make no mistakes

LOL. I know it’s for a laugh, but you may as well add “pretty please” to that prompt.

Edit: I wonder if it just hallucinates more convincingly, instead?

Why would you choose to do that?

I’m easily distracted and am usually occupied with my own thoughts. So, not hearing traffic, other people, and my general surroundings is actually stressful for me; relying on vision alone would be dangerous. I do a lot better keeping my ears open so I can relax, muse about this or that in my head, and let any sudden sounds or irregularities in my environment catch my attention.

Edit: By musing, I’m actively problem-solving fix-it situations in my house, thinking about software projects I have going, exercising mindfulness for better mental heath, self-assessing where my body aches/hurts, building fictional narratives for D&D, and so on. It’s seldom idle time up in here.

Bubble-economy Japan led the way for an insane amount of features, aesthetics, and innovation for personal electronics. Most of it was dead-sexy stuff.

One of my favorite examples, the Sony MSX HitBit F1XD:

Number 8 all the way. I’m still here, just boxin’ along, but I’ve been through some things.

The part that absolutely kills me about this is that there were anti-maskers during the 1918 “spanish flu” pandemic. This suggest that with two valid examples that this is a bad idea, people still chose to not do it. It also suggests that we’re still the same society that we were 100 years ago.

https://www.history.com/articles/1918-spanish-flu-mask-wearing-resistance

Honestly, I dread this day for the political fallout, lavish wake, and who knows whatever “dear leader” horseshit we’ll be forced to endure. That said, I’m still counting the hours.

/me looks around.

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Huh. Satire writers really are having a tough time right now.

I’m not. ChatGPT is trained on my Reddit posting history so it sounds like me half the time…

I was going to defend why it’s like that, but then I realized that I’m woefully under-qualified to defend any aspect of modern English as something well-understood, thought-out, or otherwise consistent with the rest of the language. Either you’re at the top of this field, or a rank amateur - there is no in-between. If I’m going to get skewered on the internet today, I’d rather it be in a Trek forum or something.

TL;DR: English is a mess.

If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the angry dome.

That and:

Leela: Depth at 45 hundred feet, 48 hundred, 50 hundred! 5000 feet!

Farnsworth: Dear Lord, that’s over 150 atmospheres of pressure.

Fry: How many atmospheres can this ship withstand?

Farnsworth: Well it’s a spaceship, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one.

I’m actually starting to think it’s on purpose. Just like with spam email with misspellings and the kind of ear-marks that warns off smart people, the only ones left to click on “win a free iphone” are easily duped. Going after people that are drawn in by iconography and optics, but fail to understand nuance and the substance behind them, may be entirely the point.

Just like with Starship Troopers, satire like this goes flying over people’s heads so low and fast, it breaks the sound barrier and loosens dentalwork.

80 is a tad short these days, but that’s still kind of win/win since now you can have way more files all showing side-by-side.

Sure but, hear me out, imagine having most of your project sourcecode on the screen at the same time without having to line-wrap.

Last I checked, the OSX native libraries use ObjectiveC and have system library calls prefixed with ns_. So, “used as the foundation” is under-selling it a bit. I think they just re-skinned the NextStep GUI to make it resemble OS9 and called it a day.

This isn’t ageist. This is classist.

Reddit?! Okay, that’s pretty terrible. It’s one thing to have region-locked copyright for stuff, but disallowing VPNs for a web forum? While we don’t need more evidence that they’ve turned heel, that’s an awful big red flag.

You mean, like this?

It’s probably hungry, feed it a mouse.

That’s the neat part. If you have snakes indoors somewhere, it’s probably because you already have mice. Mr. nope-noodle there is just taking up residence at the buffet.

Multiply this by everyone in the engineering department and you have SAFe on planning day.