My grandparent’s desktop computer. I didn’t break the hardware, but i set the default font size in windows 98 to some ludicrously high value. That made it so large the OS became unusable and the dialog to change it back was also unusable. Probably a quick terminal command would have fixed it within a couple seconds but I wasn’t old enough to understand that and my parents weren’t very tech-savvy.

Dried grasshopper does really taste like prawn crackers.

I think 5 or 6. I’d get to experience living in different cultures without having to abandon friends and family in my current location.

I laughed a lot reading that series. Lots of profanity, but really fun.

Some suggestions

• Saturn Returns by Sean Williams
• the Uplift universe by David Brin (Sundiver, Uplift war, Uplift trilogy etc)
• Existence by David Brin
• Helix and Helix Wars by Eric Brown
• the Shoal Sequence by Gary Gibson

1506 partners. Insane.

And the rest of the world will say the same with respect to American spyware.

This is damn great.

Backlash. \ls would get you regular ls. Note that ls already is aliased on some popular distros with some common flags.

Something I did to someone who needed to know the effects of not locking ones screen when away: alias ls to echo 'Error: file not found'. Took them a good hour to figure out what was wrong with their machine 😅

Dd is known as disk destroyer for a good reason. Very easy to fuck yourself over.

The differences between California and Alabama are still an order of magnitude or more smaller than between e.g. Portugal and Latvia.

For decades I pronounced albeit like “al-bayt”, instead of “all-be-it”. I only ever saw it in writing, and never hears anyone say it. Meaning made also so much more sense when I finally heard it being said out loud. Eye opener.

For men: formal handshake. For women: anything goes. Between men and women: awkward figuring out what to do.

Location: Netherlands.

Oil lamps are not very complicated to make. And could be useful.

What a farce. And you just know this is gonna be spun like “see, you can’t trust these scientists”, by the alt-right. Whatever legitimacy any future COP may have had has now gone down the drain.

Has this ever been investigated in humans?

The second person during a question is still no special rule for dt. It’s still very regular. For all regular verbs it’s just stem (without the +t).

Examples:

Praten -> stem = praat -> praat jij? Worden -> stem = word -> word jij? Surfen -> stem = surf -> surf jij?

No irregularity for stems ending in d.

But again, there is no special exception for dt. Again it’s the regular rule applied: second person conjugation in questions is just the stem for regular verbs.

This gets really confusing if you’re from Limburg. In Limburgish, “daan” (the cognate to Dutch “dan”) only exists as the time indicator. With comparisons the correct Limburgish is to use “es” for differences (e.g. “Jan is groeter es Maria”, “John is bigger than Mary”), and “wie” for equivalents (e.g “Jan is eve aajd wie Maria”, “John is as old as Mary”). Now “es” is cognate to Dutch “als”, but using it in Dutch as in Limburgish is wrong. So yeah this gets confusing.