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Yes, AIUI, he's saying bedrock is under sea level and is covered by 4000 ft of easily erodable material.

Either: The rift over Oculus involving Carmack. Or: Carmack's rift over Oculus.

> If I were to do this in Scheme, I'd use a "parameter" called 'current-chip' (think of it like a dynamically scoped variable) and write getter/setter procedures that operate on the current chip.

Do you mean to create global functions with those generic, unqualified names? The unhygienic solution at least keeps them nicely inside the lexical scope of the "with" construct. That actually looks more hygienic, for another, more traditional, meaning of hygienic.

Until recently, Buenos Aires' A line still used original rolling stock from the 1910's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Underground#Natio...

(photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Coche_La... )

Not many fonts are created with Metafont. People prefer to draw characters by hand instead of programming a pen to draw them. Anyway, nowadays you can use TeX (pdfTeX or XeTeX) with almost any font existing on your system.

>For six months, the police provided strong incentive to actively commit new child abuse

Do you really think that? It seems to me, the incentive was to document child abuse. I don't think abusers would stop abusing just because nobody is asking them pics. In any case, that issue should be investigated.

Apparently he knew the English version of that one (or, as rodelrod said, he just translated the French translation from a Portuguese-French guide. That would somewhat explain the strange word "Espagnish").

In the original: Fazer torres de vento -- To build castles in Espagnish

There are several like that:

Tomar o ceo co' as maos -- Take the moon with the teeth

Ter memoria de gallo -- To have a hare memory

Comer o pao que o diabo amassou -- To eat of the cow mad (!?)

“A cavallo dado não se lhe olha para o dente.”

The original is here: https://archive.org/details/onovoguiadaconve00fons

The English version seems to be a selection of the funniest parts.

How did the Unicode Consortium turn around. I remember 10 years ago they were refusing to add standard media icons because

>The scope of the Unicode Standard (and ISO/IEC 10646) does not extend to encoding every symbol or sign that bears meaning in the world.

>This list has been round and round and round on this -- regular as clockwork, about once a year, the topic comes up again. And I see no indication that the UTC or WG2 are any closer to concluding that bunches of icons should start being included in the character encoding standards simply on the basis of their being widespread and recognizable icons.

>Where is the defensible line between "Fast Forward" and "Women's Restroom" or "Right Lane Merge Ahead" or "Danger Crocodiles No Swimming"?

(http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2005-m08/0371.h...)

Now it looks they add whatever somebody thinks of. I guess it's related to the liberation from the BMP.

I thought the first one was the other way around: that he was being treated poorly, with people having him put out fires all day and not giving him time to do his real work. I see nothing bad in his response.

Pay damages, then.

Some people don't like it per se, but mainly what they don't like is that it's going to be the only viable init system in Debian, since many maintainers don't have any intention to support the others.

I don't think they grew back; they are probably the result of modern irrigation.

That's strange. I created a fake account some years ago, to contact some old friends whose email I had lost. I used the account for almost one week. To this day I still get a facebook email every 4-5 days. If nobody invites me to a group (!?) or posts new photos in their gallery, then it's facebook itself who wants to remind me that it's been a long time since the last time I logged in, and my friends are waiting to hear from me!

I keep revisiting Lout every couple of years, and they keep not supporting UTF-8, which makes it unusable or me. It's a shame, because it looks really nice.

Several positions in the table ({ | } [ \ ] @) were meant for "national variants". I guess those characters were deemed unimportant at the time.

Here is some more info: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html#national-ascii

Keep in mind that the original post said "it was the picture of a cat". It implied they looked at the content of the file.

The actual list: http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/10-least-stressful-jobs...

I wonder how their "stress rank" is calculated...

Doesn't that reinforce his point? CMUCL & SBCL were released as free software and are still around. Genera isn't.