Have you ever tried catching flies? Vinegar works better than honey, after all, flies eat shit.
Have you ever tried catching flies? Vinegar works better than honey, after all, flies eat shit.
Have I just experienced youngsplaining?
Just to be the man who died 12000 times to … rise up at your door? Bbbrains…
Holy poeslaw Batman!
Once upon a time, there was a Linux distro that would fit on a single floppy, it was intended for system rescue, diagnostics, that sort of thing…
I don’t think the OS was sophisticated enough to tell the difference… A drive letter is a drive letter…
As I recall, my windows 95 CD-ROM contained a bunch of floppy-sized .cab files in a folder, so it’s entirely possible it was available as a set of floppies…
Now I want to do this at my job… I actually have a box of 5.25" floppies somewhere…
In my late teens/early 20s I won a roughly 2 month long fart battle by eating McDonald’s every day. Made my adversary kneel before me.
You say that like it’s a bad thing…
Machines don’t care about shit, they blindly do what they’re told. Garbage in, garbage out.
Yes… Code doesn’t write itself.
That’s people making the dumb mistake of using the wrong units. They could have just as easily used the wrong metric units.
Fahrenheit makes more sense for human experience… 0 to 100 roughly corresponds to what can be survived for a significant amount of time. Below freezing you can survive without shelter as long as you’re dressed for it, but as you approach zero it gets a lot harder, you really need shelter and heat at that point. Same with above 100… 117 won’t kill you right away, but without some sort of man-made cooling device, you’ll be wishing it would. I say this having lived both extremes, mountains of Colorado in winter, and Phoenix in summer… Honestly, given the choice between 115 and -15, I’d rather have the cold.
Base twelve would be great if we went all-in, as in new symbols for single digit representation of ten and eleven, then 10 would mean twelve. Having a base that’s divisible by several primes is handy.
Then how to differentiate from 2x6? 2x8?
Planing. Planning wood is very different.
When you build a wood house, how far apart are the studs? I once tried to hang a shelf made by/for the European market, it had predrilled holes that were far enough apart that I could almost hit two studs, but not quite.
If you want to confuse people… I pronounce /etc as “ets”, but one of my coworkers recently called it “slash e t c” and I had to ask him to repeat it a couple times before I figured out what he meant…