Yes! Alan Rickman was a true scene stealer in everything he did. I really miss him! RIP

Nowadays I use a trackpad for almost everything. I do use a mouse at work but then I mostly use keyboard shortcuts for everything I can (Excel really flies when you know some keyboard shortcuts).

Ahhh. I use command-click to open in new tabs.

I haven’t played a game that uses the mouse in several years. I mostly play Roguelikes such as NetHack, DCSS, or Caves of Qud using keyboard controls only, or console games with a controller.

I have never used a CAD program though sometimes I’ve thought about it.

I can’t remember the last time I’ve ever wanted to click the middle mouse button. The experience of having done so once or twice was bad enough to get me to rebind the action to something else.

Middle mouse paste was great on true 3 button mice. It became a liability with the invention of the mouse wheel, which made it a total crapshoot to try to click that damn button without rolling the wheel at the same time. It’s a classic case of overloaded functionality.

Like imagine if cars put the accelerator into the steering wheel, so you had to press the steering wheel down to accelerate. Everyone would hate it and it would be a safety nightmare. We put up with things on computers that we never would in other areas of life.

Prince of Thieves with Kevin Costner was also good.

The best Robin Hood film is the one from 1938 starring Errol Flynn. That movie is a masterpiece!

He’s a character from folklore which is a bit different. He isn’t owned by any one author. He may be based on historical people with certain details embellished or altered, and then more fictional stories added on over time.

His stories do include references to real historical people and events, such as the kings Richard I and John. The 1938 film (starring Errol Flynn) weaves these two into a story about Robin Hood leading a peasant revolt against John, tapping into Anglo-Saxon identity as a form of English nationalism.

Rust users are informally called Rustaceans and there’s even a book for them:

Wow. What a game! I thought the Steelers were TOAST after the missed PAT. Ravens 1-upped that with the missed FG. Crazy! I feel like there must’ve been some kind of weird crosswind up high!

I think you’re exactly right about his name. It’s completely irrational but people seem to buy into the nominative determinism at a subliminal level!

I think there’s evidence to show that our taste receptors for sweetness are linked to insulin production. Thus no artificial sweeteners can be consumed without health consequences (insulin spikes, insulin resistance).

Sriracha is not taco either, it’s Thai.

Love Brad Dourif. Watch this YouTube video if you want to learn more about his career from a brilliant storyteller.

You mean stick the Hubble on the dark side of the moon? That’s a little difficult.

The small satellites swarming everywhere can’t be stuck out of the way. They’re communications satellites. They need to be close by to reduce latency.

They’re clearly remoras which can attach and detach at will:

Yes and no. There was a period of time where they were particularly bad. If you go back to some earlier eras (like the 1970s and even earlier) you can find many capacitors that are still good.

It also depends on the materials. Electrolytic capacitors naturally dry out and then fail. Many kinds of ceramic capacitors should last an extremely long time if they’re kept within a reasonable temperature range.

The conclusion is a bit unsatisfying. It considers only composition of objects and draws a distinction with procedure passing or lambdas. But in a functional language, composition of functions is a very easy and common thing to do. In Haskell, for example, you’d use the dot operator:

f = g . h

Now f is the composition of the functions g and h. More concretely:

g x = x + 1
h x = 3 * x
f = g . h
{- now f x = 3*x + 1 -}

She was an asshole to Jeri Ryan throughout the Seven of Nine half of the series. She took all her rage at the show’s reversal of ratings fortune out on an actress who was just doing her best.

Damn. Avoid brown rice? That sucks!

That article makes me want to avoid rice altogether, despite loving it so much.

It doesn’t say anything about soaking rice in cold water for a while and then washing it before cooking in fresh water. Does cold water not have any ability to absorb the arsenic? I wonder if distilled water could help….

Yeah that’s quite silly. Every single employee at my office is issued 2 monitors to go with their company laptop. People working from home get the monitors shipped to them. It’s the standard setup in tons of offices as well as for many home users.