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• Post #2860506

  What are shows, movies, or even particular scenes you'd like to delete from your memory, just to relive the first watch thrill again? Mine: Much Ado About Nothing (mainly the opening sequence) Eurovision 1994 (mainly the intermission show) Doctor Who episodes: School Reunion, Day of the Doctor, The Power of Three (virtual cookies for whoever guesses the specific quotes that made me go "THE WHAT?")

• Post #2550201

  Interface designers who create pages and apps that part-load and then have loaded elements MOVE AROUND, should be taken out to a market square and flogged until they promise to never, ever, ever, design UI again.

• Post #1491846

  Cassandra (Kasandra) text Jacek Kaczmarski translation: Own (with input from @blotosmetek ) Nothing ends with a simple yes or no And no warrior dies without a cause And so I say: It’s the beginning of an end And drunken mob is climbing up the city walls For empty are the ramparts of barbarians Beware the triumph – it’s a trap of Fate And the enemy tributes lack meaning Same fire burns in all the pyres Dumb grunt wields double-edged sword I don’t forbid you the happiness No omens will change y...

• Post #1491844

  Have you ever felt like the only thing that would help is a pair of googly eyes glued to a random object? I have found a pack of them in a drawer and now I'm looking for a good candidate to stick them on.

• Post #1491843

  April starts shaping up as a month of some refreshing activities. I want to set up Linux on my laptop (and possibly also on my OLD laptop, because I have a Dell Latitude gathering dust in my desk, with Windows XP on it... why not try to make it usable for something new?) but also to reanimate my old desktop PC with some new system. The old one is... OLD. I mean, when we fired it up it made some very angry comments about the state of the disk and then said the last fsck was done 3500+ days ago....

• Post #1491842

  While I understand "garden variety" - something common, cheap, easily available, like a weed in the garden - where does "bog standard" come from? Do bogs have standards? What standards are there in the bogs? Do bogs have a body that oversees the standards? Are there bog auditors that check compliance with standards? What would a bog audit look like?

• Post #1491841

  I got hit with an essay on YT claiming, among other things, that people these days write long form texts already mentally preparing for AI summarisers to be involved, so they adjust language to that aim. And then the speaker made a claim that everyone these days has this reflex - that when they receive a longer e-mail, it's tempting to dump it into AI for a summary. Well... Everyone? I get it, younger kids apparently do (I got reports of people asking AI for a summary of my short story),...

• Post #1491840

  Day 3 of writers retreat. Second successful fireplace-side evening. Writing with friends, editing a lot. Texts slowly growing, and we're brainstorming ideas for each other. I need to collect questions for an invasive celebrity interview, so I'm just editing slowly while chewing on some options. #writing #writer #writingfantasy