Oh, I do hope that there won’t be an influx of Elon Musk deepfakes on Xitter any time soon, because that would be terrible.

I got nerd sniped by 151 being “nearly twice as strong” as 80. Not because 151 isn’t 160, but because you can’t get stronger than pure ethanol at 200 proof. (Other alcohols, additives and dehydrating agents notwithstanding.)

From a certain perspective then, 200 proof would count as infinitely strong, and that’s reflected in the difficulty that exists in distilling pure ethanol. This is a lot like the amount of effort required to reach light speed, so maybe “relativistic” mathematics is required here.

Sooo, from this particular ~reference frame~ perspective, 151 is about “twice” 91 proof, and “twice” 80 proof is about 138, assuming I haven’t messed up the calculations.

And if my even sketchier algebra is right, 151 proof is about 2.324 “times” 80 proof.

(This would have been a lot funnier if 151 had turned out to be exactly “twice” 80 under this system, but alas it is not.)

People who like dark chocolate are more likely to tell people of their preference.

The creature on the right in this comic has white hands, suggesting gloves. I was under the impression that only the gloveless version was public domain.

LibreOffice have specifically called them out, so I guess the support isn’t as good for ODF as it is for Microsoft’s OOXML.

If I correctly remember the minimum number of moves required to get all the disks from one tower to another, 10 layers is going to be a slog.

I’m going to guess that users lost their files and complained, so Canonical stopped trying to make it easy enough for those users to try.

Incredibly relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJCC6kaAF-A

There might be any one of a number of confusions here, depending how I read your comment. Or there are none at all. Hard to be sure. But for clarification’s sake:

Euro Office is not OnlyOffice. OnlyOffice is not OpenOffice, which is essentially defunct but was the most popular suite that first adopted ODF. OnlyOffice may have been named that way to lure people away from OpenOffice, which was, and is, still in use in some places despite a better non-proprietary option being available. Namely:

LibreOffice is the successor to OpenOffice and uses ODF as its default, so its support is 100%.

OnlyOffice supports* ODF too, but it’s by far not the, uh, only one.

* According to their specifications anyway. I haven’t used it to be able to confirm how good their support is.

They could have supported both by default.

Someone somewhere made the decision to concentrate on OOXML to the exclusion of everything else, either clueless as to how that would look, or hoping that few people would notice and the fall-out would be minimal.

Either way, neglect of the open alternative is not a good look.

Words often abbreviate to their stressed syllables, and occasionally any hard sounds that aren’t strictly stressed also follow through. In bicycle these are the “bi” and the hard second c.

Bi(cy)c(le)

The spelling “bike” is unambiguous* for those sounds, so it’s the one that stuck.

* Well, relatively. If you’re confusedly expecting, say, Greek, you might pronounce those vowels differently.

I think you were downvoted because Euro Office has made the mistake of supporting Microsoft document formats above all else and don’t have good support for the ODF alternatives at the moment.

They have since said they want to do better, but they’re off on the wrong foot.

Source: https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/06/09/libreoffice-brands-euro-office-a-de-facto-ally-of-microsofts-lock-in-strategy/5252854

In the C programming language. Or do you mean which C project specifically? Because as Technus surmises in their response, it’s usually a better idea to set up aliases (typedefs or heck, even #defines) so that you’re offloading some of the mental strain keeping track of the layers, and that’s likely to be what happens in production code.

But the underlying data type is still T***.

Dynamically allocated multidimensional arrays.

Using knowledge gleaned only from watching South Park, the character in green is half-Canadian.

I say half because he has a mouth like the other guy and not a flappy head, but he still has the beady eyes.

I have social anxiety and some kind of high-functioning AuDHD going on. That makes most social events weird and baffling to me to be fair.

But since you want stories here’s a couple that are short and sweet if a bit loosey goosey on the social element:

One time on a bus, late at night, a very drunk individual was encouraging conversation (if only because most of the other passengers weren’t sure what he would do if we didn’t respond). He was drinking something simultaneously black and cloudy out of a plastic bottle and offering people swigs. People didn’t go that far into joining in, hence weird rather than actually scary. I may have said “no thanks I’m not sure what that is”, and thankfully he took it well.

Another time, as a kid with family on holiday somewhere. I forget exactly where. A shop in a high street with windows all covered with special offers and an opening time that was pretty soon. We think: “Why not?”. A crowd had gathered by the opening time. The doors opened. The crowd flooded in with us fairly near the front.

The shop was completely empty save for a few guys in suits in formation at the back, and one by the door who’d opened them. Sleazy sales types, maybe religious types. It was hard to be sure, but clearly some kind of bait and switch. Thus began a wave of people trying to get out as the back of the crowd was still trying to get in.

What I’m gathering here is that writing for the same format repeatedly for decades is liable to make an author go a little crazy in the coconut from time to time.

To be honest, I can totally relate.

Firstly, there’s the incorrect assumption that Linux users don’t use Microsoft’s Windows operating system because they’re afraid of it. This may or may not have something to do with the fact that “phobia” has two meanings in modern parlance, one which means fear and the other that extends to mean hatred.

But you probably know all that.

The other part is that it’s surprisingly common for detractors of the Russian state to “accidentally” fall out of a window. This then appears in the news. We know it wasn’t an accident. The Russian state knows it wasn’t an accident. We know they know and they know we know, but there’s no proof and no investigation, so it was an accident. Got it? Good.

And so detractors of the Russian state are also afraid of windows.

Personally, I think Putin should spend a lot more time near them.

FTP was in its heyday for obtaining files. Usenet was the place to be for grouped content.

Old Gopher information services were mostly dead by '99 but there were still a few holdouts.

E-mail in actual mail clients reigned supreme.

Also, depending of what you think of as “web” these days, most old web stuff was basically just nice-looking text with graphics thrown in and maybe a little JavaScript here and there, not full blown interactive experiences and applications like we have now.

Yoti is British. I get you were talking about Sony, but I wouldn’t want people to get the impression that this is a strictly Japanese thing.