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It’s okay to plagiarize books if they’re in a library.

Thanks for the lecture, professor.

Oil has a bad reputation but how lucky we are to have it. How does a civilization on a planet without hydrocarbons make the leap to a technological species?

It’s not impossible, but it’s got to be a lot harder.

Surge pricing. If your BMI is high they charge more for Pringles.

Dad a chum? Dad a chick?

One day soon someone will search online for what to do for a cut and some AI will spit out “Blood letting can actually be healthy in many American males, since often they have a overabundance of iron…”

ChatGPT and github copilot are great tools, but they’re like a chainsaw: if you apply them incorrectly or become too casual and careless with them, they will kickback at you and fuck your day up.

Steam has to be worth a lot more than 12 billion.

Kagi is good. I’m using the unlimited search tier. It’s so nice not to have all the cruft in my searches.

Flip around especially on Scottish houses on Rightmove. This one is worse than average, but not by a lot. This weird combination of 70s styling alongside tacky modern is quite common.

I’m looking to retire to Scotland one day so I’ve seen a bunch.

I’m using kagi as well and have been very pleased with it.

Thor at Pirate Software played it and really liked it, probably part of that.

I went to a conference in Darwin, Australia. Walking around I saw a crocodile park where you can see them and even get into the water with them in a cage if you like.

“Burt”, the crocodile that appeared in the movie Crocodile Dundee is there and is very much alive still. Their web site says he’s over 80 years old.

So “after while, crocodile” is applicable too!

I’m a Boomer myself (born in 1964) and this maybe the first legitimate occasion I’ve had to say “Okay, Boomer.”

Out of touch.

I’m 59 and I’ve worn briefs my entire life. My wife calls my balls “high and tight”.

Your mileage may vary.

So at 59 I can’t date anyone under 37?

Well, balderdash.

My wife, son and I walked out of Will Ferrell’s “Holmes and Watson”. Terrible.

It wasn’t a good idea. She was over-coached to pieces. I’ve heard pundits on the right and left say it’s a shame what she did because by all rights she’s a smart and capable woman.

Edit: I didn’t say I agreed with her politics. Downvote if you want, but this kind of marginalization of a smart woman on either side of the conversation erodes the condition of all women.

I have always contended that bread is just raw toast.

Toast is life.

Embedded systems developer here. If you’re programming on ARM or one of the other big microcontrollers there aren’t many well supported options. ARM’s official Keil compiler and libraries are C and C++ and I see no official movement to change that.

They have literally decades in building those tools.

Microsoft’s multithreaded OS ThreadX is C code. They just bought it for a large undisclosed amount in 2018. It ain’t going anywhere soon.

AWS’s FreeRTOS is C. Not going anywhere.

Embedded development toolchains are very slow to change.