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Apparently these names were submitted in a contest, it appears Plowy McPlowface was one of them, but sadly didn't make the final cut

https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/news/local/mdot-names-al...


It is disabled by default

> Norton Crypto is an opt-in feature only and is not enabled without user permission


> If Saskia could be guarded by men in bearskin hats riding horses, why, she could as well have a webmaster.

Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock


Related article from John Gruber in 2010:

https://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks


> it was copied from Java's JDK1.0 (1995) java.util.Date, which also had this quirk



Just because the issue predated Java doesn’t preclude the fact that the initial JavaScript Date implementation was lifted from java.util.Date. Brandon Eich has explicitly stated it was so.

https://maggiepint.com/2017/04/09/fixing-javascript-date-get...



Twitter is such a bad platform for this. Code in images means it's completely inaccessible to the blind and very inaccessible to people with poor vision, and you can't copy and paste it into an editor for syntax highlighting or better examination.


I remember when new games would get released, Galoob would put fliers with the GG codes on them for you to take home with the game!

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/game_ge...


He was indicted in 2018 and released on bail

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-inc-vp-c...


Interesting. Maybe they should take 3 years off his sentence.

When the judges find out, next time they will work faster to get trials done in days instead of years.


> For individuals who have had COVID-19 previously, the risk of reinfection with Omicron is significantly higher, relative to prior variants.

https://www.discovery.co.za/corporate/news-room


Doesn't e.g. "a 73% relative risk of reinfection" mean being 0.73x as likely to be infected?

These numbers show (as one would expect) that prior infection makes you less likely to get Omicron, and that prior infection with more recent strains does so more effectively. (Which might be because they're more Omicron-like, or because the infection was more recent. I'm guessing more the latter.)


It's no longer maintained, Five Server replaced it

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yandeu.f...


A ligature is a character composed of two or more graphemes, it is not a letter


You're correct about that, sort of but not in the sense of language - only for computer definitions. A ligature in language is "a printed or written character (such as æ or ff) consisting of two or more letters or characters joined together" [1]

[1] merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ligature


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