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Could work. The guy who currently performs Kermit’s voice is better at singing than talking. (Or that was the case previously. He might have improved since I last consumed Muppet media).

I assume this is like one of those “one lies, the other tells the truth” things and a narcissist would answer “no”. If I saw the QI episode, I’ve long since forgotten what was said about it.

FWIW, my response would be “oh god I hope not”, all the while fretting that I’ve been writing a lot of comments from the first person with lots of "I"s these days, which is a bit self-centred. I don’t have the brain power to rewrite. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Another, slightly more cruel one is to find a perfectionist who thinks that perfectionism is an imperfection and ask them if they’re a perfectionist. A therapist accidentally short-circuited my brain with that one.)

Relevant stand-up routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJXl1gPW0Fc

Caution: If you lean Trumpwards politically, this isn’t for you.

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqEIp2YmtE

Almost but not quite the same energy: https://www.buttersafe.com/2008/10/23/the-detour/

I feel like the demon in the Buttersafe comic was equally and unexpectedly benign and got the guy to his kitchen.

Pros: Little screens on every key!

Cons: Looks awful and costs a fortune!

Get one today!

That’s taxable. In Britain at least, we have the VAT system where businesses must include it in their prices. There are two or three tiers with the highest tier of 20% applying to goods and services absolutely not necessary for day-to-day living.

Businesses are supposed to keep records of what they’ve charged and to whom, and they can use that proof to claim all or part of VAT back, so that the tax falls mostly on the consumer.

Businesses that don’t do this generally get in trouble sooner rather than later.

(Now, I’m not going to claim VAT is perfect, nor that the stratification of it is done correctly as it stands, but it’s proof a system like that can and does exist.)

Yeah. Right Control should be where Fn is for sure.

And as an ISO keyboard user, I need my right Shift key, so that Control has to be a Shift instead. On ISO, left Shift is small and right is large. For that and other reasons I use the right one way more than the left. And if that’s not possible for deep technical reasons, hard-wire it to the left one bypassing all of the trouble. It wouldn’t be the first time a keyboard did something like that.

… and what do you know, there’s a even little space there with no key where they could put the Fn key omitted by those changes.

Everything else I could deal with. Even the otherwise US layout. It’s been a while since I used one, but occasionally there’s a hiccup and I’ll reach for double quote or at-sign in the opposite places, so that muscle memory is still there, maybe waiting for mangling into typing on something like this.

I think the difference with that English word - and indeed many like it in English - is that it’s wearing a disguise borrowed from another language (Latin, at least in part, in this case). German has fewer pretensions.

But where English does have a word made up of native, undisguised parts, we don’t realise we’re probably thinking about those words the same way Germans do with theirs. That is, we don’t really think about the deconstruction unless we’re explicitly asked to, or something unusual triggers an etymological enlightenment.

Or else we had that enlightenment long ago and it’s no longer exciting, I guess.

I’ve always preferred Z for vertical. And that’s as someone who occasionally plays a popular game that uses Y.

These people still have to eat. They have to live somewhere. They still buy things. Often gaudy, awful things and other disgusting displays of wealth, but things nonetheless.

That’s where you get them.

Oh, what’s that? They moved out of the country? Well then, they’re not there to stop the country from nationalising their stake in whatever part of that company exists in that country, are they?

Anyone acting on their behalf to stop that should be taxed on their behalf. They won’t pay their human sock puppets? Don’t be a sock puppet then.

If they want their stake back, they need to live in the company’s host country (because there’s always a main HQ) for one full tax year.

They own multiple stakes in multiple companies in multiple countries? Sucks to be them, I guess. Shouldn’t have been so greedy.

As it stands, it doesn’t look like there is one. It appears to be a recreational mathematical toy for the creator to learn things more than it is for others to play with. It’s kind of neat nonetheless.

I think I might have made different choices for the reversal calculations, but I haven’t really thought about how I’d implement those choices, nor about nigh-insurmountable edge cases, and I’m only vaguely thinking about the “c = a OP b” case, not anything more extreme. The creator may have wanted to make the same choices but found themselves forced down a different path.

Verbatim from the creator: “it is imperfect”.

On the one hand I like and respect Gabe for staying relatively down to Earth.

But on the other Steam is the DRM that prevents people from owning what they bought and the dude has a fricking yacht. “But he eaaarned it waaah”, yeah, and how did he earn it? I refer you back to the previous point.

I seem to remember a story about how something - a neural net, or an early reinforced learning experiment - ended up accidentally exploiting a physics bug in a chip to achieve a result that should have gone through the chip’s expected circuitry instead.

It was specific to that one particular chip, and swapping it out for another supposedly identical chip caused the calculation, or simulation, or whatever that was running on the larger system, to fail.

That is, it wasn’t supposed to be exploiting physics glitches but that’s what happened.

… I think I found it. It happened all the way back in the 1990s if this story is to be believed: https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

A translation into Latin doesn’t seem to scan with the tune (caveat: translation software used)… So she was singing in English? In Germany? During Latin class?

Yep. That’s definitely without a care in the world.

Did she do “If you’re happy and you know it” for an encore?

I heard the kids are putting a space before the exclamation mark to tone down its immediacy:

See you there !

versus

See you there!

I’m old. I guess it works, but then I’m of the “ellipsis isn’t necessarily ominous” generation, so what I think might be completely wrong…

In before Microsoft break out the FUD tactics and a year or two of cheap licenses.

“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” – Charles Babbage, discovering what Technical Support would be dealing with a century or more later.

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The server’s response, regrettably, deferr’d;
The connexion there, I fear, is insecure;
We understand, dear friend, if you might demur