I wouldn’t say I’m a particular fan, I just like a couple of their songs. I too prefer RATM, though.

Counterpoint: LB is, on average, alright with a couple of bangers. Wes Borland is an awesome guitarist, but Fred Durst is an embarrassing piece of shit.

After using winrar for years (after using rar years before that… not sure if it’s the same company), I finally bought to copies a few years back. One for myself, one as a Christmas gift to a friend.

Amateurs… In late 1999 I installed FreeBSD via net installer on 33.6 baud.

Conway’s Game of Life.

It’s an early example of a “world” simulated by applying simple rules to a board with grids. Black cells die, idle, or reproduce based on these rules, and it results in interesting yet predictable behavior of some clusters. Some shapes/clusters were recognized as behaving in a particular way when the “game” starts.

Non-AI youtube history channels I like:

https://youtube.com/@historyofeverythingchannel

https://youtube.com/@hardthrasher

https://youtube.com/@lazerpig

Ineffectively is good enough. It’s what I do.

Yes, pretty much: Section 2.10 of the manual says so.

We use it to discipline and sync chip scale atomic clocks, and power them without draining their batteries. We just happen to use ethernet cables for the connection. And each clock pulse distributor is rackmounted and has 48 rj45 ports.

At work we have this proprietary piece of hardware that has many rj45 connectors that delivers PoE and a clock pulse synced to GPS. More than once people have called me asking if this ethernet switch they found in my stash of spares is broken or something. More than once I’ve had to explain to them that what they’re holding is PoE but without the E.

“This is a CD player, not a DVD player. You’ve been scammed”

I’ve done both. No need to grovel, but you can call me “your excellence”

Norwegian:

What that other guy said.

Some asshat edgelord filmed himself walking around school, “excersicing his right to free speech”, calling out that he supported ICE. I think he wore a sign too.

Then the absolute megachad in the picture shows up, and the exchange went something like this:

“I’m going to punch you now”
“You’ll get in trouble”
“Ok” 👊

Swedish uses Ö + Ä. The rest of us use Ø + Æ. Both alphabets use Å, but that’s a separate letter. Ü isn’t used in scandinavian languages (Only language I know that uses it is German)

Ø and Ä don’t belong in the same alphabet…

A Swede, a German, and a Brazilian walk into a bar.
“Where’s the Norwegian?” The bartender asks them.
The three guests look at the floor, and begrudgingly reply:
“Still playing football…”

Party in the back, snuggles and treats in the front

OP finally found an exception to ACAB

It was reasonably common in the floppy disk era. Some games allowed you to play for a set amount of time, after which it asked you for something external to the game itself. Some examples I remember:

• Dune 2 asked for some units stats that could be found in the games manual
• Day of the Tentacle needed you to complete a battery blueprint sketch in game. The missing info could be found in the manual
• Monkey Island 2 asked for a voodoo recipe. To find the correct measurements, you had to spin two overlaid sheets to align something, which revealed a value.

All of the above could of course be copied and/or guessed, but it did at least introduce some bar of entry.