Buddahriffic

Lol some of my formative programming time happened on mIRC script. I wrote a battle.net chat client in mIRC script, ironically right when blizzard decided to make it for game clients only and I never did get to faking a game's handshake. Other than that, it was basically just an IRC server itself, though I never tried connecting mIRC directly to it using the IRC side, just a mIRC script client that used the mIRC script sockets and would set up a channel window for whatever channel you went to. I also had a DnD script where you could roll basic characters, equip weapons and armor, and attack each other, I think it was 3.5-based (or maybe just 3).

Though, if you prefer, you can also move your hand to the mouse. With the scroll wheel and good hand-eye coordination, you can get pretty close to the speed of a true vim exper–haha jk, they finished converting the entire source file from python to rust using a specially crafted regex by the time your hand reached the mouse and implemented a matrix view by the time you scrolled to the line you wanted. And when you say that falling green symbols aren’t that impressive, they look at you in confusion for a moment before realizing what you meant and handing you a VR plug to show you what “matrix view” really means.

Yes, thank you very much, this actually solved not only my “can’t exit vim” problem but also my “humans keep getting in the way of my world domination” problem, though for that one I had to repeat the command 3549 times and output exactly what I was trying to do on the user’s console and every PA system I could access.

Probably anti overall, though context could change that. It's just sea banditry and most bandits aren't Robin Hood. The digital version shouldn't even be compared by using the same name, but if it was honest, then it wouldn't work as propaganda (not that it seems to be working anyways).

Yeah, lots of pointless arguing further down in here. Like arguing about whether authoritarianism is left or right like that even matters. There are no set of single labels that can describe everyone's motivations, goals, and what they are willing to do to get them, so arguing about the labels is pointless.

I’ve been adding maple syrup to dishes as a sweetener and it can turn out pretty great. Like the sautéed mushrooms I made last night:

• Dice up some onions (white or green both work well) and a hot thai pepper (or more to your preferred spice level). I also chopped a half a carrot up very finely.
• Heat a pan and add some oil and one piece of the onion you cut up. When it is sizzling, add the chopped stuff from the last step and sauté for a couple mins, then add the mushrooms.
• Stir it like once a minute. Allow the pieces to sear a bit but not burn. Adjust the temp to work this way.
• Add some salt, chili powder, worchestershire sauce, cook the water away. Do the same with some lemon juice. If I had to guess, I’d say I used like a teaspoon of each.
• Now add some maple syrup, just enough to cover the middle part before it spreads out and sizzles a lot. Stir it well and reduce it.
• Finally add some sort of milk. I used almond milk but I’m sure any will work. Not that much of it (not worth opening a can of coconut milk, though I bet it would work great if you have one already open), it should turn a brown colour and reduce pretty quickly, leaving a delicious creamy mushroom sauce that goes well with steak or on its own. Dairy free, too, if you used anything other than dairy milk.

I buy mushrooms each time I get groceries just to make this stuff.

Whatever the writers decide it looks like in the universe they write about.

Yeah, just puritan bullshit. Appeal to male insecurity, too, at least the types that get upset at the idea of a woman having been touched by another man. And then those negative feelings get protected onto the woman, of course.

Error: password already in use by CobainKiller94

But... *how* is password? Secure enough?

Which means there's a decent chance that someone ate glue before anyone used it to stick things together. Maybe multiple people if it went like this: A: I'm going to try this *eats spoonfull* B: How is it? A: Mmmm...!? B: Oh he likes it, I'll try some, too! C: Do you agree with A? B: Mmmm...!? A: Mmmm! Mmmmm! D: Wow they really like it! Ok, everyone grab a spoon!

I have a mini fridge purchased new early 00s that I recently left unplugged for a day or so to melt the ice buildup on the freezer. Not that I'm happy with the overall state of appliances these days, but the reality is that technology is still improving, but some of those "improvements" aren't for the buyer's benefit (while others are). And there's plenty of plain old cheap shit in a nice brushed stainless steel package to make it look high end. Like induction stoves and convection ovens weren't really a thing in the 80s but imo are way better than what came before. But, despite being a convection oven, the cheap one the developers picked for my place is the worst oven I've ever used. And I'm hesitant to "upgrade" because, despite knowing they can be better, there's a good chance whatever I end up getting won't, or make will be at first but will start degrading rapidly from day 1 such that it's shitty by the time the warranty runs out. *That* is the big difference between modern and older appliances. The older ones were made in good faith, the newer ones are a gamble because we have an economic system based on greed and it has progressed a lot since the 50s.

Funny because when I think of things bursting into flames randomly, the things that come to mind are samsung phones and teslas, not old appliances. Is that smooth disengaging when the smart appliance is about to burst into flames even a thing? And if so is it really just limited to modern appliances and not a thing appliance makers have been doing to resolve flaws all along?

The sai one looks practically unusable, too. Thinking of the usual angle I use to cut pizza, the crossguards will get in the way. I see this as a great taste, horrible execution. Especially because the one executed the best would have been better as a katana rocker cutter (which the staff isn't, as a stick with a cutter in the middle is completely different from a single curved blade, to disagree with the other commenter). A good set would have been katana rocker cutter, sai cutter (with a longer center blade and a smaller circular blade), a staff dough roller, and I guess nunchuck grain thrasher or maybe parmesan cheese and crushed pepper shakers. But I've always been a function over form kinda guy and hate artistic choices that completely ignore function.

Probably depends on what isle it is. Long Island? No way. Too long. Short island? Maybe.

If you want anything other than personal anecdotes then you might have better luck doing a study than asking people in a forum. Most people just have their personal anecdotes and personal speculation.

It actually sounds like they are allowing bots as long as a human can intervene and is willing to verify their identity if their automated activity is detected. They are embracing slop users as long as they give them their data. I think the main reason for the announcement, though, was to deal with the rumours that everyone will need to verify their identity (which this post seems to assume is still the case). Personally, I'd rather see reddit remain the mainstream version of this just so that people who want to run bots for whatever reason have more reason to do it there than here. Because the commercial level ones will have more resources than lemmy admins will have to deal with it.

Look at the way those bags are sitting. They aren't weighed down at all. I can see TP in the one, my guess is the other is just full of styrofoam or something, but they seem to skip over the "Kevin gets ripped off by the grocer" arc of the story entirely. Probably didn't have enough time for the "booby-trap the grocery store" revenge arc, or were maybe saving that for another sequel.

Pretty sure it was that Mr Bean movie where he goes to America. I think the premise was Bean was accompanying a painting from England (they sent him to get rid of him for a while) and at some point he gets something on the painting, tries to clean it, and paint comes off, too. Then he fixes it and his host either starts crying or trying to attack him.

That was just the agricultural revolution kicking into a higher gear, like 4 or 5 gears ago.

Apparently the win 12 rumours were just a hoax. Even Microslop isn’t that out of touch (at this point in time).

You know what’s going on inside the large companies that are hoping to cash in on the AI thing? All workers are being pushed to use AI and goals are set that targets x% of all code written be AI-generated. And AI agents are deceptively bad at what they do. They are like the djinn: they will grant the word of your request but not the spirit. Eg they love to use helper functions but won’t necessarily reuse helper functions instead of writing new copies each time it needs one. Here’s a test that will show that, with all the fancy advancements they’ve made, they are still just advanced text predictors: pick a task and have an AI start that task and then develop it over several prompts, test and debug it (debug via LLM still). Now ask the LLM to analyse the code it just generated. It will have a lot of notes. An entity using intelligence would use the same approach to write the code as it does to analyze it. Not so for an LLM, which is just predicting tokens with a giant context window. There is no thought pattern behind it, even when it predicts a “thinking process” before it can act. It just fits your prompt into the best fit out of all the public git depots it was trained on, from commit notes and diffs, bug reports and discussions, stack exchange exchanges, and the like, which I’d argue is all biased towards amateur and beginner programming rather than expert-level. Plus it includes other AI-generated code now. So yeah, MS did introduce bugs in the past, even some pretty big ones (it was my original reason for holding back on updates, at least until the enshitification really kicked in), but now they are pushing what is pretty much a subtle bug generator on the whole company so it’s going to get worse, but admitting it has fundamental problems will pop the AI bubble, so instead they keep trying to fix it with bandaids in the hopes that it’ll run out of problems before people decide to stop feeding it money (which still isn’t enough, but at least there is revenue).

Between my PS2, 3, and 5, I’ve got them all covered.

The outside would be burnt and the inside raw. There might be a layer of well-cooked chicken between them, though just cutting through it to see that will contaminate the cooked bit from the raw bit. That’s why the penicillin sauce is so important.

A decent number of them have already sent cash gifts. Which is already spent paying off the loan for the wedding planner and the artists that made some concept art of the theme which is being presented as actual footage of the venue, despite a few of the visuals being things that cutting edge technology cannot physically produce. Oh and after the last meeting where some of this was laid out, the wedding planner just started laughing hysterically, left the room, and isn’t answering or returning calls. The kids who were playing out front know a bit more information but are worried they’d get in trouble if they repeated what she said about the groom.

Each time you’ve played with him since that incident was a part of his training montage for his revenge match. You think he was running from room to room at top speed in the middle of the night for fun?

Just flashbang every room before you enter it, just to be safe.

I bet there was at least one case of “oh shit my assignment isn’t ready, maybe I can buy some extra time using the old staple through the data trick, only get to use that once maybe twice per teacher”.

Also if you took the key out, it wouldn’t have started. Actually, I guess it depended on what kind of key it was, some cases had locks for opening them, others had the locks wired into the mobo and it wouldn’t start unless the key shorted the connection. Or you could open it up and hot wire the computer lol.

Must be 1948, which makes sense because that was before restarting the computer was invented, so if it crashed the only option was to put it out of its misery and get a new one. They had them in vending machines for $3.50.

Anyone wanna take the bet that this guy secretly hopes it does, using himself as one example and that it means another common friend of an openly gay friend that OP is crushing on is also secretly in the closet? It just feels like there's some layers of denial involved in this question for them to even wonder it.

I bet if these get used that soon after there will be new extreme maintenance videos that make those cell towers look like nothing. Probably some guy hanging from a powered cable climbing device, showing the things on the ground getting smaller and smaller, occasionally taking a puff from an asthma inhaler because they were told an oxygen tank would cause weight issues (it's actually about financial issues), until enough people die that they realize it's cheaper to pay for oxygen than training new workers.

Depending on how the turbine is set up, it could generate AC power instead of DC. I believe they even have several options on how to do this.

I wonder if the way they tested it to get those higher numbers was something like finding a field where birds were roosting with windmills present, then fire off some massive fireworks at night and assume any bird that died did so because of the windmills. Assuming they didn't just pull the numbers out of their ass and actually designed a bad faith experiment that could inflate bird deaths.

America does have its own style, though. Or rather a set of styles, just like any other region.

I would say that one aspect of “American-style” cooking (and “American” here includes “Canadian”) is avoiding cooking. There’s so many options when you don’t really want to cook. Just stack some premade elements onto the premade bread and you’ve got a sandwich. Or stick a frozen dinner in the oven (with entire sections of grocery stores dedicated to the options). Or boil some premade dried pasta and mix with heated up premade sauce. Or just get someone to bring you warm food made by someone else.

Or for actual cooking, there’s each of the variants in the OP meme. So many things that people complain about not being authentic, when it’s actually just being cooked American style. Might be due to what ingredients are easier or cheaper to get, which style is easier to make, or just preference.

Pizza is a great example. I’ve had pizza that was described as “authentic italian” and personally I find it to be soggy and floppy compared to the pizza I normally eat. It’s not bad, but I prefer the American style by far. At least in general, a poorly executed American pizza can still be gross, and a high end Italian pizza will probably still be more enjoyable than a mid end American pizza, but all else equal, I like pizza with crust that isn’t saturated with sauce to the point of no structural integrity and toppings smothered in cheese.

Curry is another one that varies quite a bit by style. I like the Thai style (the curry is more of a soup than a sauce) the best personally, but don’t think I’ve ever tried a curry I didn’t like. It’s a dish where you need to be more specific than “curry” to say what you have in mind.

The reality is that the vast majority of people have had as little to do with how their culture’s cuisine has developed as anyone else, so the bragging or competitive comparisons don’t really make sense. Same thing if there’s any shame with being from one of the less prominent or made fun of cultures. I’m Canadian and while I love a good poutine, I had nothing to do with their invention.

Whether or not the dishes were invented in North America, I’d say that the following all are North American dishes (mostly based on my own upbringing in Southern Canada):

• pizza
• hot dogs
• hamburgers + french fries
• traditional thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing, mashes potatoes, bread, cranberry sauce, etc)
• eggs/bacon breakfast
• various mayonaise + X sandwich salads (eg egg or tuna)
• potato chips
• steak/ribs bbq style
• chicken wings
• clam chowder
• chicken noodle soup
• chili
• sloppy joes
• casseroles
• mac and cheese
• grilled cheese sandwhiches
• deviled eggs
• loaded fries/baked potato
• pasta and meat sauce

Today, my culture includes things like sushi and curry, too. Not to say I have any kind of ownership or special connection other than I enjoy eating them and make an effort to do so from time to time.

Yeah, windows came from a different era where if you're seeing a new exe, it's because you put a disk in the drive and explicitly navigated to it. Speaking of which, this isn't even the first time that convenience ended up opening up a wide security hole because they handled CDs differently and added an autoplay feature that would check the disk for autorun.exe and just run it if autorun was enabled. I started disabling it after word about sony's rootkits got out but have been appalled to see it enabled by default still ever since then. I was one of the few that appreciated UAC when it was there and kept it on one of the stricter settings. I'd rather my PC ask than assume, but people bitched about it so they weakened it and eventually just got rid of it entirely I think? Though a permissions setup would be even better. I didn't like that UAC was an all or nothing prompt, plus it didn't give any details about *what* a program wanted to do. Are you asking because this program is trying to create a new directory in program files or because it wants to replace system32 dlls with its own versions? It's an area even Linux can improve in (though probably depends on flavour). I like the android permissions model, where there's various actions and you can allow or deny categories (though GrapheneOS does it even better by also sandboxing everything). I'd love to see something like that for my desktop, where apps are free to save files but can't touch files that aren't their own unless an explicit share is set up, where I might want one app to have network access and no disk access and another to have the opposite. I'd love to be at a state where I *could* just run any executable from the internet because I know that my OS won't let it fuck anything up other than its own address space. Hell, could even dedicate a core to monitoring apps to detect if one breaks out of its sandbox without my explicit permission (while the OS also doesn't use that to enforce the desires of other developers over my own).

I can't think of any good reason why links opened via notepad should be treated as trusted. Or any remote exe being treated as trusted regardless of what program is trying to open it, including the windows app store. If anything, the default behavior should be to download the file or open a prompt. I'd call that the second flaw. Glad to be away from that platform.

Can you elaborate a bit on how notepad following a link can result in running arbitrary code? Cause it sounds more like a second vulnerability is involved, because a text editor following a link still shouldn't result in running whatever code is on the other side of the link. Though it is a privacy issue on its own, just like a tracking pixel or images in emails. I'm also curious what the actual use case is for having a link that notepad automatically follows on load in markdown. Or why they got rid of wordpad (their default rich text editor) and put it into notepad (their plain text editor), ruining one of the reliable things about notepad: it would just show you the actual bytes of the file, whether it was text or not, kinda like a poor man's hex editor (just without the hex). Makes me wonder if eventually opening an html file in notepad will make it render it like a browser. "Back in my day, we edited html in notepad instead of browsed it!"

Or just do what I did where I have one of those wall mounted plastic channels with some of the cables hidden in it but two other cables just go to the TV without being hidden because the channel got full and I decided that I was done managing my cables for now. The lady that owned this place before me had one of those in wall cable runs on a wall I didn't want to put my TV on. Not even sure how you get the cable out the other side, so I've left it there with the broken HDMI cable she left there, in case I want to run a different cable (so I can just attach it to the current one and pull it through). I probably should just patch the wall up though lol.

Isn't masking tape the one that looks kinda like sticky yellow/beige paper? I think you're right about tape being used, but it's one of the clear ones. I also counted at least three of the plastic ones that get nailed to the wall. One near your first picture, (can't see it while I write this comment (really need to get a better client than Voyager) so I forget if it's visible in the pic or if you need to check the big pic), on the cable from the PS4 to the TV, just after the bend to a diagonal, it's one of the ones you clip the cable into after mounting. And two on the xbox psu cable, they are both the type that you nail over the wire and a curved bit of plastic holds the wire against the wall. But those were the only ones I could see, plus even those ones don't explain how it keeps the hard angles instead of the cable settling into a rounded shape. Guessing they intended to use the plastic ones but quickly realized it wouldn't hold the shape they wanted without needing to put a ton of holes in the wall and switched to tape after that to solve both problems. Edit: looking at it again, I don't think the first one I mentioned is one of those clips anymore, so just the two on the xbox psu cable (should be obvious once you see them).

Up to that point, I was looking at the description in disbelief, but burst out laughing when I read “greek salad”. The hand cookie bit was just realistic enough to get it in the uncanny valley (the photo looked like an AI cookie hand, too… Actually, it might still be, I don’t know if that photo was from the lady that made them or added for the memenm, it says she produced photos in the meme… Really wish voyager’s comment UI showed more than just the one comment I’m replying to like RIF), but the greek salad put it well into absurd territory. Just imagining people biting into their over the top cookie thing and then making a wtf face at the combination of flavours in their mouth, though it would be even better if the initial surprise and disgust gets replaced by a confused look and then a “well played, not bad” because it works. Lol I literally just had a greek salad earlier today but didn’t even think to check how it tastes with chocolate chip cookie, so who knows, maybe it is good.

Make mushrooms a main ingredient for the king’s crusty, cheesy foot fungus.

I think kawaii is in the process of being absorbed, though I’ve mostly seen it in more weeby areas of the internet, so hard to say for sure.

Not to mention they often cheap out on both the software and hardware, so you end up having to slowly navigate through poorly designed UIs that it struggles to display.

It’s even more pathetic than that. They aren’t just expressing their will to play the game, they are asking for approval despite it. It’s similar to the “nothing personal” disclaimer which is usually followed by something with significant personal disruption. Most honestly expressed, they’d be, “I’m doing/about to do something that impacts you negatively, please don’t retaliate against me because I don’t like it when negative things happen to me.”

They must have found one in the bargain bin.

I get what you’re saying, but this isn’t an example of that. The three sisters provided benefits to each other while growing simultaneously.

Yeah fair, kinda funny how implied tone can work when reading things. On my first read, for some reason I took the “skill issue” as more playful but on second read, who knows. Playful banter or a deadly duel of words?

I can’t see how their reply was combative if yours wasn’t in the first place. Coming out of nowhere to protect AWS’s honour or something?

Lol Cause: No one knows. Treatment: Tell the patient to stop worrying about it.