The surprising part is that this government is so eager to trample all over moral principles and constitutional rights in order to give cops and spies literally everything they want.

Proposing a bill including new powers to open everyone’s mail and everyone’s computers too was the first thing they did when this session of parliament opened, which bill seemed as if it might’ve been written by the Trump CIA or something. But no, it looks like our new prime minister himself really is into that sort of thing. Too bad nobody found out about it before he got elected.

Our strategy is guided by four pillars:

• There is no credible path to net zero

• Burning fossil fuels is strength

• Strength is power

• We have the power so fuck you

“When it comes to genomics and understanding the aesthetics of crops …”

Um… aesthetics? Did he say something else and get misheard?

Maybe it’s not counting memory that can’t be tested because it’s needed for the kernel and device drivers. For example according to its man page free reports total memory “minus a few reserved bits and kernel binary code” and on my desktop here that’s about 15.2 out of 16GB.

I don’t know though, most of a gigabyte does seem like a suspiciously large amount of memory for that, never mind 2.4 gigs. I guess it’s i/o buffers, page tables, and things like that.

Of all the languages you could choose to randomly stan for. I hate Go. It seems like every cosmetic change they made to the syntax in order to make it look slightly different than C was a change for the worse.

Star Trek, The Mighty Boosh, Gilligan’s Island

the language was “totally unrecognisable”

Damn it I read the whole thing. At no point was the problem described precisely, and no examples at all were given.

It’s like one of those articles where they’re hyping up some scandalous thing that got posted on social media without ever telling the reader exactly what it was. I tend to assume that when they do that it’s because the thing was deemed too horrible to directly quote, but maybe they just don’t even realise that it’s not much of a story unless they tell us what was actually said.

Technically they might not even need to become carnivores to learn the habit of chasing people down and punching them to death to defend their territory.

I wanted to try out this “twitter” thing everyone was talking about in 2019, but it wouldn’t let me sign up without a mobile phone so I went with fedi instead.

Imagine how malevolent the next generation of AI will be, when it’s trained on today’s Internet text.

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True, there aren’t many old drivers who are honking the horn and giving everyone the finger — most of those people die young I guess.

Two spaces sure, but that’s for people who don’t use tabs.

I’ve heard of 8, 4, and even 3 which is pretty crazy… how could it possibly be 2!?

On that small detail — I was calculating the % change from December 2025 to the latest month.

rational used to just mean "possible to express as a ratio before it got co-opted by the academic-industrial complex- "

Hmmm… when you say “academic” do you mean the Academy of ancient Greece? Because I’m guessing that’s around when that mix-up first happened.

Right, I’m aware of this and see nothing wrong with it.

If you feel that it’s unfortunate, why take their side? I’ve found that no confusion is caused by using it the correct way. If any might be, it is at least in service of a noble cause.

I may be a little amused by it, but not verily surprised.

The word you’re looking for is “literally.”