cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions



Vintage meme of the I can haz cheeseburger era. 🍷
Slightly older, even: While Happy Cat was around earlier, (according to KYM, at least) its caption “I Can Has Cheezburger” (and the website named after it) didn’t happen until 2007.
Meanwhile, (repost of my comment from a thread in this community last year):
The so-called lolrus was actually a southern elephant seal named Minazo. He was born in Uruguay, but spent most of his life in Japan where, measuring 4.5 meters long and weighing around two tons, he was said to be the largest seal in the country. Minazo died in October 2005 at the age of 11, and made his meme debut posthumously in June 2006 on YTMND. To this day Wikipedia considers him “one of the most famous southern elephant seals”. Merzbow released a two-volume album (1, 2) in his memory.
alias thanks="You are most welcomed"
you need to use the echo command if you want to echo something: alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"
(the inner single-quotes are not strictly required in this case, but recommended nonetheless)


maybe it would be better to say that it is stochastically accurate?



also btw icymi, this is a post about LLMs


from page 7 of Joseph Weizenbaum’s Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation (1976):

a pdf of the whole book is available here


Is that the UTC-0500 one?
lmao thanks for the reminder that there are four timezones which could be called “EST” 😭
(but UTC-5 is the only one properly called that)


Removed by mod


Idk it works for me.
I don’t think there is any possible value for the sign variable which would make that if statement do anything other than raise a TypeError.
Also
"8:00:00" > "10:00:00"
but "08:00:00" < "10:00:00". comparing timestamps as strings is weird but actually works, as long as the hour is zero-padded :)
the problem with this code is that & (bitwise AND) has higher operator precedence than and == do, so it is first trying to bitwise AND "10:00:00" with sign (which i’m assuming would also be a string) and that will always raise a TypeError.
to do what the author appears to have intended to do, they would either need use parenthesis around both comparisons to actually bitwise AND their results, or (better) to use the boolean AND operator (and) instead of &.
The boolean and operator is the right tool for the job, and since it is lower precedence it also wouldn’t require that any parenthesis be added here.
don’t trust anyone over 30 0x30


TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'str' and 'str'


i think i get Candand (what some Barnes & Noble spam once rendered C++ as?) but, what is borsuk language?


💯
hopefully a FOSS organization will hire the person who made this


Reputable news source “GLOBAL FACTZ”
😂
Fwiw, before reposting this meme, I actually checked to make sure that the underlying “weird news” story here was not solely reported by random clickbait fake news sites but was also covered by an actual news organization.