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Naturally! Being able to use your tools how you want/what works best for you is fundamental in my opinion.

C-p and C-n (aka Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N) are the Emacs-style keybindings for previous (line) and next (line), very commonly encountered on the command line and in terminal applications.…

The Son of Altman decided that the most efficient way to get rid of all the bugs was to get rid of all the tokens, which is technically and extractively correct. — Gilfoyle

From what I understand about this story, the homeowner had the presence of mind to immediately attempt to preserve the meteorite, which is what made subsequent analysis possible. P…

Not to take anything away from Maridona's overall excellence, but his goal was 100% illegal, just none of the referees saw his handball. Underarm bowling was still allowed when thi…

As an American it has taken me nearly half a century of occasionally watching cricket to barely comprehend what that sentence means. I love it.

> As an aside, the most powerful F1 engine ever put on the track was made by modifying the little 4-banger m10 found in the BMW 2002. Fun fact. Supposedly BMW lacked a dyno that we…

More money & power than sense. Hubris, greed, malice, psychopathy. One, some or all of these combined in various proportions.

I'm not a graphic arts expert, but the lettering and charts in this presentation appear to be done by hand. And since this was an internal IBM presentation for salesmen and enginee…

Some anecdata: in the area I'm from in the northeastern US which has a large number of manufacturing/tool & die companies of all sizes, and with a large Polish diaspora, 80% of the…

Why not just `scp ~/.tmux.conf remotehost:`?

1.1.1.1 has 4 1’s, as in 4/1, as in April 1 (or so I assume).

PuTTY is absolutely available for Linux. On Debian-based distros it’s just a `sudo apt install putty` away. But why?

Two things come to mind: 1) if any arcing occurs, a metal enclosure will shunt to ground and (hopefully) trip a breaker; 2) in the event of an overload, plastic melts which might r…

Sadly, I have a family member who is susceptible to these types of scams. They’ve been duped too many times to count. They’re overly eager to believe they’re exceptional and that g…

Except for when the placement of the icon strip with the trashcan symbol changes to the bottom of the context menu because of the location of the context menu on the screen. Bonker…

> Imagine having to raise your arm to swipe, pinch and tap across an ultra-wide screen several times per minute. Touch works best on small surfaces, even if it looks impressive on …

According to the article, they were arms dealers.

Minor pedantic point—kelvin is the unit of measure of the Kelvin scale. There is no degree K, just K.

The protocol is called SpaceWire[0][1]. Not sure about the details of where sensors are located. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceWire [1]: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citatio…

Some history of The Milk: https://alum.mit.edu/slice/investigating-milk-mits-historic-...

I actually owned that book circa 1996 and used Kermit in a production system transferring files via dialup between a manufacturing facility in Mexico and their US-based headquarter…

The professor was bluffing [0]. Apparently it was deemed a random theft [1]. [0]: https://www.engadget.com/2005-04-25-laptop-thief-not-scared-... [1]: https://www.berkeley.edu/news…