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Re:The tiny cell that wasn't there on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:43PM (#48910450)
Two phases of Bigelowii.

Deuce Bigelowii.

Huh.

Re:Precursor on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:19PM (#48910097)
“Move your mouse without rhythm to avoid the worm”
Brings up a ‘Do you want to download “sync” on “lithub.com” and “dsp-service.admatic.de”?’ dialog on my iPad.

Hard pass.

Don’t get hung up on “hung up”. Time goes by so slowly.
Re:Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012) on Sunday January 25, 2026 @11:09PM (#46761783)
The question that flew under the radar ;)
I’ll give this app a try later.
Re:Nerd: The First Programming Language Not Built for Humans on Thursday January 01, 2026 @03:50AM (#46452426)
“Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?”

This belongs in a sitcom, and it actually did until now.

Re:Sandhill Cranes Have Adopted a Canada Gosling on Monday October 27, 2025 @09:19AM (#45720747)
I thought this was about Sand Hill Road funded startups welcoming University of Waterloo interns. Oh well.
Does it talk?
Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal on Sunday November 26, 2023 @04:11AM (#38420245)
As a newly-minted Canadian I've noticed that as well. I moved to Toronto from Istanbul five years ago and while I was away, Istanbul added 75 kilometers to its metro. That's longer than the entire Toronto Subway.

All this talk about being a world-class city, while nobody knows when Eglinton Crosstown, a "subway" line using streetcar ("LRT") tech that's been "in progress" since 2011, will open. Don't even get me started on SmartTrack :)

Re:How the Billboard Hot 100 Lost Interest in the Key Change on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:13AM (#33650647)
The author, by making this claim, lays bare the fact that they do not know about Eurovision.

Key changes are so common in Eurovision songs that it is mentioned in the ultimate Eurovision spoof song "Love Love Peace Peace", which also features at least one key change: https://youtu.be/Cv6tgnx6jTQ

The reports of the death of the key change, dare I say, are greatly exaggerated.

Re:Nagorno-Karabakh’s Myth of Ancient Hatreds (2020) on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:16AM (#32926329)
Melkon is the Armenian form of the name "Melchior", so yes.
Re:Finnish as a world language? on Friday August 26, 2022 @02:42PM (#32611197)
Because it's a bug, not a feature.
+1 for Brother laser printers. I have the MFC-L3710CW model and cannot recommend it enough.
Re:Railway lines once connected the Middle East on Thursday December 30, 2021 @11:01AM (#29737788)
It's not Trablusşark but rather Trablusşam, Tripoli of the Levant: https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trablus%C5%9Fam
I wouldn't go to Webster's for definitive information about hydrography. The definitive source is "Limits of Oceans and Seas" by the International Hydrology Organization.

The 3rd edition of that document, which came out in 1953, lists four oceans - same as Webster's sans the Antarctic: https://iho.int/uploads/user/pubs/standards/s-23/S-23_Ed3_19...

The 4th edition of the document, which has been in draft since 1986, adds the Southern Ocean: https://legacy.iho.int/mtg_docs/com_wg/S-23WG/S-23WG_Misc/Dr...

Judging from past donations, this anonymous donor is most probably Mackenzie Scott.

Pure speculation, no actual data to back it up, so don't shoot me.

Re:IBM Z mainframes revived by Red Hat, AI and security on Saturday August 22, 2020 @05:33PM (#24247436)
It looks like they are working on #4: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/lq3CH2Qcqc8

All points listed are very valid BTW.

Re:Why You Should Use a Text Area for Address Form Fields on Friday November 16, 2018 @07:27AM (#18468264)
It is virtually impossible to agree on a set of fields - there is always an exception: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
Re:Turkish Grammar by Predicate Logic on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:49AM (#17758424)
English is not immune to ambiguities and thus not superior to Turkish in this regard:

https://translate.google.com/#en/tr/fruit%20flies%20like%20a...

Re:Going “Write-Only” on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @06:03AM (#9413063)
Even the simplest, most -seemingly- feature-complete software can and will need fixes. The best example comes from the Big Iron world, where a program which does nothing was needed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14
Re:Further Evidence That IQ Does Not Measure Intelligence on Thursday June 06, 2013 @05:21AM (#5831356)
I don't think IQ tests are immune to grade inflation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_inflation), so I am inclined to think of Flynn effect as a special case of it.