funkless_eck

@funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those moutains are so quaint⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  the steepest road in America is in Pittsburgh and Tennessee also has 14° roads around Chattanooga.

  Height of mountain does not neccessarily dictate steepness of roads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come when paying cash for gas, it is not like a coke machine where you can insert your money? And when it hits that limit it clicks off?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  ah yes I long for the halcyon days of socializing while filling up with gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hidden talents⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s a video, if you’re confused you might be thinking it’s a still image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  • window

  • transdimensional tp

  • penis button

  • gap under toilet for extra cleaning

  get me outta here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friends.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like David Schwimmers physical comedy is under-appreciated. Not saying every part of the show is killer but the man is Mr Bean at various points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an englishman francophile. I love Jacques Brel, Georges Perec, French food…

  like everything this is just a meme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the age of Ancients...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  glasses, water bottle, notebook for me too. I’m up to 7. 8 on in-office days when I need my pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10.99 for a beer with..... ai pictures on it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  while I take your point, the worst thing to come out of AI is a toss up between pollution and mass unemployment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today is my 25th birthday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Sunscreen Song. it was a hit in the late 90s / early 00s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today is my 25th birthday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ayo. old head here.

  At 29. I had a pact with myself to kill myself before my 40th birthday.

  I’m 43 this year.

  If you take one piece of advice away: life is always worth living, there’s always a tomorrow, no matter how bad you feel that feeling is not forever and things can change and you can change them.

  I have struggles, doubts, frustrations, rages, disappointments, set backs, failures and, indeed, depression. But I lived. And even today I had a bad moment, I was feeling super low - but this evening I had a wonderful time with some friends and came home to my wife who I adore.

  You made it to 25 and I knew a few people who didn’t when I was 25. Now I’m forty fewer people have made it with me.

  I miss them but we get to see what’s next. You get to see what’s next.

  Enjoy being 25, 26, and beyond

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skill Issue 😓⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  for us plebs sadly none

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skill Issue 😓⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the least serious bollocking of my life from the manager of the bar I worked in when the exec team of the bar I worked in bought me 12 jagerbombs in a single shift

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one could have seen this coming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they’re putting more receipt checkers on doors at Kroger recently. 3 out of 4 I’ve been to in the last couple of weeks had them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think NAMBLA or some other similar org might buy them...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they’re called roommates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmmm!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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! 💪🏼⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  highlight it from the other direction and go menu > edit > copy to clipboard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams status⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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:⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  guy who loves string theory: inhales