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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Love Demetri Martin.

    But the real story is weirder: the color is named after the fruit. Prior to the 16th century it was “yellow-red”.

    Also carrots were not commonly orange when oranges arrived in Europe. The carrots we’re used to were hybridized from the earlier yellow, red, and purple varieties in the late 18th century.




  • A similar argument is what finally caused the value of the vi family of editors to click in my brain:

    They are designed to be fully functional over even the shittiest possible* remote connection. You can’t always count on ctrl, alt, or even the arrow keys being transmitted in a way that is understood by the remote machine.

    *Well, I guess the worst possible terminal would be something like an actual teletype, and in that case you’d probably want to fall back to ed or its descendants. To save paper, if nothing else.