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• Post #2439871

  How would you configure #Apache to serve static content for GET requests and send POST and PUT requests to a script?

• Post #2439870

  These are not the Star Wars jokes you're looking for.

• Post #2439869

  A professor of entomology lamented that students were attracted to his course more by the prestige of his reputation than genuine interest in the subject matter. At the beginning of term, his class was full of obsequious toadies, but by the end they were sick of ants.

• Post #2439868

  Today I made cardboard mounts and mounted 3 photos I'm entering in a competition. I have learnt a craft skill!

• Post #2439867

  If the Daleks got into progressive rock, would it be Genesis Of The Daleks?

• Post #1925947

  Social media often makes me feel that if anyone with even a superficial resemblance to me does something wrong, I'll be tarred with the same brush.

• Post #1925946

  The ethical character of a technology is a reflection of the people who drive its development. There's nothing inherently wrong with technology that can adapt and learn. But the field of AI is currently dominated by some very toxic people and organisations. That situation is in turn the product of an economic and social system that rewards selfishness.

• Post #1925945

  Politicians always try to appeal to the supporters of the party they're most afraid of. So, at the local elections, make sure the government are looking over their left shoulder, not their right shoulder.

• Post #1925944

  #conlangers and other language geeks will be familiar with the following experience. "This grammatical feature I've just learned about is really weird... ...Hang on, English does that!"

• Post #1925943

  I'm cross with Marvel for making The Avengers hard to search for. I don't want a bunch of superheroes, I want John Steed and Emma Peel!

• Post #1925941

  "10x Engineer" is another way of saying "Stakhanovite".

• Post #1925940

  During the First World War, the British Empire recruited soldiers from its subject peoples in Africa and India. Tolkien encountered such soldiers during his own military service. What he thought of using subject peoples like this can be inferred from the fact that in The Lord of the Rings, he ascribes the practice to Mordor.

• Post #1925939

  An archvillain went on a quiz show. He scored no points and 10 passes. He was a diabolical Mastermind.

• Post #1925938

  My son: #Matlab was designed to do one thing well... Me: Nobody knows what it was.

• Post #1925937

  What do the KLF call their cats? The Justified Ancients of Mew Mew.