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chanandler_bong··on OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT premium
The Victorian Era started in about 1820, 200 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
chanandler_bong··on RimWorld: A sci fi colony SIM driven by an intelligent AI storyteller
Rimworld is great. Almost 2,000 hours in and I am still learning and evolving my gameplay.

Some people play hardcore/survival mode with hundreds of combat-related mods, others play it as a version of Stardew Valley. It is totally up to you how you want your game to be.

chanandler_bong··on So long and thanks for all the bits
I'm confused as well. I can't imagine a B-17 landing without flaps. I am a pilot, but never flown a B-17, so take it with a grain of salt...

You'd want both the gear and flaps down on landing, so both switches would be in the down position. If the switches weren't in sync, e.g. you need one switch up and the other down for landing, that would be a problem.

chanandler_bong··on iPhone 14 Pro comes with dual-frequency GPS
Great, simple answer. Thank you!
chanandler_bong··on New technical analysis confirms the evidence against Billy Mitchell
I was confused as well. I didn't think there were any outstanding controversies around Gen. Mitchell, but you never know...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell

chanandler_bong··on On tea and the art of doing nothing
The author obviously has never been to the UK. Nothing happens without tea. Sure, coffee is commonplace, even dominant in some realms, but tea is life.

Have a plumber in to fix a leak, or an electrician to look at a wonky switch? Without the offer and supply of copious cuppas, you'll be lucky if you don't drown/get electrocuted after the job is "done".

chanandler_bong··on NYC Fire Department forcible entry reference guide [pdf] (2006)
"Try before you pry" as the saying goes...
chanandler_bong··on You can’t eat just any leaf (2018)
True, you can't eat a cow, but you can chop it up in to smaller pieces.
chanandler_bong··on You can’t eat just any leaf (2018)
Anything is edible, at least once.
chanandler_bong··on Music for Programming
Add 'Yakkety Sax' to the list
chanandler_bong··on World’s Highest Website
A more 'traditional' datacentre: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/china-sett...
chanandler_bong··on World’s Highest Website
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/04/05/the-... ?
chanandler_bong··on Walkthrough of UHC’s claim reimbursement form game
That is correct. It is really interesting to see his interpretation of the character - to me it is the best and most humourous of the entire movie.
chanandler_bong··on I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Production
Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined or data lost.

Even though you were fortunate not to lose any data, you gained a lot of experience!

chanandler_bong··on Walkthrough of UHC’s claim reimbursement form game
It was also supposed to have Peter Sellers in it, but he twisted his ankle and couldn't do the role.

Slim Pickens was the perfect choice for Maj. Kong; Sellers could not have pulled it off.

chanandler_bong··on Walkthrough of UHC’s claim reimbursement form game
One of the best movies ever made. I watch it at least twice a year, sometimes more.

With Peter Sellers, Slim Pickens, and Sterling Hayden, there is always something new in their delivery that you pick up. The same with Kubrick and Adam's sets and cinematography...

chanandler_bong··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
Wow... that really is some good poetry. Thanks for sharing.
chanandler_bong··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
Ding!
chanandler_bong··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
Ding!
chanandler_bong··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
Fleetwood Mac was close-ish...
chanandler_bong··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
Firefox 68? That's so old the code is half Aramaic...
chanandler_bong··on Translate a message 10 times into different languages and back
Shall we play a game? Guess the original song based on the translation:

To the ventilation of the gas ventilation in the ventilation

A warm odor of jam, wind

I saw a bright light before the front

The weight of my head and check

I had to let me get at night.

He stood at the door.

I heard an accredited work

I think that

"Time or hell".

And transmit the light that takes

to continue

I think he heard his story.

chanandler_bong··on Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
Oh God... flashbacks to hacking ODBC connections to Access databases! ACK!

But yeah, it would be cool if you could pull directly from an API in to Excel. Or directly parse JSON input without having to mangle it in jq first.

chanandler_bong··on Basque–Icelandic Pidgin
Wow, thank you for that great reply! PTSD flashbacks of Mrs. Davis hurling pieces of chalk at relativistic speeds at us in the back of the room, though...

It is amazing how massively complex rules such as this are subconscious when you learn them as a child. I speak a little French and German (and a few phrases of Yupik), but those are mainly wrote memorisation of the words and only the barest understanding of the underlying mechanics.

chanandler_bong··on Basque–Icelandic Pidgin
That was really informative, thank you. I didn't understand most of what you were trying to explain though. I failed miserably in middle school English - diagramming sentences was the bane of my existence.

Can you give examples of what a "ergative–absolutive alignment" looks like, or case-stacking? It sounds fascinating...

chanandler_bong··on The Gov.uk Design System is now live
gov.uk is the best, consistent, and usable government portals I have ever used. Kudos to GDS on their work and transparency.
chanandler_bong··on Excel 2.0 – Is there a better visual data model than a grid of cells?
"A spreadsheet is then the simplest, most organically natural way of organizing discrete units of information, the easiest way to perform CRUD operations on any type of data."

So... you've basically answered the question here.

"It’s been 40 years since the original Visicalc spreadsheet program was released, and no one has been able to beat them"

There is a reason that columnar workbooks and spreadsheets have been around since humans started writing down numbers and manipulating them... it works.

A "grid of cells" does exactly what it is supposed to do in the most efficient manner possible. The only "innovation" opportunities are making the underlying product suck less, or providing analytics/reporting functionality.

chanandler_bong··on Bashing the Bash – Replacing Shell Scripts with Python (2017)
Oingo Boingo? You mean The Clash...
chanandler_bong··on Flickr forever
I was a Flickr user from 2005 until 2016, most of that time as a paying customer.

For some reason in mid-2016, Flickr locked my account. I mean, a hard lock. Couldn't login, public photostream was "account locked", the whole thing. My photostream was pictures of airplanes, random street photos, and general middling-quality randomness. Nothing NSFW, political, or otherwise.

I contacted Flickr support and after a few days finally made it through to an email exchange with what I assume was a live person. They said that the account was under a "support lockout" and there was nothing they could do to release it. No reason given, just a "support lockout". That was the last I heard from them, ever. They stopped responding to any emails or other support requests.

Sad, really, as I enjoyed some of the groups there.

chanandler_bong··on “You Are My Sunshine”: How a maudlin song became a children's classic (2013)
There is a small handful of songs that I absolutely cannot listen to, for various reasons.

"You Are My Sunshine" tops the list. It so incredibly sad... even thinking about it to type this comment is really difficult. Like, hide-the-razor-because-the-cutting-will-start-again difficult. I have no idea why.

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