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I recently had a conversation with a native Spanish speaker who lived in Japan and spoke Japanese fairly fluently. He said the exact same thing, it was surprising how similar they can be in this regard

damn you this one got me good.

Y'all are way too nice. I'm pumping a 60Hz square wave right into that thing at max volume.

I used to help with training sessions at a previous company. We had a computer lab type room, people would spend half a day in there and then I'd lock up after. There were two doors to two different parts of an access-controlled building, so the main door was a key lock, but the rear door was badge access.

I locked the main door, turned to leave through the rear door, saw that a lady had come back through the rear door to get her purse. No big, that's the door we're going through to leave anyway, so I move to follow her out.

I turn off the lights by muscle memory as I reach for the door which scares her. She lets out a yelp. I'm apologizing as I move to flick the lights back on

At that exact moment someone came through the front door with their key and saw us standing In close proximity, in a dark room with locked doors. I was already moving to turn the lights back on, so they flick on and we both look guilty as fuck because I'm an awkward IT guy trying to fast talk explain this isn't what it looks like and she's got "just got jump scared by this asshole" face.

The only thing that saved me was that I was friends with the HR manager that had just walked in, and about 40 years younger than the lady with the purse. I'm sure had it been any other of the women in the class I'd have been in an HR meeting.

Two other coworkers were caught getting it on in that room a few months later.

Especially when you consider computers at the time were roughly the size of shipping containers, and the hard drive was a whole other box.

http://factmyth.com/factoids/the-first-hard-drive-was-announced-in-1956/

Assembled with covers, the 305 RAMAC was 60 inches long, 68 inches high and 29 inches deep.[2]

If you're reading this and have never tried this, get some, it's a religious experience. You might find god. God might be a very sick cat.

If the ultra rich pay a fair percentage, the tax burden falls for the rest of everyone.

It would be confusing and weird if "=" did different things depending on the context.

= is the assignment operator

== is the comparison operator.

the others using = only is probably just to keep things short, and the fact that the context is a lot clearer with another character like < next to the =

A?= 90°

Proof:

A nothingburger, being devoid of any and all resemblance to a Hamburg steak, is still a burger.

Ergo, the "burgerness" of a hamburger shares nothing but a name with the eponymous steak.

Q.E.D.

No offense taken. I'm actually a little jealous of you; I can't disassociate from reality at will, but I can see how that would be super handy.