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I'm afraid nobody (else) here remembers Control Data Corporation. But I'm happy to see the Centers for Disease Control using Postgres.

Browse Google Maps aerial view and look for the backup generators.

In the US , despite the .fr domain.

And be sure your outdoor cameras are on an isolated VLAN so people can't just plug in to your home network.

I have seen `int * w` in the real world. I'm sad now.

The reading of `char *p` is: The following things are `char`: `*p`.

> int *w; But some misguided style guides demand the misleading `int* w;`, and then act surprised by `int* w, x`;

>both the sun and the planet move around a common center which is near to the sun. Within the sun, with one exception.

Today is the 12021th of September 1993.

> telephony engineers (this was where ee excellence lived at the time) Same in the US. It's why computers live in 19-inch racks.

Here's another tip I picked up last millenium: If you're using a GUI and like decorating your shell prompt with information, format it like this: : stuff; Then you can copy/paste e…

>Before you know it, small groups of highly invested people are wielding the rules and the rule making process against their enemies or competitors. Now that you mention it, Wikipe…

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

I have German background, so that was a genuine concern for me when I started using Codeberg 3 years ago. It's not a great surprise that they end up being more interested in rulema…

Presumably defined rather than just happened, but not surveyed exactly enough. The US Capitol building is at 77.009°W.

I moved my projects to Codeberg 3 years ago because it promoted itself as a host for FOSS, and I was starting to think that GitHub was not going to remain a dependable FOSS host. A…

Star didn't have cut/copy/paste. Instead it had ‘copy to’ and ‘move to’ operations on the current selection, more like today's drag-and-drop. Some influential people decided that i…

Without robust copyright protection, what will incentivize Anne Frank to write more diary entries?

Now I'm imagining someone dumped in the river chained to a pallet of t-shirts rather than a cinder block.

Does pork factor into this? (Serious question for an expert, not a joke.)

That was 7 hours ago. Now, Google Images not only reads the text but links to that web site.

The assumption is that if you use this alone to try to convey information to a human, a human with a visual disability can't use it. If you also provide a text channel (e.g. `ALT="…

That's a derivative work of two parties’ IP.

No, not simultaneously usable as foreground and background colours. For instance, on a light background, the default yellow is a good ‘highlighter’ background. If yellow is reconfi…

Colour addendum: If the user hasn't configured anything, don't use a colour other than red without checking whether the terminal has a light or dark background. Don't hardcode colo…