I took a principles of programming languages course a while back and got to touch on a lot of these old languages. My professor had huge hard-on for Lisp. Don’t get me wrong. The simplicity of the language is admirable. But reading and parsing that shit gave me headaches. No me gusta.
Over developed venom glands. Those are literally killer snake tits.
Well, yes, but also the efficiency of the EV’s will factor in as well. Less efficient EV means more power draw for the same miles. But with things like regenerative braking and no idling, even the least efficient EV is probably more efficient then the most efficient gas powered car.
Yeah, EV’s are not, in themselves, the cure for our environmental woes. Too much electricity is still generated from fossil fuels for the carbon footprint to actually be diminished much and the environmental toll of mining for lithium also needs to be factored in. BUT, at the very least, it removes some dependence on oil in particular, where coal and natural gas are other forms of fossil fuels used to generate electricity. If nothing else, it takes some pressure off very specific regions, pressure which has contributed to invasion, war, international manipulation, extreme politics and oligarchies. It spreads the sources for resources around further.
Oof.
Edit: Also, Avon Books… what the hell. How did you publish that as is?
Serving multiple data streams
200: “I gotchu, bro. Here you go. Have a good day.”
401: “You’re not on the list. Get lost.”
402: “Pay me or get lost.”
403: “Everyone get lost.”
404: “You are lost.”
500: “Ooopsss.”
501: “Knew I forgot something…”
504: “I can’t do this shit all day.”
Oh for sure. He often used puns that his fans gave him in fanmail too. He’d take their ideas and try to fit them somewhere into the story. He credited them in his books all the time.
There is a series I read as a teenager, the Xanth series. The author, Piers Anthony, has been pumping out a book a year for the last 45 years, so there are a lot of them. I read the first 15ish for AR point in school back in the day. It’s not exactly the height of literature, but they’re pretty fun for children/teen fantasy books. The thing that really sets the series apart is that Piers fills his fantasy world of Xanth to the brim with magic plants and creatures based on puns. In one of the earlier books, there is a tree that grows fruits that look like babies. An Infantree. And when approached, the fruits drop and the babies start marching around and attacking the threat, like an infantry. It’s one of the most memorable puns to me.
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I know. That’s why I concluded they weren’t American. I was just commenting on my thought process when I read it. Also, kind of crazy that there’s not a single holiday in the summer for you guys.
The 4th of July is the biggest holiday of the year in my family because we’re heavily involved with the stores. I was just confused how we were skipping that.
We do continue to sell fireworks on one end of the store after the conversion. We have them available year round, even if we have to come and open the store for a single customer in the off-season. But, no, fireworks aren’t common for Halloween here. Halloween sales are primarily costumes, makeup, wigs, prosthetics, props, decorations, and fog machines. Independence Day/The Fourth of July is definitely the biggest fireworks day here, followed by Memorial Day, New Years, and Diwali, in that order.
I’m assuming you’re not American? We still have another major holiday first, Independence day. Also smaller holidays, Memorial Day, Juneteenth and Labor Day. Though I do feel the sentiment. I married into a family that owns and runs a few fireworks stores, one of which converts into a Halloween store after the fireworks season ends. So it really is like that come July 5th every year. Time to rebuild the store for Spookums time!
Why is the student smug but internally crying about not knowing excel?
A bit in Freedom units is 2 metric bits because it wouldn’t be freedom units without unnecessary confusion. A metric bit is equivalent to a freedom unit lil’bit, because it’s smaller than a bit. A bite (no relation to a byte) is 25 lil’bits because saying 25 ones and zeros outload is a mouthful. A hot dog is 4.2 bites or 105 lil’bits because that’s how many bites it takes me to eat a hot dog. A hamburger is 6.4 bites because it takes more bites to eat. A double with cheese is 7.8 bites. A whole hog is 233 hot dogs. A stampede is 23146 hamburgers.
It’s close enough to what some MAGA fuck nut would say that I’m by not sure it’s not going to get upvotes by some too.
Not sure if sarcastic, trolling or insanely stupid… down voted anyway.
I heard him defend it in an interview once. This is legit what he said: “Under Pressure goes ‘Buh duh duh duh duhduh duh dum. Buh duh duh duh duh duhduh duh dum.’ But Ice Ice baby goes ‘Buh duh duh duh duhduh duh dum. Buh duh duh duh duh duhduh duh dum tss.’” That’s a whole new work of art, guys! Like if I copied the Mona Lisa, but gave her like a strand of hair hanging down over her eyes. Artistically and legally distinct!