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- Comment on I think NAMBLA or some other similar org might buy them... 1 day ago:
nonce did used to be an English word too meaning “of/at the moment” or “for one purpose” so Number used Once is actually a backronym
It derived from Middle English was “tō þen naness” which is roughly “best item for a purpose” literally, but is used to mean “something” or “disposable/temporary” in context.
- Comment on Works for slugs too 1 week ago:
ATLien here. Seeing a Waymo ruins my day. Seeing one of the freeway my whole week.
- Comment on Feels like someone's podcasts are being heavily promoted 1 week ago:
they’re called roommates
- Comment on Hmmmm! 1 week ago:
I have video and photographic and data analytic proof and a large number of eye witnesses.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 1 week ago:
prefer is a transitive verb, wins is intransitive.
They’ve changed “would prefer (he) wins” to “prefer (he) wins” which is still correct f.
- Comment on Plenty! 💪🏼 1 week ago:
I was expecting it to be a language. It looks like Cucumber is actually a kind of IDE and the language is Gherkin .
Feature: Guess the word # The first example has two steps Scenario: Maker starts a game When the Maker starts a game Then the Maker waits for a Breaker to join # The second example has three steps Scenario: Breaker joins a game Given the Maker has started a game with the word "silky" When the Breaker joins the Maker's game Then the Breaker must guess a word with 5 characters
- Comment on Anon invents a time machine 1 week ago:
preventing ww1 is like preventing nuclear armament - you’d have to convince all the major powers to renegotiate all of their treaties and alliances and make them trust each other by being more vulnerable.
You couldn’t do that today, let alone 120 years ago.
- Comment on best way to start the day💖 1 week ago:
honestly Im so used to only seeing this phrase from gay men I was surprised het people knew it.
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 1 week ago:
I am not a professional but coding is more holding logic paths in your mind and translating large concepts into bite-sized steps.
In my (extremely amateur) solo dev project this weekend - a card game, I needed a trap that’s invisible to opponents but visible to the player.
So we create an (invisible) control node with an (optionally visible) animated node with a text label that inherits the visibility of the immediately parent.
Then the top level node needs a “when I give you a place to be, animate appearing then animate moving to that place function” and it needs to respond to the card_played signal, and it needs to check the logic to see if that’s the time to trigger, and if so which functions it needs to activate (the board, the “umpire” node, the opponent hand) in which order, then call the dialogue system to display dialogue, then query the dialogue database for which message to show, which in itself has a controller that forces the order of animations and turns on/off clicks to various functions while this function resolves…
The only math involved is “how fast should the node move” and “if this trap blocks face cards, then block anything with a card value over 10” (jack queen king)
- Comment on What's your username and password? 2 weeks ago:
highlight it from the other direction and go menu > edit > copy to clipboard
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 2 weeks ago:
I mean it took me all of 20 minutes. They have the screenshots saved in the folder, the JSON just is a time stamp and a list of urls I looked at in that time.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 2 weeks ago:
- physical mouse “jiggler” (mine is a turntable) that isn’t connected to the work device
- physical key presser on a switch to press ESC every few seconds for when I’m pooping (this way the software shows both m n k activity)
I’ve even so far as to write a bash script that monitors the userdata folder that stores the JSON to activity and overwrite it with plausible but fake random activity data and screenshots, then name the process the same as the software so it’s virtually undetectable- logs will show “Productivity Software Name” writing to its userdata directory at the same time the actual software is writing to it.
- Comment on bro got neutered 2 weeks ago:
and recognize it for what it is: gambling on whether some dudes think this company is worth more today than yesterday.
if you were gambling on what some dudes thought about an egg you’d take it a lot less seriously.
- Comment on Why do you never talk about what you're reading? Me: 2 weeks ago:
"In the Egyptian context, what we term magic and demon, drawing on our own cultural heritage, are not seen as negative aspects of cultural practice and conceptualisation. Similarly, the Egyptian equivalents do not carry the pejorative connotations borne by the modern terms and their Greek antecedents; magic and demons can be forces for good as well as evil. Indeed, the practice of magic and the conceptualisation of personified demonic agents are central to the Egyptian understanding of the workings of the world from the very continuation of the cosmos itself down to the vicissitudes of existence faced by individuals.
"In particular, the broader practice of magic and articulation of the involvement of demonic agency form one of the crucial links in Ancient Egypt between individual existence on the human level and the level of nature or the cosmos, the realm of the gods. Unlike, though, the explicit recognition of the term demon in the ancient Greek language and religion, as the intermediary between god and mortals, the majority of the demonic names in the Egyptian literature do not possess an apparent ontological essence, or a clearly defined denotation. Their characteristics and role depended momentously on the verbal and performative ritual environment they were part of. The relation between the name of a demon and its cosmic-natural personification is not contradictory as it may seem, but it is closely interwoven in a well established ritual framework of words and actions.
"This multi-authored volume of 10 essays comprises an up-to-date authorized account of many aspects of ancient Egyptian demonology, including the multiple persona of the demonic or name vs. identity in the Egyptian formation of the demonic, nightmares and underworld demons, dream rituals and magic, categories of demonic entities and the vague distinction between the divine and the demonic in Egyptian cosmology and ritual, the theological and demonic aspects of Egyptian magic, and demons as reflections of human society.
- Comment on Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole 2 weeks ago:
there will always be exceptions and innovation. One of the things that shaped They Might Be Giants style is they used to release songs via a telephone number and if they held a note too long the phone service would think it was a dial tone and hang up.
- Comment on ENHANCE 2 weeks ago:
guy who loves string theory: inhales
- Comment on what of it? 🤨 2 weeks ago:
don’t call me that.
I hate the monarchy
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 3 weeks ago:
counterpoint
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 3 weeks ago:
As a Brit I fucking hate the royal family and their soft power and their wealth, but I’d argue that Trump has more of both and is heading for more than a royal has had in a Western country in living memory.
- Comment on This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school. 3 weeks ago:
the family of the deceased (35, sudden heart failure from undiagnosed blood pressure condition) were in suits. It was at a crematorium with a flavor of traditional Vietnamese traditions. No dress code was specified.
- Comment on This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school. 3 weeks ago:
I was at a funeral recently where about 1 in 10 people were wearing cargo shorts or jeans, a graphic tee or a polo shirt, and sneakers.
Not that I think we should go back to dressing in powdered wigs and hose but I think there is room for clothing choices to mark an occasion
- Comment on Heat waves hate this one WEIRD trick 3 weeks ago:
“listen, nob’ed” really takes me back to school days
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
haha, it’s actually from experience of trying to undo what AI did to my code. And I’m just a casual hobbyist in scripting languages.
I still have a to-do to unstick how it is using a lambda to set a bool value inside a dict with only one key, when any normal human would just do
bool_var = my_func() def my_func() return true
it’s really been a lesson in how I can’t even use AI to learn, let alone actually produce.
- Comment on one beer 3 weeks ago:
It’s the internet equivalent of a cliche in casual conversation. “I’m hungry” “Hi hungry I’m dad” … it’s mild humor delivered as part of a social reflex
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
hey now but what if I want my code to be like
if gun.is_valid and not gun == null and gun.id != null: shoot() func shoot(): fire(gun): func fire(gun): if gun.is_valid and not gun == null and gun.id != null: weapon_activate(gun)
- Comment on This is why we have two-factor authentication. 3 weeks ago:
I’d counter this is exactly how a lot of hacking works
- Comment on Thats you 3 weeks ago:
AND a soup
- Comment on I want it to slap me across the face 4 weeks ago:
there used to be one in London - “Coffee Cake and Kink”
- Comment on I am el french 4 weeks ago:
even the french will often ellide the ⟨ʁ⟩ to ⟨ʁ̞⟩ or even [χ], [ʀ], or [r].
- Comment on Drinking water is for the weak 4 weeks ago:
