try to remember some equivalent Fahrenheit values to get a feel for it.

If you told me the barometric pressure in Pascals I’d literally understand that more quickly, since I deal with pressure measurements and settings at work.

That’s basically the average the country is left with between the decent people and the tens of millions who voted for idiotic racist rapist fascism three times in a row.

It’s like a third don’t care, a third do care, and a third are enthusiastically in favor.

Someone set up us the Rust?

Iirc it was indeed designed to be terrible back in the day to protect bits on machines by camming out.

I have impact-driven thousands of screws into wood in my back yard in the past 18 months. Over 1,000 of them were 6" (15cm) big guys, along with tons of 2.5" (~6cm) and 3.5" (9cm).

Every last one was Torx / hexalobular / 6-point. When I bought hardware that came with free phillips head screws, I threw that shit away and used my own.

The “feature” that philips head brings to the table makes it worse for just about every use case other than “I own exactly one screwdriver and never want to get another one.”

Torx doesn’t HAVE to be the alternative. There are many good screw designs out there. It’s just that where I live, that’s the non-philips choice that dominates the market. Every store has a variety of choices for torx-driven construction screws.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I remember hearing a lot of references to “The Bicentennial.”

I dunno, that might be some immensely relieving news to hear, that all this is not true reality.

Ah yes, the workplace version of “it’s not cheating if they put it in the game!”

It’s a play on the “would a rose by any other name not smell as sweet” line from Romeo and Juliet.

And it was done in a playful joking way because if we assume there actually is a group that controls entities like CIA and mossad, referring to them by name doesn’t tell us much, and I wouldn’t expect a random commenter to actually know their name, if they even have one to begin with. Like, such a group would be well hidden and well informed and quite powerful.

What’s in a name? Would an Illuminati by any other name not smell as creep?

iirc, apt-get is the version to use in scripts. They keep the input & output consistent so that it won’t break things.

Regular old apt is for humans to use at the command prompt, and that’s what I use all the time.