I think I may have written that, but that was when all that was being talked about was allowing services to scan voluntarily. There was no mention of “all appropriate risk mitigation measures” when I wrote that.

and if memory serves, *lazer

You can have a non-infinite loop without a break statement, you just need a return statement in it. Also for(;;) is much faster to write than while(true).

no, “Missing Link” is a regular series on that news site: https://www.heise.de/thema/Missing-Link

not-so-common setups like two monitors

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with these things, I always wonder how different I would feel about them if my first language weren’t German and I didn’t understand what was actually being said; as it is, I need to concentrate very much on the subtitles

Pretty sure “flora” and “flower” are related words, yeah.

More people use laptops (or even tablets or smartphones) more of the time nowadays, so fewer people turn on their devices that way nowadays.

yes, somehow people keep inventing less funny versions of that

I’m too young to have gotten chain emails 30 years ago, but https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/courtroom.quips.html may be from that era too.

In any case, there have been way more people than those two in world history who have had the first name “Joseph”, and it works equally well for all of them.

You mean the part about spinning counterclockwise?

In the original text form https://what-if.xkcd.com/42/ this was just a link to the comic, I guess that wouldn’t have worked in a video.

We native speakers of German intuitively pronounce an audible “g” followed by an audible “n” when reading “GNOME” and find it weird that the ordinary word “gnome” is pronounced with a silent “g” in English. The cognate in our first language is “Gnom”, pronounced with two consonants in the beginning, like the desktop environment.

What’s the difference between USA and USB?

One connects to all devices and accesses the data. The other is a hardware standard.

Some people may not have known this. I didn’t know until now that there were other producers of that CPU architecture.

no, exit codes work the other way round: 0 = success, !0 = error

I remember when similar screenshots circulated for how to tell if i am running jdk or jre, which is even more surprising.

It doesn’t fit very well in this context, the idea behind “beinhalten” is that the subject “includes” the object (i.e. the object is part of the content of the subject), but the #include command in the C preprocessor isn’t about describing that kind of situation, it’s a command “I want to include one file in another”, a better verb in German for that is “einbinden”. (I realize this isn’t a very good explanation, but I’m a native speaker of German and can tell you that no one would use the verb “beinhalten” in this context.)

The previous commenter’s German teacher likely prefers “enthalten” instead of “beinhalten”, which has the same problem in this context though.

nederlands ees nur duits met veelen dooppelbuuchstaaben, ooder?

and if you extend the graph to before 2006? ;)