dd does not stand for "disk duplicator". That's a modern backronymization that doesn't reflect the original general usage of the command which is to "convert and copy". Efficiently (with respect to I/O) copying raw data is only one of its intended purposes; it also converts text encodings.

No, it means that it failed to become a star by initiating stellar fusion reactions. This isn't some science fiction term. Red dwarfs are stars, and brown dwarfs are not.

Because sometimes one has no choice, be it for your job, or hardware support, etc.

Unfortunately, there is some scientific and medical equipment that only supports Microsoft Windows (often obsolete versions, which is even worse).

wet, fuzzy magnet with a bald rock child

I got all the landscape ones correct—except for one—by applying my limited knowledge of art technique.

.C came first. I don't usually use it though; I usually use .cc or .cxx, but if I'm making some tiny test source, I often use .C. I'm strongly opposed to the .cpp extension because calling C++ "CPP" leads to confusion with the preexisting (before C++) use of the initialism to refer to the C preprocessor. There's a reason why CPPFLAGS refers to preprocessor flags and CXXFLAGS refers to C++ flags.

It would be better if the workers were actually paid enough.

Why does philosophy constantly twist things into an over complicated mythical mess, and then act like it’s some novel insight?

I cannot stand that either, but this sort of pseudo-profundity is more common in some specific schools of thought, rather than philosophy in general.

Does a tree falling in the woods with nothing to hear it make a sound?

It's probably № 1 on my list of stupidest questions. The answer is yes.

Actually, negative absolute temperature is quite real in certain non-equilibrium systems, and does not imply negative energy.

It's not just legal—it's not even impolite.

That's the X logo, not the X.Org logo, which has a superimposed "O" in addition to the X logo. X.Org didn't come until the 21^st^ century, despite the fact that it is now considered the official reference implementation of X.