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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About 10 years ago i remember seeing this picture with a title something like "This is a meme from the future" The prophecy is true apparently.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. That looks plausible and should keep the mental wolves at bay, LOL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About 10 years ago i remember seeing this picture with a title something like "This is a meme from the future" The prophecy is true apparently.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, somebody here has to know of have better image searching skills than I do. What is the Visor prop? It’s clearly not a spray-painted hair clip like (the inspiration for) Geordi’s, but it doesn’t look bespoke, more like some sort of removable support rib from… something. Grrr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s something about the parasitic nature of it, taking over an otherwise healthy ear of corn. We tend to think of our edible fungi as growing out of the dirt like a plant, or a fallen tree, or at worst sort of calmy sitting on top of whatever it is using for its own food. THe fact that this has invaded kernels makes them very bad corn kernels and triggers something instinctive. Corn smut is one of those “the first person to try this was in a bad spot” kind of foods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A secret cord⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Legitimate? Basically none. Illegitimate? First, lazily fixing a fuckup on putting up strings of Christmas lights where you can’t daisy chain them properly, with bonus points for the likeliehood of needing to break off the grounding pin. Second, injecting power from a generator into a single circuit of your house if the power is out.

  In one sense, you could argue conductors are conductors and if you think through every eventuality you can mitigate risk, but on the other, if you find you’re in a situation where one of these seems useful, you are not the type of person thinks through every eventuality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too bad we can't all write notes and letters with such class⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cue the James Joyce letters in 3… 2… 1… 0.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have it on good authority that the Starbucks protein coffee gives you the double-shits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got a lot of sticktuitiveness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parenting advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I should go against the grain here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've Wanted to Play That 'Killer Shark' Arcade Game Briefly Seen in 'Jaws'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very cool, but is anything as cool as that Space Wars cabinet in the same scene?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fact⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt I’m saying anything novel here, but good lord Kilmer stole that movie for himself, and he’s therefore a big part of the reason nobody gives a shit about the Costner one, the rest being that anything “epic” that Costner did after Dances with Wolves was a self-indulgent and overlong toboggan-ride over the top-most surface of whatever theme he claimed to be exploring.

  Not that the rest of the Tombstone cast didn’t have their moments, but they were all dancing to Doc’s tune. Without him, it’s a B-movie that punches slightly above its weight and gets filed away with the likes of Young Guns 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punt: an ancient civilization rediscovered⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s particularly controversial to posit that Punt is in or near the horn of Africa, and while DNA analysis is rock solid for recent genealogy and can be carefully used to provide limited but valuable historical insights, this blog feels weird, like it’s pushing an agenda way beyond what the research supports. It seems desperate to tie things together specifically and neatly, and I just get the sense information is being cherry picked, science is probably being misunderstood, and its constant rolling out of photos of modern people (including Rocco Siffredi, LOL) to confirm physiognomy with ancient art makes me think it’s got some crackpot neo-phrenology creepiness going on. The fact that the authors refuse to identify themselves and talk about “private research” in their 54-question FAQ is not confidence-inspiring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The MP944 was the ‘real’ world’s first microprocessor, but it was top secret for nearly 30 years — F-14 Tomcat's chip lived in the shadow of the Intel 4004, but was eight times faster⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do anything at Zombocom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, not the best angle. The PS/2 port is that little silver box. The USB-C port is on the PCB. This was assembled to go inside a vintage keyboard to semi-permanently convert it, but I’ve been using it to test other boards. If a board is fully intact, I’ll just use an external converter, but there used to be a practice of snipping the cables on hardware that businesses retired for accounting purposes if they were written off, which can be a good, if risky, way to get an eBay buy for cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do anything at Zombocom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve been warned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do anything at Zombocom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I feel pretty deep into that rabbit hole, where I’ve even designed a couple of primitive circuit boards and hand-wired a bunch of keyboards. I also mess stains worth vintage stuff a bit.

  This particular converter is programmable and meant to be used with a not mechanical 122-key terminal keyboard made by the company that took over IBM’s US keyboard factory, but it’s been hanging out with several DuPont wires shoved into it to connect it to a molex connector to test a different old board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do anything at Zombocom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would really appreciate it if nobody looked at the PS/2 to USB adapter currently on my workbench, kplzandthx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D design software for 3d printing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My summary of MCAD suites is getting pretty long in the tooth these days, and IIRC one or two of the niche ones are simply not available anymore, but it still might be useful.

  For what it’s worth, I use Alibre Design in Windows, and do STEP touchups and smaller projects in Linux (where I spend most of my time) on FreeCAD. I just really like the timeline and workflow in Alibre, and it very rarely crashes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poetry is like a set of compression tools for meaning⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that, though I might consider that rhyme, alliteration, and especially repetition also aid retention by requiring less data to be committed to memory as-is. References to other works are also very much a shorthand for cramming pre-existing memes (in the Dawkins sense) into less “word-doing.”

  I dunno. The whole thing breaks down pretty quickly, as most analogies between mental and computational process do, but it’s fun to think about.

• Poetry is like a set of compression tools for meaning
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if K-pop Demon Hunters is so popular because it's a ready allegory for the fight against fascism and authoritarianism...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Adults also make a face with how much it’s a copy of Frozen’s premise.

  Definitely very similar, but it’s different enough, I’d say. It sort of makes explicit that there are cultural repercussions to imposing Elsa’s burden on everyone, that embracing individuality can ironically create a stronger sense of community, and then, in splitting Elsa into Rumi and Jinu, it allows for parallel redemptive tracks, one who never had a “Let it Go” first act moment at all and suffered because of it, and one who really thoroughly bought into the anti-social aspects of it but is then gaslit into thinking they can never be anything better.

  If we can do the Hero’s Journey a thousand times, we can do Elsa’s every few years, especially when the rest of it is changed up and fun. I do think there’s a world where K-Pop Demon Hunters comes and goes without making any waves, but the songs are all earworms and it hit at just the right moment, apparently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michael⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL, are you trying to keep me from derailing a shitpost thread by rehashing boring the online debate that inspired it! How dare you!!! What are you? Some kind of Michael?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michael⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. Not much a part of my identity these days, but in a yes/no sense, yeah I guess so, LOL. Of course, these days most gym bros are doing some gaming too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michael⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You provide physical inputs, which are sensitive to timing and agility, to a rule-based competition. It’s at least as much a sport as golf or curling or bowling. And I say that as someone who doesn’t find eSports particularly compelling. It requires a sophisticated technal infrastructure and doesn’t require superhuman levels of strength or endurance (though the latter in particular could be helpful), but those are merely “sliders on the configuration screen” for whether a certain sport is to your interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ernest is alive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like he’s made peace with its living on in forks as well. Nice to see he’s doing okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed & printed a bracket to mount wheels on my hammock!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For your edit, you don’t want the direction of shear forces right along the layer lines. This is less pretty but will be much stronger for the intended purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  HTC had quite a run there. I still miss my HTC One X, back when it was actually interesting to get a new phone. These days I routinely forget which iPhone it is that I have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Newgrounds like this in the 2000s?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t, but it looks interesting and even more bonkers than the movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Newgrounds like this in the 2000s?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s mildly transgressive to a certain demographic, and tools and internet speeds of the day allowed for visuals that were close enough to the inspirations for people to find them interesting. Subverting “innocent” characters has been a trope since at least Tijuana bibles of the 1920s and I assume much longer. Specifically portraying beloved animated characters as adult and jaded would also have been directly evocative of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

  Eventually, most of that demographic comes to realize that the transgressiveness itself is only so interesting and there is usually something of value in the interesting property that distance lets them appreciate, so a spoof needs to have other things going for it to hold an audience’s interest (e.g. Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which is still brilliant). That said, there is a certain durability to the low-hanging fruit when the subjects of the satire remain popular to continually cycling cohorts of kids who have the unmitigated gall to begin growing up. :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a F1-style steering wheel for VR sim-racing from scratch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t really thought about anything remotely in spitting distance of sim racing since I was playing XBox One Forza games (mostly the Horizon one that is set in the Riviera-ish region) with a Thrustmaster TMX (I think?) clamped to a Home Depot Fliptop table.

  This looks really cool. May I assume the Moza drive unit was the priciest component?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relieve him for he needs it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Slurm is still better.