I mean, the why is obvious. Whether anyone should do it is the real question ;-)

Some very small children didn’t know whether to cheer or cry…

… But first, let’s shoot fireballs at it!

I remember that, I thought it was poetic. I also remember the pearl clutching outrage.

Though a few visits ago at my local zoo two of the orangutans were beating the shit out of a seagull for fun, with naught outrage.

So there’s probably a double standard built-in.

Though today we get:

Find out what these big four names were convicted of!

… A sunny disposition?

It’s correct, as much as any English is correct, but not typically spoken naturally like that.

The press (newspapers) has an idiosyncratic grammar, probably born of maximising space in a newspaper column. Headlines are often grammatical nightmares, body copy less so.

One could think of it as a form of semantic compression.

I too am an etymology geek, I had to look up “aptronym” (I already knew there was a word for it, but couldn’t remember it) but already knew “patronym”. I can occasionally work out the approximate Latin roots of words and take a stab at what to search for.

Regarding names’ positions moving around… that’s just people. People name their children all sorts of stupid things that eventually become normal.

Jackson is a patronymic last name: Jack’s son.

Smith is an aptronymic last name: a smith.

So yeah, bang on.

I trialled both a while ago, chose ummich asits face recognition was superior.

There were other reasons, but I’ve forgotten them.

“Somebody shit in my pants.”

If you’re using LVM, ZFS, or Btrfs then you can use their features and tooling to migrate data from one disk to the other, assuming you’re able to connect both at the same time.

I’ve done this online with btrfs several times now and it’s quite painless, admittedly only for self hosted stuff.

There’s lots of good explanations of what the US Constitution allows… but they don’t actually matter!

No matter which branch of government (executive, judicial, or legislature) have the power to “do away with pardons” the same has the power to bring them back.

In parliamentary systems this is called the “supremacy of parliament”.

So even if Biden could issue an executive order to stop pardons then Trump can just executive order them back.

CEO material.

I bought a refurbished SFF PC and put a PCIe NIC in it. Installed opnSense.

Cheap as chips. Supremely powerful.

I’m not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.

Why the fuck is the non execute setting, a principal safety feature, restricted to the pro and ent versions!?

Fuck you Microsoft.

Nice analogy.

TYVM!

Yeah, I went and checked after posting.

My hunch is that if the moon was closer it would ‘drag’ the barycentre closer to the moon.

Which, given the moon is slowly receeding, means it was probably a binary early on in the formation of the solar system.

That’s because you’ve only named one end of the tunnel. It’s the Mouth-Butt Tunnel.