"The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning."

Can the next Doctor Who please be one that scoffs at the idea of crying in every episode?

We're at about exactly the point in technology when, if we could also travel to Jupiter, HAL would kill the crew.

The difference between Data and Lore is that Data was a useful, logical AI, and Lore was generative.

Demonstrating that you don't understand how GPS works is a bold move for a company trying to replace it. See if you can spot it.
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People here think dogs are people, but I just can't square that with the fact that they also let their children poop on my lawn.

Thanks Trump! 🙄

TIL that Python's urllib.request.Request uses str.capitalize() instead of str.title() to normalize headers. So you get `Content-type` instead of `Content-Type`. And that Request.get_header() does not attempt to normalize, so you have to know that to inspect headers. 😞

They've already been around for 10 years? How old am I?
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Remember, folks: Inside every snowflake is a tiny bacterium that can teach water how to crystalize.

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Is it still doom scrolling if instead of social media it's whitehouse.gov?

It's dumb that braided cables also have a layer of plastic insulation, on top of every wire also having its own insulation.

Since we compare engineers to their role and level, you really don't want to be a 10X engineer. A 10X engineer is an engineer who's great at engineering, but lacks (or has) whatever quality is holding them back from promotion, where they'd only be a 5X engineer or whatever.

Google's "Live Caption" feature transcribed "anecdotally" as "enigdotally" and I'm loving it. It's like "someone told this weird story, very mysterious."

I've been seeing more tofu lately, on Windows, and even on my phone. Did something happen to Unicode?

Why is vegetarian about what I *don't* eat?