So I knew this song as a kid. And I cannot find any evidence it exists online *except this website*
I've got a memory of finding a youtube video of one person sing it
Does this weirdness live in anyone else's memory?
https://dragon.sleepdeprived.ca/songbook/songs3/S3_80.htm
I've got a memory of finding a youtube video of one person sing it
Does this weirdness live in anyone else's memory?
https://dragon.sleepdeprived.ca/songbook/songs3/S3_80.htm
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I confess myself a bit baffled by people who act like "how to interact with ChatGPT" is a useful classroom skill. It's not a word processor or a spreadsheet; it doesn't have documented, well-defined, reproducible behaviors. No, it's not remotely analogous to a calculator. Calculators are built to be *right*, not to sound convincing. It's a bullshit fountain. Stop acting like you're a waterbender making emotive shapes by expressing your will in the medium of liquid bullshit. The lesson one needs about a bullshit fountain is *not to swim in it*.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwBjfQPuhFA
The question on everyone's mind today
The question on everyone's mind today
Where Do They Make Balloons?
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesWhere Do They Make Balloons? · They Might Be Giants (For Kids)No!℗ 2013 Idlewild RecordingsReleased on: 2002-06...YouTube
Awwwww, they shot it because they thought balloons were from the same place as spaghetti
I describe NPC body language as giving away vibes *a lot*
Like, the PCs say a bunch and I go "She scowls and seems disbelieving but doesn't speak"
Or "She replies " that makes sense", obviously not believing that"
I realize I don't know if I see that elsewhere.
#TTRPG
Like, the PCs say a bunch and I go "She scowls and seems disbelieving but doesn't speak"
Or "She replies " that makes sense", obviously not believing that"
I realize I don't know if I see that elsewhere.
#TTRPG
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Hmm, this inspires me to put a body language cheatsheet into my GM screen!
https://www.writerswrite.co.za/cheat-sheets-for-writing-body-language/
https://www.writerswrite.co.za/cheat-sheets-for-writing-body-language/
Cheat Sheets For Writing Body Language - Writers Write
Writers Write is your one-stop writing resource. Use these cheat sheets to help you show a character's state of mind when you're writing body language.Writers Write
One of the things about people being bad actors with APIs is that APIs are a way to make automations more polite, and work on your terms. They are contract.
Twitter is basically WotC and the OGL right now. They want you to pay microtransactions in order to do something you can legally do, but they could, in theory, make take *slightly* more work.
Well, ok, twitter wants macrotransactions
Twitter is basically WotC and the OGL right now. They want you to pay microtransactions in order to do something you can legally do, but they could, in theory, make take *slightly* more work.
Well, ok, twitter wants macrotransactions
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In the 90s my mom bought of super 90s wireless headphones (INFRARED) in order to watch TV while washing dishes
And as a parent - that's a decision I completely understand now
And as a parent - that's a decision I completely understand now
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@silverwizard My dad had these clunky wireless headphones (but were some sort of RF) so he could listen to the hockey game. Before he got those, he just had a pair with a ridiculously long cord.
This was like ... 94 so like, back when IR seemed like a better idea than it was, and Mindstorms was using IR to program robots
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People often say "I'm gonna go play rust" and I'm like "Oh! I'm writing a webserver in that"
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I was walking down the street where the houses were numbered, 64k, 128k, 256k, 512k, and 1MB.
That was a trip down memory lane.
That was a trip down memory lane.
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Elaine!! Cory traded his recording equipment to some demons, so the brilliant Sara Century joins Hub and helps him unpack the strangely beautiful, problematic fairy tale that is the 1985 Gargoyle miniseries. Topics of discussion include: Gargoyle is the anti-Valkyrie, liking art you disagree with, Germaine rules, and WW1! All this, plus a heaping helping of Dylan disparaging. Enjoy! Enjoy!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/titan-up-the-defense/id1024210268?i=1000597637941
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/titan-up-the-defense/id1024210268?i=1000597637941
Titan Up The Defense: Titan Up the Defense 315- The Gargoyle Miniseries (1985) on Apple Podcasts
Show Titan Up The Defense, Ep Titan Up the Defense 315- The Gargoyle Miniseries (1985) - Feb 1, 2023Apple Podcasts
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Claws are White Claws, kinda the worst beer
And yeah, the Wilhoit thing is incredibly funny, you need to attribute it to "American Composer Frank Wilhoit"
And yeah, the Wilhoit thing is incredibly funny, you need to attribute it to "American Composer Frank Wilhoit"
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The import thing is that I associate White Claws with 20-30 year old white men, and 18-25 year old white women
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I feel like a lot of people don't differentiate Buzz Words and Jargon, and I think that not knowing the difference is a giant communication problem
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@silverwizard it isn't an organic problem, though, it is very intently cultivated by people who stand to gain from the confusion.
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This is the future public transit enthusiasts want
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This company's support team is making me go use the Internet Archive in order to explain that their statements have changed since last year
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Thinking about a tabletop RPG where the attributes are roles.
So - basically take the Leverage (RPG) model with Hitter, Hacker, Grifter, Thief, Mastermind and then use that in place of like, Strength, Dex, or Intelligence and so on. I would probably use a die pool system since I love it, and so you'd end up with Role + Skill.
And then I think the secret sauce is that you set the consequences of failure based on the Role used. So a Hitter failing generally is hurt, a Grifter is identitied, and a Thief is seen.
If you have each role be attached to a specific kind of health bar - it can incentivize changing roles and so on.
#TTRPG #RPG
So - basically take the Leverage (RPG) model with Hitter, Hacker, Grifter, Thief, Mastermind and then use that in place of like, Strength, Dex, or Intelligence and so on. I would probably use a die pool system since I love it, and so you'd end up with Role + Skill.
And then I think the secret sauce is that you set the consequences of failure based on the Role used. So a Hitter failing generally is hurt, a Grifter is identitied, and a Thief is seen.
If you have each role be attached to a specific kind of health bar - it can incentivize changing roles and so on.
#TTRPG #RPG
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TDP magic is flashy. There's somatic and verbal components, so that would be the potential downside. And if it's dark magic there's a whole other level of downside.
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Someone just used the words "tinder box" in the context of tech things.
And my first thought wasn't "thing that burns" but something much worse
And my first thought wasn't "thing that burns" but something much worse
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Content warning: financial need, electric bill, lost child support
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Why the HELL does the Discord desktop app want to have permission to receive keystrokes from ANY application?
And the dialog should not just have "deny", but "NO FUCKING WAY BEOTCH!"
And the dialog should not just have "deny", but "NO FUCKING WAY BEOTCH!"
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I always loved it when clients would say to me during the first interview, "I'm guilty!"
I developed the habit of responding, "Yes, but of what?"
I would then point out that the district attorney was accusing them of being guilty of a lot more than they were willing to admit, and wanted to impose far greater penalties than they were willing to accept. It's that moment when they see the chessboard.
I developed the habit of responding, "Yes, but of what?"
I would then point out that the district attorney was accusing them of being guilty of a lot more than they were willing to admit, and wanted to impose far greater penalties than they were willing to accept. It's that moment when they see the chessboard.
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The important thing about Wizards creative commonsing D&D is that it's a trick to make you pay micro transactions for D&D
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Devs: We should add a kiosk mode to make the application safer.
Manager: No time for such nonsense, deploy it now.
Manager: No time for such nonsense, deploy it now.
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reminds me of when the app I was using on on of these crashed to desktop and didn’t restart, so of course I dug in the start menu and started Minecraft
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I worked on London Underground's touch screen ticket machines in the 1990s. We made damn sure only our app could use the touchscreen, and the OS thought it was just a serial port.
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A BILLIONAIRE
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A BILLIONAIRE MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A BILLIONAIRE MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
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I have multiple working pages and CSS for my statically linked website working
Soon my terrible idea will bear fruit
Soon my terrible idea will bear fruit
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Just gotta deal with
1) putting some HTML in a rust binary will probably end up with a 2TB file
2) figure out how to easily serialize an image into a rust binary
1) putting some HTML in a rust binary will probably end up with a 2TB file
2) figure out how to easily serialize an image into a rust binary
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@silverwizard This is perhaps terrible, but could you not just create a program that you could pipe an arbitrary binary file into it and it would output a rust module that defines an array of bytes that matches what was fed into it?
Yeah, basically a makefile that runs markdown on the file, makes HTML, then objcopies the html and images into a rust file, and then populates the valid pages header with the list.
so firstly - right now it's just me doing:
The next step is all the objcopy shit - mostly because I don't have a sense of how to do what I want to do in rust yet, since I've probably written a total of like... 2 hours of rust.
And right now the code just sits on my laptop, sorry. I'll probably open it once it's in a reasonably acceptable place.
pub static {
index: &str = "<html>...
</html>"};The next step is all the objcopy shit - mostly because I don't have a sense of how to do what I want to do in rust yet, since I've probably written a total of like... 2 hours of rust.
And right now the code just sits on my laptop, sorry. I'll probably open it once it's in a reasonably acceptable place.
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🙏may your home projects all require just the one trip to the hardware store🙏
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•So, you've never been to a writers' workshop, spent 30 minutes with the staff on the school literary magazine, seen the original "You're the man now, dog!" scene, or had any other exposure to the thousand and one gimmicks invented over the centuries to get people to put one word after another.
"It provides examples for teaching the art of critique!"
Why not teach with examples, just hear me out here, by actual humans?
"Students can learn to write by rewriting the output!"
Am I the only one who finds passing off an edit of an unattributable mishmash as one's own work to be, well, flagrantly unethical?
"You're just yelling at a cloud! What's next, calling for us to reject modernity and embrace tradition?"
I'd rather we built our future using the best parts of our present rather than the worst.
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•Like it actively interferes with me teaching kids how to write research papers, which they've never done before
It's objectively harmful for k12 students who don't fully understand how to write a thesis or organize a paper
fucking despise these arguments
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