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News article about decision in court case. No court case number provided.

News article about decision in parliament. No parliamentary case number provided.

News article about new regulation. No publication number provided.

Why do news outlets seem to loathe the idea that someone might want to look up the primary source to learn more?

You're in your "projects" folder.

$ mkdir 

We need to bring back the harpsichord.

Angriest poster vs. most patient follower

Spend eight hours researching something, reading papers, in the weeds. The state of the art is completely obvious to anyone, you continue shaking your head that people make mistakes academia has told them to stop making 12 years ago.

Spend five hours hacking up solution that you think is brilliant because you didn't do your research. Broadcast it by blog post immediately, everyone must know of your new idea.

The humble license key.
An artifact of a bygone era of computers not permanently connected to a network.

I don't know how to say this gently.

Excel is, without any doubt, both the single best and worst program I've ever had the (dis)pleasure of dealing with.

Most of the bad parts are people forcing me to shoehorn it into an application development framework with a shoddy database.

"Burnout chicken" is when you put in more hours without explicit request from your employer until either side gets too scared of you burning out and pulling back.

I have been informed of the existence of the word nychthemeron, which apparently is a somewhat accepted term in English.

​:nyanners:​ got 'em

Thank you for scheduling your YouTube premiere in two days. I will forget.

LTT (lukewarm tech tips)

You see the interface. A sense of relief washes over you. It looks like it was made in the late 1990s or early 2000s, bombards you with information and isn't afraid to throw around jargon.

It just works. But you will be investing two years into mastering this software.

You wouldn't apply for a license to deploy a VPN

Always drop vulnerabilities on Friday afternoons. Workers love doing overtime.

We live on a giant rock, doubling in space.

I think we need to retire the assignment operator and = as a notation. Programming languages ought to move towards a shallow copy operator, a deep copy operator and a (deep) move operator instead.

It appears that Windows NT's superiority has caused some controversy

When you look up a mathematical term on Wikipedia and you come out with more questions than answers.

When you reach out to sales and they say they'll get back to you but then ghost you.

I wonder how much reputational damage it would do to an HSM vendor if the firmware source code leaked

You wouldn't disassemble an HSM and publish a video about it.

B News when C News comes along

So what happens if you try to name your user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on a *NIX box anyway, I'm sure something will break either from the spaces or the backslash

I wonder what software was essentially exclusive to German-speaking regions during the early 00s and 10s...

Did they have their own Usenet hierarchies or blend in with the other folks speaking English in the 90s and 00s?

You don't have LINE?

People can and will change.

You now remember Rozen Maiden.

Make your bets, what's happening first?

There is something simultaneously surprisingly cute and oddly distressing about someone you consider superior to yourself asking for your help.

Remember when we said "dank memes"? Whatever happened to that?

Teams notification sound dot wav

Software patent that was blocking me expired ​:HyperNeko:​

I no longer care about the goal anyway ​:haggard:​

I guess my previous Matrix host just gave up, it's been down for two weeks now.

The end of days may be coming, yet I will still be found implementing cryptographic algorithms from spec and being grumpy about the authors' lack of attention to detail.