It's 2023, and / - \ | is still the perfect spinner animation.
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IT HAS STARTED!
🍁The Steam Autumn sale is ON!🍁
All our games are 30-70 percent off until November 28th!
store.steampowered.com/develop…
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Welp. We're off like a herd of turtles. I borked up the link. Here is the proper one:
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@taco, bird/cat :verified420: you're allowed to like both
But I think there's some level of empathy with Scott that gets lost if you didn't spend your whole life stuck in school until 22, Scott's inability to be a whole adult feels very tied up in that, and I think a lot of people kinda mess that up trying to empathize with him
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My 4yo is stressed out about The Princess Bride, I'm worried I did a bad dad
This is approx the age I saw it, but
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I wonder if someone has written about IaC as (further) alienating programmers from any whiff of people who do physical labour (like racking servers). Or for that matter, the idea that there are people who do valuable work that is not programming.
(Then of course the IaC people got demoted to 'devops', not 'real programmers', because this is the way of the tech industry.)
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My first two years as a TD were spent doing IaC, as a person who had just spent four years racking servers - I filled an important niche in the team in actual fact but felt pretty incompetent the whole time.
I have "hot take" level opinions more generally about "User Friendlly" and how that all worked out. This is part of the set.
@mhoye I once met a system where they enforced DRY on all the code
Meaning we had a meta makefile which used make to run terragrunt to run terraform to build 40 AWS accounts with 40 separate unrelated configs
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It doesn’t help knowing that every country which issues its own currency easily could give every citizen a liveable wage without affecting inflation. It would grow the economy and everyone, even billionaires, would benefit.
The current system is like a game of Monopoly where one player would start out with $1000, three with $10 and eight with $1.
#MMT
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Made mini loaves of bread and whipped cream into butter for lunch. Added some brie and cheddar and some basic vegetables.
Next time I need to whip in some garlic to the butter
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How to interpret RFC 2119 keywords:
- SHOULD: do this
- MAY: don't do this
- MUST: I'm going to open a can of whoop ass if you don't do this
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My least favourite trope in media is that you need a more powerful computer to hack something.
"I need a half billion gigs of RAM to hack this system!"
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@Titan Up the Defense You brought up the Unwear On The Outside thing on a recent episode
Somewhere in this channel youtube.com/user/skunkap Chris told me that it was because it made Superman look like a Circus Strong Man, and the strong men wore them because when lifting big heavy things their pants split a lot.
Imagine you were lifting a tank over your head and your pants split!
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Analysis of comics, both good and bad. Primarily I look at the recurring elements that creators or characters use. It's all just an excuse to drill down on various techniques and comic book history.YouTube
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Has anyone written a Magical Kitties Save The Day hometown for Gabny's Doll House? Asking for the kids in my life
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a recent opinion piece claims Joe Biden would be "aggressively left-wing" in a second term.
unfortunately for the campaign, people born yesterday will not be old enough to vote by next year
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I feel like there's new bad movies I should watch but I don't have time to watch *movies*. I watch TV shows while I do projects in the evening sometimes, but that's it.
I still haven't seen any Neil Breen
What's your excuse for not listening to this year's Tales From The Haunted Disco Barn?!
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Like many podcasts they don't have a website, but I made that site for them as a joke
But they are here! @Titan Up the Defense
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The Matrix: Wow this Anderson guy is a slave to the system
The Matrix 2023: Wow this guy had his own cube at work
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on a slightly different topic (or a tangent if you prefer), but still very Canadian: today a customer created new servers for their in-house ERP. Customer is in the business of rubber hose manufacturing.
They called their servers HosERP and HosERP-DEV
All I can see is "Hoser Herp Derp".
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People keep talking about Kagi being cool and good - but it turns out they're just AI scum?
help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/kagi-ai.…
The reason to move of DDG is that DDG is AI scum, that doesn't seem like Kagi is better?
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I didn't know that about DDG.
So we're basically completely losing the ability to search for information on the Internet.
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I feel like I've been hit by a truck, which is the best I've felt all week
Schools are a terror
(And our kid masks at school, and we tested negative for COVID, likely just flu)
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You know what’s even more amazing than an AI generated headshot?
A professionally taken headshot.
By a freelancer who knows what the fuck they’re doing and will make it their professional mission to represent the best version of you.
Support photographers.
They’re worth the money.
And they won’t make you look like a soulless carbon copy.
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Hey guys - random question: do we have anyone who might have VBA (I'm assuming that would be the required language) scripting capability?
I think this is the actual worst question I can get on a Monday morning
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Apparently kickstarter.com/projects/atlas… is worried about funding
These things look cool as hell, infinite puzzles are fun as hell, and games trying to figure out how to ethically and safely use and reuse plastic is cool
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I run more than a half dozen VMs and a bunch of jails on a home server
I play video games
I have been asked to work on building and training LLMs as part of a work project
The most computationally intensive thing I do in a week: attend a meeting and open the collaboration tools
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Mask mandates should be reintroduced in all healthcare settings! Convince your healthcare provider!
open.substack.com/pub/johndupu…
> Lots of healthcare outbreaks + No mask mandates = Time to put masks back on
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I am not calling Facebook "Meta" and I'm not going to call Twitter "X".
These companies cannot be forgiven for prioritizing profit over people. I will not indulge their attempts at public image cleansing.
Never forget the torment nexus they unleashed.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •@silverwizard This was my setup at my office when I still went. It definitely needed some fiddling in the display settings but I finally got it where I wanted.
The worst I’ve seen is the laptop below the external monitor, it absolutely breaks my brain.
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in reply to Hypolite Petovan • •@Hypolite Petovan I *love* laptop beneath external monitor.
But the issue is that whenever I try to make it on the right, XFCE's tools require me to set it up again. I should just write another xrandr script.
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