Before liftoff, [Gayle] King – who co-hosts CBS Mornings – said she was approaching the rocket trip with trepidation. “I still get very uncomfortable when people say ‘astronaut’,” she said. “I in no means feel like an astronaut. They said: ‘But, Gayle, if you go to space, you’re an astronaut.”

Stepping on a boat doesn’t make you a sailor.

This wasn’t an “all-female mission”, but the equivalent of the women-only carriage on a metro. Or more like a limo, actually, because you don’t need a billionaire’s personal invitation to ride the metro.

late stage capitalism
1802-1885

It’s old-school capitalism.

That’s why I check if there is a custom rom available before buying any phone. My current phone came with Xiaomi’s HyperOS, which tries to be iOS but on Android. Luckily some heroes ported CrDroid, so now I have a €200 phone that feels like a €500 phone.

But I still can’t recommend Xiaomi, because they made it nearly impossible to unlock the bootloader. Installing a custom rom isn’t even the hard part when the OEM has a five step process to get a stupid unlock code. Took me a month, just because they required a minimum account age. Should have checked that process before buying too. Or just returned the phone when I could, because that month pushed me out of the return window of course :')

That article is 100% generated slop.

Here, have Wikipedia instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hucho_taimen

I would rather date an operating system than an LLM. The OS can be trusted with elevated rights and access to my files.

I had the same experience, but I recently helped my sister with a homework essay and she had a full page with the exact requirements and how they were graded.
90% of the points were for content, the types of arguments, proper structure and such. Only 10% were for spelling and punctuation.
Meaning she could hand in a complete mess, but as long as her argument was solid and she divided the introduction, arguments and conclusion into paragraphs, she’d still get a 9/10. No grumpy teachers docking half her grade for a few commas. She gets similar detailed instructions for every subject where I used to struggle with vague assignments like “give a good presentation”. It was so bad sometimes, the teacher let the class grade each other.

(Note we aren’t American, not even English.)

If you do a rough estimation in one unit, you don’t have to do 4 significant figures for the converted units. Just round it to 50kg or whatever, and do your calculations (101*50) in the converted units instead of converting again, so the numbers line up nicely in either unit.

Yeah, I expected them to ask the full $60 for it, which would be completely unreasonable, but at least I understand why they wouldn’t give it away then. But 10? They could easily eat that, they just don’t want to.

Either way, I can’t imagine anyone paying for a “game” that’s nothing more than an instruction booklet. If it were free, maybe someone would open it while Mario Kart is downloading.

I see you didn’t end that last thought with death to America. How easily the common man’s mind is distracted from the downfall of an empire by a little sun. The weather is nice despite the president’s best efforts to boost the stock value of umbrella corporations.

How could you even determine that? And if you have a translation available and you know what’s wrong with it, why wouldn’t you simply fix the mistakes? What do you need the AI for?

Found an ally in the fight against pants

Pisang goreng enters the chat…

Gimli was just trying to help in any way he can. You think anyone in Elftopia was capable of hitting the ring with as much power as a dwarf in the prime of his life? They couldn’t even punch down a tree, which is why their land is overrun with the bloody things. And the one time they made a “legendary” sword, it famously shattered into a million pieces. Wouldn’t have happened with proper dwarf craftsmanship, I tell you!

Hana wa Saku, Shura no Gotoku
I didn’t really have high expectations of this, but the first episode did a good job with the animation supporting the poems, so I kept watching. Sadly, the entire series was setting up for a championship arch that didn’t actually appear. Instead, the climax/resolution of the last episodes introduced a bunch of new characters and some family drama that would have needed 5 episodes to properly explore, so it just fell flat. They introduced plenty of interesting characters for a cool qualifier event or something, I just wanted Hana to read more poems. That’s what hooked your viewers, it’s what sets you apart, so use it.

Medalist
Really solid, punchy animation. Well choreographed action. Wormies.

Blue Box
Love how it combines a sports story with a romance story without compromising on either. All likeable characters getting into believable drama and it never feels like the writing is stalling, every episode develops the characters and story in an interesting way. And outside of the romance, I love to see Taiki train hard, play good badminton and beat strong rivals.

If everyone is connected to the same balloon anyway, you could even do without the balloon and build a structure over the water to hang your ropes from.

If you go to “All” then you get a feed from all federated communities,

I’ve been here for a while and this is still unclear to me: Is All only the communities that are synced to my server? And syncing is dependent on a user on my server subscribing to it? So if I find a new community on a different server and subscribe to it, it will show up on my server’s All?

It’s definitely possible to store the stories in columns, but there’s also very little reason to do it. I think filepath in SQL and the stories in separate files in whatever format makes the most sense (html, txt, epub). If you ever want to search the stories for keywords, write a python script to build indexes in SQL, performs much better than doing LIKE on a maxed out varchar column.

I was thinking maybe Elastisearch, but I don’t know how much work that is to set up. For a hobby project, writing your own indexer isn’t too hard and might be more fun and easier to maintain than an industry-grade solution.

Emojipedia has a copy of Emoji Mashup that can do exactly that. I don’t think there’s any emoji with feet though, so you can’t make that goatse like on the poster.

The Good Place? Classic 80s sitcom The Good Place (TV Series 2016-2020) made references to the 45th President of the United States, Donald John Trump, January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021? That’s remarkable foresight for a 40 year old tv series.

If your remote is completely empty and has no commits, you can just push normally. If it has an auto-generated “initial commit” (pretty sure Github does something like that), you could force push, or merge your local branch into the remote branch and push normally. I think cloning the repo and copying the contents of your local repo into it is the worst option: you’ll lose all local commits.