Tit just used to mean small. That’s how the word came to be used for some boobs, then all boobs. Perhaps teat (nipple) got shortened also, but the bird is named for being small

There’s also the titmouse which is littler than other mice

I’m not sure what you’re asking which of. I might have not worded the last part of my comment unambiguously

To rewrite:

I don’t think you can tell Linux from a Unix by looking at it reliably. Though in general unixes are tidier, there are Linux users that are just as tidy and keep their system just like a Unix one

We have an eco system in southern Australia that at the moment is eucalyptus trees. They take over all at once after a fire, and they live about 300 years. When they die off rainforest trees and undergrowth take over, until there’s a dry period and fire

I have a portable cold beer system but they probably wouldn’t allow it into the server room. Do you have a good excuse for outside hours access so we can sneak it in?

This is not very enticing as an idea — that something special happened to have this universe just right — as we really don’t know whether there were unsuccessful universes before ours, we don’t know what happened before the big bang that created our universe

There could be good reasons we don’t know of that forces all the constants to be as they are. The dice could have been cast many times before. We can’t know. This idea doesn’t help

There is so incredibly much knowledge that isn’t on the internet.

No they can’t, at least not in general. The longest lived, easiest to date, life has been trees, but there’s no suggestion that they’ll survive climate change

Most trees have live spans in the low hundreds of years

I don’t think you want to run on all of those devices. I think you probably only want to run on your machine and your other machine

I don’t think you can tell a Linux from a Unix. Though in general unixes are tidier, there are Linux users with Unix style and habits that will break the style

In Canberra they’re black overlaid with iridescent colours. They fly noisily when it’s dark

Some people have a very strong opinion that wanking is bad, probably a sin too. They’ll make up whatever they need to, especially now as they need to fight the advice that regular ejaculations protect against prostate cancer

The post appears to be about “perfect flowers” which are flowers that have both male and female parts, joking on that and human sexuality

Shame he never tested the switch’s continuity between the connected pin and the case in the two switch positions

For clean power it’s now actually practical to power the amp by batteries

I don’t believe you could save the emissions from animal agriculture. Most animal ag is on land that isn’t suitable for growing crops, if it was ended, the land would become useless and left to go wild where it would support just as many just as polluting animals, but with no possibility of treating the pollution problem as no one would be managing the wild animals

He’s saying bug lite is a low calorie drink for dieting spiders

Electrical engineering is designing stuff an electrician might work on, something that’s part of the grid, electronic engineers work on stuff with chips in them. Most of the stuff Big Clive shows was designed by an electronic engineer

My favourite subjects in school and university were the humanities, but I landed in IT systems analysis which turned out to be fun for me, especially now I’m good at it, but I’m pretty trapped there by ok pay and a very generous retirement plan (we called it golden handcuffs back when there were many of us with access to it — since the early 2000s it got less generous.

I feel like I could run a brewpub in my retirement, I wouldn’t need it to survive as I’d be on a good pension indexed to the CPI*, and it would work as a one man operation

(Consumer price index, the cost of living)

What he’s saying is there is always a bulge of water pointing at the moon (and another pointing away from it) the earth spins so the land sees the bulge coming and retreating as our bit of coast passes under the moon

It’s a bad description because the water also spins with the rest of the world, so though there always is a bulge that is stationary relative to the moon, there is always different water being part of it.

Also part of the tide is solar, if you see a highest high tide or lowest low tide, it is very likely it will be at a full or new moon as that is when the moon and sun are aligned, with the moon on one side or the other of Earth (or lagging that by days due to land getting in the way)