digitalsushi

You joke but given the rate of progress, in a few more years, who knows what they'll come up with. It won't be real. Oh no. But just being fooled for a few minutes is the first flavorful bite.

The pragmatist in me hopes not, I think it'll be the worst drug we invent, even if it's just a pair of goggles, a glove, and a weird sticker for the temples.

But I expect it. Silver lining?

i wonder if they lied how long you were asleep how it would render after knowing the actual duration

I have flanking neighbors who nuke their lawns every month with permethrin. They leave little business signs on the front lawn as spam. I have 14 apple trees and haven't grown an apple in years. It's fine, they are free to do anything and everything they like with their lawns. I just think it would be really neat to grow an apple again. You know, I'm not even a biologist and its probably a fluke I dont appreciate.

i can catch a single fastball. sometimes. i cant catch 1 per second

why cant we? are you self-censoring because there's some policy forbidding us to talk about something clandestine here?

i dont have access to the joke, or inside club, or inner sanctum, and maybe theres other people like me that want to know more and if the mystery is self-imposed then i might respectfully push back that we cant talk about it

If news articles end with a question mark. A little refinement upon your claim

When I was a teenager in the 90s an old guy took me aside and told me there'd be a day we get rid of public radio, and a day we'd have our final serving of affordable tuna sushi, and that after that, I'd be living in what he deemed the future.

One down.

Our ability to filter and modify the content of the web constantly improves, and itchy trigger fingers might hover over many nation's "Great Walls", ready at the next galvanizing event to overnight change our relationship with this interchange we exist upon.

My current guess is that if things really went to hell with censorship and disjointedness, that we'd re-establish an ancient pattern - magazines. I recall as a child, my uncle would leave his "Big Blue Disks" around for perusing, and it was a magazine in the form of floppy disks, of various media - essays, games, primitive computer music.

The curation of these always struck me as a great favor. Perhaps not compatible with the current attention span, such a provision, in the absence of access, would, I believe, quickly become a surrogate for what we lost.

Of course, these magazines are editorialized, and so we're at the mercy of the editor's perspectives to discern the truth. I appreciate our current access to information, even in its weakening form.

But I suppose I'd prefer if we could not tinker more with censorship. I think I may be looking for a digital magazine in the next decade, or whatever else we can invent to replace our losses.

what happens to a software product when it has a small fraction of the original users? all that free testing as customer support shifts to someone else's platform, eventually

but i think the 'eventually' is the reason this is working for them

we have given new life to the vim-emacs religious war, this time pens-vs-keyboards. fascinating

i just learned about the Haber process. This guy, Fritz Haber, realized we could suck nitrogen out of the literal air and make soil fertilizer with it. The population is like 4 times higher than it would be without it.

Scary how high up this tightrope is.

15 years ago my 'mentor' taught me

buggy_command || :

and 15 years later i am still begging people not to litter our deployment scripts with this pattern. i call this "the penny in the fusebox"

Spock levels of fascinating from me. I want to learn how to compile a pdp11 emulator on my mac.

the first time i had this, everyone's nose was missing. for ten seconds it was funny and then i hid in a bathroom stall at work, and texted my wife goodbye. i was positive i was about to die. its really stressful to have bodies.

my wife would get a migraine every single day around 1pm. she scheduled her college around them. she did a bunch of genetic tests, and (this is not science to me, i dont know the process at all) she ended up trying a methylated vitamin b complex, 8333% usda dose, and they dried right up forever. i feel for anyone dealing with them. i got my first one 7 years ago and learned i am sensitive to soybeans. i can pop some raw soybeans into my mouth and have a visual aura and migraine within 30 minutes, it's fascinating.

maybe there's a quick way to do this but i would like a way to find a git commit, and trace it to the people that approved a PR that got it into the default branch.

it'd make my life easier to know who let the bug into prod

I heard a civil engineer make a claim once that the dust on the side of the road is about 300% more laden with precious metals like platinum, than random mining. I suppose this is all roads and not just American roads, though.

Ok what if I used a different symbol with no mathematical alignment?

BMI, Both-Might-Indicate lots of muscles or fat stores. I can see how someone lugging lots of muscle mass around would want their own number - a BMI is either a credit score or a debt score, its absolute value means nothing. What if we did started to put a + or - in front of the number, if there was more muscle than fat being stored.

if and when someone invents microtransactions for real ... i still think being able to pay a penny or a nickel for a resource, instead of a subscription, would be an interesting experiment.

probably everyone would end up going broke but i would love to see a simulation of it, if not a real experiment.

i know nickel transactions costs a dime to process, but if it was cheap we could have new ways of having new things.

when the hardware wait time is the same as the duration of my impulsive decisions i no longer have a hardware speed problem, i have a software suggestion problem

and then after the first full clock cycle, middle managers are hiring people to fire them, to keep their core dev team intact so that it can solve problems that take longer than 90 days

a lot of people here have a lot of passions, but sometimes the passions overlap and we rub shoulders. if someone had made a pokemon playing card metaphor we might be in the same general condition - but i think we're better behaved showing each other how smart we must be with radio waves instead of greymon

you also learn in biking that a helmet gives you a redo, just like the blade guard does

i tried d&d during the pandemic and was taught what 'flavor text' is. a dictionary of one to many flavor texts would benefit me using this pattern because i need randomness to break through the anticipation. in fact, mapping to posix exit codes would probably be the only case i'd use - give me 1000 cute sayings for exit 0, and a dozen for 255, 1, 2, and a sensible default.

preemptively, to anyone telling me this is terrible, i'd say this is a toy and a subjective one, but that we're detailing our personal flows here, and not inventing interfaces :)

in the late 90s i used a script someone made that would trigger callbacks on syslog patterns. there's different types of icmp traffic; i had iptables log the type that the ping command uses, and i played a submarine ping for each that my gateway received. i'm on the east coast usa, and i remember that i would get barraged with pings overnight, around 4am, as my ssh port got hammered simultaneously.

its 25 years later and the thought of having a single discoverable element on the net scares me.

i would really like an app that can create ambient music with composition: small songs that can overlay with harmony; if my network is running hot the baseline ramps up. if i have emails waiting, little tweets from a treble track that are fleeting but line up with the beat. there's so many ways i could use that soundtrack. plug it into the ide, errors in the buffer, subtle cues.

if you had used 'some' before 'people' i could agree but some industries have to use a siem or they can be fined, so, i mean if there's a list of siems that are definitely not going to ever crash by messing around in the kernel lets get a list going

If 'the artists are not going away' involves either paying the artists less or reducing the number of artists or the meaning of being an artist being redefined I would not immediately agree. ... but the third one is doing a lot of lifting.

I support NASA going to Mars and pay taxes for them to try. I'm a Mars explorer. My tool is NASA.

Yeah, I think I agree. Your boss gets credit for the things you invent. This is a reasonable position.

Our concern for cost so eclipses our concern for quality that the horrible truth is we'll defer to infinite and ok to finite but great. I am not an artist and 1000 free wedding photos from my friends sounds much better than 30 wedding photos from a professional photographer. AI wrote my vows, my friends took the photos, and AI touched them up. I saved 2500 bucks and that photographer was free to upskill on their next industry.

I have no idea if I am being facetious. I hate all of this, as much as I love it.