I’m aware that he probably meant miles, but he still used the wrong abbreviation (should have been mi). Gotta be careful about that kind of thing, although I’m not sure what the tech anecdote equivalent of the Mars Climate Orbiter would be. Someone taking it too seriously, like I’m doing here, probably. 😅

Except that 80 metres is only a few carlengths . . .

That’s kind of an insult to the parrot, isn’t it?

Between “One too many nulls” and “The tests are larger . . .” in the beginning, then moving up one notch for each day you’ve been wrestling with it.

Eh, I’m sure we can overrun it just by gluing sufficient instances of Factory to the end of the classname.

And Perl.

Pretty sure the US allows individual states to set the ages. In Canada, it’s provinces that set it. Lowest age I’ve ever heard of was 12 (for limited permits to move farm machinery along back roads in Saskatchewan, although that was decades ago and it might not still be a thing). I had a full and unrestricted license at 16, but the rules have changed since then.

I will have to remember not to use that command anymore. 'Scuse me while I clean up the hairball . . .

Well, I downvoted it because I consider pranks to be Not Cool in general, having been a target of a number of mean-spirited ones when I was younger. Others’ mileage may vary.

Symlink your desired location on the target disk to the place the system thinks the software should go. (In my case, /usr/local/games is a symlink to a different drive.)

Forth. Gotta love that RPN . . .

Software is like clutter in your closet: it expands to fill the space available. There doesn’t seem any way to prevent it. I’m starting to think the whole phenomenon is related to the Second Law of Thermodynamics. 🤨

Well, they could be talking about a computer science paper. Otherwise, it should be “Write it on paper” (no a).

Enough people have thought of while (true){ print(money); } for manufacturers to have built stuff into printers to prevent that, alas.

So if you have a monitor hooked up to a desktop on the left, and a separate laptop running a different OS on the right, is it lawful neutral or true neutral x 2?

In fact, for many years now, people have been trying to make Doom run on the most ridiculous things possible (printers, refrigerators, pregnancy tests . . .) just for the heck of it. There are worse hobbies.

With some very odd random punctuation. (I love Perl, but some of the built-in variables . . .)

The choice of stack would matter a lot less if the documentation were better. Last I checked, having to figure out the details of message semantics from scratch made writing better frontends or alternative server implementations in other languages ten times more difficult than it needs to be.

Hey, now. It is possible to write readable Perl code—it’s just less interesting that way. 😜