I’ll use the cliche meme of “I was today years old when I learned where the name comes from”. Just made the connection when I read this article, and I love Pulp Fiction.
But I too am not a native English speaker. Just always accepted the clunky acronym as the reason for the name.
I remember a talk a few years ago where someone engineered controlled detonations to destroy a single server in a rack without damaging any surrounding equipment. Was pretty fun to follow the engineering.
I’d love to have one if I had the space. My toilet is roughly one square meter. For illustration purposes, that size, only less grungy. These are leftovers from how they used to plan apartment buildings in the late 19th century in Vienna.
In the railway context an engineer was the person who worked the engine.
In German the word comes from Latin roughly meaning inventor. Presumably the general usage of the word engineer in English has the same etymology.
Passend zum Ofen rauchen gibts Eiernockerl mit grünem Salat. Gibt’s zufällig am 20.04. im Angebot um 8,88€ in vielen Restaurants.
me_irl wenn Eiernockerl halt schon ziemlich leiwand sind und du Mitte/Ende April drauf Hustet hast.
Very often they do. Many of these internal applications are from mainframe computer times when interacting with applications exclusively via the keyboard shortcuts was the norm. In most companies, they never dared to remove those because the Power Users are used to them for decades.
Problem is, few people are trained directly by those power users so they never learn those efficient shortcuts. And they are never well documented.
KeePass autotype is amazing for these situations. Very customizable.
Zumindest bei uns in Österreich haben tatsächlich kirchliche Organisationen zur Demo aufgerufen: https://religion.orf.at/stories/3223283/
One third Trekkies, one third talking about how shit twitter and Reddit are, one third content.
If the traffic plummets, YouTube wins. Serving content to ad-blocking users only costs them money. They don’t want those users.
Really? Where are you located? I walk past three clocks on the way from my office to the metro station alone.
But that’s the thing. When that Video was made, almost all of the advertising was focused on the same BS the article is disagreeing with.
I remember lots of NordVPN ads by uninformed nontechnical creators just reading the provided script. Saying that Balaklava wearing hackers will steal your credit card data just by being in the same cafe as you, and only an expensive VPN subscription can protect you from that. Or that only using a VPN will protect you from malware.
This sort of advertising is what Tom Scott critizied back then. IIRC he even said that there are real use cases, but that you shouldn’t believe the fearmongering. Same as the article.
The fearmongering advertising was the problem, not advertising the service itself.
Mistaking if= and of= when using dd.
Emoji are part of unicode. And people demand more of them, so it’s no surprise they put effort into those, even if OP thinks they are not important.Few people appreciate the unicode consortium for their originally intended work.
Because the main use case for most people - browsing the internet - sucks on e-ink. Scrolling is horrible.
About a hundred probably. Almost exclusively porn. I’m fine with porn, but I want to use All without scrolling past 10 pairs of tits to see one normal post.
And a handful of just annoying communities. The ones reposting Reddit content, US politics, crypto stuff, that sort of thing.
No JavaScript or ads. (…) Prevents Wikipedia getting your IP address.
Wikipedia is light on JavaScript and has never had ads. You prevent Wikipedia from getting your IP address but instead reveal it to some random third party, combined with letting them know everything you look up.
What the hell is the point of this. All this does it confuse people and decrease privacy.
Meine Blockliste besteht fast nur aus lemmynsfw communities.