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I've wondered this too. I can only assume it's because they send infected patients home, and they spread it to their families. That and hospitals & nursing homes, where infected st…

The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_flu_pandemic perhaps?

One less launcher I have to have installed on my PC at least.

Pitman covers this in his article: communication back then between Europe and the US was much more difficult. Sending UUCP emails meant at least a 48hr round trip and so the US com…

> Java is essentially never used for serious embedded work. I don't know whether it counts as "serious" to you, but literally billions of SIM cards and credit cards are running Jav…

> the control chars still appeared in the file (at least on some Unix version) That's a good point. My whole reply is a bit GNU-centric: the "col -bx" solution should work with eve…

> you shouldn't really need a dedicate script to do that It isn't because the terminal is mis-configured and/or mis-interpreting those characters, it's because these characters hav…

Assuming you're talking about the incident in 2005... My wife and I to got stuck at Waterloo station for hours waiting for a train to Paris while the authorities sorted things out.…

> none of them save Russia & Turkey are larger than Texas I don't know where you got this bizarre notion. The populations of Russia (~144m), Germany (~83m), Turkey (~80m), France (…

The other useful term I've heard for these people is BANANAs - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.

> First we had console editors, [...] Then we had full IDEs [...] Now the trend is toward "enhanced text editors" (VSC/Atom/ST): editors that can have modular plugin functionality …

By some trick of fate, I juust caught the launch here in Aus at 6pm (4am EDT)... Even though it was due to have happened hours ago I clicked the link to see how it had gone... At e…

Indeed. Ctrl-w in Emacs is actually "kill-region".

Apple don't trust the AUD not to drop further than it already has in the last 3 months.

> What is the longevity of Minecraft? There's an unofficial modding API and thousands of mods [1], some of which are extremely sophisticated. For instance, "Red Power" [2] includes…

My solution to this is just to go into the Task Manager and kill the Flash plugin about 30 seconds after every restart (This saves a load of memory too). When I actually want to wa…

Going back as long as I can remember (slashdot in the late 90s), all the completely unscientific web polls I've seen [1][2][3] favour vi(m) by at least 2 to 1. (FWIW, I am an emacs…

Another trick nobody else has mentioned is to remember that the 2nd argument is actually optional, so you can do things like: ln -s /path/to/some/file And it'll create a symlink ca…

There's a startup option (-w for word processor mode [1]) that changes this behaviour (as well as enabling word wrap). It's a big improvement, but not quite perfect IIRC. [1] http:…

As I understand it, the kernel is pretty much a hybrid of Mach and FreeBSD, and I don't think you can really say that it's more of one than the other: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

Longer ago than that... More than 30 years ago there were themed sets with somewhat custom pieces: http://letsbuilditagain.com/instructions/6630/ http://letsbuilditagain.com/instru…

I also grew up in Scotland. At one point I worked with a Swede and was interested to find that many Scots words are closer to their equivalents in Scandinavian languages than they …

So OS X is really just a skinned FreeBSD?

In my case I assumed until I started primary school that all boys had blue eyes and all girls had brown eyes, because this observation just happened to hold for everyone in my imme…