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mindbleach ,

We’re over a city.

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Or landed in. See giant stone marking spelling out EIRE, i.e., NOT ENGLAND YOU STUPID YANKEE.

mindbleach ,

Poor signal.

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An easy mistake at any altitude.

mindbleach ,

None of us is as dumb as all of us.

mindbleach ,

Perl is write-only code. Larry Wall raised a monkey’s paw and asked for a language that works the way programmers want. So most Perl is the first thing someone tried, unfiltered by rigid syntax putting your thoughts in order, compiler warnings bringing side effects to mind, or even names forcing you to decide what a variable is. An uncommented Perl script is raw brain patterns displayed as ASCII.

Thank god it runs like crap. We’d be in so much trouble if it was fast. Optimized C isn’t exactly gorgeous, but any project that compiles proves someone looked at the code more than once.

mindbleach ,

Why must you hurt me this way.

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But you repeat yourself.

mindbleach ,

I can’t get over the load-bearing whitespace.

mindbleach ,

JS is ironic punishment as a programming language. It’s fun to screw around in! And then you have to use it for stuff, and pain ensues.

mindbleach ,

Does “like you’re supposed to” mean with tabs, or with spaces?

Because if someone else disagrees you are not going to have fun with their code.

mindbleach ,

Why the fuck does anyone use spaces when tabs mean everyone uses the same tab size as you? That’s what they’re for!

mindbleach ,

IIRC also relying on how floating-point is basically scientific notation and the most-significant bits are the exponent.

And most importantly, relying on how a sloppy answer works just fine. The most important skill in game development is cheating.

mindbleach ,

So it turned out I had ADHD.

Genuine LOL. Yeah… yeah, that’s Perl in a nutshell. Creating Perl: ‘why aren’t all languages like this?!’ Editing Perl: ‘oh.’

mindbleach ,

“We’ve been acquired by Yahoo!” has the same tone as “We found a lump.”

mindbleach ,

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

mindbleach ,

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qlahfr4Pth1yln953_720.mp4

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His daughter, Sonya, and his son, Daughterya.

He’s a one-note stick figure. He is doing his best.

mindbleach ,

I have no idea.

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Muffled by three inches of bright orange foam.

mindbleach ,

I studied political science

Oh, you’re looking for NonCredibleDefense.

!NonCredibleDefense

mindbleach ,

“Step aside, AI, people can now draw with a pencil.”

mindbleach ,

Relevant XKCD.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/average_familiarity.png

mindbleach ,

It’ll be extra fun in a few years when someone names their project after this joke.

mindbleach ,

Projects based on Gibson novels are lame. The new hotness is documentation based on Bradbury novels.

mindbleach ,

“That was our codebase yesterday.”

mindbleach ,

JS is a language where [1,2,11].sort() returns [1,11,2].

And if you use a variable instead of a bare array, half the functions are side-effectful, as determined by coin toss.

And if you try declaring that variable with new Array(3).map() then it will ignore all 3 indices, because undefined is real enough to be enumerated, but not real enough to be iterated, because, and I cannot overstress the importance of this principle in Javascript, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself is why.

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Yet the array contains exactly three nothings.

It’s like a zen koan.

mindbleach ,

A game they looted from Westwood’s corpse, a game they looted from Maxis’s corpse, five games they looted from Bullfrog’s corpse, a game they looted from Pandemic’s corpse, and… Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.

This is the trophy room Arnie finds in The Predator.

mindbleach ,

The document icon below each comment is “view source.”

mindbleach ,

… where are your vote icons, in general?

mindbleach ,

General ban by an admin being an asshat. Haven’t bothered asking nicely to get reinstated.

Lemmy desperately needs some default notification, because what newbie is checking a site’s modlog with any regularity? I didn’t even know it existed. I was bickering with some troll who said ‘you’re cruising for a report, mister!’ despite being far further over-the-line than me, and I said, that’s adorable, knock yourself out. And then things so thoroughly stopped working that I assumed my LW account had been straight-up deleted.

Meanwhile, that troll suffered no consequences whatsoever. Despite starting shit, getting personal, and being wrong. My accordingly low opinion of moderation across Lemmy has since been vindicated more often than not. This was the largest instance that didn’t demand “civility” as a constant choke-collar, and the worst problems I’ve had have still been mods flying off the handle in cases where I’ve been perfectly polite.

Apparently I can’t say please and thank you without people taking it as vicious sarcasm, so I don’t fuckin’ try and I don’t fuckin’ worry about it. It’s been freeing.

mindbleach ,

A bunch of rocks.

mindbleach ,

These people sell giant blocks of ice for your wooden icebox, and they’re excited by this new “freezer” technology. Their profit margins will be incredible… on all the giant blocks of ice people keep buying. Now that it’s possible to make things cold, in a box, locally. That technology will surely help them sell more giant blocks of ice than ever. Now that any idiot can make ice.

mindbleach ,

And then the post-bro-culture company fired Matt Bragg, a blameless font of positivity and beloved addition to any video. This was a long time coming.

Even if they hadn’t betrayed Ray over streaming, the whole Let’s Play format was going to trend down as Youtube stomped around blindly across people’s livelihoods. The company maybe could’ve been ahead of the curve on managing streamers? But ehhh. Their live content was never as good as their edited content.

mindbleach ,

Ryan being a sociopath was a lot less surprising than it should have been.

If the order of events were different, what might we be calling smartphones?

I had this shower thought earlier and I actually wanted to post it in that community. The name I came up with was SmartWalkman, but later I realized that Walkman is Sony specific, so I doubt other companies would’ve gone for that name, but I didn’t want to let this shower thought slip so here I am now asking you guys.

mindbleach ,

Office Depot’s tiny-laptop aisle was like pornography, whenever I was dragged through there as a child in the late 90s. A computer of your own? The size of a Game Boy? Running actual* Windows?! And it’s only $3000! Forget the colored binders, mom, lemme snag one of these!

mindbleach ,

Microsoft redesigns the iPod.

mindbleach ,

Ohhh, the Toughbooks. Yeah those things were ridiculous. I just bought a Libretto, years later, and have had the most aggravating time trying to get any data on or off of it, thanks to the gulf in interfaces.

mindbleach ,

An apocalyptic rabbi who’s had unfathomable violence done in his name? Yeah hey, thanks for the ‘be nice to each other’ rhetoric, but half the people spreading that message brought not peace but a sword.

And as a queer American I can attest his fanboys aren’t exactly polite on their own turf.

mindbleach ,

Every hole, a hole in one.

And then his grandson invented the number two.

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It is a bit like fans of the EU thanking Gavrilo Princip.

mindbleach ,

As a counterpoint, may I submit: your own fucking username?

mindbleach ,

What’s the emoji for a wanking hand gesture?

Jehovah is a Lovecraftian monster with strong PR. Eternal torture for everyone who dared to be born is an indefensible concept that you glibly praise. As if the opportunity to kiss up to the entity threatening to shred your soul, forever, is some great gift, and not a grotesque exaggeration of every human dictator demanding limitless praise.

If you had infinite power to reshape the universe, and that universe still included hell, you would have to be some kind of asshole. Nevermind that the threat of torturing the average person, for any length of time, is horrific beyond consideration. Even if you said it only applied to the Hitlers of the world, the folks who did incomprehensible evil - why the fuck does your universe include incomprehensible evil?

And your apologia is to blame the powerless ants. Disgusting.

mindbleach ,

You might wanna research that.

mindbleach ,

The Sixth Day, one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s please-take-me-seriously projects, is possibly the wrongest it is possible to be about whether clones are people. Still a fun movie. Just ass-backwards in its motivation. I’m not sure how much of its moral grey area was intended by the script or the direction. The anti-clone “good guys” are pretty terrorist-coded. Arnie’s just caught up in the middle of their guerrilla fight against a generic corporate bad guy. Who solved death. How terrible.

Off-topic Schwarzenegger faff: End Of Days is dumb. Jingle All The Way is the most 90s Christmas movie possible. Eraser is a slick action movie that somehow has no cultural cachet outside of every video game with a railgun.

mindbleach ,

Sansa wanted a fairy-tale life and GRRM asked, “Have you read many fairy tales?”

mindbleach ,

Harris saying “I know you’re watching this, I’ve seen you comment on videos with a hundred views” might be the hardest anyone has ever been known.

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