I clicked on the link and the video title is "Decoding Escher's most mind-bending piece", which is a lot better. I also had no idea what "3B1B video" meant, apparently it's a channel called "3Blue1Brown".
I remember playing this all the time on my TI-83+. That calculator is where I really learned to program. I wrote programs in TI-BASIC - mostly to solve equations for my math/science classes, but some games too. It's been so long that I don't really remember TI-BASIC, but I was quite good at it in high school.
Wasn't the whole point of Clippy (and the reason people are using Clippy as their avatar on YouTube and other places) that he WASN'T AI? Or, rather that he didn't mine/collect your data and could be used offline and just was there to help.
At home, my ISP gives me native IPv6. At work, we don't have IPv6 (or it's just disabled on the router), so I sometimes use one to test stuff (I use 6Project).
Reading charitably I think he means that it's a shortcut to gaining influence.
In the boomer sense of "go to the store and ask if they need help".
Trump "pushes" his way into things (because he's a disgusting bully), but it largely works.
I think the parent meant it in this way, that email pushes its way into peoples private box, but this is probably same as actually sending a letter to someone.
i was trying to take their comment in good (relative) faith, but obviously if they're not going to elaborate, anyone is free to draw their own conclusions!
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