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Everything is going wrong / All my songs are coming true
Software engineer - Austin, TX - he/him

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bk1e, to random
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Is he strong? Listen bud, he’s got radioactive blood.

bk1e,
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The Creature With The Selenium Eyes

bk1e,
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A couple connections to other Monsterdon features:

  • Richard H. Cutting was in Attack of the Crab Monsters
  • The writer, Curt Siodmak, was one of the writers for Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers

foone, to random
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a twitch streamer who has a 2D or 3D animated avatar on screen. They're writing C++ code with virtual inheritance

it's a vtuber vtable!

bk1e,
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@foone Virtual inheritance? Who’da thunk it?

bk1e, to random
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Well, look who pulled up, just as I was pulling out of my parking space.

whitequark, to random
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Murder on the PCI Express

bk1e,
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@whitequark Completion Knives-Out

bk1e, to random
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I’ve been meaning to rewatch Donnie Darko ever since I watched Dark.

#TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam #DonnieDarko

bk1e,
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“What do I do to learn how to fight?” kid is a plant.

bk1e,
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Just hangin’ out in The Barrens

bk1e,
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I like the joke implied by the Evil Dead / Last Temptation of Christ marquee

bk1e,
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“Richard Kelly is mainly known as the Donnie Darko guy.” Joe Bob, you oughta ask Steve Kilbey about Under the Milky Way.

bk1e,
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Donnie Darko did not introduce me to The Church (band). I remember buying my copy of “Starfish” (along with Peter Murphy’s “Deep”) from a mail order CD club around 1990-1992. I also remember the song “Metropolis” getting some radio play.

onelson, to random
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Hey everybody, have you heard the news? Joe Bob is back in town!

I'm ready to start Summer School.

bk1e,
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@onelson I mentally file Ghost World in the same hash table bucket as Donnie Darko. Similar feelings of isolation and mix of humor, scenery-chewing, and deadly serious parts.

It may also be because I saw a poster for Donnie Darko at the theater when I watched Ghost Workd in the fall of 2001 (but didn’t watch Donnie Darko it until the DVD got popular).

bk1e, (edited ) to random
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The flute part in Fabio Frizzi’s soundtrack to Lucio Fulci’s film “The Beyond” always reminds me of “Tubular Bells”.

The Beyond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6FJSoBDM0c&t=1632s
Tubular Bells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_4sZCLlr0&t=1956s

(Edit: oops, I deleted too much tracking crap from the URLs)

bk1e,
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This also happens with Goblin’s soundtrack to Dario Argento’s “Deep Red”, except in that case the part that sounds like Tubular Bells is like 1/3rd of the film.

thomasfuchs, to random
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So a while ago eBay introduced AI-generated descriptions, which works exactly as well as you’d expect: not at all.

The main effect has been that descriptions on eBay from private sellers are now largely useless as they don’t bother to write anything themselves but let AI write empty paragraphs of absolute midness that don’t tell you anything.

bk1e,
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@thomasfuchs Are the descriptions generated with eBay’s AI tool all marked “Generated with eBay.ai”? For every one of those, I find 10x as many that are not labeled but which sound like ChatGPT regurgitating a catalog page.

bk1e,
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@thomasfuchs Ok. The marked ones seem to be some sort of AI auto-summary. Here’s an example that is marked AI, but the full description looks like normal used camera dealer boilerplate and is hopefully not the AI-generated part.

Screenshot of auction description: Description [MINT] Canon New FD NFD 50mm f/1.2 MF Standard Lens w/cap from Japan #13 & Description Grade • Mint Appearance *Please check photos • Minimal sign of use Functional • Works properly Optical System *Please check photos • Beautiful condition • No scratch • No fungus • No haze

teajaygrey, to rust
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In yet another example of things which do not inspire confidence in Rust, nor things written in Rust:

"This port has been deleted. This page will exist till another port with the name 'rust' comes into existence."

o.O

bk1e,
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@teajaygrey There’s a Trac ticket saying it’s not really deleted and at least one other package has the same problem: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/70131

onelson, to movies
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#NowWatching The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)

This one is remarkable because (if I am not mistaken) it's the very first "bigfoot movie."

I don't actually know if it's good, but being the first is something.

bk1e,
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@onelson Did you watch the Boggy Creek segment from the Last Drive In 2018 marathon? I did the “switching between Just Joe Bob and another streaming app” thing, so it was even more of a slog, but I probably wouldn’t have finished the movie otherwise.

I found Pierce’s “The Town That Dreaded Sundown” much more entertaining (despite the unexpected/off-tone attempts at slapstick comedy).

bk1e,
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@onelson Joe Bob interviewed this guy, who is apparently the Fouke Monster’s #1 super fan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_Blackburn

bk1e, to random
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They went full dramatic chipmunk on that reveal.

mcc, to random
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Idea I am not sure whether I like: Normalize saying "200" as a response to "how are you doing?", as in "200 OK". In this proposal this would be a somewhat weaker alternative to saying "okay" because it communicates only "no active errors". "How are you doing?" "Nominal"

bk1e,
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@mcc “How are you doing?”
“I’m a teapot”

videograndpa, to tech
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I just saw someone confidently open a video with “most homeowners have a multimeter of some kind” and I don’t have the words for how baffled this has left me.

bk1e,
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@videograndpa I guess this one doesn’t count.

jk, to random
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probably the new thing in 2025 is going to be something like "eating vintage film stock"

bk1e,
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@jk @analog_cafe logs in to Analog.Cafe and stares at the menu, hungrily

bk1e, to random
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I have shopped at Publix when visiting family in the Southeast but somehow I was totally unaware of the Pub Sub hubbub.

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/florida-publix-deli-subs

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