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Reminds me of a certain dirty joke. https://folklore.usc.edu/irish-pub-joke/ contains one telling of it, but it’s far older than any attribution given there.

You seem to be familiar with Bash syntax. But others may not be.

If by this you mean that the Bash syntax for doing certain things is horrible and that it could be expressed more clearly in something else, then yes, I agree, otherwise I’m not sure this is a problem on the same level as others.

OP could pick any language and have the same problem. Except maybe Python, but even that strays into symbolic line noise once a project gets big enough.

Either way, comments can be helpful when strange constructs are used. There are comments in my own Bash scripts that say what a line is doing rather than just why precisely because of this.

But I think the main issue with Bash (and maybe other shells), is that it’s parsed and run line by line. There’s nothing like a full script syntax check before the script is run, which most other languages provide as a bare minimum.

That one xkcd about tautologies sure is that one xkcd about tautologies.

As best as I can tell, the 22nd amendment talks about how no-one can serve more than two terms. It does not, however, give a limit on how long a second term can be.

As such he wouldn’t need to touch that particular amendment to retain power, and so I can’t accept the bet.

It took a minute to find the right place, but the four-year maximum term length is actually set in Article II section 1 of the Constitution proper.

And now bear in mind that Donnie is quoted as being in favour of “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” should the circumstances require it.

He’s going to try it. And since he’s immune from prosecution, what’s going to be done about it if he doesn’t leave?

If he’s still alive in 2029, there’s a good chance he’ll still be President then. And I mean after January.

The rules that say he can’t will all be thrown out over the next four years.

Remember in 2017 when he called Xi “king” of China? Xi apparently liked that. It doesn’t matter whether Donnie only thought Xi liked it or if he actually liked it, it showed what’s been going on in Donnie’s head.

He wants to be king, and kings only step aside when they die.

I say all this in the hope that I’m wrong. But I think the US will have more than an election to contest in four years’ time.

The great part is, you don’t even have to have read a blog! Even merely having learned to speak is sufficient!

And maybe not even that! Wild howling! Guttural noises! Ooga-booga! Ugg! Waaga! Eeegh-eeegh-eEeEe!

… I fear I may be too good at this.

These two remind me of AJ and Miranda from the now defunct User Friendly webcomic. On the plus side, it would mean that AJ got his act together enough to be in a relationship with Miranda, but either she’s found a new favourite restaurant all of a sudden or he’s goofed something up and this is a subtle way of messing with him as revenge.

I think they copy-pasted the night sky. Either that or their star placement recreation is superb.

Unfortunately, stupid people also think themselves geniuses forced to suffer fools.

So it turns out that the word centibillonaire existed before this comic and refers to having 100 billion to 999 billion currency, despite the fact that the prefix centi- means a hundredth not a hundred times.

By rights a centibillionaire should have between 10 million and 999 million currency, i.e. less than a billion.

Frickin’ rich people ruining terminology. I’m still convinced that one of the reasons the US came up with the short scale system of numbering was so that a billion dollars was a somewhat achievable goal.

“Thousand-millionaire” doesn’t have the same ring to it, after all, and “milliardaire” sounds like “millionaire” said by someone with a cold.

Sometimes, programs that need to start up an editor will honour the $EDITOR environment variable, which should contain the name of, or full path to, a user’s preferred editor.

It’s not set by default though, and a lot of things will naturally default to vi or even ed. Something to be set in a .profile, .bashrc or similar.

$VISUAL is another variable that is used for similar purposes.

The resemblance to certain two letter commands is not entirely a coincidence.

You gotta reverse psychology the cat. Get a teddy bear. Hug that. Cat may become jealous and want a hug.

And if that doesn’t work, hey, you have a new friend to give a hug to when you need one.

… keep it away from the cat though.

It doesn’t help that some of the duplicates aren’t duplicates at all but some SO admin or mod hasn’t read or understood the question properly and points the asker at something that’s actually only vaguely related or irrelevant.

I’m pretty sure I’ve also heard of askers providing links to other questions that are similar to but not quite what they’re interested in, explained why their question is different and yet it’s one of those linked questions that ends up being identified as being identical to the asker’s question.

There may also be at least one pair of questions that each point back at the other as being the original, and there’s no useful information in either. (I don’t know why this idea is in my head though, so maybe it was a joke I read somewhere.)

Either way, the admins and mods there do not like to be told they are wrong and will shut things down fast if it starts looking like they’ve made a mistake. Unfortunately for them, stories like this get out anyway.

Petty little overlords of the toxic waste dump of their own making.

You could, and I’m just spitballing here, start sending your compiled executables to the anti-virus provider and only continuing work once they’ve been added to the upstream exceptions. Bonus points for compiling hundreds and sending them all. Do that for a day or two and there is sure to be a number of communications many levels above you.

If executed perfectly and all goes well, you’ll get your exceptions access.

Worst case… uh. Maybe this isn’t such a good idea after all.

To be fair, I only know of DJ Khaled from things that make fun of him for being low effort.

Took me longer than it should have to realise who the interviewers are.

For those equally confused: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTdOHBIppx8

Some people run hot, it seems. Regular exercise is one factor, I’m fairly sure, but that only shifts the bell curve and doesn’t rule out those who don’t exercise much and still run hot.

Used to work with a guy who always had to have the window open, whatever the weather, and the draughts in the office were a frequent cause of complaint. I would have relocated his desk outside if I’d thought it would stick.

Have you ever had a dream that you…

Would you like to know more?

English here. I’m with you. I’m not sure if we stole the idea from French, but we do have a lot of spellings reflecting obsolete pronunciations like they do, if not a load of other funny orthographic habits.

Noah Webster did try to fix things a little for the US, but his success was limited. And of course, the rest of the Anglosphere hasn’t bothered.

(We do seem to have adopted “jail” over “gaol” though, if not a couple of others.)

There’s that one totally-not-Superman-based episode of Doctor Who where one of the characters does this with squeaky toys. Here’s the Doctor: Default state, alien and egocentric to the point of sociopathy, being given serious pause at the plight of a squeaky toy.

He knows the whole thing makes no sense at all, and yet… he doesn’t want that toy to squeak in “pain” again.