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Computer tickler. Mostly C++. I've shipped a few video games. Sometimes I make real things. he/him. #3dPrinting #CatsOfMastodon

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xorn, to random
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Some product reviews tell you about the product. Other product reviews tell you a lot about the reviewer. Specifically, about how the reviewer should probably have supervision if they're going to use anything more dangerous than a spoon.

See also: anything is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.

jwz, to random
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Great moments in bar frugality.

I was re-watching Black Sails and noticed a very subtle recurring gag that I had missed the first time around. When Eleanor, the inexplicably clean fence and barkeep, is doing her morning walk-and-talk around the bar,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykQY

xorn,
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@jwz People just... leave rum in a cup?

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Geometry on the football field. (the challenge for 9th grade students is to name congruent segments and diameters.)

xorn,
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@futurebird I wind up using trig and geometry so often. In high school I would never have thought that those would be the most practical of my math courses.

xorn, to random
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Aurora tonight!

Pink and green aurora through trees
Pink and green aurora with stars

xorn, to random
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This cat litter is made of plastic pellets and angst.

xorn, to random
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Documenting the code is just as important as writing the code.

Documenting the code is just as important as writing the code.

Documenting the code is just as important as writing the code.

Daojoan, to random
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😂

xorn,
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@Daojoan Next there will be a bunch of Jedi getting angry about public universities teaching Critical Force Theory

xorn, to random
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Silly bees. The wind chimes on my back porch are not a good place to build a hive!

xorn, to random
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Dear neighbor: I promise you don't need to water your lawn 4 hours a day every day.

ancient_catbus, to random
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let's make this cheese house....into a cheese HOME

xorn,
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@ancient_catbus And you may find yourself living in a swiss cheese shack

And you may find yourself in another part of the world

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large p'tit basque

And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful mouse

And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”

MLE_online, to random
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Warning: You will be dissolved, painfully, from the inside out

xorn,
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@MLE_online Look, that only occurs in like 5% of the people who take this medication

xorn, (edited ) to random
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The secret service needs help deciding what to do if Trump goes to jail. What do you think should happen?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/secret-services-prepares-potential-trump-contempt-order-hush/story?id=109542824

xorn, to 3DPrinting
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This is a nifty technique for printing without supports https://youtu.be/6hVWOkj9DZs

xorn, to random
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It's really nice working with designers who are willing to work around technical challenges.

xorn, to random
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Some days every thing you fix just uncovers a worse problem that was lurking in the shadows.

If the current trend continues over the next 2 weeks I'll either find a bug that can be proven as unfixable or the consequences of the bug will end all life on earth.

Good times.

brooke, to random
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the lathe of heaven
the angle grinder of hell
the paper cutter of purgatory

xorn,
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@kinsale42 the bandsaw of Armageddon

xorn, to animals
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Oh, hi!

xorn, to random
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It's all about phrasing.

Instead of "I have no idea what's going on" say "I'm trying to avoid being biased by my preconceptions"

If you imply that you put effort into having no idea what's going on then everyone thinks you're a responsible adult or something.

todbot, to random
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Oh boy! I just got an ad for Featureless Grey Cylinder! I love Featureless Grey Cylinder!

xorn,
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@todbot It kind of looks like part of Author & Punisher's kit

harold, to random
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IDK what to call these things with 3 non-identical ops simplifying into 1, but it's neat

((a & b) + (a | b)) == (a + b)
((a & b) + (a ^ b)) == (a | b)
((a | b) - (a ^ b)) == (a & b)
((a + b) - (a | b)) == (a & b)
((a + b) - (a & b)) == (a | b)
((a | b) - (a & b)) == (a ^ b)

xorn,
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@harold you can do that sort of simplification using Karnaugh maps

LRRRonEarth, to random
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THERE ARE NO HILLS I WILL DIE ON. HILLS I WILL KILL ON, HOWEVER...

xorn,
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@LRRRonEarth the hills are allllllllliiiiiivvvvveeeeeee with the sound of murder

scalzi, to random
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Perhaps the Most American Headline of All Time, from Reason Magazine

xorn,
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@scalzi that's like worrying about the united states running out of assholes

Faintdreams, to LLMs
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So, let me get this straight.

Their entire business model involves stealing from the open Internet and now they are running out of places to steal from?

There isn't a violin small enough in the universe for me to want to play regarding this.

"The internet may not be big enough for the LLMs." The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/1/24117828/the-internet-may-not-be-big-enough-for-the-llms

xorn,
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@Faintdreams Hmmm... a planck length violin

Chrishallbeck, to random
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“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need… roads.”
drives DeLorean into a lake

xorn,
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@Chrishallbeck https://www.kitv.com/news/big-island-tourists-follow-gps-right-into-water-at-honokohau-harbor/article_aee39914-e996-11ed-9196-7f4843ff3e64.html

xorn, to animals
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