Similar. I’d guess it was something like ctrl-z; ps -e vi; kill -9 procnum on a vt100 terminal.

ESR: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”

…because corporations are people? Blegh.

Orions are demonstrably mammals, but unfortunately fictional.

You’re forgetting the pre-Web internet: 99% students & academics. It was largely awesome. When you did get trolled, it was by someone who could spell and form a cohesive argument.

This is what happens when you try to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer

I’ve spent a lot of time in RPGs, and the last time I RPed in a G was around the time George Bush’s dad was president.

I’m inclined to believe this, but what I see is laughably bad. I’ve agreed with the premise of Sandy Hook Promise since before the Sandy Hook Massacre, yet they’ve been pounding me with ads for years. Every once in a while, I get a halfhearted “But Trump is pretty cool, isn’t he?” Which will never be clicked. And, when I watched a reaction channel do Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I got a shit-ton of “God hates fagz!” And was pretty glad to see them wasting their money on me.

Did he make you manually allocate all the space for food in your stomach before you started to eat?

“withdrew all ground troops” … “one brigade remains.”

2001 called and asked for its headline back.

I feel like I’ll probably watch that Mayfair Witches show starring Alexandra Daddario at some point, but it hasn’t happened yet.

In case anybody else was confused, the character on The Simpsons is Nelson Muntz.

My experience in going from C to C++ was different: if you’re not converting everything from mallocs with custom addressing systems to the collections framework, you’re not living.

They named the bill wrong - it should be Kids’ Act for Online Safety- KAOS.

Republicans’ effort to count fails after they run out of fingers.

Aussie Pedo-Priest is all you need for a very dark horror-comedy.

My last game was exhausting. Years of cryptic lore, mediocre tie-in properties we pretended were good, pvp you could opt out of midstream by switching off your router, a sandbox that one player characterized as “as wide as the universe and one inch deep.”

So, I thought I’d try something completely different, and that different thing, god help me, is Evony.

Me looking around the article for a satire tag.