Those IP addresses were about the most believable thing in that episode. It’s occasionally amusing nonsense, requires about 1% concentration, and if you fall asleep in one episode and wake up in the next, you won’t need to reach for the remote.

It’s from FUBAR. I think they took the show’s name as a general directive.

You could buy a webserver outside the country and set up your own VPN software or something. I think there are forms that look like https.

Anyone used / got any opinions on Algo?

Down with collaboration. It’s all about cooperation now.

Told

So glad they put an onion in that shot—I had no idea what they were talking about until I saw it.

FTFY

Actually (pronounced acktschually) it’s ‘shayz long’ The ‘s’ is usually only silent when it’s the last letter of the word.

The character was created specifically because when we write we use different length dashes to mean different things—subtraction through to a pause for thinking.

The automated test will have no difficulty telling them apart. Are you saying it’s hard looking at the results of this tests? You might need to use a font that makes that easy (I agree many monospaced fonts don’t, but that’s not the character’s fault. Or include a step that replaces en with 2 hyphens and em with 3.

It’s more that they used to be shipped 2x4 unfinished, and would be planed smooth on site. Once the equipment and distribution was able to do the planing before it got to the customer, they had so much established practice that the installed timber would be smaller, they had to keep to what people were used to.

2” x 4” construction timber is 1.5” x 3.5” because of industrialisation (not shrinkflation)

I’m almost more irritated by the use of two hyphens instead of a colon after the first definition. They just didn’t give a shit really.

If you read the article, both points are addressed.

Read ahead.

Is that why bees can’t wear contact lenses?

Yup–a sarnie shop in a Spa town. See what they’ve done there…

I’m sure I remember a similar story about someone very excited to get a response each night, and eventually they followed the return call, it got louder and louder, and eventually they saw some other idiot hooting like an owl through the trees.

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It’s pretty nasty—loads from a 3rd party domain (termly.io) that is blocked by uBO, and I had to disable it to load at all. After that, it loads into an iframe with a src of https://app.termly.io/policy-viewer/iframe-content.html?policyUUID=97db19c6-7afc-444b-bd38-9a2ac329fcac which you can load directly and print. It still has all the user-select: none css settings applied so you can’t highlight / copy / paste, but that’s easy enough to remove in the inspector.

I remember hearing a story of a UN or EU real-time translator working German to English suddenly stopping, the English listeners looking a bit confused, and after another 15 or 20 seconds of hearing the German speaker continue with still no translation, just heard a whispered “the verb, dammit, the verb!” through their headsets.