Doesn’t even need to be a particularly shitty name. All that’s necessary is the individual feels strongly enough about not being called their deadname.

Ia! Ia! Torvalds fhtagn!

How do the solar panels generate constant fees?

You see, people need to pay for electricity. Generally speaking, they don’t get it for free. Thus the owner of the solar panels makes money.

I’m one of those nano weirdos. I mean, I get why people use vi/vim, but I’m a lazy man who has the nano shortcuts hardwired into my muscle memory. It’s definitely not as full-featured as vim, but it does what I need it to do quickly and easily. If I need to just quickly drop into a file and do a find/replace, takes me maybe 3 seconds.

Also, to share an ancient joke from the dawn of computing: emacs is a great OS, I just hope someone makes a decent text editor for it eventually.

Here’s an absolute classic unix koan about the terminal:

One evening, Master Foo and Nubi attended a gathering of programmers who had met to learn from each other. One of the programmers asked Nubi to what school he and his master belonged. Upon being told they were followers of the Great Way of Unix, the programmer grew scornful.

“The command-line tools of Unix are crude and backward,” he scoffed. “Modern, properly designed operating systems do everything through a graphical user interface.”

Master Foo said nothing, but pointed at the moon. A nearby dog began to bark at the master’s hand.

“I don’t understand you!” said the programmer.

Master Foo remained silent, and pointed at an image of the Buddha. Then he pointed at a window.

“What are you trying to tell me?” asked the programmer.

Master Foo pointed at the programmer’s head. Then he pointed at a rock.

“Why can’t you make yourself clear?” demanded the programmer.

Master Foo frowned thoughtfully, tapped the programmer twice on the nose, and dropped him in a nearby trashcan.

As the programmer was attempting to extricate himself from the garbage, the dog wandered over and piddled on him.

At that moment, the programmer achieved enlightenment

Source: https://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/gui-programmer.html

Came to the comments to add exactly this. Am I predictable, or is this just the natural reaction to this image?

In an episode of Enterprise there was a Klingon lawyer who talked about the honor of law and finding the truth. I’m sure you could definitely have a respected Klingon scientist character and still make it sound Klingony with the right motivation. “To best the mysteries of nature and discover the true nature of reality is an honorable calling” or something like that.

Yeah, that’s exactly where I got that first rhyme from :))

There once was a man from Orange

Who had a very squeaky door hinge

He poured on some oil,

It started to boil,

And made the nastiest porridge

DESKTOP! Wait, snake desktop? How’d that get in the script?

Of?

I know someone who got had by a spearfishing call. They knew all the details about his phone contract, sounded 100% legit. The scammer got thousands of dollars in prepaid SIM cards from his account.

After the police investigation, turned out that the scammer was actually a former employee of the phone company who downloaded a copy of the customer list when he got fired.

Non-German but I am in the EU. Didn’t find it odd at all. Just assumed it was “flow market” in German.

pi ends with the digit 9, followed by an infinite sequence of other digits.

That’s a very interesting use of the word “ends”.

I violently disagree with your whole worldview and wish to engage you in rigorous debate over a topic neither of us has any ability to actually change in real life.

Here is the rebuttal and deconstruction of everything that you believe:

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