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A couple of fun posts you might enjoy:

So You Want To Abolish Time Zones: https://qntm.org/abolish So You Want Continuous Time Zones: https://qntm.org/continuous

What I've gathered from these and similar articles is that time just kinda sucks in general, and no matter what we do we're going to suffer.

I'm pretty sure the author of that book actually wrote a lot of the Antimemetics SCP posts in the first place. It's certainly up their alley.

My coworkers still don't quote strings in their bash scripts, even when they're paths... and yet they wonder why everything falls apart.

Also interesting - it's being touted as proprietary code, but View Source (which as we all know is a clever hacker tool only) revealed that it's a fork/instance of Mastodon. Complete with not changing the error page's sad cartoon. The theme was slightly different, and the "toot" button has been renamed to "truth"... This is probably a violation of Masto's license, to not say you're using it.

Still remains to be seen whether or not federation support was planned to be enabled, as far as I can tell. But I can't help but find it amusing, as some people on masto talked about last night, that it's using the same core technology as Gab does/did - and the entire fediverse basically banded together to defederate from that instance.

Discord support is notoriously bad - not responding to issues in a timely manner, and being obtuse with the information they give.

Microsoft just forced all of their office suite file extensions to look at their MS Office... which I don't (shouldn't) have installed. I happily use LibreOffice. But suddenly things are going to different apps!

User Friendly, as long as by "friendly" you mean "actively sabotaging"

I miss playing with D. It looks like you've done a lot of neat stuff recently, but I just don't have a project that I can use it for. I remember being thoroughly impressed with its metaprogramming capabilities in college when I was working on dproto.

Oh man. I remember this as it was coming out. It was certainly a wild ride... I was in high school at the time and didn't know how to react to the whole protest thing. I remember I played the heck out of the demo that he released for the Nintendo DS - the Tetris parody in-game, "Tetrid", was a bit of a mindbend, and could probably cause seizures, but the deformed block shapes made an interesting puzzle.

When exactly did this "opt-out" start? I'm seeing cnet articles from 2011 about this exact thing.

Good to see D getting some acknowledgement now and again! I haven't touched it in a while, but have a soft place in my heart for it.

Features I absolutely love that I wish I could use at work (stuck in C++98 land, slowly upgrading) include ranges, template metaprogramming, and inout. So much of the surrounding toolset could be removed if only I had those capabilities.

The whole point of federation is that you don't need an accout on each instance, you can interact (respond, boost, favorite) with posts from one instance from the comfort of another.

My favorite variation of this involves Dungeons and Dragons' spell slots mechanic. (Full disclaimer, I didn't make the concept, and can't find the post that I read it from)

For every long rest, you get a limited number of spell slots - for example at level 5 you get 4 level 1 spell slots, 3 level 2 spell slots, and 2 level 3 spell slots. These are all the "major" spells you can cast before you need to long rest again.

Some things may be more straightforward, and only take a level 1 spell slot. But it's still possible to run out of those. Luckily, you're able to use a higher level spell slot to cast that same spell. Sometimes this makes the "spell" more effective (using a higher level spell slot for programming might relate to intentionally putting more focus on it), other times you're just burning the higher leveled slot.

Other actions/spells may take more focus/concentration/energy/effort to do, akin to using a higher leveled spell slot. Naturally you can't do as many of those without resting.

Still other actions/spells are trivial for you to do. You can do those as many times as you'd like, and you don't feel (significantly) affected by them. These are your cantrips - the simplest spells, that can still be very useful.

I like this variation of the theory not just for the gaming flavor, but also because it changes the concept slightly from "this takes more spoons than that" to differently sized spoons, which feels more in line with how I relate to the tasks that give me trouble.

I know, right? It's not nice to refer to your own product as malicious software.

Most of the samples don't show anything for me... Maybe a description of what it's supposed to be, at most. No code or files.

My sister's first college dorm was literally made by a prison architect. It showed.

I used vidir yesterday for something that would have been more annoying with other tools - if you swap the numbers at the beginning of the line, then you'll safely swap the file contents. Useful if your TV episodes are named the wrong thing...

According to some highly accurate documentaries I've seen, Giza is a more likely place.

I once spent an hour trying to solve a sudoku puzzle on a whiteboard in college. It turned out that the person who left it there made a mistake when they started to solve it, so given the state it was in when I started (no way to tell what was original and what was their deduction) it was impossible to solve.

I'm not bitter, of course not.

I saw this a while ago, and knew it would come back to haunt me.

My boyfriend has a more amusing (and slightly inappropriate) version of this, but oddly enough doesn't mention keys or phone in his version.

Some places still have RHEL6, unfortunately, which predates that.

Probably just QWERTY "home row" layout

Mine is similar, but only does one cd command - to allow better use of `cd -`

    up() {
        local ups="."
        for((i=0;i<${1:-1};i++)); do
            ups="${ups}/.."
        done
        builtin cd "$ups"
    }

Well now that I've seen the Furby Organ I'm not going to sleep tonight...

And the related follow-up: https://xkcd.com/2111/

I like the idea, but it doesn't load any content for me at all:

    Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://firestore.googleapis.com/google.firestore.v1beta1.Firestore/Listen/channel?database=projects%2Fstrengthnews-e5a40%2Fdatabases%2F(default)&gsessionid=IUYyH6STWlLOBBqfQH-UNwlTGZZIplrA&VER=8&RID=rpc&SID=g__62zvCW3XsnHmxGIGKrw&CI=0&AID=0&TYPE=xmlhttp&zx=a2tcqj79gmaw&t=1. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed).
    @firebase/firestore: Firestore (5.5.9): Could not reach Cloud Firestore backend. Backend didn't respond within 10 seconds.
    This typically indicates that your device does not have a healthy Internet connection at the moment. The client will operate in offline mode until it is able to successfully connect to the backend.

It's gotten to the point where that's actually a selling point for networks such as Mastodon... which is silly, because it should be normal behavior.

I believe that those systems are currently in place, but either aren't considered to be "enough", or people aren't using them properly.

The article would be helped by using a full regex for ipv4 addresses - the one it uses would match invalid numbers (999.999.999.5 for instance), but the proper one is more complex (and would probably make for a better example as a result)

Also I think there's something wrong with this blog's formatting, it appears to be replacing underscores with italics even within code samples.

OK, tangental but concerning. According to that Comcast quote, are you not actually allowed to host a personal website using bandwidth that you pay for? Or is it specifically forbidding "public" web hosting, where "anybody" is allowed to host their own sites?