josephc

Joke’s on you. The porch pirate that stole my replacement GPU ruined my day before you even got here!

The parent comment is joking that the grandparent comment has guessed the name of the dog to be, “I had a massive collection of original little rascals vhs tapes growing up!”

A paper trail from before 2018 to prove I’m not a bot?

Yah, tbh this really smells like an implemented feature that got depriotized on the roadmap. The developers were probably like, “we can make an entry that has it as pending deletion, stop showing it in the UI, and then have a reaping job that actually deletes all the files.”

Later on, someone says, “Hey, to save on compute, we could just reap when we’re low on space. No need to delete on a cron.”

Then six months later someone says, “Hey, did we ever implement that? It’s high priority.” And someone up top says, “It’s not in the OKRs. Quick; make a chat app so we can shut it down in a year.”

If confronted at a bar I’d consider it for basically all the reasons you mentioned. When I send updates to my friends in France or Ireland or China I find myself apologizing for wherever embarrassing things we’ve done most recently.

My mum’s birthday. Was a pretty awkward party in 2001, but what can you do?

I shit louder.

Let the butt-song echo through the porcelain trumpet, that it might sound through the heavens.

Summon the butt-cracken.

Love it.

Quick edit: ^ this is not sarcasm.

I think back to times I’ve eaten a thing and remember the sensation, then try replaying the feeling to see if it would be just as satisfying.

At the moment, I’m in the mood for a snack. I’m thinking about the dried fruit I had yesterday and the sensations it elicited when I ate it. Those same sensations of flavor and texture sound agreeable, so I’m thinking that would be nice.

Not everyone has this form of recall all the time. Some people have it intermittently. I asked my partner what she wanted to eat and she said she could not tell if she was hungry or if any food sounded good. I took this as a warning and we stopped at the nearest restaurant immediately. Fortunately, this was the right decision and we both felt better afterwards.

If you’re feeling hungry, imagine the smells of a food. Sense memory tends to run deep in people. If you find that you can’t recall or reject a sensation, that’s okay! Plenty of folks are in the same situation.

Honestly the worst decision they could have made while writing. I’m still kinda’ mad about it and I don’t know why.

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Yes. In fact, zero-knowledge proofs make it possible for me to do something like prove my age in a way that is verifiable by the site without the site knowing any other information about me AND without the government knowing what website I’m asking. It doesn’t even require an API. The government needs to digitally sign my identity papers and publish its signature. One time download and you can even do offline checks.

The EU digital ID program does this. Everyone has privacy.

Ah, I see you’re a person of culture as well.

Imagine you’re writing a book. In this book you need to be perfectly consistent and coherent because the people reading it are so incredibly literal that if there’s ambiguity or inconsistency they will run into your home and defecate on your carpet.

Short stories are easy enough. There’s only a character or two and you can generally remember what they’re wearing and what they said, but as the stores get longer you start to work yourself into corners and lose track of what you said in the previous chapters.

Let’s say you reach a scene where the main character needs to hop on a train. You write a scene where they purchase a ticket. But wait, a few chapters ago you said they got mugged! So you decide to cut that scene. Now they can pay for a ticket, but the scene where they said they got mugged is wrong and the scene where they said they can’t pay their bill doesn’t work!

Computers read instructions and interpret them. They follow orders. Programming raw hardware is tricky, so we add abstractions to make it easier. Collectively we agree, “we’ll put a return pointer here, then push these instructions here and set the program counter here” as the way we call subroutines or send data or something else. If there’s ambiguity in the specification then two people might build two different programs which they both expect to work. One of them will fail. If there are ten people implementing things with an API, perhaps all ten will fail.

Hyrem’s Law says any observable behavior will eventually become part of a workflow.

Ah. I only played OoT, never Majora’s Fentanyl.

This is some really good photomanip work. They even got the raster lines on the narcan correct.

There are 86 billion neurons in the brain and 31* pairs of spinal column nerves with about 7 trillion interconnections. When I pulled that figure it wasn’t obvious if it included connections inside the brain, too.

*I found one article that said 43 pairs of nerves connected to the spinal cord and 12 to the brain, but Wikipedia says 31.

Honestly, it could be a data point added because the researcher was getting really pissed off at the plotting software truncating the axis strangely. Normally you’d remove that after the fact, but…

Or it’s a data oddity, like someone who specified units incorrectly (mg/mL) instead of (ug/L).

I think it’s an old trauma inducing video from early Internet days where a man attempts to fit a jar into his butt, only to have it break in the attempt. It’s really utterly horrifying, but I’ll admit to laughing at the reference here.

Also left out of the headlines: she exhaustively tested thousands of traditional herbal remedies, not just one. She kept the one that worked.