The Republican party is a religion with two and only two commandments: Racism and fossil fuels.

Someone deliberately chose to break with POSIX compliance?

The reason why I’m on team Vim is because it’s standard. A copy of it is installed on pretty much every Unix-like system out there. Vi is built into Busybox.

Like…all shareholders?

Why shouldn’t anyone with an investment in a corporation be culpable for any criminal behavior of the company they’ve invested in? That’s a step or two away from “I didn’t rape and murder that little girl, my LLC did.”

Something something Unix Philosophy. Write small programs that do one thing and do it well and then re-use that well tested code as often as you can rather than poorly re-implementing it over and over?

It’s my understanding that the decision to not localize SMB2 for the West was made at Nintendo of America. SMB2 isn’t merely hard, it’s unfair. They put invisible hazards in the way, warp pipes now take you back instead of forward, some of the mushrooms are poisonous now. SMB1 is beginner and child friendly, SMB2 is for serious enthusiasts. The West found a taste for that, but it kinda took Twitch streaming to explain to gamers what they’re in for. Nintendo wouldn’t have gotten any points for tricking hundreds of thousands of parents into handing a Kaizo ROMhack to all the little Joshuas and Tiffanys of 1986. So they Doki Doki Panicked.

I think the real insult came not from Nintendo but from Squaresoft. Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest for the SNES was marketed as a simplified, “Entry-level” JRPG, made specifically for Americans, written in English from the start and not translated from Japanese. Simplified combat system, no random encounters, added action elements. Because Americans might not “get it.” It’s not like Japan got the idea for RPGs from imported copies of Ultima and Wizardry, which are themselves based on DnD. Being more charitable, you could see the angle they were coming from: the Japanese do virtually all of their gaming on console, while Americans tend to play more action-oriented games on console and more cerebral games on desktop computers, so they were trying to make an RPG for the American console gamer. Which still failed miserably. After all, Final Fantasy 1 on NES sold well here. So. I don’t know, maybe try not having bad ideas?

Probably got put into a popular example and then everyone uses it because “that’s how.”

You weren’t there for the Leftpad fiasco, I take it?

Back in the good old days when homosexuality was a felony, the cure for autism was an ice pick lobotomy, and certain people would be killed for being caught in nice neighborhoods? Proper society.

I just don’t talk to people.

I mean, I didn’t watch Game of Thrones, so I’ll never be a citizen of humanity. Seems like a decade and a half went by of conversations that went “So did you see Game of Thrones last night?” “No, I don’t watch that show.” “Oh. Bye.” The sooner you realize everyone is an empty headed content consumer and there has never been anything worth saying to or hearing from any of them, the sooner you’ll wonder why you even own a phone.

You’ll hear Dacron in the aviation industry, to refer to “naked cloth” coverings like you see on ultralights, in contrast to something like poly-fiber which is the modern equivalent of cloth and dope.

Or a Trackpoint driver.

No that would probably be the xfce equivalent.

Yeah most space age material names are. It’s dacron wrapped in mylar surmounted in inconel plated in clyno and attached with velcro. Which of those did I make up?

See? It’s working.

It would have to be some horrid acronym for something like KDE Library Integration Tool Offering Recursive Integration Services or some shit.

Common dictionary words are not trademarkable. In fact, if an existing trademark becomes common in speech it becomes genericized and the trademark is lost. One of my personal hobbies is doing that to Velcro.

That, and you’ve got to remember how big iPods were at the time. In 2007, it was weird that Apple was entering the cell phone market. The iSomething branding basically saved the company in 2001 with the iMac and iBook, the iPod was the first electronics gadget I ever remember being worn as a status symbol, the first that got treated like designer clothing or shoes. That “I have an iPod, and you have…whatever that is.” White headphone cords were a fashion statement. The Motorola Razr phone got the same treatment before the iPhone.

No, you should touch klitoris or finger klitoris, not bash it.

man klitoris

no manual entry for klitoris

Well that explains a lot.

Doesn’t scale.

It works great. That’s basically how it’s done in aviation, flight instruction is inherently 1 on 1, so I’d assign my students to do some reading and then it was pretty obvious if they’d done that the next flight based on who was asking questions. The ones that did the reading will come in asking me to clarify something, if they say “Yeah I read it” and I have to do the clarifying they didn’t read it. Oral and practical tests are the standard, show me you can fly the plane.

To make that work, most professional pilots have to be flight instructors at some point. It’s almost certainly the first flying job you’ll get after earning a commercial certificate, and thus spend at least some time doing that job. You’re not going to get that in most college classes, so where are you going to get the labor necessarily to give an oral exam to every student in every class?

A smart board is a pointless accessory that adds no value. If you want to project computer images for the class, a normal screen will do and you don’t fund low life hucksters.