All thermometers are atom-based.

… We were all thinking it!

is that something people do?

Lovely! Wish I had a bigger screen that my phone right now to see this

I think you have them backwards, surely the Charizard is the granddad

How does that work? Colored e-ink?

Don’t know, never been :P

I meant her. Mike and his guitar; Sarah and her violin; The computer and its speakers.

“its” is comparable to “his” or “her”, not to e.g. “Dave’s”.

Going to concerts. It’s too loud and it’s crowded, I just don’t see the appeal.

And while we’re at it, dancing. It’s unnatural, I tell you!

When a country goes to war, internal conflicts (i.e. left wing vs. right wing) are forgotten, or at least put on hold, and everyone is suddenly on the same page.

That looks nothing like the Half-Life 2 monster

you kid, but there’s no shortage of steam games where steam (a launcher) updates the game’s launcher

I haven’t seen them, but based on your description, I think this xkcd explains how these movies were conceived:

(source)

I don’t get it

Of course it still matters, you just take the best case for n as n→∞, instead of the worst or average case.

Really annoys me that this is actually O(n log n) because for large enough n the merge sort will take longer than n*1e6 second. Randall should know better!

Dang, I definitely remember this scene and it’s been ages since I’ve seen this show.

Fascinating!

Nah, my .de means nothing, it was just an arbitrary choice of instance for me.

Was changing your name not possible back then, or were you just not aware that it’s possible?

… a calculator, an electronic translator, an alarm clock, a video games console, an infinite DVD player, a spirit level, a personal weather forecaster, …

oh and I also think it can make telephone calls