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  Puns that aren't very funny at all What did Linus Torvalds say after he completed work on the first Linux kernel? I’m Finnishd! Norway, you might say, that’s not a very good joke! Well, let me Sweden the deal with some more puns: Why did the programmer fail their Python test? Their skills were Rusty. What is John Programmer’s favourite superhero-themed golf club? The Flash Drive! What grade did the senior dev get in Computer Science? C, because their memory was unsafe. What is a...

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  Even more terrible puns! Why should you never invite a circuit board designer to prom? After the first write, they will leave you on read(-only mode) why? PROM is Programmable Read-Only Memory, which can be written to only once, after which it is read-only What does the maintainer say when asked whether one can contribute to their permissively licensed project? M I Teasing you? Of course you can add Apache 2! why? MIT and Apache 2(.0) are both permissive open-source licenses, and they...

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  Before writing a line of app code, I’m validating demand. And I’ll put my money where my mouth is: the landing page and the waitlist both run on a Debian box in my living room. This isn’t trying to replace your monitoring server; it’s the mobile, unified, privacy-first front-end I keep wishing those had. Hello, fellow human! Do you too enjoy the sweet sensations of smell and taste?

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  As someone who has lived in China before (both in HK and the mainland) I would like at add some of my observations regarding the security in the mainland. There really are security cameras everywhere, at least in the urban areas (Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, etc.), and I heard that it's very effective against thieves, and many people I know have lost their phone / some other belonging in the trains and was able to get it back! In some places, there's even locations where ecommerce deliv...

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  LED bulbs are far more efficient than incandescent bulbs, meaning less energy bills! "60W" LED bulbs are in reality more like 5ish watts, the labels just help you to compare against traditional power-hungry bulbs.

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  My understanding is (and I could be wrong on some details, I'm no political scientist!), communism is a broad idea for the end goal of a society with no class boundaries, no private ownership, workers (or a representative for them, in some models) owning the factories/"seizing the means of production", rights for all, everyone gets their fair share. There are many, very different ideologies for achieving such an ideal society. Additionally, different people have tacked on their o...

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  My question would be for what time zone? That seems like an important detail

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  Here are some bad puns that are to do with data types. I’m sorry. Comment down some of your own concoctions! What does a programmer say when he is accused of lying? I promise I’m not boolean you! explanation of the puns “Fooling” sounds very similar to “boolean”, the latter being a data type commonly used when programming. Yes I will be explaining each and every pun. Yes, these puns are not very good at all, I’m not a professional comedian. The one in the title is a play on words, as “Charlot...