Just got power back. Felt like Texas’ power grid for a while there. Power out, no ETA, but lots of notifications on my phone “Your power has been restored” as I’m sitting in a dark house.

Reminds me of the blob thing from this music video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Osqf4oIK0E8

They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

keep the war going

Russia can stop this at any time by just not invading them

It’s hard to spot, but Pembrose is an eyeball on the couch. It’s absurdist humor - of course if someone were just an eyeball but somehow sentient, they’d probably have a lot of anger towards the world.

They don’t understand the difference between belief and faith. I believe many things, but have no faith in them. I will take contrary evidence into account.

Somewhere smaller than a tiger, that would win 100% of the time. I’d guess 30 lbs is where things start to get serious

Capuchin monkeys have it figured out:

[…] we have been documenting the spread of a new tradition in Pelon group – eyeball-poking. In this ritual, one participant inserts its finger in the other’s eyeball, slipping the finger deep between the eyelid and the bottom of the eyeball up to the first knuckle. As in handsniffing, the pair remains in this posture for up to several minutes, and often the one being poked in the eye inserts fingers in the partner’s nostrils or mouth during the eyeball-poking.

https://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/sperry/ctp.html

What sublinks mess? I’m out of the loop on that

Browsing all communities by new and encountered a dichotomy:

Hadn’t read this before, link for anyone else interested: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2010/04/10/trial-of-seven/

Jaimie besting Rand doesn’t really make sense there tbh, even with the conceit of taking away Saidin

Do they promise?

This is a great place to post it IMO. Helps keep the community active

For those that haven’t seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

That was quick, thanks! Clearly, Jon realized he’d never play the piano and stored it away in the attic, where it dropped through the ceiling in the 1985 strip.

Huh. Has the piano ever made another appearance? Jon doesn’t seem the type to own one

I just had a POS machine recommend 20%, 25%, or 30% for percentages. It seems like it’s increasing

Using it in pipes looks cool. IMO the usage in writing git commit messages is actually not useful. Almost always you should be writing the why, not the what. Same thing for comments. Unless the code has a good reason to be written inscrutably e.g. for performance, write simple code and comment why you’re doing something as necessary. Which is not to say “the code comments itself”, but the “what” comments should be higher level at a function or file level

What parent is likely referencing

TBH I wonder if the current Microsoft is capable of executing that here. I don’t believe in a “changed” MS, but Linux is eating the world, and MS doesn’t really care about Windows much anymore. Azure happily runs Linux VMs

There’s at least one example you can look at, the Jenkins CI project had code like that (if (name.startsWith("windows 9")) {):

https://issues.jenkins.io/secure/attachment/18777/PlatformDetail

Microsoft, for all their faults, do (or at least did) take backwards compatibility very seriously, and the option of “just make devs fix it” would never fly. Here’s a story about how they added special code to Windows 95 to make SimCity’s broken code work on it:

Windows 95? No problem. Nice new 32 bit API, but it still ran old 16 bit software perfectly. Microsoft obsessed about this, spending a big chunk of change testing every old program they could find with Windows 95. Jon Ross, who wrote the original version of SimCity for Windows 3.x, told me that he accidentally left a bug in SimCity where he read memory that he had just freed. Yep. It worked fine on Windows 3.x, because the memory never went anywhere. Here’s the amazing part: On beta versions of Windows 95, SimCity wasn’t working in testing. Microsoft tracked down the bug and added specific code to Windows 95 that looks for SimCity. If it finds SimCity running, it runs the memory allocator in a special mode that doesn’t free memory right away. That’s the kind of obsession with backward compatibility that made people willing to upgrade to Windows 95.