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ESR: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”

Holy shit, I laughed audibly at a meme!

That horse has a tan cot.

I’ve spent a lot of time in RPGs, and the last time I RPed in a G was around the time George Bush’s dad was president.

I’m inclined to believe this, but what I see is laughably bad. I’ve agreed with the premise of Sandy Hook Promise since before the Sandy Hook Massacre, yet they’ve been pounding me with ads for years. Every once in a while, I get a halfhearted “But Trump is pretty cool, isn’t he?” Which will never be clicked. And, when I watched a reaction channel do Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I got a shit-ton of “God hates fagz!” And was pretty glad to see them wasting their money on me.

My experience in going from C to C++ was different: if you’re not converting everything from mallocs with custom addressing systems to the collections framework, you’re not living.

They named the bill wrong - it should be Kids’ Act for Online Safety- KAOS.

My last game was exhausting. Years of cryptic lore, mediocre tie-in properties we pretended were good, pvp you could opt out of midstream by switching off your router, a sandbox that one player characterized as “as wide as the universe and one inch deep.”

So, I thought I’d try something completely different, and that different thing, god help me, is Evony.

Try to train a human comedian to make jokes without ever allowing him to hear another comedian’s jokes, never watching a movie, never reading a book or magazine, never watching a TV show. I expect the jokes would be pretty weak.

In (d/dx)f(x), d/dx is a symbol that means the derivative of f with respect to x. It’s not a division of two variables. But, the reason the symbol is useful is that you sort of can multiply the dx in some situations.

Well, that’s simultaneously both very enlightening and kind of depressing. Thanks for spreading the knowledge.

There’s always been one piece of this that has bugged me. I’d like to hear - from someone who is familiar enough with both neurons and quantum theory - an explanation on why thoughts are physically too big to be influenced by quantum randomness.

You can’t multiply both sides by dx in much the same way you can’t differentiate a duck. That said, even pure mathematicians sort of think of it that way as a useful shorthand.

Jessica went nuclear when they did that. It was inspirational and the FCC’s website got the “hug of death” for at least hours.

There’s a St. Peter’s in Wormleighton and a St. Mary’s in Priors Hardwick… I wonder which one they’re talking about.

https://startrek.website/c/startrekonline

Why is there a picture of Margaret Cho?

Tux looks like he’s about to regulate.

I’ve had a nagging issue with ChatGPT that hasn’t been easy for me to explain. I think I’ve got it now.

We’re used to computers being great at remembering “state.” For example, if I say “let x=3”, barring a bug, x is damned well gonna stay 3 until I decide otherwise.

GPT has trouble remembering state. Here’s an analogy:

Let Fred be a dinosaur.
Ok, Fred is a dinosaur.
He’s wearing an AC/DC tshirt.
OK, he’s wearing an AC/DC tshirt.
And sunglasses.
OK, he’s wearing an AC/DC tshirt and sunglasses.
Describe Fred.
Fred is a kitten wearing an AC/DC tshirt and sunglasses.

When I work with GPT, I spend a lot of time reminding it that Fred was a dinosaur.

ddp

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