I’m not talking about you or me doing this. But Japan, China, the UK and the EU are holding trillions of US debt…

No, there are tools like “hex editors” that allow to edit a file in a more controlled way. I don’t think opening a binary file in notepad would do anything good to that file…

Oh, gosh. Details, please!

Ah. Thanks!

Well, a software (I.e. a. exe file) is a long list of numbers. Some are commands like “do something when the user clicks there”, some are data, like text on a button.

If you are very familiar with those intricacies, you can change a few bytes here or there to change what the program does.

The easiest way to deal with the US at this point is simply to drop US bonds on the market. That could easily destroy what Trump has not yet destroyed of the economy.

Why quoting the word Israeli?

Just like Linux 20 years ago.

Just as a friend said about him: “Möge ihn der Blitz beim Scheissen treffen!”, literally “May lightning hit him while he is shitting!”.

When I was still in school, I was the computer nerd. A doctor in town, who’s son was in my class, asked me to fix an annoyance he had with a software he used. He offered a generous compensation. It took me less than an hour to analyze and patch the program on the binary level. On a per hour base, I earned more money than he normally did…

They also planned to overrun Ukraine in three days.

Given the usual level of Russian corruption, they will notice when they want to draw power from that reactor that someone had already sold off the nuclear fuel and replaced the rods on the reactor with lead.

Neil Gaiman. I’m afraid there won’t be a third season of Good Omens.

In other words: the idea of a battleship is as outdated as the idiot in the White House who had it.

It is better for rasterized images that are not photos. In most cases, SVG is better for drawings as such. As in “don’t even start this raszerizing shit”.

There are photos, where JPG is way better. On the other hand, I often use SVG for drawings, it simply scales way better. PNG is somewhere in the middle.

Nope. Germany.

In Europe, the taxes are taken out of the game, not out of the prices. So the lottery pays out only half of the money taken in, but at least the cash price amounts are honest numbers.

Looks like Americans like to be pulled over in slices:

• Restaurant food, the menu lists prices, but you basically have to add the servers pay on top.

• Shopping, the price tags list product prices, but you have to add a number of taxes on top of it.

• Taxation, taxes are low, but you have to pay for a lot of things like health care and education through the nose.

Luckily, my country can’t do that. I can relinquish citizenship, but the government can’t remove it.

More B=softer=darker, but also losing sharpness faster

More H=harder=lighter, but keeps its point longer.

I’ve got a range of pencils from 4B to 6H. Every pencil hardness has its use.

They go into hiatus to somehow find a way to defend pedophilia. Because it can’t be bad if Trump does it.