“Boss, most of the bricks we have are broken in pieces. We can’t build the wall per specifications.”

“We have a deadline, get it done however possible by the end of the day today.”

If I were to tell someone from 70 years ago, “hold on let me get my phone,” while talking about taking a picture, they would think I’m nuts.

I would have cut out the arrow key / pg up/dn block and reglued the keypad area. I use the keypad far more often than that area.

But I’m also crazy because I have a separate standalone Bluetooth keypad for my left hand as well so I have double the keypads!

You would think that Microsoft would have implemented better functionally by now. Yeah they had WordPad but that sucked too.

Like, c’mon, allow me to alt-highlight blocks of text already.

I’m sure they won’t notice a few rolls of toilet paper going missing.

The best languages allow you to program not just emojis as outputs, but with emojis themselves. 🫳⌨️🖥️

I’ve got a book that has been out of print for decades that I’ve painstakingly scanned in page by page. Is there a way I can donate it to the archive?

Perhaps. But by then it certainly would be the year of the Linux desktop by then. What other operating system can handle years that long, starting from Jan 1, 1970 to Jan 1, 6.460263446E+5814. Linux, that’s what.

She’s the best thing that’s happened to the s scientific publishing field. I’m no longer a student but I still enjoy reading scientific papers and I’ll be damned if I have to pay $20 per article (which doesn’t go to the authors) since I no longer have access to a library that maintains relationships with these big publishers.