Police, this guy right here.

I assume Windows is inexplicably a typo of QI?

I totally agree. I believe they make some effort to get their facts right, but it’s not their highest priority by any stretch. I also suspect they might sometimes leave crucial details on the cutting room floor.

In this instance I get the impression that Sandi actually meant the arms are still swung but just kept straight, like a Minecraft run. But then Bill interpreted it as the arms kept straight and motionless, like that one Seinfeld episode, and Sandi didn’t correct him.

once you’re up to a steady speed it doesn’t make so much difference.

[Citation needed]. You’re still fighting gravity so being lighter makes each step easier. There is also less air drag (but I don’t know how much difference this makes).

I have seen claims that this isn’t actually true, swinging our arms to counterbalance the legs is less efficient than just keeping them in place.

Where did I see this claim? Why, it was in this peer-reviewed scientific paper: https://youtu.be/-QW25fJ34nA , where by “peer-reviewed” I mean filmed with a live studio audience, and by “scientific paper” I mean segment of a TV panel show.

So uhhh yeah I’m not buying it but I can’t be bothered to check their sources.

I think (not 100% sure) that UEFI is a replacement for BIOS. All modern computers use UEFI.

People still colloquially call it “BIOS” because it serves a similar purpose, but there is a technical difference.

Relevant sketch: https://youtu.be/X-7CaIA4ilE

It appears that your habit for pedantic comments is as strong as ever!

Even your title isn’t the true beginning. Before the terminal, there was just a printer. Teletype, was it?

(Comedy answer)

Seems like you have a tendency to get terrible jobs. Try the George Costanza method: whatever your instincts tell you to do, do the opposite! You’ll be working at the New York Yankees in no time.

I followed a number of guides to try to get it to work. Including doing that. No dice.

I still think it’s probably user error on my part, but I’m still shocked there was no command to effectively “force run an unattended upgrade now” to test that it works correctly.

The OP did it in the wrong order. First do update to refresh, then do upgrade to install.

There are even better ways built into the shell, but I can never remember any of them. I also never thought of history|grep, I think I might actually remember that one. Thanks!

It’s through Update Manager (mintupdate) for me, but I definitely feel like the happy guy looking out at the nice view.

I never got unattended-upgrades to work for me on the machine I tried it on. Best I could tell, it just didn’t do anything. It was frustrating.

But many years back I set up my raspberry pi with a cron job that was effectively (if not literally) apt update && apt full-upgrade && reboot and that seemed to be working just fine.

Nebula mirror: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomnicholas-why-youtubers-hold-microphones-now

I wanted to link to this video myself but you beat me to it

Why not?

It’s mostly a big desert so no land of great value is lost. And it has to be on land, doing this in the ocean would be impractical and crazy!

Annoying that there’s no examples of the actual HTML markup. Only the CSS is shown. What’s up with that?

I’ve never really got that story. I understand it as a metaphor, but to me it doesn’t quite work because this problem can be solved rather easily by constructing something, anything, at the peak to hold the boulder from tumbling. If he places the rock in exactly the same way each time, no wonder it falls down. But he should at least try a different approach or any other trick that improves the chances of it working. There are plenty of options.

Granted, I never read the actual story, I’ve only pieced it together from the many pop culture references to it. So they may be other aspects of the story that I’m missing.

Mean dog endangered his rescuer just to please his own OCD during a literal life-or-death emergency. Bad dog!

(/s but with a hint of truth)