It might or might not:
- arrive
- work
- be genuine
- be fit for purpose
It might or might not:
You Are a Tourist - Death Cab for Cutie
Neil Diamond, of all people, has a version, which you might or might not like.
Do people still use Chrome ?
Mainframe computers
I recognise that reference!
Anything from the Grim Fandango soundtrack.
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
My disorganised thoughts in no particular order:
In Australia, donation of blood products is not paid. I think you get a cup of tea and a few biscuits (“cookies”).
I don’t have a problem with that, and I’m very grateful to those anonymous people who volunteered their time and blood so that I could have blood during my stem cell transplants.
I also don’t have a problem with people in other countries who are paid for their blood products; I understand what it’s like to be in dire straits, and blood is a renewable resource. However, I feel that if a company is making money from selling blood, they should be paying a fair price to donors.
Ethically, I feel that any donation of blood (or organs) should be completely anonymous, altruistic, and uncompensated in order to remove any hint of obligation between donor and donee. The idea of being paid for donations makes me personally uncomfortable, even though I just said that I don’t mind other people being compensated.
I’d like to contribute and save lives and whatever, but I have incurable blood cancer (multiple myeloma) and they won’t allow me to donate.
Memory isn’t infinite, CPUs can’t process all integers, and Santa isn’t real
Wait, what? Need a spoiler tag.
Okapi. They’re unusual and they look cool.
What a fascinating article! Thank you for sharing it!
How many emus are in Germany?
Gave up smoking 25 years ago. Diagnosed with incurable blood cancer 5 years ago. After two stem cell (bone marrow) transplants, three years of chemotherapy, and a year of immunotherapy, I’ve been told I’m in full remission — no evidence of disease — and I’m not expected to relapse.
Look after yourself while you’re young and fit and still have a chance to keep healthy.
https://10minutemail.com/ or similar. New address for every query. Clogging up their system with bad data is their choice, not yours.
I was part of a team that was trained in COBOL to help update code in time for Y2K. We’ve been headhunted by the same company several times in the last ten years to further update and maintain the same code, originally written in the mid-1970s. I’m now 56, and I suspect that code base will live at least as long as I do.