ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social:

Remember when Elon claimed to be a libertarian before literally joining the establishment Republicans? Libertarianism isn’t real. “Libertarians” bend the knee to conservatives and fascists so quickly it doesn’t matter what the ideology supposedly says.

… while hanging from a cliff?

If punctuation isn’t on your keyboard then it can’t be that important. All dashes are the same.

I don’t even appreciate that Markdown turns double-dash into one long dash. The distinction in print is a twee relic of uptight style guides, and the minute gradations do not exist in handwritten text. If you intend it as a pause-please, put spaces around it, or it looks dumb. Like that.

Anyone prescriptivist about “begging the question” cannot be taken seriously about anything.

The canonical meaning is a sloppy mistranslation, and what everyone sensible intends and infers is a plain reading of those words in that order.

There’s places where a comma can cause psychic damage.

A calque.

Yeah sometimes that neuron hasn’t fired in a while.

There’s an Ahoy video about tracker music, and when it played the first three notes of “Foregone Destruction,” that fucker released aaall the good chemicals.

Wackiki Wabbit. Set on Humuhumunukunukuapua’a’a’a Island.

We had the second Care Bears movie on the same VHS tape as A Wish For Wings That Work, the Bloom County adaptation briefly featuring Robin Williams as “Sudy Nim.”

Dark Heart might’ve been a bisexual awakening.

Wittgenstein essentially said there is only counter-evidence. You cannot support an explanation; you can only disprove competing explanations. This was famously expressed as a conversation about heliocentrism. His friend said, “To ancient people, it looked like the sun went around the Earth.” Wittgenstein replied, “What would it have looked like if it looked like the Earth went around the sun?”

Reflective LCDs would have been equally blurry, in full color, and still tolerated optional tennis-ball-green frontlights for playing under the covers.

The real surprise came a decade later when everybody except Nintendo missed that active TFTs made color a decent option.

Oh god, Ni-Cd. Six hours of charging for fifteen minutes of use.

Color wasn’t to blame. It was the cold-cathode backlight.

From 1990 to 2000, AA capacity in watt-hours basically doubled. Which did mean anything you had could have modern batteries, since you’d just… buy new batteries.

This is mostly how the DMG Game Boy needed 4 AAs and the Game Boy Pocket got away with 2 AAAs.

For Javascript it’s () => { }. Lamba functions! Because at least it’s more readable than Perl.

Reading a tab as however many spaces is trivial, and the point of tabs.

Reading however many spaces as a tab is a gross hack that has to be dialed-in for whatever standard the document chose.

Just use tabs in the first place. God damn. That’s what they’re for.

That sounds like tabs with extra steps.

Tabs, not spaces.

I don’t give a shit if your arguments perfectly align to the function. It’s only semantic indication. Use the goddamn special character that has its own dedicated key.

Guinan: “More?”

Data: “Please.”

The episode, summarized:

Nobody listens to Worf.

Nobody listens to Worf.

Nobody listens to Worf.

Nobody listens to Worf.

Nobody listens to Worf.

Nobody listens to Worf.

Data listens to a deck of cards.