This punchline delivered on time

What did the Swedes do to you to deserve this?

I guess you can file something with an appropriate court. Something the embassy would do probably. Get it suspended pending more investigation, or a higher court ruling against the lawfulness of whatever you’re complaining about

Do it.

This is way more accurate

I don’t expect the current government to ever fix the second part, though.

I think he was talking about the con_ in consequence

I think it’s octal

Do you know who also liked to have his face everywhere?

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Impedance mismatch between two pieces of equipment (amplifier and speaker, in this case) is a thing, and depending on how the amplifier is built can be a problem. But for the piece of wire connecting them to behave like a transmission line it needs to be a significant fraction of the wavelength of the signal, which at audio frequency is quite a lot, so unless you have your amplifier on the other side of town it is totally irrelevant. The guy was blabbing nonsense. We didn’t talk about quarks.

Resistance can reduce the volume. E.g. if your wires are too thin for the current you want to send over them. The guy was talking about impedance.

Once someone tried to tell me that the wrong cable impedance to the speakers affected sound. Asked him what is the wavelength at audio frequencies, conversation died.

That’s the joke. They would claim that … I don’t know… electrons are going to fall off that copper wire or something like that.

Twelve audiophiles around the world just had seizures

Are you body shaming the satellite dishes?

This joke resonates with me.

It’s been some time… Before Xorg there was Xfree86, and before that the various implementations by the other Unix vendors. Does that make sense?

This is one of the most useful things in Xorg, and prior to that in X11. If you (generic you, not anyone in particular here) don’t know about it it’s because you come from too long time on “my users are stupid” operating systems. It’s one of those things that once you have it in muscle memory you use it without even thinking about it.

Have I mis-pasted things? Yes. Have l pasted my password in an IRC channel? Yes. Would I stop using it because once every few months I make a mistake? Not at all.

Make it configurable, if you must, but leave us old timers work the way we have done for 30 years or more. There are already some software/ toolkits that disable it, so it is likely doable on a per-app basis.

Gratuitous “old man yells at clouds” rant: people should be forced to use a VT52 for one year before being granted GUI privileges, especially if you work with network hardware.

I’ll crawl back in my cave now.

Like a giant pressure cooker

Like the S in IoT stands for security. Got it.