Canonically Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant are time lords, and their TARDIS is bigger on the inside.
Top is the outside of their trailer, bottom is a scene just seconds after on the inside of the same trailer.
using my wok as god intended: making fries
an article announcing "wasi 0.3" that doesn't explain what wasi is or does. none of the links from the article do either.
if you search around, you'll find a github page for "the wasi project" which continues to not tell you what it is, but does proudly (for the 6th time) tell you that it's a member of the starfleet bytecode alliance
well whatever they're doing, i hope they're living their best lives
today is the 10 yr. anniversary of Milkshake Duck.
happy birthday lil' fella.
McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies
I wish I was better at being rude when people send me stuff they made with genAI
the optics of a live feed of removing a president's name from a monument while everyone cheers and hoots and laughs
there was some kind of sports playing at the irish bar next to our restaurant last night, and each time the bar patrons roared, every man & boy at the large family table next to us -- who were all dressed as if they just walked off a yacht in 1985 -- stood up and jogged over to the bar to see what happened
I am the world's #1 biggest dummy when it comes to speaking french, but watching a movie and seeing "café au lait" subtitled as "café olé" is now my villain origin story
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A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
G is for grep, a clever detective, while
H is for halt, which may seem defective.
I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
J is for join, which nobody uses.
K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
M is for more, from which less was begot, and
N is for nice, which it really is not.
O is for od, which prints out things nice, while
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for true, which does very little.
U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
-- THE ABC'S OF UNIX
This is wild: essentially every LLM—ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini—keeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why https://www.404media.co/elias-thorne-chatbots-llms-chatgpt-lighthouse-keeper-story/
Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸
The thing I did not anticipate about the future was how dumb everything would be
love how amateurish the ads in early PC Magazine are as they try to compete with the flood of multi-function cards littering the magazine and stand out (March 1984 issue)
There is one 21st century exception, but I think of it as the last before 9/11 turned everything to shit.
https://medium.com/@chrisdesalvo/the-future-that-everyone-forgot-d823af31f7c
apple: "our reluctance to add slop to everything turned into a secret advantage... but in an *astounding* failure to read the room: SLOP! it's HERE! WELCOME TO iSLOP"
How much do you want to bet that this just means it has a CLAUDE.md file that says “do not hallucinate cases”
Don’t have 76 minutes to spare? Here’s the #WWDC keynote in just 90 seconds: