This is English, but Canada specific as far as I know.
"Fucking the dog" - means to slack off, particularly at work.
"I fucked the dog all day at work today" basically means I got nothing done.
It is distinct from "screw the pooch" which means to fuck something up badly.
Yeah, that is indeed the joke I was making.
I'd argue that Ears is even better knowing he's deaf. And what does he care, he can't hear you anyway.
Well yes, ultimately that was the problem in the end. But they had 2 good releases under EA before that happened. Somewhere along the way EA went entirely to shit and Sim City was one of many casualties.
There's absolutely nothing scientific about Homeopathy, despite what its practitioners would have you believe.
Yeah, the look on Shadowheart's face when she returns the gesture is perfect.
Emacs Org-Mode is pretty powerful, but can be a bit of challenge to learn at first.
For anyone interested, that's called a palimpsest.
a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.
That's not true these days. You can try it yourself right in your browser's dev console.
These results are from Firefox's console.
0 == null == undefined
> false
0 == null
> false
0 == undefined
> false
null == undefined
> true
null === undefined
> false
And even in the one case where == says they are the same, you can fix that by making sure you are using === so that it doesn't do type coercion for the comparison.
It's also trivial to skip the launcher by adding --skip-launcher to the Launch Options.
Using the web-ui, on this post there is an icon made up of two squares. It's right next to the star for saving the post. That's the cross post button.
DS9 gets way better in the last few seasons, IMO. Worth sticking with it.