I know everyone says it and it's obvious, it's still worth saying how well made Alien is as a movie
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I really wish Animorphs Book 3 was about Tobias getting trapped in morph (start getting intel, see home life, go to battle in middle, end of the book being about being trapped). Kinda get to know Tobias as not-a-bird. Then later you can have his existential crisis (probably a Cassie book?)
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I know this is taking a book from Cassie, but it would be better than her having psychic dreams for an Ax-book. Fuck - give that slot to Ax's first book.
That way you don't need magic whales.
That way you don't need magic whales.
Hoo boy hoo boy hoo boy. I can't wait to get back to work on Monday
(long weekend in this part of the world)I hope this also works with gitlab...
it almost has to. they're in the unicode spec. not allowing unicode would prevent folks from using their native languages in branch names.
yeah, that's what I figured.
I shall also try to switch the text flow to right to left.
I shall also try to switch the text flow to right to left.
remember that during the Ferguson protests Palestinians sent tips in solidarity bc the same brand of tear gas is used on them middleeasteye.net/news/palestiniโฆ the chief of St. Louis Police studied counter protest tactics in Israel
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Conversations around the pandemic and Brexit are great information about the dangers of JIT scheduling, and the ways that we think about goods scheduling. JIT scheduling has lead to the normal panic buying pattern being warped in ways that panic buyers don't seem to get.
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Full Ashen Stars character sheet, used for outside of combat stuff, do a workup of Wild Talents powers based on the different species of characters in Ashen Stars, do a workup of the different crew roles, and then use that for Action Scenes vs Procedural Scenes, Investigation Scenes, and Dramatic Scenes use Ashen Stars.
Ideally I'd use like, Attack Wing for ship combat, but that's probably too much.
Ideally I'd use like, Attack Wing for ship combat, but that's probably too much.
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It's called Hashicorp Terraform because it takes as long as terraforming a planet would take
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Currently fixing a production bug because of how terraform treats some of those infrastructure.
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Why does every single single employer sponsored financial manager sound like they are talking to a highschool?
Oh fuck! This one pointed out that employer matched savings aren't free money, your fucking employer is paying you for work. This is the only time I've ever seen someone be that capable
I am engaging with Palo Alto's intensely wonderful auth system again, pray for me
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The horrible part of all of this is that these kind of online learning platforms are necessary for our future. But algorithms, tracking, and pulling children into a surveillance state is the way people do this. And it's garbage, because it hurts everyone.
Making extra of certain things so that my toddler can be distracted with it during Breakfast In Bed for mom
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@WRPSToday @WilmotTownship We see OPP pushing children on the ground at a skate park, Peel Police hugging illegal and confrontational protesters, and WRPS officers honking in solidarity with illegal protests in Waterloo. You are part of the problemโweโre not in this together.
This is @Becky who call anything that contains something else a bucket.
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I believe Becky objects to dimensions being incorrect. But you'd need to ask her
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As a dev, I actually have better relationships with QA people than product people.
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@HippyWizard this is a nitpick, but I wish that whoever wrote/edited that article knew that mortality and morbidity aren't synonyms
it was really distracting and basically necessary to check the paper afterwards to be sure that they hadn't misrepresented the study
it was really distracting and basically necessary to check the paper afterwards to be sure that they hadn't misrepresented the study
Warning all: @Twitter's new "Tip Jar" feature reveals the recipient's email address that's linked to their account, even when you don't send them any actual money
(I got permission from @jason_kint to show his email in this video)
Thread here: twitter.com/ashk4n/status/โฆ
https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1390396166496522247
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attaching surveillance cameras to your bedroom's ceiling so I can gather anonymized statistics
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https://eatjeffbezos.tumblr.com/post/649667913149825024/nfts-are-genuinely-a-significant-development-in
a determination seeking its own negation
NFTs are genuinely a significant advance, in that they represent the point at which capitalism has finally moved past mere artificial scarcity and begun to commodify the abstract concept of scarcity...eatjeffbezos.tumblr.com
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Apparently the new audacity owners are adding telemetry to it :/ This is....concerning. Especially because that PR discussion has _zero_ opposition to the feature being added
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
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it's had a _lot_ of pushback now: so much so that the whole PR has been reworded with conciliatory/explanatory language and the telemetry code is only enabled on certain builds (and is supposed to be opt-in only: we'll wait and see about that)
Oddly, they were much more open about their flagship software's telemetry: https://musescore.org/en/telemetry
Oddly, they were much more open about their flagship software's telemetry: https://musescore.org/en/telemetry
I wish people would stop writing Star Trek and Star Wars
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I have always felt that the Original Trilogy is a bunch of really cool ideas, incredibly well executed. The Prequel Trilogy is a bunch of really cool ideas, incredibly mediocrly executed. Which is fine, I get why the execution sucks, and there's still the spectacle that drives me. But I wanted more.
And, say, The Clone Wars shows were both very good. I watched Rebels and I really enjoyed it. The Sequel trilogy, eh, no original ideas in TFA and I can't bear to watch the rest. Solo was uninspired. But Rogue One and The Mandalorian really have used the space of the Star Wars Universe to tell stories that are different, and contained in their own contexts, which I like.
But for the Wars side, the problem is that people keep shrinking the universe to tell only one very tight story, rather than use its scope. And like, to me, that sucks. Whereas, on the Star Trek side, people keep dropping the themes of Star Trek, and more importantly, keep explaining that the core value of Star Trek is *stupid*. Which I fuckin' hate.
But in the end, none of that matters. I don't say this because of the contexts of those things.
I say this because we keep getting stories that don't belong set in those universes. I want stories not constrained by those contexts, because so much of the time people aren't constraining those contexts, they're muddying them into those places aren't *fun*.
And, say, The Clone Wars shows were both very good. I watched Rebels and I really enjoyed it. The Sequel trilogy, eh, no original ideas in TFA and I can't bear to watch the rest. Solo was uninspired. But Rogue One and The Mandalorian really have used the space of the Star Wars Universe to tell stories that are different, and contained in their own contexts, which I like.
But for the Wars side, the problem is that people keep shrinking the universe to tell only one very tight story, rather than use its scope. And like, to me, that sucks. Whereas, on the Star Trek side, people keep dropping the themes of Star Trek, and more importantly, keep explaining that the core value of Star Trek is *stupid*. Which I fuckin' hate.
But in the end, none of that matters. I don't say this because of the contexts of those things.
I say this because we keep getting stories that don't belong set in those universes. I want stories not constrained by those contexts, because so much of the time people aren't constraining those contexts, they're muddying them into those places aren't *fun*.
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Star Trek Picard would have been a far better show if they just never put the word Star Trek on it.
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My health benefits are setup such that I can only use them if a random cashier at a drug store has been trained how to process a specific debit card in a specific way to be able to use them
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Agile+Time Reporting is *hell*
All cards have to be minimal small tasks, but time needs to be reported as cards.
But if I have one project, with 8 associated cards, and I solve 4 of them with one action, how do I report time?!
All cards have to be minimal small tasks, but time needs to be reported as cards.
But if I have one project, with 8 associated cards, and I solve 4 of them with one action, how do I report time?!
Yes, I know I just need to Do Agile Better, but no, I cannot, magically finding out information before the investigation is not something I am going to do
Oooh, the shared tweet contains a text smiley that is converted to an image by Friendica, and added to the post's attachment following @Michael Vogel recent work on post attachment.
The image URL that is failing is
The image URL that is failing is
https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/redir/5312?url=https://convenient.email/images/smiley-laughing.gif
I think we might have issues with the thing where Friendica hasn't picked up the image yet because of a slower worker, even though it's picked up the status?
Which tends to just immediately happens because workers are slow?
Which tends to just immediately happens because workers are slow?
This still doesnโt address that:
- Shared content shouldnโt be converted to image smileys.
- Converted image smileys shouldnโt be attached to the post.
- We only should use unicode smileys to avoid these problems.
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I made some research and found the reason for this. This only happens when the sender doesn't use Unicode smileys but the receiver does. Also the transmission has to be done via AP.
When done via AP the content is converted to HTML and transmitted. Additionally the BBCode is transmitted as well. On the receiver side the BBCode is then used to display the message. But the content HTML is also stored. And that field is used to scan for linked images. And there the GIF is found. But since the BBCode doesn't contain the image link, it isn't displayed at the right place, but placed at the bottom.
The (obvious) solution is to not use image smileys when transmitting posts. I will prepare a PR soon. Sadly this has to be done on the sender side. So newer systems will have some fun for some time now.
When done via AP the content is converted to HTML and transmitted. Additionally the BBCode is transmitted as well. On the receiver side the BBCode is then used to display the message. But the content HTML is also stored. And that field is used to scan for linked images. And there the GIF is found. But since the BBCode doesn't contain the image link, it isn't displayed at the right place, but placed at the bottom.
The (obvious) solution is to not use image smileys when transmitting posts. I will prepare a PR soon. Sadly this has to be done on the sender side. So newer systems will have some fun for some time now.
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Everyone in Ontario who wants to take a sick day should be allowed to cough on the Conservative Party MPPs
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Reset my password via email
Login with my password
Asked to put in a code from my email
I hate these made up not-really-2FA logins
Login with my password
Asked to put in a code from my email
I hate these made up not-really-2FA logins
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Remembering The Journalists Fooled By Doug Fordโs Pandemic Disguise
These opinion writers were wrong then, and they are wrong now. It didnโt take a genius to see where Ford was leading us.readpassage.com
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