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Why stop there? Just have the companies taking out ads send random people their products!

That box is suspiciously similar to the laptop I leave at my parents for when I visit. The mouse and keyboard even look identical!

My wife had a labmate in grad school submit a paper on a comedy robot, and a reviewer noted “the authors mention humor several times but never define the concept.”

I buy myself time by saying “what’s the word for…” and by the time I’ve said that, or perhaps because I primed my brain for it, I immediately remember, and finish by asking what the word for the word I’m thinking of is, which ends up confusing more people than if I hadn’t tried to remember the word at all.

The survey they cite has Bernie at 12%, so I’m not sure what method they did to allow for more than 100% - maybe you could choose more than one answer?

Yeah I work in medical fraud detection, and I think it’s wild that if you only steal a few hundred thousand you buy a car and then get caught and sent to jail, but if you steal orders of magnitude more you get to be governor and then senator of Florida.

I really thought this was an elaborate Saddam hiding meme

I feel very confident in my understanding of random 8 bit CPUs and their support chips, but asking me to center a div is like this xkcd.

I legitimately know people who press the caps lock key, type what they need uppercased, then press the caps lock key again. That said, I use both shift keys.

In undergrad I once went back to my dorm room and eagerly showed my roommate the video of Grace Hopper illustrating how long lengths of time are (https://youtu.be/9eyFDBPk4Yw). A little while later, he was talking about this scene and how he likes the writing, because engineers are often much more excited by something seemingly mundane, such as the various lengths of wire needed for a project, than “this is my spaceship.”

Anyway, I tell him, completely seriously and with no sense of irony, “yeah, but why would anyone care about lengths of wire?”

He yelled back, “You literally came in here to show me a video about lengths of wire.”

Interesting if true.

Very few roads in California have tolls.

My wife worked there some years ago, around when they started to fall behind AMD. Her team was a research unit looking into how to improve AI performance, and the entire business unit got laid off. Very smart move to trim any chance of pulling back ahead through R&D.

(I had to charge my phone to call a cab)

Idk, seems true to me. My phone died during a Twenty One Pilots concert at TD Garden during the part where we’re supposed to shine our phone lights and I was forced to stay an extra half-hour.

Monty Python, being a comedy troupe, consists of humans, which are a type of animal ;)