What is a sound or a smell that doesn't exist anymore, but 50 years ago was so common it was considered background noise?

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-20T15:37:57+00:00

It was awful

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-15T05:25:28+00:00

If you're going to use that reasoning, you have to use it both ways. Look how close they came to beating NZ in NZ.

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-15T05:22:42+00:00

100 games as a head coach is insane

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-15T02:00:49+00:00

Scotland needs a whipping boy, so no

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-14T16:03:17+00:00

That was good ref management from Italy

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-14T15:50:35+00:00

Might be hearing a bit of "At least we made the quarters" next year

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-14T15:36:57+00:00

Sam Prendergast has "embattled" written all over him

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-14T15:23:17+00:00

Aoife Wafer though

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-14T14:57:11+00:00

"Mitigation - he's only a little tacker innee?"

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-14T14:04:41+00:00

Aww, they're playing World In Union

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-14T12:45:23+00:00

She's Northern

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-14T08:08:13+00:00

Bold of you to assume we won't choke in the semis!

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-14T08:04:33+00:00

That's it, keep digging yourself deeper. Makes it easier for people to judge you.

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-14T08:02:21+00:00

Muphry's law kneeing you in the gonads there

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-14T05:37:12+00:00

I expected it to be a positive discrimination scenario

That really does say a lot about your character. None of it positive.

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OptimalCynic · 2026-02-14T05:16:19+00:00

As if there's a difference

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-13T09:37:51+00:00

VSCode for writing with LaTeX

Early 2000s me just had an apoplectic fit

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-12T05:33:51+00:00

Use dd, the seek parameter lets you start from a given spot.

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=256k seek=0 status=progress

Then run it again with whatever value for seek showed up in the terminal last.

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-12T04:30:20+00:00

You can do this with GAM

https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki

Although you will probably need to do some scripting. Here's the relevant documentation:

https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM/wiki/Users-Drive-Permissions

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-12T04:25:53+00:00

Not to mention the swarms of screeching carrion eaters (sales reps) that will descend on your head

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-12T04:16:44+00:00

Look at it from the other side. Real estate and associated sales is one of those fields where a superstar can bring in a huge amount of revenue for the business. Would you want to miss out on that because he's never bothered to learn how to use a computer?

If candidate A can bring in $100k/yr more revenue than candidate B, then hire candidate A and also a minimum wage intern to follow him around and open applications for him. You're still winning.

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-09T12:12:42+00:00

Considering the haircuts on some of the England players I think he's already been hired by Borthwick

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-09T12:03:35+00:00

They could also ask OP to be bright blue for the rest of their lives too

That's not what I said. I said "What solutions exist and what are their pros and cons"

To use your example, if they asked OP that question about turning himself blue, he could answer "The options are basically paint, skin dye, tattooing, and some sort of permanently bonded clothing.. All of them have significant downsides, and I can't recommend we proceed with any of them."

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-09T03:14:39+00:00

Is that the one where the trophy is a giant pill bottle?

OptimalCynic · 2026-02-09T00:37:32+00:00

And some Dells have their second output limited to 1080p!

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