I have a whole protocol for this.
You got a 5-count once there’s no one in front of you to go. Then you get a quick tap.
Then you get a 2-count to start moving. Then you get a double tap.
Then you get another 2-count. If you haven’t started moving by now, you get 1 tap every second until you fucking move for the love of fuck just fucking GO jesus tap-dancing christ in a Bethlaham drag show GO!!
I did a GDPR request for all my data, and then aimed the reddit-user-to-sqlite script at it – https://github.com/xavdid/reddit-user-to-sqlite
The metadata.json & recommendation to use datasette to interact with it makes finding old comments super easy. I’ve been going through all my comments sorted by date, clicking each permalink manually and editing-and-deleting them while bored during the workday (meetings, etc.). It has the added benefit of being incredibly difficult to figure out of I’m a bot or not.
I’m thinking of, instead, just pasting the content into chatgpt and editing the responses to leave it in place.
It’s a skill those of us from the IRC days cultivated.
I’m glad I’m not good at it anymore.
We tried separating the food and water.
The cat just went to where the water was and howled. We’d show her the new spot, shed drink, and do the same thing in 20 minutes.
Just moved it back, less howling and she still drinks.
The first one I played was Zelda, on a gold cartridge, on the original NES.
The oldest system I played on was an Atari.
The oldest system I played games on was an Appie IIe, and it was Sticky Bear Basket Bounce. That game is like, my youth.
I’ll pile on with a “Yup!”
While I fell into a pattern where I intend to upgrade every 2 years maybe 5 or 6 years ago, I’ve noticed in that same time frame that both the cost of new devices has gone up significantly and the durability of those devices has dropped.
I’m very easy on my phones. They spend a vast majority of their time on my desk, or plugged into my car. I’m old and boring enough that “going out” involves sitting down at a table at a nice dinner with friends and then going home. That said, the battery life on my phones starts to degrade after about a year. Various flaws start to creep up in the device. I’ve already had to replace the screen on my Pixel 7 Pro once – though, to be fair, it took a tumble from the couch onto a hardwood floor, but even that, really, shouldn’t turn the screen non-functional.
It’s disappointing to see that planned obsolescence rearing its head.
It was invite only for too long, and then, suddenly, it was required for everything Google.
The worst part was it wasn’t even good gay porn.
A variable length lookbehind is the same as the opposite of a variable length lookahead.
You chose wisely.
Fair warning: This only works if the other party, or the people watching the argument care. If the other party is just arguing in bad faith, don’t expect to have a productive conversation. If the people watching the argument don’t care and just want to see a spectacle, logic ain’t gonna work.
No, it’s not.
https://www.marcumllp.com/insights/no-social-security-is-not-going-bankrupt
While the current expenditures predict, without any action, one of the funding sources for social security, the trust fund, will deplete in 2032, payroll taxes still exist.
Although the Trust Fund is projected to be depleted in 2033, Social Security will not be insolvent or bankrupt. Although it may not be able to pay 100% of the program’s cost, as it stands now, Social Security estimates it will be able to cover approximately 76% of the program’s cost due to employee and employer payroll taxes.
A simple fix – remove the cap on the ssa taxable cap. Currently, only income under $160,200 (2023) is taxed for social security. Removing, or simply raising that cap opens up solvency for decades.
I have a bunch of those in GitHub actions now! “This will be deprecated in 2023…” for the AWS SDK.
checks calendar
Uh, you can use contractions. Must’f.
Negative. Zuckerberg is an actual human, not a quasi sentient conglomerate composed of experimental AI platforms developed by the US Air Force to explore alien worlds via the Stargate program.
It’s actually growing more and more popular to ban fireworks in cities and counties.
There are always people that bitch about their right to set off uncontrolled explosives during the height of fire season in residential areas, but overall, it’s truly growing more common to see them banned.
My city is one, for example. And while it’s awesome to know that you can’t set them off inside the city limits, that doesn’t stop people from crossing the city line and setting shit off in that grocery store parking lot.
It’s from an old (god, now I feel old) meme / joke video. Here’s a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
There was a website / software called “xtra normal” that let you write an actual script and pick some avatars / actors and set up camera angles, etc. while it played out. Someone used it to mock the mongodb fucktards in the early 2000s.
Everyone knows relational databases don’t scale because they use joins.
I’m sure they can afford a lawyer. I was more referring to the link between being a Trump supporter and Trump’s own … habit of not paying his lawyers.
A lot of science fiction writers try to address the problem of time when humanity becomes a space-faring race. Star Trek has the idea of a “Stardate” and instructed the script writers to just fucking make it up,
Meanwhile, Asimov in the Robots / Foundation universe, everyone still uses the idea of a 365-day / 24-hour day “year”, even if no one remembers Earth (except a R. Daneel Olivaw and a few others).
And Kim Stanley Robinson in his Mars trilogy does what OP notes – Martian years are longer, and the societies diverge pretty rapidly, within a generation, for a whole host of reasons.