Already with a single standard in a single project things have a tendency to start breaking down as soon as there’s more than one developer and disagreement arises about what the text in the standard specification actually means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netwide_Assembler

👆 This.

I personally prefer programming barefoot, but then I also use GNOME.

How is that pu pronounced?

[ˈpuːtə]

Like pew or poo?

WTF?

The bird is named after the country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_(bird)#Names

(So now when they’ve renamed the country, the bird ought to be renamed too.)

The first version control system I ever used was CVS and it was first released in 1986 so it was already old and well established when I first came to use it.

Anyone in these past forty years not using a version control system to keep track of their source code have only themselves to blame.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Currencies_that_use_the_dollar_sign

She was most likely not an engineer. Do you have any evidence to show that she was?

Imagine living in a country with the face of a felon rapist traitor on our currency.

From my experience travelling the world, that’s not particularly uncommon. The US doesn’t have to feel singled out for having such people on their bank notes.