You are right, but I’m not sure if the intelligence was built into the command to recognize it as a root level deletion.

rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

Looks like it started appearing in various flavors of Unix and Linux around 2005.

If it were on an old installation of linux, it would delete everything on the file system, from every disk attached.

Modern Linux systems require an additional flag to explicitly stay that you want to nuke your system.

I hate to break it to you, but that’s a male spider and you’re gay.

I like Jitsi, but when I record a session it always silently aborts after about 40 minutes.

I would not have wanted to take my chances of being one of the 1/12. They not have had to worry once it was all over, but while it was happening a lot of people were at risk of being sent to die in a foreign land.

If OP was 20 in the Summer of '69 then he most certainly was eligible to fight in a war.

Just audio. But it is presented in a way that helps you to learn, rather than just remember. If you give it a try, I promise that you will be shocked at how you can retain the knowledge.

It isn’t enough on its own, however. You need to reinforce the lessons by speaking to people, reading, and/or TV and movies.

I have found Duolingo much, much less useful for language learning than Language Transfer. The latter actually helps you learn to think in another language rather than memorize things (which is still useful, but not nearly as much).

Short if total immersion, I have found nothing better than LT.

I used the homebrew channel to convert my Wii from Japanese to North American (games are region-locked). Never used it for posted games.

I know someone who works in a university group related to privacy issues. He refuses to have a smartphone because of the ease which which almost anyone can track you and your activities. I think he has an old flip phone.

“Whatabout…”

But how much do IP laws actually protect the little guy? When a large corporation can bankrupt me by prolonging litigation until I have nothing left, what leverage do I really have?

There are certainly cases where small creators and inventors were able to overcome this disadvantage, but I suspect that they are the tiny minority, celebrated when they do achieve it.

I guess if you can’t rely on human intelligence, you have to hope that artificial intelligence can do the job.

I think you would be more convincing if you spelled “line of sight” correctly

When I was in grade 9, in 1977, my science teacher told us about his solar panels. He was projecting that they would pay off the investment in about 20 years. How much better must that be now (and we are talking about Ontario, Canada, hardly the best place for solar power)?

I’ve probably played through it 5 times, using different skill trees.

• Never get involved in a land war in Asia
• Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line
• Never bet on a fucking Nazi

Definitely a thing for days like Valentine’s.

One of our three dogs does the head tilt. It is also the one that is not as dumb as dirt.