3…

Edit: I can only count to four

In addition to questions of end-of-life, Existentialism also deals with questions of purpose-of-life. Which can be mind racking even if you’re not afraid of death.

Still not super interesting questions to me though.

I was gonna say this.

Existentialism is kinda boring IMO. But the philosophy of language, knowledge, and ethics are all super interesting.

Queen Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens) got her start as a rapper in the 1980s and began acting in the 1990s.

She is probably most known for her roles in Chicago, Hairspray, Bessie, and the Ice Age series.

These days, she stars on the CBS drama The Equalizer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Latifah

If caching is properly configured, the cache (Cloudflare) will see thousands of requests, but the VPS should only see one request.

Just put the site behind a cache, like Cloudflare, and set your cache control headers properly?

They mention that they are already using Cloudflare. I’m confused about what is actually causing the load. They don’t mention any technical details, but it does kinda sound like their cache control headers are not set properly. I’m too lazy to check for myself though…

The Internet.

Computers do a lot of things. But the Internet specifically is the aspect of the computer that revolutionized the world.

Damn. I never knew that these were mammals…

Fair. That was overgeneralizing German bureaucracy to the entire EU.

But I think the point that tech companies in Europe rarely survive still stands.

The EU is terrible at maintaining good tech companies.

Like, they have some really important and innovative consumer protection regulations, but they are really shooting themselves in the foot with this one…

Good poet, terrible vocals?

That’s like every Dylan track…

Agreed. He’s like a Canadian Bob Dylan in that sense.

All Star got radio play where I grew up.

Hallelujah didn’t.

At least in 2001. No idea if Hallelujah got air play in the 80s; I wasn’t there.

I’m 31, and Shrek was where I first heard this song. I would have been 9 years old.

Obviously it’s an amazing song with a rich history and many covers. But I’ll bet that most folks my age heard it first in Shrek.

Gen Z probably (hopefully) doesn’t associate the song with Shrek as strongly as millennials.

My favorite cover is the one by Jeff Buckley. Though the John Cale (Shrek film) and Rufus Wainwright (Shrek soundtrack) covers are both great. Honestly, I think the original by Leonard Cohen is the least good (but still good).

Relevant xkcd

https://xkcd.com/435/

“Real” words aren’t a thing.

Dictionaries describe natural language, they don’t define it.

This is a case for the cube rule!

I think is-odd is intentionally a reference to / satire of leftpad

MATLAB

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