@aetataureate@nsd20463 honestly cat toys & toddler toys are pretty interchangeable until at least age 3. you ever see a 2yo chase a laser pointer? they totally do! and love it
A&W has a limited time thing called "Spicy Piri Piri Buddies" and all I can think of when i see the sign is the character from One Punch Man, "Puri-Puri Prisoner".
Another nuclear take: I do think they should do more electronics regulating
For one thing, I applaud the EU. One way to do counter-power against the sort of technocolonialism of the US and China is to impose conditions on your robust and meaningful market. That’s a good use of a political and economic alliance
I like the balance of it, even if they sometimes fuck it up and cause things like cookie warnings.
@danilo this sounds similar to a policy I'd love to see... make bottled beverage producers buy a (sizeable) percentage of their own recyclable plastic waste. What are you going to do with it? Not our problem! But, it is yours, now...
Through a quirk of the inevitable corner-cuttings of business, there arose an ability to combine puzzle pieces of different puzzles into new works of unreality.
All of the puzzles were cut with the same pattern, so the pieces were interchangeable.
I wonder if such a thing could happen with boardgames? e.g., being able to mash together Splendor and Seven Wonders and Lords of Waterdeep, and come up with something playable...
In case there are any obvious conclusions I'm missing:
What do people think the biggest lessons from the history of the web are? What do you hope "comes back", what are you hoping stays dead, and what do you hope is to come?
I'd appreciate RTs (and long detailed replies lol)!
@oluOnline I really miss when RSS was prominent and well-supported. You could subscribe to sites and their content came to you, generally in a focused/ad-free way too
Social bookmarking was a thing too... people would share their bookmarks and organize little communities around shared interests/interesting people
@b0rk my understanding of "git pickaxe" is it's the same as "git's meat cleavers" in Travis Swicegood's old talk from more than a decade ago. In other words, various flavors of interactive rebase (git rebase -i)
what git jargon do you find confusing? thinking of writing a blog post that explains some of git's weirder terminology: "detached HEAD state”, "fast-forward", "index/staging area/staged", “ahead of 'origin/main' by 1 commit”, etc
(really only looking for terms that you personally find confusing, not terms that you think someone else might be confused about)
I went to make a PB&J sandwich, and, distracted, pulled the chili crisp out of the fridge instead of the jam. Thought about it for a minute, said "what the heck" and gave it a shot.
Peanut butter and chili crisp (PB&LGM?) is my new favorite sandwich
So I was thinking of a scifi setting where life evolves on a planet orbiting a star that periodically (every couple decades) hits the planet with a hemisphere-sterilizing CME.
@foone there was a related situation in the Three Body Problem. the sentients there evolved the ability to... dehydrate themselves into husks to wait out the heat. Your situation sounds even more extreme though
I rarely get such a perfect storm of hard-to-find errors:
Incomplete configuration of ODBC on the server.
PHP 4-style constructors not firing.
A new behavior of local static variables in child classes (this one deserves an entire blog post).
All this together resulting in the code going down the wrong execution path, yet not showing a single error, just bad behavior. The last time I had something so obscure was 26 years ago with ActionScript 1.
I had to go audit all the local static variables (nearly all for caching) in our system, plus several dependent libs. It was really difficult to sort out
I just got an email from someone asking why they’re seeing this appear on their devices. It looks like it might be an Android device of some sort. Is it possible to run PHP on Android? Is this part of some hacking attempt?
Just discovered something called https://golinks.io . From what I can tell, it's exactly like a URL shortener, but instead of doing something silly like using 304 location redirects, it has you install various third-party plugins everywhere you use URLs so that it can rewrite your content locally.
So... worse than a URL shortener in every conceivable way. Awesome. Good luck with that.
