This feels like a marketing department trying to ascend through the sefirot after the tree surgeons have lopped off everything above Yesod.

Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan@undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Yankee Candle's Stages of Abstraction Level 1: The scent represents a physical object where the object's aroma is one of its distinct properties.

I love that the solution to leap seconds is to kick the can so far down the road that it’s unlikely civilisation will ever need to care. Leap hours! mastodon.social/@womump/1174...

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Attached: 1 audio Since the #LeapSecond is now history, it seems a good time to re-post this recording of the UK's #SpeakingClock from the end of December 2016, the occasion of the final leap second.

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I just did a complicated rebase and apparently nothing exploded. Something is very wrong.

Marvin the Martian: Where's the Kaboom?

ALT: Marvin the Martian: Where's the Kaboom?

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I know it’s really easy to build desktop UIs using web technologies, but it is at best annoying when I’m in a list and do Command-A to select all, and end up selecting g all the text Iin the surrounding UI and none of the list items.

Sigh. It seems that the same people who celebrate LLM generated maths proofs owning human mathematicians also don’t appreciate when LLM assisted proof help make interesting progress. We now know that BB(10) > Graham’s number, and BB)335) is independent of ZFC!

The more times I overhear boat club conversations the more I understand why they end up being important to so many peoples careers. So much around coaching and managing boats sounds exactly like the sort of mentoring and coaching conversations I have at work.

Phone displays being “Always on” is useful, but definitely freaks out the part of my brain that thinks, “That must be using loads of power, it still being on must be a bug.”

Ooooh its leg day in the studio

I see OpenAI is taking the bold strategy of, “See! We can’t be trusted to regulate ourselves, guess you’d better regulate Our industry and block any potential competitors.”

Look at this precious baby 😭

Well… that’s a take I hadn’t seen before. “It’s fine if AI can’t come up with new ideas, because we’ve already discovered them all.” Where do you even start with that? It doesn’t even have the redeeming feature of being entertaining.

I genuinely think it's a shame Herbert couldn't see that. We could have got a twisting, tortured book on Irulan on a par with the original Dune novel but... *waves his hand at human sandworms, infinite Idahos and sex witches*

I laughed at this way more than I should have. youtu.be/egc2ciXSdmo?...

Only in Death: 40,000 Ways to Die

YouTube video by Warhammer 40,000

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I’m not sure whether to be incredibly impressed with this joke or to just sigh heavily. mas.to/@sinvega/117...

So today I went and saw Digger. I’ve seen a bunch of reviewers comparing it to Synecdoche, New York and Eyes Wide Shut, and I think those comparisons are entirely reasonable, and whether you like the film is going to depend, like those, on whether you enjoy them being entirely up their own arses.

A negroni delivered to your seat is a sign of a civilised cinema.

Oh dear lord! ``` // Another workaround! The JRE doesn't seem to know about DST // before year 1 AD, so we map to equivalent dates for the // purposes of finding DST. To be safe, we do this for years // before 1970. ```

OH: “Heh, <famous person> hasn’t got, ‘the thing,’ yet. Could you get <other person> to send it to them, because it’s her ‘thing.’” Well, now I want to work out what they’re making.

Found and submitted fix for intermittent build failure. Build failed for a different reason, so found and fixed that. Now the build is failing for another reason, probably to do with networking. This isn’t frustrating AT ALL.

I never knew the Egyptians wore socks with sandals.

comfort foods@primpker.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Thou shall not covet the 1700 year old Egyptian socks" My sinful ass:

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Just saw folk who join the uncritical rush towards AI referred to as "LLMings", and I am stealing that.

Vintage Pixel Game: Lemmings

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I once thought about doing a joke graph about podcast production values vs the chance people would listen to them. My joke left hand end would have been, “Low recording level combined with distortion and voices so far apart on the sound stage that each speaker is only in one head phone.”

There is something joyful about hearing a broad Glaswegian accent asking, “So them guys said you had meed.”

This month’s Weegie Word is one that we hope will describe Unconfined: Hoachin'! We’ve had many bustling Eastercons in Glasgow, and we hope 2027 will be another! Meaning very busy, even overrun, when fans swarm in, cramming the halls and bar, we'll be able to say it’s hoachin!

T.S. Eliot's birthday, so why not go and read H.P. Lovecraft's satire of "The Waste Land," his actually-pretty funny "Waste Paper" www.hplovecraft.com/writings/tex...

Okay. Breathes deeply. Nothing that has been causing me stress is insurmountable. I am going to try and knock the most urgent and easily resolved ones off my list by the most expedient ways I can. And then I am going to eat chicken wings, way too many chicken wings.

I considered writing about why I am stressed and grumpy, but decided it was better to go for a walk and browse in the second hand bookshops. Somehow this has resulted in me owning a book about the changes in book illustration technology in the 19th century.

Absolutely fucking amazing. Mike Harrison is on the Booker shortlist.

Sam Bagenstos@sbagen.bsky.social · 4w ago

I thought every one of these books was amazing. I'd vote for the Marlon James book, because I really think it's one of the most stunning books I've ever read. But each of these is worthy in different ways. Really great crop of nominees. thebookerprizes.substack.com/p/introducin...

Currently state: screaming harder than Prepotente.