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  • I think Jack Dee has been the name Alex would routinely say when asked who he'd most like on - I'm looking forward to see how he handles Taskmaster.

  • It's interesting that the author and most others went with 403, when 426 seems to be the most appropriate.

    Neither are perfect matches, since 403 is about authentication and 426 is for Upgrade semantics (i.e. the upgrade is over the same transport protocol, not switching from http to https). npm isn't sending an Upgrade header, which is required, but I think if it sent Upgrade: TLS/1.0, HTTP/1.1 then that would be claiming they supported TLS on port 80 (STARTTLS style) - possible but unconventional.

  • At the same time, Penick had people rate what they thought the ant smelled like. Most people said blue cheese, but some thought it smelled like rotted coconut. So Penick rotted a coconut in his backyard and found a mold growing on it that, sure enough, is the same mold (Penicillium roqueforti) that's used to produce blue cheese. Another mystery, solved.

    So American house ants, rotten coconuts and blue cheese all smell the same. Life is weird.

  • I haven't used atuin yet, but I believe the histories from other machines is more like accessible than mixed - you don't just hit ↑ on machine1 and see machine2 commands.

  • A fun article, and I really like the idea of pataphysics. I've klnown of SCP for a long time but I've never delved into it - it seems more bottomless than TVTropes, and I've spent/wasted enough time there already!

  • I didn't realise that Cheryl was her first name, I thought they'd made a mistake (like how they've spelt it Ryker).

    But Wikipedia informs me that her full name is Cheryl Gates McFadden and she uses both names:

    She is usually credited as Cheryl McFadden when working as a choreographer and Gates McFadden when working as an actress

  • Absolutely, that's what I was thinking of when I wrote "tedious"; all the stuff you mentioned matters a lot to the user (or product owner) but isn't the interesting stuff for a programmer.

  • I was referring to this trivia:

    Picard's scene with Guinan was not in the original script. Melinda M. Snodgrass was told that they needed a "Ten-Forward" scene to accommodate Whoopi Goldberg coming in that week.

    I took it as true, although I had a quick go at finding where this claim came from and am drawing a blank

  • [...] a lot of AI companies are “selling dreams” that this tech will go from 80 percent correct to 100 percent.

    In fact, Marcus thinks that last 20 percent might be the hardest thing of all.

    Yeah, it's well known, e.g. people say "the last 20% takes 80% of the effort". All the most tedious and difficult stuff gets postponed to the end, which is why so many side projects never get completed.

  • I watched that one last night and had the same thought - she's been the face of nonacceptance towards Data and although Bruce Maddox is far more extreme in his views it seemed like a waste of her character building.

    That said, they'd already shoehorned in a Guinan scene so I don't know where they'd find the time.

  • Ah, the major system. I have a slightly different version: 1 is L, 5 is f/v (FiVe) and 8 is ch/J. Sun, sci-fi, lichee maybe.

  • Picard gets pegged? I clearly missed the TNG After Dark episodes.

  • I love fungi facts.

  • Altman is the P.T. Barnum of tech

    Love it, so many great quotes in this piece but this is my favourite.

  • I like that they used the blink tag, but then had to use CSS animation to restore the old effect.

  • I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that Nick has all the numbers for the alphabet memorised (or perhaps he watches House of Games a lot).

  • The link includes the short story, so don't read the AI summary in these comments since it's mixed the article and the story!

  • Lisp variants like Clojure are being used for new projects (e.g. Logseq) but I'd be surprised to hear of anyone choosing COBOL for a greenfield project.