And indeed 1F414 is a lower (hexadecimal) number than 1F95A, so in the absence of other criteria I’m sure in most systems it would sort first.

They might not know the name for the extension of alphabetical order to all characters in Unicode (and neither do I) but it’s logical to associate it with alphabetical since it’s similar in concept.

I really didn’t want to let it win.

I also had that experience with emacs, which has a built in help system. I couldn’t find a topic on ‘exit’ or ‘quit’ and refused to just search online.

Took me half an hour.

Last night when I saw this post I happened to support it at a perfect round number.

To have a chance of being made into a real set, it needs a little under 5 times that number of supporters - specifically this weird composite number 2^4 * 5^4.

Sure they are, but system apps are still installed in the immutable space initially, which is the important thing, that updates to it can’t go there.

I don’t know how desktop immutable systems deal with that.

Another prominent example is Android. Sure system apps can be upgraded individually – by storing the new version in a restricted part of the ‘user’ partition – but otherwise the system files are strictly read only until a new ‘image’ is ‘flashed’ to it by the update system or a power user with debugging tools. In the past, a common use of root capabilities was to remount the system partition as read/write and then change files on it directly. It’s more complex now.

That’s also why system apps can be rolled back to the stock version, and can sometimes be disabled, but can’t be directly uninstalled like user apps. Only the updated version on the user partition (if there is one) can be removed.

Wayland is still too broken for him?

I don’t know any CSS (despite reading memes about it like this) but I do know that the bottom of that page has a link to something called Grid Garden

For the benefit of any of Today’s 10,000 I just want to point out that this is a reference to a quote from a movie.
The same movie stars Danny Trejo as Machete.
This movie is Spy Kids 2.

I wonder if it’s a compile error to have multiple conflicting COMEFROM statements

I think there’s at least one INTERCAL implementation where that’s how you start multi-threading

This meme is older than rust.

I think this might be the first of these I’ve seen where pretty much all the comments are just agreement.

As far as switching out Explorer goes, it’s not actually the window manager, that’s Aero since Vista - but it is the shell on desktop editions of Windows… But not all editions. Some server editions (“core”) and some specialized other ones have the shell set to literally just a cmd window. There’s no taskbar, no Start, no desktop icons, etc. There’s a cmd window that if closed triggers a reboot. Of course other things can be started from it.

I’m not sure if there’s a setting that could be changed to make a desktop edition behave like that or vice versa.

GNU’nt

Still happens for new emoji on old OSs, or just missing characters in the font being used.

Interesting. If they do that in the US some day, I would absolutely much rather buy that device than unroot my phone.

I guess I don’t know what you mean by “authenticating transactions”.

Web browsers.

Edit: Nevermind, I don’t know what this even is.

Here’s a quick essay about the problems with it.

TL;DR - as long as people generally prefer to sleep when it’s dark and wake when it’s light (and they always will in general) time zones are basically needed as a form of lookup table for when to try to communicate with other places.

Yes! Very much so.

This is a good illustration of exactly why timezones exist and the issues with not having them.