You should put some clothes on when stargazing tbh, it gets chilly.

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Do you want to get kidnapped and handcuffed to a radiator for 24 hours? Because that’s how you get kidnapped and handcuffed to a radiator for 24 hours.

Generics aren’t really OOP, OOP tends to use run time dynamic dispatch through inheritance. Generics come from functional programming type constructors.

To be fair, there are rich people that don’t make much noise but for obvious reasons you don’t tend to hear much about those ones…

Hypothetical example:

You have a standard measuring stick of length 1u. The guy at the quarry cutting blocks cuts them to 1u (or 2u or some other small integer multiple of u) because that can be conveniently measured by stick. The guy making measuring wheels makes them 1u radius (or diameter or whatever) because, again, that’s convenient to measure by stick. But the guy responsible for surveying the whole pyramid base uses the wheel because it’s easier to go “100 wheel rotations that way” than mess about putting sticks end on end hundreds of times.

Several millennia pass and some conspiracy nut looks at the number of blocks per side and it comes out to a round number of multiples of pi. OMG, what were they trying to tell the aliens etc.

Did you enjoy learning that stuff? If nothing else you got an anecdote out of it so I’d say it wasn’t a total waste.

Nah, level 1 is actually correct. Regardless of its etymology, octopus is an english word and should be pluralised accordingly.

“Headcanon” always makes me think of Gunther Hermann wanting a “skul-gun” in Deus Ex.

Also

What do you think inviting Ukrainians to NATO exercises is if not NATO waking up?

Do you have a source for this as the only sources I can find (e.g.) suggest that’s an order of magnitude out

People domesticate dogs before they domesticate horses.

By like 20,000 years or so too, I dont think people realize how long we’ve been domesticating dogs

So, it uses the fact that bash allows functions with non-alphanumeric names, in this case it defines a function called :. If we rename that to, for example bomb it becomes a little clearer:

bomb(){ bomb | bomb& };bomb

This defines a function that calls itself piped into a version of itself in a separate, background, process (that’s what the & does) and then calls that function. Calling itself means the function never ends (it’s essentially a recursive version of an infinite loop) and the extra background process that is created each time it’s called means that it just keeps exponentially creating new processes that don’t exit and each of which infinitely forks off more processes until the OS runs out of resources (unless you use ulimit to set per-session/per-user process limits - this may even be done by default on some distros these days, it’s been a while since I looked)