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The following lines say "any of", not "all of". Lack of one particular feeling does not imply lack of consciousness. Lack of all of them probably would.

It's a bit of a challenge to get suitable trees to grow in the central California desert.

In the "number field" clock, the hours are always along the top row only. 12:10 and 10:12 look different.

HP calculators were an important part of my formative years. I have a 12C, 15C, and 16C (all original models). I also have an HP-35 (red LED digits) within reach right now. That was the calculator I used for high school exams, because we weren't allowed "programmable" calculators so I had to go a bit retro for the time.

The 16C was an interesting model. It had a lot of potential capability with the different word sizes and bitwise operations, but I think it fell short in practice because the operations it could do just weren't that useful.

My favourite model is the 15C, it got me through four years of math, physics, and computer science university classes. The integration and matrix functions were super useful because it was hard to do some of that stuff in your head.

I had that "a-ha" moment not at first by learning that "fenêtre" means "window", but later when I learned the German word is "Fenster".

The story didn't mention what had happened to inflation in the meantime. A dozen eggs costs $32.

Electricity costs money too? I don't know how the cost of power compared to the cost of a candle in the beginning of the 20th century though.

MajorBBS could handle multiple lines on its own, but you had to handle ALL of the lines with one box. That meant a serial port interface like DigiBoard which provided some number (8 or 16 or more) of serial ports that you would connect to modems.

Sheesh, trigger warning please! I remember the how.

The walrus operator allows you to use `elif` there to avoid cascading indentation.

    if m := re.match(pattern1, line):
        do_stuff(m.group(1))
    elif m := re.match(pattern2, line):
        do_other_stuff(m.group(2))
    elif m := re.match(pattern3, line):
        do_things(m.groups())
    else:
        ...