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> Jane Poynter helped design and then lived in a 3-acre dome called Biosphere 2, completely sealed off from the rest of the world, for two years and 20 minutes. Walking back into s…

You're not wrong and that your comment is dead is a great disappointment. That you created a throwaway to criticize something so obviously astroturf-y is understandable but, also, …

abandoned or done?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stall_(engine)

If John Carmack started updating a .plan, people would figure out how to check a .plan.

I read the 'remote' bit to be referring to where you do your course work.

>I like the low prices and the efficiency of the checkout process. I especially liked standing in line for five extra minutes while the customer in front of me demanded they pay a …

>Useful for testing. And as a speed hack for Quake 2!

>Sure, mistakes happen, my own PhD contained a major blunder (discovered several years after submission -- at least somebody read it ...), but I'm extremely open about it. So what …

Are you converting "an unfinished never-posted blog post" into "a rambly twitter thread"?

This is how the many trucking companies work. They'll train you for a CDL but require you drive for them for a period (a year?) or pay for the cost of training.

"The Pointy-haired Boss (often abbreviated to just PHB or "The Boss") is Dilbert's boss in the Dilbert comic strip." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss

I take it to mean they paused the VM, allowing them to complete the game in sections when they had the time.

Imagining... a human being?

Our Ob or Ros?

They removed the stump joke from later (CD onward?) editions because it generated too many calls to support about missing disks. Damn shame! :)

I compiled "Chris Nystrom's 'C' port of Mayfield-style StarTrek, 1995" and the only adjustment needed was renaming the getline() function (getline()->xgetline()) to avoid a conflic…

>"Elbereth" must now be the only engraved text on a square to function So... "elberethelberethelberethelbereth" won't work anymore, either.