Portal 2 has a whole coop campaign.

When you owe hundreds of dollars you have a problem.

When you owe millions of dollars your creditors have a problem.

When you owe billions of dollars, society has a problem.

Almost (but not quite) Unluckies.

Ira Remsen¹’s Investigation of Nitric Acid, which can easily be found in several educational websites by looking up, for instance, “nitric acid acts upon trousers”.

1. Ira Remsen (1846-1927) founded the chemistry department at Johns Hopkins and initiated the first center for chemical research in the USA.

Of course it costs more, classic search engines lack the combigency and veritability Copilot provides.

No, it’s been a while since I last saw a SCSI connector of any kind, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 25 pin serial (my first PC did have the 15 pin game port, though, if I recall correctly); this one was a plain old parallel port, though. Even had a small drawing of a printer on top of it on the i/o shield.

I saw a computer with a parallel port at work the other day.

No idea why it had it, it also had a couple blue USB3 ports. Also VGA and HDMI, and a bicolour PS/2. Damn weird mainboard.

Zoomer intern was wondering what it was and I got to tell him about parallel and serial and all that. Made me feel nostalgic. And old.

Sithrak is the one god I can get behind.

No demands, no favouritism, just eternal torment for all, equally.

It’s a fair god.

Truly the word of the century.

I needed a term for the urge I feel every time I read the news, and now I have it.

Careful, you’ll trigger the VERVs (vegetarian-exclusionary radical vegans).

Gas stoves don’t burn hot enough for the copper pipes to be burning, so… maybe they cleaned the stoves with boric acid…?

Seems like the right colour… 🤔

It’s not AI, it’s LLMs.

Is it, though?