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Algol

Roger dodger!
Re:The Age of the Essay (2004) on Saturday September 04, 2021 @04:50PM (#28419050)
I feel like writing about surprising and humorous things can be a specific kind of bias, but at least an entertaining bias.
I don't see a mention of quantum computers in the article. I think LHCb detected the particle.
*palladium

Though I guess that is also a precious metal.

Re:The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @04:54AM (#27128191)
The comment is in reference to the bar graph at the end of the article.
Re:RegEx Crossword on Saturday March 13, 2021 @03:23PM (#26449655)
That was a lot of fun. It can help solving this puzzle if you are familiar with techniques for solving picross (AKA nonogram) puzzles.
Re:Twitter was down on Thursday July 11, 2019 @10:15PM (#20417557)
I think they retired the fail whale some time ago.

I looked it up: in 2013, because they didn't want to be associated w/ outages.