Just watched the Four Corners documentary on the toxic algal bloom on #Adelaide's beaches. According to the premier of South Australia, paraphrasing, it's not a poison chalice, the chalice itself is not poisonous, it _has_ poison _in_ it, but that doesn't make it a poison chalice.
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Dan Kortschak
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@commaok@inuh.net I think you found the rub with "give the user explicit control instead" in the context of Apple.
Why did anyone think that reincarnating Caligula in the 21st century would be a good idea?
The cloud computing corollary to Greenspun's tenth rule of programming:
"Any sufficiently complicated cloud service contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp, expressed in YAML, poorly."
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@ve7fim@mastodon.social I like that the extended length format (8 nibbles for the byte count instead of 4) has a fatter arrow, 0x08, 0x1C, 0x3E, 0x6B, 0x08, 0x00.
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@Merovius Yeah. The first time I read it I thought, "Yeah, that was all pretty obvious."
Donald Trump is nature's way of explaining why multicellularity was a mistake.
Which is grammatically correct? (No, I'm not confused, just interested.)
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@Merovius@chaos.social Is it the text or the background that refers to the colour of the seat?