Sure you can.

No, you can’t have a group of zero, so the counter doesn’t need to waste a position counting zero.

Same in ours.

Myself and another guy went to a tech junket that was by invite only and they gave away a laptop to one person from each company who attended. My boss tried to take the laptop from the other guy saying “that was a gift and you need to turn it over to me”

I’d already cleared it with our corporate conflict of interest ombudsman - if I’d accepted it, it would have been an issue because I had purchasing authority, but other guy was “just” a tech who couldn’t sign off on anything or even make recommendations to anyone other than me, we didn’t have an existing business relationship with the vendor, and we’re not obligated to conduct any business with them as a result of the gift.

I told my boss to take it up with head-of-department (whom I’d copied in on the ombudsman comms.)

Other guy kept the laptop, and boss got ‘audited’ for gifts received (they pulled his emails) and was demoted into a position he wasn’t able to handle (more technical than he was capable of, but on paper should have been able to do) and pushed out of the company soon thereafter.

I never accept the terms. If people ask why I’m not talking I write “I can’t accept the AI conditions” in the meeting chat.

I work for a company that must remain gdpr compliant, and when joining (ms teams) meetings you can’t unmute your mic or share content without agreeing to a massive AI waiver.

I wonder if the archive.org cases had any bearing on the decision.

When did WhatsApp start allowing signups without a phone number?

Are you one of those 4-cones people?

Mint offers 32bit support, unless you’ve got a really old cpu.

Interesting. This could be a decent secondary use for my VPS

Ok so what is pangolin? I’m only familiar with the animal and its role in the pandemic.

Edit: someone doesn’t like jokes I guess?

So to provide further context, PCs have tables that can be checked to see what hardware is located where. Phones don’t have this, and if you try to query the wrong component or the right component at the wrong address, you can crash the whole device.

PCs were this way too, before PnP/PCI/ACPI tech showed up.

Loading Linux on a Pentium with a bunch of ISA cards was NOT a guaranteed win.

Made me think of how everything is base 10, even octal or binary.

I knew a physicist who considered 0 negative if she arrived at 0 coming from negative source numbers and positive if coming from positive sources.

Something something sampling rate

I was 'welcome home’d by a US CBP officer after flying into Washington from Africa…I’m not an American, and don’t have American residency, but I’m white and speak with a neutral dialect.

I think you’re right.

Half the people at my local LUG would espouse beliefs like this post unironically.

You weren’t alone in being confused by that. My initial thought is that she’d tied bones to the back of his trousers like the cans behind a ‘just married’ car

The suffering is the point.

Are you using NiCd batteries?

The implication is that the complainant is in an airport, and airports use PA announcements for things - in this case, trying to get some logic to the complainant so they understand that the airplane bathrooms are also ‘all gender’ and their complaint isn’t logical