The Shambler from Quake is covered in fur
Oxford Comma.
Fuck yeah.
Also missing from sub-clauses, at least in America, is the trailing delimiter comma.
There absolutely was a cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo. That is the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is. It wasn’t on any table or in any thanksgiving decoration in my childhood, it isn’t a popular thing to exist in media, it was an obscure item that was a main part of an underwear logo.
Anyone that says differently is objectively wrong. I don’t know why the logo changed and why besides a patent entry even the company itself denies it. I don’t really care if this is an alternate earth or aliens or time travellers or an entirely natural quirk of existing in a quantum universe, but I know for an absolute fact the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is is because of my underwear, and not because my dick is coincidentally called the horn of plenty.
There absolutely wasn’t. Snopes did a good piece on this in 2024.
I remember this as well, just like I remember Mandela dying in prison. Felt like I was Looney Tunes when I found out as an adult he was still alive.
Denying that the logo used to have a cornucopia is a thing? Sheesh, TIL.
100%
Pedestrians have the right of way. Most of the other hills are survivable.
Niche pronounced with a “ch” sound is wrong and dumb and I hate you
Those people who pronounce it ‘nitch’? The word for that is WRONG. Those people deserve ridicule.
Rhymes with “sheesh”
So what sound should we use instead of “ch”? What about “ch”?
English spelling is so silly
Microfiche.
“sh”
Don’t you dare ask questions.
The split between “Today” and “Tomorrow” is at midnight, not when one sleeps/wakes up.
This comes up often after midnight when my girlfriend asks me about “tomorrow”. Why discuss breakfast for tomorrow when we still haven’t had breakfast today??
Must disagree. If today ended at midnight, then my streak of watching at least one episode of a TV show every single day would have been broken years ago. No, today ends when I go to sleep, even if it’s at noon on what is your tomorrow
You may want to ask a member of the cult of the subgenius the difference between “real” midnight and “conspiracy” midnight.
You’ll love TV advertising schedules. You can buy slots all the way up through 29:59:59
Some computer nerd friends and I came up with a solution for this:
Computer architectures typically provide separate instructions for “logical” and “arithmetic” bit-shifts. The details as to why aren’t important, but we can borrow the nomenclature.
When referring to “tomorrow” in the sense of “when I wake up from my next sleep cycle”, use “logical tomorrow”. When referring to “tomorrow” in the sense of “after midnight tonight”, use “arithmetic tomorrow” (or “chronological tomorrow”, if you really want to be pedantic).
Perish
I love that you argue about this
ngl, that’s a very shitty hill to die on
No year zero. Meaning: year 2000 is in the 20th c. and year 2100 is in the 21st c.
M:I-3, 4, 5, and 6 are excellent movies. Each in their own right. I know, Tom Cruise. But, plug and play any action star, and these are still great movies. He just happened to land the role of Ethan Hunt back in '96.
Tom Cruise. But, plug
Ohhh, okay. I see how it is.
Tim Cruise has something besides luck, you have to admit that by now. He landed that thing because he WANTED to land that thing.
TC, he’s just like you and me. He puts his pants on one leg at a time.
But after his pants are on he makes hit movies.
I mean, Com Truise defo had more than luck. He had pull even then. And, yes, he is just a person. He is dedicated to his art, which, I think, is running hard and making memorable movies.
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Top Gun (1986, Dir. Tony Scott, Budget $15M),
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Rain Man (1988, Dir. Barry Levinson, Budget $25M),
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Days of Thunder (1990, Dir. Tony Scott, Wri. Robert Towne, Budget $60M),
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A Few Good Men (1992, Dir. Rob Reiner, wri. Aaron Sorkin, Budget $40M),
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the Firm (1993, Dir. Syndey Pollack, Budget $42M),
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Interview with the Vampire (Dir. Neil Jordan, Wri. Anne Rice, Budget $60M),
Big directors, writers, and big hit films. Then, he became Ethan Hunt.
- Mission: Impossible 1 (Dir. Brian DePalma, Wri. Robert Towne, Budget $80M)
M:I-2 (Dir. John Woo, Wri. Robert Towne) was thoroughly forgettable. That said, I just discovered that the writers of Star Trek: DS-9 and Voyager — Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga — wrote the story. Wild. Still, no quarter given. Until, maybe, I watch it again.
The next 4 are great.
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M:I-3 (Wri./Dir. J.J. Abrams with Alex Kurtzman (latter-day Star Trek writers and executive producers))
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M:I-4, Ghost Protocol (Dir. Brad Bird (the Iron Giant and the Incredibles))
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M:I-5, Rogue Nation (Wri./Dir. Christopher MacQuarrie (the Usual Suspects and the Way of the Gun))
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M:I-6, Fallout (Wri./Dir. Christopher MacQuarrie)
Jury is still out on M:I-7, Dead Reckoning Part 1, and Final Reckoning. Full disclosure, I did not really feel Part 1.
Tron Cubes does attract/demand talent. And, his collaboration with Christopher MacQuarrie is long-standing.
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Or just start ordinals with 0th for years 0-99
Pineapple on pizza is delicious, that is all
Using tabs for document management (f.e. Browsers, Text-Editors, …) was a mistake. It would be way better if every document (website, text-file, image, console, …) was in its own window, centrally managed by an intelligent window manager of the OS that allows quick and easy search between all documents like with a full-text searchable exposè-like view.
Using tabs for document-management was a bad but necessary workaround because Windows is a horrible window manager (despite its name, ironically).
Tabs work best when there is a fixed amount of them (Like with game settings: Controls, Audio, Video, Gameplay).
I could go on for quite a while on this, but I think this is where I stop.
I’m sure there’s some Linux configuration to enable that
People who don’t eat the pizza crust have no backbone and won’t survive the zombie apocalypse. And even if they do, they won’t be let into my post apocalyptic fortress, because they have no backbone which they have proven by not eating their pizza crusts.
In every job there is pleasure and pain. If you cannot stomach some doughy stumps or find a way to interleave the crust of your slice with the center of your next slice, you and I won’t be friends.
I eat crust, but I never thought to include crust in my next slices activities.
Mole
Ant
A steel ball is not a ball bearing. A bearing is something that bears load and allows for motion, usually rotation. There are sleeve bearings which are just one material or journal bearings which have pressurized oil to separate the spinning shaft. A ball bearing is an assembly with rolling elements (balls, rather than rollers). Those steel balls are just called balls. The whole assembly is called a ball bearing. I used to work in bearing manufacturing and they were just called balls.
Would it be better if I clarified by calling them “ball bearing balls”? Or would that lead to my unpleasant pummeling by steel balls?
Yeah that’s accurate. Or just “bearing balls”.
Yeah, I think this is the best option. It sounds a little weird at first, because we’re so used to hearing it the other way around, but it makes more sense if you think about it.
It does sound a little weird. I usually just say balls
It is NOT “habañero.” If you pronounce a “y” in the word, you’re commiting what’s called a “hyper-foreignism” where you over apply something you learned a foreign culture does.
It’s just an N sound. Habanero.
It’s not even my culture/language but damn this gets under my collar.
Likely due to jalapeño, no? Chile pepper = ñ to non Spanish speakers
I hear this as often as I hear “jalapeno” (missing the eñe) 😑
I think part of the problem is that it’s hit or miss whether or not it’s spelled/spoken with ñ or n, in advertising and labels. Here in the US anyway.
What’s funny is that the ñ spelling and pronunciation has bled over into native spanish speakers. My friend’s husband is from Nicaragua, and his entire family pronounces it ñ. One of my neighbors though, from Guadalajara originally, it’s n only.
I’d also say that habanero is ñ friendly. It looks like it should be pronounced habañero, unlike a fairly similar word, Enero. It’s easier to say habañero than eñero as well. The a leading into the n does that for some reason I can’t figure out.
However! Pero and perro blows people’s minds. While I don’t hear it with native speakers, damn near everyone else I’ve run into pronounces them the same. I do, and I know better, because I can’t make my tongue work right.
That is how languages grow and change: by the native speakers collectively changing their minds. I’ll leave them to be the gate keepers. I feel strongly because I knew a family from a El Salvador that lived down the street from me growing up. They corrected me and I did not want to be wrong in front of them again. I wanted them to feel accepted. I still do.
Strong take, and new to me
Appliances and cars should never have an internet connection for any reason.
Also fuck touch screens give me buttons.
Pretty big hill if you ask me
Im dying on it either way.
Agree with this. With cars it makes them vulnerable to hacking unless safety critical systems are isolated. Fly-by-wire airplanes specifically isolate the flight control computers from anything that could connect to the internet for this reason
Code indentation should never use tabs, only spaces.
I would die on the opposite hill. No spaces, only tabs.
What’s your reasoning for liking spaces?
My big reason would be “it hurts readability”. That is, when writing code, readibility for others who aren’t familiar with it (including future me) is my top-priority, and that means indentation and alignment are HIGHLY important, and if I spend the time to write code with specific indentation and alignment, to make it readable at a glance, I want to be certain that it’s always going to display exactly that way. Tabs specifically break that guarantee, because they’re subject to editor settings, which means shit like the below example can occur:
I write the following code with an editor that uses a tab size of 4.
myObject.DoSomething( someParameter: "A", someOtherParameter: "B", value: "C");If someone pulls this up in an editor that uses a tab size of 8, they get…
myObject.DoSomething( someParameter: "A", someOtherParameter: "B", value: "C");Not really a big deal, in this simple case, but it illustrates the point.
My second reason would be that it makes code more difficult to WRITE, I.E. it’s not that hard to insert spaces when you mean to insert tabs, considering that you’re not LITERALLY using only tabs just only tabs for indentation and alignment. And if you do accidentally have spaces mixed in, you’re not going to be able to tell. The guy on another machine with different editor settings will, though.
I’m aware there are fonts that can make spaces and tabs visible and distinct, but that sounds like a NIGHTMARE to write and read code with. I mentioned above, my top priority is easy readability, and introducing more visual noise to make tabs and spaces distinct can only hurt readability.
Because when I move left in tabs, the cursor isn’t clear which tab I’m on. It also tried to sit off the left edge of a terminal in some editors because it aligns with the right side of the character (the tab), instead of the left.
I do see how tabs are a better option : they allow the one editing the file to decide how wide the indentation is. That’s actually good User Interface design, by separating the data from the rendering layout.
I can see the argument both ways, but I like to use spaces so the visual and editing interfaces are more standard.
Richard Hendricks would like a word.
