liberals: what the hell, this company fucked us all over!
leftists: yeah that happens a lot, huh
liberals: yeah! they don't care about anything but profit!
leftists: mhmm
liberals: well i guess the only option is to switch to another company
leftists: hmm but what if it happens again
liberals: ahh what can you do
leftists: mmmmmm
liberals: yup there's nothing that can be done
leftists: mmmmmmmmmmmmm
retro handheld games (-?)
It's a fun little thing, but it's not what I thought I was getting. What got me so upset are the less than authentic collision detection, such as shots passing right between segments of a joined centipede & being killed by a flea without being touched by it, & the fact that poisoned mushrooms aren't restored to normal like partly-shot mushrooms are between lives.
retro handheld games (-?)
Those "Arcade Classics" mini retro games (about 6" or 15cm) in the toy aisles? I should've known I wouldn't get an authentic arcade-version experience from any of them when I saw the Pac-Man one: fixed-position LED style.
I got Centipede, & all I know is it's almost but definitely *not* the arcade version. (Maybe it's the Atari 7800 version? I only had the 2600.) Yay for retro games being the in thing, but I still feel cheated.
Another review: https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2017/08/basic-fun-for-retro-gamers-stealth.html?m=1
Happy 30th birthday to the Morris Worm, the most famous worm to prove that networked computers can be threatened by insufficiently reasoned noble intent, not just obviously malicious intent.
It looks like the simplest & long-term easiest thing for me to make a generated static website is going to be a makefile running page bodies through docutils & feeding the results into templates written in m4 macros.
reST is mature & unlikely to change, but make & m4 are in posix, which means they'll stay the same for the rest of my life as long as I avoid GNU extensions.
so much for lightweight markup
py36-rst2html5 on a year-old Celeron Braswell CPU: 1.05 seconds.
py36-rst2html5 on a 10-year-old Core 2 Quad Kentsfield CPU: 0.55 seconds.
Same OS, same version, same input file, just different hardware. ... Wat.
Okay, so I have to put this on imgur because image uploads aren't working here at the moment due to a certain service that shall be named as wasabi
Caption: Newspaper clipping with headline "Mastodon yells at cloud", the image below that is of the fluffy elephant friend yelling at a cloud above superimposed with the wasabi logo
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