"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.

He would pepper the order with "to the extent permissible by law" to make it clear that it's legal.

You can't argue that he's ordering something illegal if it says right there that it's not.

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

Tern AI’s low-cost GPS alternative actually works | TechCrunch We’ve all experienced that moment of frustration when the GPS glitches and you miss an exit on the highway. The team at Tern AI, which is building a

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.

Net worth, down and to the right. 📉

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. 😞

Encryption for Everybody 2025 marks ten years of Let’s Encrypt. Already this year we’ve taken steps to continue to deliver on our values of user privacy, efficiency, and innovation, all with the intent of continui...

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?

Did they forget to add a Reply-To header with a different address?

Like, I prefer to eat vegetables, and an obvious name for that would be vegetarian, but no, I have to swear off meat to be that?

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