Null pwang! Maybe I should consider entering Eurovision.

It’s an abbreviation for Command Line Interface To Objects Residing In System. A lot of male programmers can’t find it.

Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?

Ceci n’est pas une pierre.

The scale isn’t too clear from the image but it looks more like a pebble to me.

Any company that does that needs to be sent on a mandatory awareness training for failing an obvious fake phishing exercise. It’s far too easy to whitelist that and send it to an “ignore” folder.

Wait till you see what “yank” means in vi and emacs.

Where presumably it will be perfectly OK, putting the boot on the other foot so to speak, to discuss making Scotland part of England.

I asked AI for an anime style circle and got this

As long as it Just Writes™ I don’t care. I want to pick it up, and I want to write. I don’t want to try writing only to find it’s dried up and I have to scribble on some other bit of paper before it comes back to life. Now OK if I’ve left the lid off then that’s my bad, but if I haven’t then it should just flipping work.

Depends where you’re going. Anywhere first world with a robust democracy that invites opposition and criticism will be safe. Heck in the UK we’ve even got people who openly hate our way of life and want to destroy it.

But if you’re going to one of the less tolerant places where opposing the incumbent can get you in serious trouble, like Russia, North Korea, Iran, or the USA, probably best take a burner phone with some basic stuff on it that can’t possibly be interpreted as any kind of negativity towards the delicate leader and leave your main one switched off somewhere safe at home. In fact unless you enjoy risk it’s probably best to avoid places like that until they get some proper freedoms in place.

I find the easiest way to forget C++ is to try watching CppCon on YouTube.

I’ve been doing C++ professionally since 1991.

But when I watch CppCon, what the hell are they gabbling on about? It’s all complete gobbledegook! They may as well be speaking in an ancient Goa’uld dialect for all the sense it makes. These people are so far down a rabbithole I start to wonder if they’ve ever seen the surface.

I am therefore forced to the conclusion that despite 34 years of experience in C++ I don’t know C++.

Yes of course that’d be their primary source. But if that doesn’t cover all the payouts then it’ll lead to a general increase in insurance premiums for everyone.

Also Windows: “Ask your network administrator for access.”
Me: “Well I’m my own network administrator so what questions do you want me to ask myself”?
Windows: “Enter network username and password.”
Me: There is no network username or password. Sod it, I’ll bung them on an external disk.

Well, no, it’s all of us, because of how insurance works. Payouts go up, premiums go up. As long as the number of destroyed Teslas is a drop in the ocean we won’t notice, but lots of companies love a good excuse to put prices up and this is just handing them a gold plated excuse on a silver platter.

Most cli stuff is a lot easier than programming. If you can’t use cli then by definition you’re a shit programmer.

Of course if you simply don’t want to use cli that’s a different matter.

Git wasn’t the first version control software. I remember using sccs back in 1991 and apparently it was written all the way back in 1972 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System

Ohh I thought it was something to do with sexy underwear. This actually makes a lot more sense.

Tha mi an dòchas nach coinnich thu ris a’ Ghàidhlig

Chrome is no longer available in my Start menu.