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I made a gif instead of studying for my mid-trimester exams.
I made a gif instead of studying for my mid-trimester exams.
Yet given the infinity of the internet you still surf the same 5 websites, looking for and finding exactly what you want, like a baby playing peekaboo in a mirror over and over and over and over and over and over and…
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(Source: thelastpsychiatrist.com)
One thing I’ve learnt while working for Mozilla is that a web browser can be characterized as a JavaScript execution environment that happens to have some multimedia capabilities.
— Nicholas Nethercote puts the dinosaur on a diet.
All operating systems know when they were born. Their internal clocks start counting from then, so they can calculate the date and time in the future. It is unclear whether it was Mr Ritchie or Mr Thompson who set the so-called start Unix time at January 1st, 1970. That moment came to be known as the epoch. Mr Ritchie helped bring it about. And with it, he ushered in a new era.
— The Economist’s obituary for dmr
(Source: economist.com)
Art constantly reinvents its methods while retaining forms derived from the past. That’s cultural heritage.
(Source: news.ycombinator.com)
Him: If I were rich you would marry me at once.
Her: Ah, George! George! The devotion which you show me breaks my heart.
Him: What do you mean?
Her: That you have often praised my beauty, but until now I did not know how much you recognized my good sense.
No fair-minded girl objects to a certain tinge of jealousy. Kept within proper bounds, it is a compliment; it makes for piquancy; it is the gin in the ginger-beer of devotion. But it should be a condiment, not a fluid.
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories, Wodehouse