Crash Nebula and The Crimson Chin from Fairly Oddparents are both great

The beanposting is unrelated to the vegan drama, Lemmy just really likes beans. It was one of our first home-grown memes

I have a bread box…which I generally don’t keep my bread in

Stop fucking creating terrorists. America can’t though, creating terrorists is their favorite pastime

If that’s getting me, they can have me

Well, hockey season is starting up again soon, so there’s that

The earliest fungi evolved approximately 1.5 billion years ago, while green algae, the earliest plant, only evolved ~1 billion years ago. Animalia is significantly newer.

https://xkcd.com/840/

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sudo apt install nano

A second person would help a lot, but not be entirely necessary. They are designed to be swappable

The fridge door one is perfectly realistic, those are designed to be swappable.

Come to Winnipeg because you’re curious; stay because your car got stolen and Greyhound stopped operating there

The square shaped ones work best, common brand is Easy Out

Yeah, sounds like Winnipeg

For the actual physical connection, you use a male receptacle

In order to do it legally, you also need the transfer switch, as has been mentioned.

Switching the neutral and hot pins doesn’t matter except for appliances with exposed metal tied to the neutral pin, which is pretty much exclusive Edison screw lamps. This is why many plugs (especially those that immediately go to a rectifier) don’t bother with polarization.

Swtching hot and ground is a problem

50-50 chance whether those two outlets are on the same phase or opposite phases; if it’s the latter, congrats, that’s a 240V short.

Besides, if there’s an outlet at the far end of your string of lights, you don’t need this, you just plug it in there

Gonna need a lot more parity bits than regular old Hamming code

Eh. Overseas? Definitely not. If my home is invaded? You bet your ass I’m fighting the invaders.

The best book is either Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks, or Fine Structure by Sam Hughes.

Oh, you meant programming books. Maybe still try Sam Hughes, it’ll probably be more blog post than book, though

Edit: You might also like Ra by Sam Hughes; it’s magic as a field of science/engineering, and spells have programming-like syntax. Spoiler: ‘magic’ is not actually magic