the two definitions (general Personal Computer, or IBM-compatible) always co-existed in different contexts.

aside - even though Apple ads really drove the Macs Vs PCs thing - before they went Intel, Apple computers used to have IBM PowerPC architecture processors.

confirmations that all went well should be bouba

error messages should be kiki

i think 0 F was the freezing point of salt water, but far saltier than seawater - as salty as it can possibly get.

i have bad news for you about how computers do timestamps.

pejoratively ≠ casually

most electronics breadboards and the pins from (non-tiny) microchips / ICs are spaced at 2.54mm apart, which i eventually realised is a tenth of an inch.

Anyone who thinks you can divide one number by another and get an irrational number… doesn’t know what irrational means.

I think this is covered by the Pym particles explained in Ant-Man.

Ant-Man makes lots of things, and himself, turn giant, so by Occam’s razor, why not say Hulk’s mutations allow his cells to access the same mechanism.

sounds like your English teacher taught you wrong, as a joke.

a couple of blocks means two or three blocks, and more likely two.

if I was looking for something “a couple of blocks away” and still hadn’t seen it by the fourth, I’d assume the directions were wrong or I’d got lost.

as an infinte random string of values, the digits of pi will, sooner or later, contain any specific string of values.

i think it was Sagan’s “Contact” where aliens sent a message to read the digits of pi from the x th place to the y th place, and that stretch could be read as instructions on how to build a machine to reply.

EU countries with their own separatist regions, like Spain, would veto Scotland or Wales being accepted, to prove to their own separatist regions that it won’t be easy.

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