Yes, but you can write it in different ways. If the numeric string contains a dot, left of it must be between 0 and 255, and is put in the highest byte of the address. If the rest also contains a dot, repeat, but put it into the second highest byte.

BUT: if the string does not contain a dot, the number is put into the remaining bytes.

So 123.256 is a valid address. The 123 goes into the top byte, the 256 goes into the remaining three bytes, so the address would be 123.0.1.0.

Most common example is 127.1, which is short for 127.0.0.1 - the localhost address.

Try pinging 127.1 - it is the same, but shorter.

Just another tipp from someone who learned TCP/IP from reading the sources over three decades ago…

Before going on Ozempic, read up on current medical research (not Facebook or such shit). They discovered some not-so-good long term effects recently.

Same here, elementary school. Teacher: “When water boils, it produces a lot of steam.” Me: “One liter of water produces 1700 liters of steam under normal pressure conditions.” Teacher: “Write down: When water boils, it produces a lot of steam.”.

Occasionally, humanity sacrifices a wannabe Christian missionary for them.

I knew it as “New York Second”, and that it is the shortest time interval measurable by science.

The first thing that comes to mind here are prostata problems or kidney stones. While the ring muscles can’t counter the pressure from a full bladder, the other two can seriously obstruct the urinary tract. In case of a kidney stone, it could even be that sharp crystals support or cause a rupture.

The killer collective.

Today, “Antisemitism” is a global envelope word for criticising anything the Israeli government does.

OK, 11.8 inches, that is 29.972cm or 45.41 Paris Stiches, i.e. European size 45. That’s big, yes, but is it really that extraordinary?

Given that overall size and shoe size are roughly correlated, maybe they just had a kind of “elite group” of large warriers to intimidate the Picts? Or maybe one large guy, high enough in the ranks to be able to afford more than a single pair of Caligae?

I remember installing a fresh PC with win98. During installation, I disabled some windows bloatware (Imagine! You actually could do this!), and ended up with an unresponsive, non-windows app blocking the system. I killed that app and removed it from the system. Keep in mind that at this point, no network connection was set up, nor did I install any driver or program yet, this was straight from the windows install medium.

After reboot, the app was back, and again blocking the system.

Wiping the harddisk and starting installation over did not help either.

Turned out this was some bloatware installed by the BIOS whenever it detected at boot that there was a) a Windows installation that was b) “missing” their “register your PC with us” app. This needed some Windows bloatware to work, and thus failed on this machine.

This was the only time I angrily screamed at a hotline worker.

4th of July? You mean the Ungrateful Colonists Insurgence Day?

Call for independence from everything GOP and Trump on July 4th?

I think I have two I could put on the left side. A “full-height” 5.25 inch drive with 5 megabytes and a DEC removable disk platter assembly, somewhere over a foot in diameter and 8 to 10 inches high. I don’t remember how much capacity that had. It was for a RP04 or RP06 drive.

The dashcam video seems to come from a safety car blocking that lane. The truck driver changed lanes in a very steep angle right after the safety car.

Lets put it this way: As with several other features of the human body, science has not yet found the evolutionary reason.

It is not that long ago when scientists wondered about the existence of the appendix. Before antibiotics and surgery, an estimated 5-10% of the population died of appendicitis, so there was an immense evolutionary pressure to get rid of it. But it was still there, leaving scientist baffled until they found out how important the appendix is for survival.

Wow. You only get the 25km/h model here for that. For anything faster, you need a full driving licence.

Depends. We have three classes of them here. There is the 6km/h variant for the sidewalk, there is a 25km/h variant for which you need a simple driving licence and insurance that you can use on roads and bike lanes (IIRC), and a 40km/h version where you need a full driving licence and a bigger insurance, for use on the roads.

“For our profits, it is reasonable not to waste money on AC.” – Your boss

Well, this would be more calling the cops on the DoorDash driver.