Why does the majority of your post read like you don’t know these exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_power_connector

They’re fine, but as you mentioned in the first paragraph, lack of a standard is their main drawback. You could find two power supplies with the exact same connector but different voltage and polarity.

Surely health insurance would be making a loss on this particular person.

Floppy disk. Fight me.

Voyager error. It’s a gif of Star Trek, I think.

Of course it still matters, you just take the best case for n as n→∞, instead of the worst or average case.

Really annoys me that this is actually O(n log n) because for large enough n the merge sort will take longer than n*1e6 second. Randall should know better!

Yes, but the language/compiler defines which characters are allowed in variable names.

Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist.

Thanks, Wikipedia.

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I get it of course, but just for fun, can you explain it as if I’m too lazy to look up what that is?

(I know serotonin is generally linked with happiness, but I don’t know the other thing)

QI (the British panel show) discussed this in an episode during social distancing where they had to perform with no audience: https://youtu.be/EKVD3n6Atl0 (it’s the first topic of conversation, not the whole episode of course)

My favourite bit is:

Alan: “I had a radio show in the late 90’s, and we were so funny that the people at the BBC comedy said we could use those laughs on nearly every other program we make. […] That was the best compliment I’ve ever had in my whole career. ‘We’ve kept your laughs, and we’re using them on other shows’.”

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Wasn’t there an indisputable video of a tortoise hunting a bird or something like that a while back?

Edit: https://youtu.be/gGdsENsy68g

Someone’s been reading SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/red-2

It actually turns out to be a lot easier just to make smaller spiders.

Oh, so it’s custom-made as a joke, not an off-the-shelf model that you just put the wrong bullets in. That makes more sense.

I am so sick of this joke. Under every single post related to passwords, there’s always someone coming in the comments saying ******* like you just did.

Thanks :)

Why the %^&* does that huge bullet even fit and work in that pistol? From the pic it’s obvious the 45-70 is so much wider than the 9mm

Any explanation for those of us who are not gun enthusiasts?

My guess: it’s a mouthful and not catchy. “Linux” is short, catchy and easy to pronounce. With “GNU/Linux” I don’t even know if I’m supposed to spell out the GNU or pronounce it as a word, and I don’t know if I’m supposed to say the “/” as “slash” or “plus” or “and” or if it should actually just be silent. I like to type how I speak, so if I don’t know how to say it I’m not going to write it, and I’m not going to like reading it.

I can totally see the merits for “GNU/Linux” but don’t underestimate the importance of catchiness. Maybe if it were shortened to “Ginux” it could stand a better chance, but then we’d have another gif situation.