I was gonna edit the comment to add a similar note right after posting but I was already half asleep and apparently I didn’t do it.

Portuguese, we do and we use it in everything. Even something simple like “for my Father” most of us say “for the my Father”.

“Sou filho do meu pai”

Translating literally becomes:

“am son of the my Father”

Autistic people will often do the right thing simply because they were taught it is what they are supposed to do - with no consideration of how they’ll feel about it.

And ADHD people don’t get to feel good about anything they do.

Combine the two and you get the ultimate altruists!

(this comment is meant as a joke)

The last bullet point is not really that common anymore.

“except” is also used in Pascal (or at least the main derivatives of it), but not sure if that’s older than its use in Python or not.

Bottoms.

The script feels terrible and they don’t even try to make you like the characters. But the jokes always land perfectly. It’s a great movie to have a laugh and nothing else.

That’s pretty cool, great job!

Usually none. I only have an inner monologue when I explicitly want to have one and in that case it works just like talking: I can use any language I want.

Dropped Ubuntu because of snaps.

Dropped Manjaro because updating anything on it was too annoying and potentially destructive if you didn’t read through every changelog.

Currently on bluefin because everything is working smoothly on it. Also have a Bazzite setup which I’m not as happy with as I am with bluefin but not to the point of thinking of dropping it.

Not cried, but Trevor Moore’s death shook me as that was the first time someone I enjoyed the work of died while I was still expecting to see more work from them in the future.

Not this time, but I do have another story many years later when I stepped on a sickle and cut my toe, then after getting bandages I resumed what I was doing and stepped on it again, on the same toe. But the second time didn’t leave any cut.

No idea.

As a kid (+/- 7yo) I saw a huge ass nail hanging out from some broken piece of wood laying in the school yard and thought: “I’ll make a hole in my slipper”, so I hovered my foot over the nail, but that didn’t do it. “Oh I need to put pressure on it”.

In my head I thought I was making an arch with my foot so that I would only put weight on the front and back of the slipper and the nail wouldn’t hit me. Only in my head.

So I stepped on the nail, injuring myself. I then went to an adult. After patching my foot they asked me to go find the nail and throw it in the trash, before anyone else steps on it too.

The piece of wood was too big for me to handle, so I thought: “nobody is gonna be stupid enough to step on that” and left it there.

HEEHAW!

It’s not that bad by default, it just gives it a disadvantage in terms of performance, but if you care about it you can still make it run smooth and be not-that-heavy. Microsoft just doesn’t.

Search WAS good when it was a simple search. Sites were indexed by the search engine and if you searched for the words you wanted to find, the results would be exactly that. In that context, it worked perfectly.

But the problem was that most people used search engines in a different way. They weren’t searching for specific content, but searching for answers to questions. And for that, search engines would only show results that had that same question and then you’d need to hope that the question had been answered.

Over time, search engines kept shifting into trying to better support the questions and answers format, making the basic content search worse as a result. Where we are now, neither or them works too well. Google is now better at understanding what people are trying to search, but worse at finding it.

AI is just expanding this with yet another layer: it might make Google better at understanding what you search and maybe even might be better at finding it than the engine is now, but it’ll add the ability to misinterpret the results too.

Honestly I’d be pretty happy if I had a simple indexed search again.

But if she breaks up with him, then he’s the first to go.

Uhhh, but the three examples you gave are not inexplicable.

OK, our reality might have a purpose or meaning given by a god - but then what about that god’s purpose/meaning? Was it given by yet another one higher up? You can keep going up layers like this and finding meaning on each one, but eventually there has to be a final one, a reality that was not designed by anyone. But why does it exist?

Some people may say that there’s no proof that we actually exist. And maybe we don’t, but the fact that we can think and experience things means that even if our reality is somehow fake, there has to be one that isn’t. Because if nothing existed, there would be nothing at all. Not a void, just nothing, not even the possibility of existence. So something, at some level, must exist. But why?

“Because God created us” is not good enough for me, because it doesn’t answer anything. If we exist because a god created us, that still means that a god existed before us. Why does this god exists then?

We’ll never find out. Any answer we find will only open things up for new questions. And just like a child that is just starting to experience things, we’ll never run out of questions.

You can always try to memorize some key phrases, like:

“did you see that ludicrous display last night?”

https://youtu.be/gWJIQm9qH-w