Unless by Hercules you mean Kevin Sorbo in which case, yeah, it was him alright.

Fees by those specific names may have vanished in certain industries and jurisdictions, sure.

Naive calculus tells me they should order 31 $32 bots.

Less naive strategy suggests ordering three $333 bots, pick the best of the three and give the other two the night off.

… but beware of any early repayment fees. Some companies really want all that interest whether you pay it as interest or not.

Growing pains. The eastern arm of the new Himalayas is just getting started.

Will our descendants be around to remember that we knew all this time ago? Will something else evolve in the absence of our lineage and be intelligent enough to figure it out like we figured out the original Himalayas?

But in the meantime, and perhaps long after, we’re in for a few rumbles and broken pots.

Interesting. For as long as I’ve been alive, it hasn’t been legal here (UK) for a brand to specifically name and disparage another brand in their advertising like that. (This doesn’t apply to political parties, for “reasons”, but I digress.)

That is, I’m not sure how it came to be in my head. I had thought I had come up with it independently, but I have to admit there’s a chance I’ve seen someone else use it over the intervening decades, and it has ultimately come from the advertising you’re quoting.

Nintendon’t on account of their rabid intellectual property protection and litigious nature.

Works as both what they might say to would-be infringers as well as advice to avoid them. (Which people ignore because Zelda, Mario and childhood memories.)

I bet they wish people had stuck with “Micro$oft”

Me with anxiety: Do you know what happens after a long period without a storm?

To at least one member of my family, who uses it often, this is an abbreviation of “silly sausage”, which in turn is a variant of “silly person”. It is a term of endearment, but there is a mild negative connotation.

“Dingus”, “doofus” and “oaf” are comparable terms.

My point being that I wouldn’t want “sausage” to be the pet name given to me by a significant other. Other people won’t have this usage in their family or community and may have other opinions, of course.

My town used to have a Burger King. A Whopper I had there one time was quite literally the best burger I’ve ever had, before or since.

That said, this was ~30 years ago at one specific franchise, and I hear that BK food is terrible now, so maybe this doesn’t count.

Did people go out and learn modern Italian after seeing Gladiator?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against anything that might be good for Greek and Greece in general. Good for them and those who choose to learn the language. It just seems a bit… misplaced?

Often, people who say that philosophy and the study of history are useless endeavours are hoping for the resurrection of some historical philosophy or another and they don’t want people to find out how and why it failed.

Are you one of those people?

Probably the recommendation / good match / whatever the term was, who I decided to contact with a message that wasn’t a plain “hi”, y’know, actually put some effort in.

Straight up blocked. You’d think I’d gone d**k-pic level nuclear, but my main crime, that I can figure, is that I waffled on too long and came off as crazy. I would have been satisfied with a “No thanks.”

I’d been ignored / not responded to plenty of times, but that was the first and only time I’d been blocked, so it was an unexpected bruising of the ego, I guess.

The being blocked wasn’t the whole of it though. The site kept recommending that person to me over and over afterwards, rubbing salt in the wound. I think I eventually contacted support to tell them that maybe block lists should matter when recommendations are being made.

Now it turns out that I’m not entirely sane, so she dodged a bullet I guess. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

YOLO

This is just arguing about whether the surname goes before or after the given name.

If you think int x makes the most sense, you might be Chinese. Or Hungarian. Or English speaking if you grew up with characters like Fireman Sam or Postman Pat… erm…

Were existence based not on thought, but on the quality of it, the world might be better off.

(I may have accidentally crossed Sartre with Descartes here.)

Let me guess, this doesn’t count as a legal proceeding and so you can’t plead the 5th?

Sooo, hyperbole aside, I did a quick search on the site of the retailer I last obtained parts through, right before the prices exploded, and their cheapest 1x64GB RAM DDR5 stick is about £2320.

(Big assumption here that the motherboard only has four RAM slots. If you’re going to cram 192GB onto it, you’re going to need at least a couple of those, and preferably three, not 2x64+2x32, hence not looking at smaller capacity sticks.)

As I write, eBay has one seller with a single 1x64GB DDR5 at a quarter of that, which makes me think they must be going by pre-explosion pricing, but it also has something at well over £10k, four times the other way (and more), so at least logarithmically, the stand-alone retailer is right in the middle.

That means that this server is probably going to be well in excess of £10k when they finally ship it with full spec. If they’re offering a warranty or support contract, probably around £20k. (Or £30k if they do the trick of simply changing the currency sign on a US dollar amount).

“How to land yourself in prison for fraud in one simple step…”