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It's also cheap shibboleth for communities - if you talk like we talk then you're one of us

When I got "sanguine" wrong, I realized a huge portion of my vocabulary came from Magic: The Gathering. I'd guessed "red-faced and angry" because "blood-soaked" wasn't an option.

https://gatherer.wizards.com/UZ/en-us/155/sanguine-guard

I found the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7nrJRBAMOA

    Turnips dream beneath the loam,
    pale moons tucked in earthen foam.
    Winter hums, the roots lie still,
    sweet and stubborn under hill.
    ; DROP TABLE turnips; --

There are pictures of a similar technique in this paper: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1808415

It was done with manually-written gcode though.

There's a YouTube video out there of someone doing this with a long (airbrush?) nozzle that is inserted into those empty spaces.

I think that's called z-pinning, and it might not be because of patents. I'm not sure though.

Nothing says human connection as much as scheduled meeting and necessity to have scheduled meeting to get or provide context.

I understand your point, but that also describes a date.

The form of a tool guides its use. You can tell what a hammer is for just by picking one up.

What if AI could fill all those gaps, handling mechanical compliance while we focus on the human work?

Idk boss, the perceptron said there weren't any bugs so I shipped it

I think it's more about the way things are vs the way things "should" be.

e.g "teens are going to experiment with sex, so comprehensive sex education is the best way to keep them safe"

vs

"Teens should not have sex, so abstinence-only education is the best way to keep them safe"

"Generations of spiders" threw me there, I thought you were talking about web crawlers.

Take it as an opinion. Don't take it seriously. Whatever floats your boat.

I read somewhere that aliasxneo eats turds with a fork and knife. I'm not sitting on a precompiled list of sources, and it would be unfair to ask me to spend my Saturday building a list for someone whom I read eats turds with a fork and knife.

I won't say what aliasxneo does to add slightly more flavoring, but I think it's a pretty reasonable to assume it's gross and lazy.

If I had to choose between my cat and my daughter...

Hell, if I had to choose between MY cat and YOUR daughter, the choice would will be easy

Slightly overeager - you ask for a button color change, you see layout changes, new package dependencies, and the README rewritten from scratch - and not necessarily correctly.

An account that's two minutes old, defending Elon Musk in a way that makes no sense.

Flybys are awesome depending where you are. F-18s in Idaho? Pretty cool. F-18s in Pakistan? Probably stressful.

I have a collection of vintage microwave cookbooks and they get real fancy, with techniques like wrapping the thin parts of fish with aluminum foil so they don't burn. Volume 5 had a full Thanksgiving dinner. I think the goal was to sell more microwaves to people who weren't sure what they could do. Fascinating stuff.

I have used none of those recipes. The microwave is for making cold pizza 10% more palatable (or 80% more palatable if I've been drinking). In that regard, the LLMs are microwaves really works for me: if I'm using one I either I want something fast and casual, or I'm drunk.

<menu>, <dialog>, lots of fun stuff in html now.

I like to ask people what they imagine <ruby> does, because I certainly didn't guess right.

Here's a demonstration where APL is written on a typewriter thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA&t=208

I've turned off my own access at least three times when being let go from different jobs

Too dangerous to be released, right after the Department of Defense* dropped them

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Here it is in C, so you can run it on you computer in 1995? Because servers could make decisions in 1995.

int main() { int s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); setsockopt(s, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &(int){1}, sizeof(int));

    struct sockaddr_in addr = { AF_INET, htons(8080), .sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY };
    bind(s, (struct sockaddr*)&addr, sizeof(addr));
    listen(s, 10);
    printf("Listening on :8080\n");

    while (1) {
        int c = accept(s, NULL, NULL);

        char req[1024] = {0};
        read(c, req, sizeof(req) - 1);

        time_t now = time(NULL);
        int tuesday = localtime(&now)->tm_wday == 2;

        const char *status = tuesday ? "404 Not Found" : "200 OK";
        const char *body   = tuesday ? "Not Found (it's Tuesday)" : "Hello from 1995!";

        char resp[256];
        snprintf(resp, sizeof(resp),
            "HTTP/1.1 %s\r\n"
            "Content-Length: %zu\r\n"
            "Connection: close\r\n\r\n%s",
            status, strlen(body), body);

        write(c, resp, strlen(resp));
        close(c);
    }
}

    func specialHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 if time.Now().Weekday() == time.Tuesday {
  http.NotFound(w, r)
  return
 }

     fmt.Fprintln(w, "server made a decision")
    }

Forgive the phone-posting.

Back when the earth was still cooling, I remember having to choose between grub and lilo. Who wants a little worm in their computer? I went with Lilo.

Now I use grub, because I don't know much better. I'll check out rEFINd.

Does a turkey sandwich sound good to you?

Yes: okay try it

No: okay you don't have to try it

Unsure: okay you can read about it some more and decide if it sounds good to you

The people I hang around tend to be more Italian than average. I bet there are a lot of factors

I think the algorithms have determined that you'll engage with videos about people who want communism.

You didn't need to make an account just to write that, because you are not welcome here.