LynneOfFlowers

To my undestanding chess is based on the Arabic game Shatranj, based on the Indian game Chaturanga, and in both games the piece next to the king is the "general" or "minister" which moves one space diagonally.

https://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/shatranj.html

https://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/chaturanga.html

If you think about it, and I suggest you don’t, this is a Markov model for all people regardless

Your unit files should be launching daemons, common typo

Come on, this has been a thing for the last 19+12i years

I feel like “downloading a file removes it from the computer you’re downloading it from” was a weirdly common misconception in the 90s. I’m sure I remember some Star Trek episode that felt the need to specify that a bunch of data had been “copied and downloaded” from the hero ship’s computer so that the audience wouldn’t think that the data was now gone. Maybe the desktop metaphor where files are presented as physical objects that can be moved around contributed to this belief. Maybe also all the anti piracy PSAs that likened downloading music to stealing a car

Well, God has concepts of a plan anyway

Strongly agree with this. Even if one is correct about someone being an egg, eggs need to be supported to hatch for themselves, not be smashed open before they are ready. Let eggs hatch.

"Mmm let's see, the ship is about to go into a potential crisis situation, yes this sounds like the perfect time to break up a ton of working relationships and give my whole crew jetlag"

The glass is twice at big as it needs to be

Ebooks.com often sells drm-free ebooks, depending on if the publisher allows it

I guess I tend to use data as a mass noun when referring to computer data ("there's a lot of data on that drive") and as a regular noun when referring to data in the scientific sense ("these data show xyz")

have they tried graham crackers