I spent a month counting animals in a small African preserve. The way it worked was that each member of the team would walk in a given direction for a few hours and make a note of all the animals we’d see in a two hundred metres radius. Also we all had one ranger which came with a 1940s rifle and one bullet.

There were one or two countings per day. We saw lots of animals. I never saw any large predators, although I saw lion tracks a few times. Hippos were probably the most dangerous animals we regularly met, so the banks of lakes and rivers were avoided. The other animals ignored us or avoided us.

While all of that is true, the thing is that most people just don’t care. They just use two or three programs (poorly) and don’t really care about the underlying system, never mind the computer. That’s why windows is so entrenched.

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Fair.

I closed my apple subscription at the time because I don’t have any apple devices, but I’d close it again if I could.

Much better than my current Samsung fridge where that obnoxious Samsung rep has to come every week to plaster a new ad on the door. At least it won’t leave glue all over the floor.

Because of universe expansion. (I guess industrialisation also works)

You can get a licence from Nintendo if you like.

the biggest selling feature of Windows is its ability to be backwards compatible and run on older hardware

Really? I thought it was supposed to run older software, I don’t think hardware comes into it.

As a non windows user, I don’t get to interact with Microsoft systems an awful lot, but to me windows 10 felt like a complete system while windows 11 always feels like an early beta for some reason. It has some kind of unfinished, wet paint quality to it.

Shouldn’t take them long to patent the concept of “game”.

The only thing I can’t find is goto.

There you are then.

Editing lisp with ed is the best way to learn it.

Yorkshire pudding is fine, but Pomeranian pudding is really superior.

That’s how traditions are born.

Ok, but what if it’s only hashed 80 000 times? Should I sue my provider?

The famous “futur” we were all waiting for.

You may have hear of the future, with flying cars, cities in orbit, everyone living a comfortable life… Like the first steps to the Culture. Not at all. What we have is “the futur”. It was born in the US, as so many dubious things are, and will soon spread all over the globe.

It was securedly hashed! We used ROT13! Twice! We’re fucking professionals!

Notalive?

The tree was 2x4, I’ve no idea what they’ve done with it.

Is there even a notion of “road legal” in the US ? It seems that just anything goes over there.