

Your body is not a life-support system for your mind. Rather, your mind is a guidance system for your body. Bodies were first; and developed minds to be better at doing body stuff.
No relation to the sports channel.
Your body is not a life-support system for your mind. Rather, your mind is a guidance system for your body. Bodies were first; and developed minds to be better at doing body stuff.
I once worked in an office where the IT people would go around and zip-tie the cables to the furniture in the conference rooms, in ways that invariably led to the cables coming under tension and eventually fraying and breaking. (Especially some of the pricier laptop charging cables.)
I’d snip the offending zip-ties (selectively) when I noticed, but they went through a lot of expensive charging cables because someone thought slack cables looked messy.
few outside of Germany knew that concentration camps existed
The creation of concentration camps was widely advertised in Nazi propaganda, as a show of force to intimidate dissidents. It was the later death camps that were secret: the ones that were designed for no purpose but to do murder at industrial scale.
On the other hand, there are plenty of humans who like just about any dog more than they like other humans.
It’s about Trump, dude. Not Trump as politician, but Trump as model for what a “successful” white dude looks like: a sleazebag who cheats on his wives, cheats at business, commits crime on top of crime, uses violence and threats to get his way, etc.
Young white boys need better role-models than Trump and Musk to look up to.
(It’s also a parody of the racist shit people used to say about Black Americans and “bad role-models” like gangsta rappers.)
“Hallelujah” is a song about sex — but it’s not dirty sex, it’s holy sex.
Ward Cunningham, creator of Calvin & Hobbes?
Marathon’s Security Officer already had the green armor and shiny mask.
It has been obvious for many years that the Trump movement aims at the downfall of America, through the promotion and exaggeration of America’s flaws and the increasingly violent suppression of its virtues.
But if someone creates a file called HEAD
, should it overwrite a file called head
?
That shouldn’t matter to the “nontechnical” end-user at all. To the nontechnical user, even the abstraction of “creating a file” has largely gone away. You create a document, and changes you make to it are automatically persisted to storage, either local or cloud.
Only the technical command-line user cares about whether /usr/bin/HEAD
and /usr/bin/head
are the same path. And only in a specific circumstance — such as the early days of Mac OS X, where the Macintosh and Unix cultures collided — could the bug that I described emerge.
I recall a case-insensitivity bug from the early days of Mac OS X.
There are three command-line utilities that are distributed as part of the Perl HTTP library: GET
, HEAD
, and POST
. These are for performing the HTTP operations of those names from the command line.
But there’s also a POSIX-standard utility for extracting the first few lines of a text file. It’s called head
.
I think you see where I’m going with this. HEAD
and head
are the same name in a case-insensitive filesystem such as the classic Mac filesystem. They are different names on a Unix-style filesystem.
Installing /usr/bin/HEAD
from libwww-perl
onto a Mac with the classic filesystem overwrote /usr/bin/head
and broke various things.
I recommend picking up Graham Hutton’s short text Programming in Haskell, Second Edition. Even if you don’t end up using Haskell in “real work” (and you might!) it will teach you a remarkable number of things about how functional programming works.
England has a surfeit of terms for obnoxious people.
I may have made those last two up.
The term “open source software” was coined specifically to refer to software licensing that recognizes a particular set of freedoms. It is not a generic term for source-available software, and never was.
One of the freedoms of open source is “no discrimination against fields of endeavor.”
Calling the Hippocratic license family “open source” is inaccurate, since its entire goal is to discriminate against certain fields of endeavor.
It’s better described as a sort of source-available license.
Lichess may be the best board game software for any board game ever. It’s that good.
Eight: English, German, French, Spanish, Latin, Russian, Japanese, ASL.
Bonus question: do you ever do your counting in a non-native language, just to make it more interesting?
Russian occasionally. ASL when I’m counting how many seconds the cat has to stay quiet before I give her a treat.
The ruble is worth more than the penny, but it’s way down from 2008 when it was almost a nickel.
Remember when a “pop-up blocker” was a browser plug-in because the browsers didn’t yet consider it a competitive feature?
(Well, okay, Opera and iCab did.)
Feudalism, where economic power comes from control of the land and familial connection to the conquerors of the land, was broadly supplanted by capitalism, where economic power comes from control of commercial and industrial capital, which are traded openly in capital markets.
Capitalism has several features that feudalism does not:
On that last point — Capitalism emerged out of colonialism. Many of the first firms traded on capital markets were colonial enterprises such as the Dutch East India Company (VOC). These firms employed slave labor and enjoyed legal monopolies on trade. This puts the lie to the libertarian claim that capitalism requires free labor and free trade. Capitalism is perfectly compatible with slavery and monopoly. For later examples see the United Fruit Company and other American colonial ventures.