Badabinski

I have a friend who is absolutely obsessed with roller coasters, but many parks don’t allow you to wear a body camera (to say nothing of phones, you’re absolutely not allowed to hold a recording device). Like, this guy will ride the same coaster back to back for hours and will absolutely watch a recording. He bought a pair for this one purpose. I would not have bought them and he definitely felt extremely conflicted. I think he keeps them in a case at all times and only wears them when he’s about to get on a ride.

Basically, he only bought them as an action camera alternative. He doesn’t use any of their creepy social media features.

I did some searching but couldn’t find it. I’m also quite curious.

When you use a scrubby sponge on a scorched pan, the scrubby part becomes much darker and seems gross and dirty. It can be very difficult to remove the gross brown stain from the sponge. People like to use sponges for a while, but nobody wants to use the gross brown poop sponge, so folks attempt to clean them. This process is extremely frustrating.

Manjaro isn’t Arch. Doesn’t use the same repos.

kubectl delete enemy --all made me fucking snort.

When I had a Samsung TV, I hated it intensely and printed a label that said “scamsung.” That TV eventually went to the recyclers with that label still covering the Samsung one.

McDonalds→McDicks→McPenis. I’m mature.

This mirrors my experience. I -Syu on a weekly basis, spend about 3 minutes doing pacnews, and then I’m done.

What is this from?

well that’s no fun!

Only possible AI thing I see is .zed in the .gitignore, but that’s not an indicator of LLM usage. Plenty of people use zed with all AI features disabled.

god, I still love this meme so much after all these years.

EDIT: Jesus Christ, it’s from 2007.

I’m onto you and your tricks with that phone number and I approve

That’s neat!

I have everyone’s favorite thing; unsolicited advice! It’d be cool if it was easier to find the source code. I’m still waking up so maybe it’s obvious, but I ended up looking at the manual installation steps to get the link to https://codeberg.org/Valmond/Tenfingers

God I hated straterra. That shit only ever did bad things for me.

In many programming languages, data comes in different forms. If you want to get a yes/no answer to something, there’s a way to represent that: a true/false boolean (often 1 for true, and 0 for false). If you want to represent, say, a street address, that’s a string, because it’s just a big ol blob of undifferentiated text to the computer.

The joke is about how you ask someone a yes or no question, but they respond with something which is not either of those options.

A string with length > 0 is truthy*, so we’re good!

*in python

Is this real?

That device kinda terrifies me. Like, I appreciate that SCUBA gear is so… simple. No electronics, no batteries, just relatively straightforward pneumatic equipment. At least you’re not very deep if the compressor shits the bed.

Metro 2033 is so good, you’re gonna love it. He wrote such a fever dream of a novel.

Is your container using BusyBox? if so, then it’s not even real wget, it’s just the disgusting awful busybox version.

God I hate BusyBox.