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Comment · 2 months ago
Verbing weirds language.
Comment · 6 months ago
“The question of whether Machines Can Think is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.” — Dijkstra
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Comment · 2 years ago
No inside information, but presumably this means Delivery to other organizations, which, among other things, includes maintaining outbound IP reputation, which is closely related to Spam and Abuse.
Comment · 2 years ago
Semi-related, in a past life, I used ... to indicate "not implemented yet":

    def not_implemented_yet():
      ...
Comment · 2 years ago
> MS-DOS shipped with a TUI text editor since version 5 (1981)

MS-DOS 5 came out in 1991, not 1981.

Comment · 3 years ago
A long, long time ago I also implemented tic-tac-toe in HTML. But just as a set of HTML pages with links for each X move (and an implied O move by the "computer" player). Total size of all the pages combined is about 60 kilobytes.
Comment · 3 years ago
The middle light in a traffic light is called yellow in the US, and orange in (some parts of?) Europe.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Didn't this happen a few weeks ago already?
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Comment · 3 years ago
This reminds me of challenge 28 from the game Human Resource Machine.

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