What bothers me about this specific question, apart from it being dated, is that it breaks the rules of these kind of riddles. They’re implied to be in a sort of frictionless sphere universe, the whole preposition is silly except as an abstract puzzle. To then rely on the physical properties of real lamps is cheating. You’re supposed to ignore all the real-world aspects of the setting except that one.

Work: Windows + Rider/WebStorm/etc (I used the IdeaVim plugin before but found there were too many rough edges)

Home: Debian or OpenBSD + vi or Pluma. I deliberately keep it simple. A terminal, an editor Ctrl+Z, make, fg, that kind of thing. I’m tired of fighting IDEs to get out of my way. Let me type!

Capital “I”? Heathen!

unstable-final-release2-usethisone

It’s a joke on the “main” name vs. the main() function. That’s normally considered the entry point, but really _start() is the OG entry, used by the runtime to do setup before calling main().

Web search gives you pages of slop results too, now

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That was the joke 😅

But here it is (I think?): https://xkcd.com/979/

The site: https://thestopbits.net/

My colleague uses it to generate rambling code, often pointlessly rewriting existing logic to solve all kinds of hallucinated problems, which he doesn’t understand a bit, then dumps it on me and acts offended when asked to explain any of it.

Thanks for reminding me of that comic! Took me some time to find it though

# We check if the server is on by asking the ALU to perform an operation,
$result = 1 + 1;

if ($result == 2) {
	print "Server is ON.\n";
} else {
	print "Server is OFF.\n";
	print "Power on the system before attempting to run any programs!\n";
}

Brilliant

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