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Deal for he, not for thee.

Naturally! Being able to use your tools how you want/what works best for you is fundamental in my opinion.

C-p and C-n (aka Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N) are the Emacs-style keybindings for previous (line) and next (line), very commonly encountered on the command line and in terminal applications. For example, most shells can use this in addition to up-arrow and down-arrow to cycle thru command history. Many, many more examples exist of applications (not just terminal-based, there are plenty of GUI apps too) that use this convention, as well as other Emacs-style keybindings (e.g. C-a for beginning of line, C-e for end of line).

The Son of Altman decided that the most efficient way to get rid of all the bugs was to get rid of all the tokens, which is technically and extractively correct.

— Gilfoyle

From what I understand about this story, the homeowner had the presence of mind to immediately attempt to preserve the meteorite, which is what made subsequent analysis possible.

Presumably other fragments landing outdoors with no one around taking similar steps to preserve them, even if they were to be recovered, would not be as valuable for study because of their exposure to the natural environment of Earth.

Not to take anything away from Maridona's overall excellence, but his goal was 100% illegal, just none of the referees saw his handball.

Underarm bowling was still allowed when this incident occurred and was therefore legal, just considered very unsportsmanlike and outside the spirit of the game.

As an American it has taken me nearly half a century of occasionally watching cricket to barely comprehend what that sentence means. I love it.

> As an aside, the most powerful F1 engine ever put on the track was made by modifying the little 4-banger m10 found in the BMW 2002. Fun fact.

Supposedly BMW lacked a dyno that went high enough so it's an educated guess what the actual hp was, but definitely over 1,300hp... from a 4-cylinder (turbo charged, and only lasted a few laps, but still) engine!

More money & power than sense. Hubris, greed, malice, psychopathy. One, some or all of these combined in various proportions.

I'm not a graphic arts expert, but the lettering and charts in this presentation appear to be done by hand.

And since this was an internal IBM presentation for salesmen and engineers, the priority likely wouldn't've been on using a polished presenter, just making the information available.

Some anecdata: in the area I'm from in the northeastern US which has a large number of manufacturing/tool & die companies of all sizes, and with a large Polish diaspora, 80% of the most skilled machinists are Polish (or 2nd or 3rd gen descendants), at least that was the case when I was working with these business between 20-30 years ago. Many of the best engineers at these business are Polish as well.

Why not just `scp ~/.tmux.conf remotehost:`?

1.1.1.1 has 4 1’s, as in 4/1, as in April 1 (or so I assume).

PuTTY is absolutely available for Linux. On Debian-based distros it’s just a `sudo apt install putty` away. But why?

Two things come to mind: 1) if any arcing occurs, a metal enclosure will shunt to ground and (hopefully) trip a breaker; 2) in the event of an overload, plastic melts which might result in a fire.