These people’s minds will be blown when they hear about virtual machines.

There used to be a chain of burger restaurants in the UK named after that character. They had a burger called the Bender.

Edit: apparently still going, but they rebranded the Bender as the Bendy for… reasons.

Kinky! Are you on Recon?

About a quarter of a millilitre.

“Perfection is the enemy of progress.”

A really good quote that I live by. It was also popular with the Nazis, unfortunately, so if it’s not a self-illustrative example then I don’t know what is.

Ideally the wheel should be big enough for a single human but not so big that it can fit multiple humans.

Source: I was once a child on a wheel big enough for multiple humans.

It’s like saying “prove you don’t own a poodle”. How do you prove that? I can tell you I don’t own a poodle… but how can you be sure?

“Sire! The Theiyr"reian hoards have attacked the village of Peasantry. The Peasants, they fight back, Sire, but they will surely be overwhelmed. We expect a death toll in the millions, Sire.”

“Dispatch ten knights to se- wait, ‘millions’? There’s only a few thousand people in that village.”

“Yes, Sire, we included the Theiyr"reians in our estimates… there’s a lot of them but they fight with wooden swords, Sire.”

“…”

“They are an inefficient peoples, Sire.”

Theiyr"re

In my secondary school we were expected to address all the teachers by name so I tended to use “Er…”.

I don’t have a cat. But rest assured that if I did it would be pampered and, potentially, overfed. So we’ll call that a draw.

Thousandsaire.

It may be a getting-older thing, but I used to despise sparking water, whereas now I find it merely intolerable.

Yeah, that’s it. State’s rights.

IMHO, there are only personal rights and government rights. State’s rights just means consolidation of power to a specific level of government and since those powers rarely come from a different level of government, where else could they come from*…?*

£21/mo for a 100Mb/s VDSL connection split at 80/20: speeds as advertised, ~10ms latency. I’m living in the centre of a large market town in the North of England.

Two doors down, my neighbour is paying £25/mo for symmetric gigabit FTTP with negligible latency, but the fibre network doesn’t extend to my property. Fuckers.

Oh, I also have a backup/travel LTE service which provides about a 1150Mb/s down and 300Mb/s up with 20ms latency which costs me £18/mo.

Is the North Korean currency called Lost?

As someone who is trying to get Meshtastic to work I feel this. My pocket node can connect to people 50km away, but the base station with the chongus antenna can only connect across town?

Amen. Monitors, digital signage and, as you said, business projectors are the way. CEC, auto input switching and ARC are all the smarts I want in a TV.

Originally it was a technical necessity since Twitter had to work via SMS which has a limit of 160 characters. The enforced brevity was part of it’s original charm IMHO.