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Proof at last! I always felt that the chimney sweeps seemed way too happy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I-b_GJ4ltk

Yes, I demand full and final information about what the heart attack I am currently suffering is going to cost me to be treated at this hospital. If I think you are trying to extor…

Still no IPv6.

Clock arithmetic. Modulo 4: a clock with only four evenly-spaced marks on it. 17 is congruent to 1 (modulo 4) means: Starting at the top of the clock, go clockwise one mark. Starti…

Genuinely surprised that someone applying for an internship at NASA does not know who Homer Hickam is.

Looks like Carbon to me. In other words, fake. https://carbon.now.sh/

1. Playing World of Warcraft all day, every day. 2. Stop.

KeePassXC and Dropbox "just works," and it works on Windows, macOS, Linux, *BSD, Android, iOS, ... Dropbox can be swapped out with other storage services.

Your transactions are recorded in the ledger FOREVER. Are your addresses going to stay private forever? Are you sure?

There are two certainties in software development: 0. A new technology will arise and it will be named 'X' 1. Eventually someone will write an article titled 'X Considered Harmful'…

If companies had to give a penny to Sun for every device which used Java, nothing would be written in Java.

What? Oracle threatens to sue people who use the word "Java" without paying them. GNU would very much like you to use "GNU" to recognize the contributions of GNU software in provid…

I think we should rename it to anything else which starts with the letter 'J' and ends with 'Script', or can be initialised as 'JS'. Anything else is a non-starter, because we're n…

Good.

I was far more concerned about the application of AI to healthcare. Did they not think about the possible abuse from telling hospitals or insurance companies which of their patient…

Michael Abrash's assembly optimizations for the Quake engine.

But can the interpreter interpret itself?

They're not lost. Eth and Thorn are still in use in Icelandic.