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  • But there are some of us who don't even care if Star Trek is better than Star Wars.

  • Terry Pratchett used to describe that as the school of "what my mate down the pub said" thinking.

  • "Yeah, nah" used as a spoken pause. Don't. Please. For my sake.

  • A MUD is a Multi User Dungeon - imagine a fully text-based MMO. They've been around since the late 70s.

  • Every so often I go through a phase:

    1. "Second Life was fun. Why did I stop using it?"
    2. Recreate account, log in.
    3. Watch FPS drop to a fraction with a lot of zeroes at the start of it as all the adverts struggle to load.
    4. "Oh, yeah. That was why."
  • Imagine having multiple people texting you to pick up some milk on the way home.

  • It's one of life's little injustices that coffee never tastes as good as it smells.

  • Not worried exactly - but aware that I probably said something factually incorrect and now dozens of helpful people are lined up to set me straight.

  • If it's a top-loading freezer, rotate out the food you have on the bottom regularly or it'll go to waste.

  • Did Ru5ty ever add the extra functionality he collected all those donations for?

  • Were? I get their short clips in my Youtube recommendations.

  • how would small business be best to use there accounts rather than shoving ads in your face.

    Let me be clear: I don't want you to bring marketing to the last tiny space on the internet where no-one is trying to sell me things. Go to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, one of the hundred or so for-profit social networks.

  • Why should it be necessary to block business from a social platform? Shouldn't personal communication be the default? We don't need to monetise every breath we take.

  • Well... I'm going to hold off in any case, because it doesn't take much reading to realise he has some kind of mental disorder. He might be an asshole as well as being disordered, but sharing his details would feel too much like collectively pointing and laughing at the disabled guy.

  • Wouldn't that be doxxing?

  • Gods who specifically said 'blessed are the peace-makers', no less.

  • I was working for an ISP and sent one of our customers a warning about harassing people via email. He switched to me instead. It escalated up the chain to my manager's manager, who called the customer's dad because he was 14. Dad got him under control, because the alternative was to lose his phone service for 12 months.

    A year later, the kid contacted me again to say I should give him a job, because I'm an incompetent fuck and users shouldn't have to put up with me. Would you be surprised to learn we didn't hire him?

    Every few years I stalk his blog to see what he's been up to. There's usually a couple more arrests to add to the tally, but like always they weren't his fault, because someone provoked him!

  • Plato's the one you don't wanna argue with. Dude was an ex-wrestler.

  • Another important thing is knowing when to use maths. I've been doing some statistical analysis for a personal project lately and it struck me that without those tedious lessons I'd have no idea this was even possible, never mind how to do it.