It was only really Gene Simmons that gave that vibe. I mean, ones a cat and another has a star.

I don’t think one dinner would be enough to change my vote on anything unless you’ve got one hell of an argument. If MPs were that cheap, I think their constituents would gladly buy them a meal.

It’s the money.

I was thinking that number is far too low

Ironically cars can park and navigate, but not drive.

It’s a long time since I watched it. I’m wondering what meaning you found in Zardos except…

So how do you study literature without having the class all read the same book? Can’t really have a discussion on the themes of a work if the class isn’t all reading the same thing.

People walking by in the street. It’s a great way to meet new people.

Bend it back further. When it gets to 180 degrees, it latches into place and doesn’t spring back.

The political bias of AI will be set by those tuning the models. Now mix in a bunch of voters asking LLMs who they should vote for, because people will outsource their thinking any chance they get. The result is model owners being able to sway elections with very little effort.

There’s a difference between driving fast and being ready to move when an opportunity appears. It mainly comes down to watching traffic far enough down the road so you anticipate where the gap will be. That then allows you to smoothly merge into it.

You didn’t experience the 70s, did you?

This is what some call “mindfulness”. The ability to be aware of feeling an emotion, and then to be able to step outside of that and ask “why am I feeling that?”. You can then start to work on the cause rather than the symptoms.

If you ever get taught meditation, a lot of it is about letting the mind go in the direction it wants to go, catching it, noting it, and then resetting. Lather, rinse, repeat.

You just did it when you were writing an essay.

I’ll always worry about a guy that dresses like Jimmy Saville.

…but not the 👌gesture. In some cultures that’s very rude.

Mexico is a long way from Europe and the food hasn’t travelled well.

No. They are maroon.

Never let her watch Star Wars.

Congress has just passed a defence provisioning bill which allocates new funds for Ukraine and bolsters NATO troops in the Baltic states. They’ve also nixed the “department of war” name change.

If hegseth could read he’d realise they’ve ignored him and done things anyway.

I recognise that different languages have different styles, strengths and idioms. One of my pain points is when people write every language as if it’s naughties java. Enough with the enterprise OoP crap.

I’ve also learnt languages like Haskell to expand and challenge the way I think about software problems. I learnt a lot doing it. That doesn’t stop a lot of Haskell code looking like line noise to me because it over-uses symbols and it being close to impenetrable in a lot of cases when you read somebody else’s code.

I think the aesthetics of Rust are the wrong side of the line. Not as bad as something like Haskell (or Perl), but still objectionable. Some things seem to be different even though there’s pre-existing notation. Things seem to be dense, magical, and for the compilers benefit over the readers (as an outsider).

I’ve been learning Zig recently and the only notational aspect I struggled with was the pointer/slice notation as there’s 5 or 6 similar forms that mean fairly different things. It has other new concepts and idioms to learn, but on the whole it’s notation is fairly traditional. That has made reading code a lot more approachable (…which is a good thing because the documentation for some aspects sucks).

i work at cloudflare

I shouldn’t worry about it.