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midjourney’s reverse feature has described various mundane photos and screenshots I’ve uploaded as pigeoncore, karencore, unicorncore, duckcore and polaroidcore. who the hell was tagging the dataset

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i am not a doctor and this is not medical advice but i think you should eat a small snack you enjoy and drink some water

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Please stop using “mom” as an example of an unsophisticated user of technology. This reinforces harmful stereotypes.

Instead, I suggest using “congressperson”.

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if i were the kind of programmer who made suites of small interconnected tools and i had an idea for one worthy of the name i'd totally call it CowTools

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was anybody going to tell me ESA was gearing up to launch the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer on Homestuck Day or was i meant to find that out on my own

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calculator progress: got the clickable buttons working and user input is possible! I gotta work on how everything looks and how I formation is displayed 😅

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To kill a French vampire, you need to drive a baguette through their heart. That might sound easy, but I assure you, it's painstaking.

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Hey @BoozyBadger how do you say "if you do some stupid shit and bad things happen because you treated the cryptic utterances of a weirdo living in a cave as anything other than entertainment, that's on you and not the cave-dwelling weirdo" but in lawyer

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oh my sweet flaming jesus, this game actually encodes their text files with UTF-8.
I think this is the first time I have ever seen a game be this sensible.

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i know that tech companies having a neutral stance on unionization is strictly a good thing, but i think it would be funny if a tech company was explicitly pro-union

"hey, you guys should consider unionizing"
"but steve, you're... you're the ceo"
"form a fucking union or we'll start a round of layoffs"

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@v Okay but you're missing the wildest part about the Hypercard user levels

Old Mac OS shipped with a Hypercard "player" that was like a free demo version. It could play stacks other people made, but it was limited to creator level 3.

Somehow, I assume because Bill Atkinson was actually ideologically motivated, the version that actually shipped had a cheat code where you could type in "Magic!" to the debug console box and it would unlock the full version, usually like $150.

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Some people try to call him a patchwork god, like the act of fusing two things into one is somehow new, or unique, or shameful. He hopes they’ve never eaten a peanut butter cup in their short, tormented lifetimes, because if they have, they’ll have some explaining to do when they get to his corner of the afterlife.

Continue reading: leemoyer.wordpress.com/2020/05

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I need to do laundry. Instead I am writing a software-based shared-exponent floating point vector implementation that I have no practical use for at all

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Roses are red, my code is a disaster
git push --force origin master

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I've decided to fight injustice by stealing any outdoor infrastructure that isn't wheelchair accessible. For the moment it's more of an aspiration, though — so far I haven't taken any concrete steps.

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