Is this even true? I am fairly sure that Linux also has a graceful shutdown process, but I’ll admit I haven’t looked into it.

I think it’s funny for the exact same reason that this xkcd is funny: https://xkcd.com/1168/

Why does the majority of your post read like you don’t know these exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_power_connector

They’re fine, but as you mentioned in the first paragraph, lack of a standard is their main drawback. You could find two power supplies with the exact same connector but different voltage and polarity.

Floppy disk. Fight me.

Voyager error. It’s a gif of Star Trek, I think.

All thermometers are atom-based.

… We were all thinking it!

I think you have them backwards, surely the Charizard is the granddad

How does that work? Colored e-ink?

Don’t know, never been :P

I meant her. Mike and his guitar; Sarah and her violin; The computer and its speakers.

“its” is comparable to “his” or “her”, not to e.g. “Dave’s”.

Going to concerts. It’s too loud and it’s crowded, I just don’t see the appeal.

And while we’re at it, dancing. It’s unnatural, I tell you!

When a country goes to war, internal conflicts (i.e. left wing vs. right wing) are forgotten, or at least put on hold, and everyone is suddenly on the same page.

you kid, but there’s no shortage of steam games where steam (a launcher) updates the game’s launcher

I haven’t seen them, but based on your description, I think this xkcd explains how these movies were conceived:

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Of course it still matters, you just take the best case for n as n→∞, instead of the worst or average case.

Really annoys me that this is actually O(n log n) because for large enough n the merge sort will take longer than n*1e6 second. Randall should know better!

Dang, I definitely remember this scene and it’s been ages since I’ve seen this show.

Fascinating!

Nah, my .de means nothing, it was just an arbitrary choice of instance for me.

Was changing your name not possible back then, or were you just not aware that it’s possible?