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Copilot copilotted your Copilot. Something something marklar.

Frankly, I’m surprised an old-school juggernaut like Zawinski doesn’t already have his own mail server. It’s not like he lacks the technical ability to set one up.

Are you sure that’s not pre-Python? Maybe one of David Frost’s shows like At Last the 1948 Show or The Frost Report.

Marty Feldman (the customer) wasn’t one of the Pythons, and the comments on the video suggest that Graham Chapman took on the customer role when the Pythons performed it. (Which, if they did, suggests that Cleese may have written it, in order for him to have been allowed to take it with him.)

Lucky you had a motherboard with a CMOS battery. Without that*, you needed to enter the time and date every time the computer booted / rebooted.

* Or a capacitor instead.

LMDE’s system is the same as regular Mint. I’ve been on LMDE for a few years but was on regular before that.

YSK/PSA: If you’re on Mint, Mint’s apt is not Debian’s apt and while they work similarly for common use cases, they diverge pretty quickly beyond that. Both are installed by default but Mint’s takes precedence.*

Case in point: I was looking for which package - specifically one that was not yet installed - contains a certain command line tool and Mint’s apt search does not find it. Debian’s does. **

On the other hand, Mint’s apt has way more subcommands than the default one, which have been useful on occasion.

* Mint’s is at /usr/local/bin/apt and Debian’s is at /usr/bin/apt; The default user $PATH puts /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin.

** FWIW, the tool is/was sponge and it’s in the moreutils package.

Edit: It has come to my attention that it isn’t actually the people behind the Pi doing this. I really should read more rather than jumping to conclusions. There’s a few obvious rewrites I could make, but I think the prediction at the end is still valid even if the route I took wasn’t the right one.

This would appear to indicate that someone in charge of product design at Pi HQ is a Gen X-er or Boomer desperate to relive computing history through their own products.

Computer on a board. Bigger computer on a board. Computer entirely within a keyboard.

And now a computer in a PC-like case.

Prediction: The next step will be some kind of ARM-based cloud service.

The real question might be whether the compiler was smart enough to change var++ and var-- into ++var and --var when the initial values aren’t needed.

As compiler optimisations go, it’s a fairly obvious one, but it was 1974 and putting checks like that in the compiler would increase its size and slow it down when both space and time were at a premium.

This is pretty smart for the left guy. He’s usually down at the level of “HTML is a programming language” or “What’s a programming language?”.

That said, the first one of those isn’t mutually exclusive with what he says in the meme.

Pros: Little screens on every key!

Cons: Looks awful and costs a fortune!

Get one today!

I don’t happen across Medium very often so I wondered what this sentiment was about.

Apparently Medium is basically YouTube for bloggers and essayists (with apologies to those who surely think that’s an insulting comparison) and the new CEO messed with the algorithm so much that now writers’ content isn’t being promoted as well as it used to be, and the people who subscribed (or followed, or whatever) aren’t even seeing that content as much any more.

~… and it seems there’s no option to get a notification about new content from favourite writer, but maybe I’ve missed it. No “ring that bell” here.~ Edit: When I turned on JavaScript I got a pop-up implying that exists, at least for people who aren’t logged in.

But as far as I can tell, that doesn’t necessarily mean we should hate the content that’s on there.

On the one hand, the PDF editing feature could be useful, but on the other, it’s a sign of yet more feature creep and I don’t know whether I’m justified in feeling concerned about it.

Also: Ctrl+r then type the part of the command you remember.