But those ships are registered in random junk countries, so they are not Russian.

On the other hand, if they get protection from Russian navy ships, they are clearly identified as Russian and therefore subject to embargo.

To be able to code is what brings a developer to be on top. But from a certain point, you mostly herd junior programmers.

I would not call it often, but it happens.

As soon as the rollout for BMW dealers starts, Chinese toolmakers will churn out compatible bits and screwdrivers. They might even be on the market before the BMW dealers have them in the mail.

Well, if you are a top developer, you don’t write lines of code. You leave this to your underlings.

On a building site, the architect is not laying bricks, either.

I like lossless compression. But not because I’d be a audio nut. I prefer it from a data retention and archival viewpoint. I could cut and join lossless data as often as i like, without losses accumulating.

For me, it was not while moving, but while sitting on the beach.

I remember using telnet on a Palm Pilot, linked to the internet via IRDA to my (pre-smart) cell phone to log into my companies’ server to fix something while I was on holidays.

Mine didn’t. What did you do for “moving around”? Trampoline? Rope skip?

Tell this to the people who try to sell it as the one big computational solution.

This “everything” was meant as an exaggeration. But it comes close for nearly every article (or press release disguised as an article) in the press.

For years, quantum computers are only good for doing quantum computing benchmarks. They promise to solve everything, but I’d bet that we get both power from fusion (cold or hot) and have a concious AI decades before a quantum computer solves significant real-world problems.

One needs a study for that?

From my time in tech support I know there are two kinds of cases where people can’t open a PDF. In one group, the PDF is broken, usually an interrupted download or otherwise corrupted file. The other group, well, one wonders how this kind of people can walk and talk at the same time.

Quite easy. It was either King Salomon or King David who in their later years “had virgins in his bed every night.” In that time, you can assume that we are neither talking about 18+ women nor that this was in any modern sense consenting…

And again, two bands of brawlers beat themselves up over a ball, and they call this uncivilized bar fight “football” despite carrying the ball in the hands most of the time.

There is a web outside of chrome…

As does YouTube Shorts and a number of others.

All documents proving this have probably either been shredded or marked “Top Secret”. Public shaming is the only hope left.

Looking at the screws’ tips, I’d say it’s unlikely they would be the kind that go through 12" with something to spare. I thing the floor is decidedly less than the 12" minimum.