KZ feels a little sloppy at times, I stopped following it

After the next crisis: “There used to be 9 billion of us…”

The ninja one was weird.

I had that parachute action man, and I remember chucking him down a flight of stairs. Shitty, shitty parachute. The doll itself was surprisingly well made (I guess it was drop tested a lot during production?) but weighed a ton and the parachute was hilariously too small for it

It sounds like you’re accurately describing Gouda, I’m on board

There was initial good curation on the frontpage, and by that I mean it wasn’t product placements and right-wing or divisive narratives being pushed. You’d see people making sweaters or doing woodwork, an actual worldwide community of people building trust.

Lemmy is good, but it has no frontpage and suffers greatly as a result

A type of cheese shredder used to fill sandwiches. It was popular back in the pulp mills of the 2000s where it garnered popular support amongst cheddar enthusiasts. But then everything changed when they let the Camembert people in, and suddenly cheese shredding played second fiddle to Raclette melting boards

isn’t this loss?

plus we have a tendency of fucking each other over

it’s because we’re fussy gas bags that need constant de-farting to function

a stable of about 50 programmers

I did not know that a group of programmers were called a stable, but it’s part of my vocabulary now thank you

That was me for a bit after a significant relationship. Did not wish to be alone with my thoughts. Was a model employee

I’m guessing a new cold-war arms race is in effect. Nukes are devastating too but not used offensively except those two times.

I’m guessing we’re stockpiling drones now

I think that people just can’t make the software --> hardware jump. Like they understand what machine code is, and what CPU registers are, but can’t understand how a CPU with baked in hardware instructions (i.e. a seemingly fully deterministic piece of hardware) can drive transistors to high or low voltages in a random way.

The key is to see all software as hardware, and to envision the CPU as many many light bulb switches, with some wired into each other, creating flip/flopping latches.

Once you get the idea of a flipflop, you can maybe then start to understand how all you really want from the switches is to output a switch configuration that encodes a value in some representation. The switches are all initialized in some state, but then drive a known flipflop path towards a desired value, and this happens millions of time a second, often in parallel with isolated switches, or with switches that are virtually segmented from each other, or switches that can chaotically interact with each other

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Anglian windows. Do NOT under any circumstance answer the door to their friendly salesman and do NOT give them your email.

There is no way to opt out of them. No unsubscribe button, nothing. I finally got them to take me off their mailing list, and to stop calling me by threatening to report them to Ofcom.

Will never buy a window from these guys. Too aggressive sales tactics, and they’re not even cheap.

twas indeed

Alright yeah okay, it was me

It’s a great idea but impractical with existing tech.

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