https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynghanedd

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It sounds like the sort of garbage you hear shortly before “anyway it’s not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic”.

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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=never+use+the+popcorn+button+microwave

You are in the minority with your experience. Either you lucked out on ME or you had especially bad luck with XP.

Brand name PCs were being sold in 2000 with ME installed, that fresh out of the box would hang just trying to load the applications that were shipped with it.

ME would just be a brick wall.

And I would happily go back to using 2000 if I could. I held out all the way up to about 2012, at which point the number of games that wouldn’t run out of the box got to an untenable amount. :(

Can’t remember who it was (b3ta? popbitch? penny-arcade?), but I recently saw a comment by someone who’s been running a website since the turn of the millennium, and they said that fully 99% of the links they posted two decades ago were no longer valid.

To really put that into perspective, you have to remember that for most sites to get linked to from a popular site like that, meant that it was usually something of value that would have had a lot of work put into it, and that people found interesting or useful.

Most of the “childhood trauma” people are citing are things that weren’t aimed at children to begin with. Try some Watership Down (1978) at 2pm on BBC1 during the Christmas holidays.

Technically should be 3.14.2, or even 3.14.16. On account of how quoting something to a limited number of significant figures works.

This shouldn’t need saying obvs but https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cnn-women-soldiers-breastfeed/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

I’m not even trans, I just like the aesthetic and these socks help me program better

Ohhhhhh I didn’t realize what it was until you said that

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I feel like I’m in some bizarro-world situation when people keep saying about how the new model blows everything else out the water. I’ve been hearing it on a near monthly basis for the last 3 years and they’re still shit.

I know right? They completely fucked up the head on that. A badly poured Gonster is almost as bad as no Gonster at all. 4/10.

I was on a project a while back that used Ruby, and what I concluded was that cute things like that look good at first glance if you’re skim-reading some already-correct code, but are pretty much a net wash in terms of writing or debugging code.

It’s not unusual for people to think that code would be better if it scanned like regular English, but the problem is that English is woefully imprecise and doesn’t always correlate to what kind of operations get run by the code, and so you still end up having to learn all that syntax and mentally process it like any other programming language anyway, but now you’ve also got a bunch of false friends tricking you into thinking they do one thing but actually they do another.

(also, the bulk of the text in that python example is the import statement, which is like… ok so what, it’s not like Ruby doesn’t have its own dependency hell problems)

this one time a girl at a party started to fondle my balls in the corridor and I thought she was just joking so I reciprocated by crushing a Dorito onto her head