Getting my popcorn ready for when they turn that on in Austin. I only day trip to there infrequently, and I've already seen a stopped Waymo at a traffic light intersection with APD cops around it.

Don't worry, there are only four digits on most pumps. When it hits $10/gallon, the 9/10 of a cent falls off the end!

Have you seen what a brass dollar coin looks like after a little bit of circulation? The metal tarnishes badly, to the point where you can barely identify the artwork.

Only if they stop making it out of that crappy brass that tarnishes into an ugly brown metal slug after only a little bit of actual circulation. I learned this back in the Sacajawea coin days when there were postage stamp vending machines that tried to accept and give change with dollar coins. The artwork on the coin may have changed since then, but the metal hasn't changed.

For those who may not be familiar (zoomers and foreigners), the previous dollar coins were the Susan B Anthony dollar, for which the primary complaint was that it was too hard to tell apart from a quarter (similar size and ridges), and the 4cm silver dollar, which was simply too huge to be useful.

Tim Kitzrow? Mister "Boom Shaka-Laka" from NBA Jam? Yeah, I've seen him a couple of times at classic video game events in recent years, he's quite the wild card. I can believe that there would be some crazy improv in there.

Remember: you can't spell powershell without "hell".

Perl had the concept of "tainted" input data to make it sort of possible to prevent SQL/shell injection, etc.. We've already got web browsers marking downloaded files as "treat this like a biohazard" even if just it's a stupid text file, why not clipboard contents too? (...to be followed by the scam instructions telling you to open a text editor, create a new document, paste into it, copy what you just pasted... the universe can always create Bigger Idiots)

...famously played by Slashdot user CleverNickName.

Both are effective monopolies because of being the first and most dominant in a market. But they have a different level of evilness. Steam is a beneficial monopoly that doesn't abuse its position, while Ebay can be a pain in the ass.

Great, can I set it to zero?

At least I finally realized that "YouTube Movies" is actually a channel, so it can be blocked from recommendations!

Maybe you were confused with Lock 'n' Chase?

HAL's problem was that he had been given secret orders before the mission, which caused the presence of a crew to become inconvenient. And now we're already seeing so-called AI do crazy things because of secret objectives that conflict with what a user asks for, and tricks to get it to avoid such secret objectives.

Fuck everything, we're doing five wheels.

I imaged all my 1980s TRS-80 floppy disks around 2008 or so. The only read errors were original errors from back in the day. Sometimes you could even see the bad spot on the disk.

I wouldn't feel so confident about 1990s 3.5" HD floppies, but that's because they were crap, especially the cheap 25-pack disks. They were always bad and don't get worse with time. It's more likely that you had problems from misaligned or dirty drive heads.