The funniest thing to me is that any good manual would just say “DO NOT USE SOCKS AND FLIP FLOPS SIMULTANEOUSLY”

The cool and/or awful thing about language (not just English) is that if enough people many the same mistake, it’s no longer a mistake!

I think you are wrong in this case. For example, many people would write X’s when talking about multiple instances of the letter X. As another commenter said, there are exceptions and acronyms can be one of them.

But I upvoted you anyway because us pedants need to stick together.

I love this

Can the universe handle two tech celebrity Linuses in the same room?

I’m in the same boat. What I’d give to keep contact with my family without being forced to use the WhatsApp app.

Blasphemy!

It seems I had semicolons confused with braces:

if picture is broken, it’s this:

~ $ python -c "from __future__ import braces"
  File "<string>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance

I am so perplexed and horrified. I’m going to need several weeks to get over this. What is this?!

I also did not get the joke. What is the joke?

Once at a job when I was supposed to make a website work (and I’ll stress, I am not a graphic designer and wasn’t hired as one!) I made the layout as nice as I could, but I insisted on only using named CSS colors because I just do. not. care. about color theory. By which I mean, I don’t want to waste time and do a crappy job at it when someone else could do it much better and properly and faster. So the named colors are meant as an obvious placeholder for a more creative person to replace with something real later.

When my boss gave me feedback he just said that it’s ugly. I started saying “yeah, the colors are placeholders, we can change that easily. I’ll fiddle it with it I’ll stick with named colors” (above explanation was to follow).

Before I even got to the named colors bit, he interrupted me and said “don’t use named colors ever”.

I guess maybe I was hired as a graphic designer? News to me!

(I’m making him sound awful but he was actually a really good boss. This interaction is not representative of our usual dynamics. I’m not employed by him anymore but we are on good terms.)

No.

I don’t have the mental capacity right now to write a proper response, but hard no on that. Live lectures are amazing.

I’ll be impressed if you tell me what operating system I’m using.

100% accurate and I’m excellent at math. Lose focus during the trivial part and the next thing I know, I have no idea what’s going on.

FWIW this is what I did:

$ ssh-keygen -f fake_ssh_key

(press Enter twice for no passphrase)

and then:

$ cat fake_ssh_key

Which I then just copy-pasted from the terminal. Surely this can’t reveal anything about my other private keys, right?

To save anyone the trouble, here’s a key I’ve generated just now:

-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAAAMwAAAAtzc2gtZW
QyNTUxOQAAACAqTGrNcWWZrKjDzAgG1KaCYAOOAoqSSQvvWVgUx7PdMgAAAJgzuRsTM7kb
EwAAAAtzc2gtZWQyNTUxOQAAACAqTGrNcWWZrKjDzAgG1KaCYAOOAoqSSQvvWVgUx7PdMg
AAAEC8jODzrMngnvJlMwtlhqwlI6qS42WlzSDADbEYaCsRzCpMas1xZZmsqMPMCAbUpoJg
A44CipJJC+9ZWBTHs90yAAAAEXUwX2E0MzhAbG9jYWxob3N0AQIDBA==
-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----

(and if I did it wrong enough, well, you can hack me but please let me know how I fucked up)

Change any random character in there to see how the website reacts to a unique key. I changed an O to an o and it accepted it.

Yup, I only switch to it when I really need to. That’s when typing code, commands, or mathematical stuff. It’s got quick access to so many characters!

⌊π⌋∈ℕ

Every character in that line is instantly available in the math layout.

I agree. It’s only usable for coding and Termux. For everyday typing I use Gboard, but plenty of other options are available.

I use Acode: GitHub / F-Droid / Play Store

It’s got everything you could want from a text/code editor, comparable to Notepad++ on Windows.

I’ve tried Squircle CE in the past but I didn’t like it, though I don’t remember why.

For typing code, I highly recommend Unexpected Keyboard: GitHub / F-Droid / Play Store

And if you do want to use git, Termux is the easy pick: https://termux.dev/en/ . It can also easily run Python scripts with full functionality, but I wouldn’t know about C#.

What’s wrong with that? My first cat was allowed in and out whenever he wanted. It’s not a flawless system but it has some merits. Why should a cat be locked up like a prisoner?

It’s like the old saying: if you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they’re yours.

That said, our current cat does stay home 24/7. This was a conscious decision before we got her (less worries, less fleas), but she turns out to be such a scaredy-cat that she would never leave the house even if given the choice. I’ve tried to let her a few times as an experiment. Even when we just have some guests over - whom she has already met, and who come regularly enough - she still hides under the bed.

Basically it depends on the cat. Some cats live their best lives when allowed both indoors and outdoors.