The worst was when someone left for vacation without releasing their file locks.

The man can get his country into NATO, I’d say he has earned his retirement.

Point taken.

It’s not like Russia is going to issue press releases on its troop deployments.

Only Mac OS 10 and later, based on BSD, uses ‘/‘. (And, I guess, A/UX.) Classic MacOS used a ‘:’, but it wasn’t regularly exposed in the UI. The only way most users would know is that the colon couldn’t be used in a file name.

I first learned about Von Braun from the movie October Sky, where four boys in a 1950’s coal mining town start building model rockets; they look up to NASA’s chief rocket engineer.

Voyager’s computer, at least, works on quaternary (4 state) data rather than binary (2 state) data. They keep referring to data storage quantities in quads rather than bits or bytes.

They’re able to recycle 93% of the water on the station. The leftover high concentration waste water, along with the poop bags, are loaded into a Progress or Cygnus cargo ship that burns up on reentry.

Trump was right about one thing, we are a nation in decline, but it’s not for the reasons he’s claiming.

Ok, and what do you think the memory managers were written in?

When it comes to vacuums, don’t cheap out. A good one will last a lifetime.

It fits, English and JavaScript are both three languages in a trench coat.

Some dev was very happy when they figured out how to get work to pay for their trip to the furry convention.

Reminds me of a passage from my favorite Discworld book, Night Watch.

“I didn’t think you was stupid, Mister Vimes…”

“What?” said Vimes, looking down suddenly. Carcer was smiling cheerfully.

“I said I didn’t think you was stupid, Mister Vimes. I know a clever copper like you’d think I’d got two knives.”

“Yeah, right,” said Vimes. He could feel his hair trying to stand on end. Little blue caterpillars of light were crackling over the ironwork of the dome, and even over his armour.

“Mister Vimes?”

“What?” Vimes snapped. Smoke was rising from the weathercock’s bearings.

“I got three knives, Mister Vimes,” said Carcer, bringing his arm up.

The lightning struck.

I know Jenny’s number, but I forget the area code.

I swear the people in unit 402 are illegally subletting their place on AirBnB.

My Precious.

Jokes are less funny if you have to explain it, but if you need it…

There are people born after 9/11 that can now legally drink. By Christmas, there will be people born after The Return of King was released that can drink.

Air BnB is destroying the housing market in my area. That said, it’s exposing a demand for something that doesn’t otherwise exist. In addition to hotels, people also want to be able to rent larger spaces, with a kitchen so they don’t have to eat out every night, and multiple bedrooms so the adults don’t have to go to bed at the same time as the kids. Hotel developers should be taking notes.