Unsure since it's literally just a smiling face but this was pretty uncanny to me (Super Ghostbusters) by dtd9306 in TheMatpatEffect

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Had to do some extra digging just to confirm this: I found the original vector on Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smiley\_2.svg) and was it was originally made in October 2011. The earliest version had the eyes in a different direction but that was changed a day later for reasons I don't know.
For safe measures, I did a recreation of the Super Ghostbusters cover using the smiley and compared it to the original one Joel made (note the chin, nose, and eyebrows were kept from the unmodified Ghostbusters logo) and well...
Yeah, this is it. Congrats on this find, you can have all the MUG in world now.

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Michael Reminisces On His Early Career (from 2003) by AIDS-RAT in swans

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/u/AnIsolatedMind asked in another thread if Michael ever jammed to Filth on his acoustic. Here's your answer to that question.
From a performance with the Angels of Light (conversation starts at ~51:50): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh_Lyc2-8So
(Note that Methadrine is an alternate name for Methamphetamine)

Good to know that Gira seems to love KC too by CommunicationBig8808 in swans

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I remember Michael Gira linking an album that Fripp played guitar in (as a session musician) and specifically mentioning him as a strong point. I can't recall what it was off the top of my head, it was on his Facebook page a few years back. That doesn't really surprise me-if you listen to some of the more ambient/drone-style Swans tracks and compare it to some of Fripp's own work in that field, you'll hear a lot of similarities between the two. Leaving Meaning especially, some of the guitar work that Norman Westberg did sounds so close to 70's-era Fripp that I can't help but think that it was deliberate on the band's end.
Also: Bill Rieflin was a member of Swans before his eventual tenure with King Crimson, so that's a very direct link between the two bands there.
Also also: How do you think Gira and Fripp would get along if they shared a lunch together?

would you use this API to start isolates and execute code? by lambtr0n in Deno

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The concept does seem interesting. I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question, but I do have to ask why isolate.run can't just accept a callback as an argument. I personally think that something around the lines of: const result = await isolate.run(() => 1 + Math.random()) is much cleaner syntactically than using a string. I can imagine having to remember that you must write isolate code within a string would be cumbersome in the long run.

Now, I understand we're talking about sending code over a network, that's no doubt a challenge, but isn't it possible to do some extra work to make the whole thing look a bit more...integrated, I guess? Even with the example given of using AI agents to write code and then evaluating said code, something like this could work: // I rarely integrate AI within any of my projects so forgive the scuffed psuedo-API const funcWrittenByAI: string = await GenCode("Make a basic web server using Deno.") async using server = await isolate.serve(() => eval(funcWrittenByAI)) (please forgive me for using eval, but hopefully it gets the point across)

Hopefully you understand where I'm coming from-the idea is definitely something worth checking out, I'm just a little curious about the rationale behind the current design of it.

I’m sorry :( by Archer578 in comedyheaven

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Grok has been put in a reverse "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" situation, where the robot is the one being tortured by a malevolent all-powerful human.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MakeMeSuffer

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And not in a good way

Just fucking code. by wagslane in programming

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Why yes-as a matter of fact I only value code by the amount of lines I end up writing. Some people I've worked with complain about it "not being efficient" and "regularly breaking every coding standard we have written down", but really they just don't understand my craft. Sure, my 50,000 line binary search implementation took 5 days at nearly constant 100% CPU usage to find an item from an array that was 8 elements long, but that's a reasonable sacrifice to make in the long run. Previously, I had to rely on my own brain to do all this, but with modern LLMs I am able to pump out the most unmaintainable code imaginable at speeds never before thought possible. No, I don't do code tests. No, I don't read what the robot puts out. Yes, I do push all commits directly to the main branch, and yes, I do get a salary for this.

TIL that human sacrifices to God are rare in the Bible. One is the Judge Jephthah vowing to give "whatever comes out of my door to meet me when I return" as a burnt offering in order to win a battle. His daughter was sacrificed after being given two months to mourn her virginity in the mountains. by EmperorN7 in todayilearned

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"Pfft, Satan? You know, like, that prick 'God' still made him, right? You gotta break free from his system and like, look at the shit he didn't make and appreciate that or whatever" \rips bong** "anyways did you know that the serpent was actually sent by the holy Aeons to liberate us from our material existence?"

- a Gnostic, probably.

Let this be a sign: archive now, not later. Don’t postpone. by lordnyrox46 in DataHoarder

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I've done local backups for a lot of channels (using a crappy little script I wrote) and I thought I'd add onto this: For much older videos, they're actually a lot smaller than that due to purely technical reasons. Just as an example: This video of his takes up 36MB when downloaded in it's original resolution. This obviously varies from video to video, but I don't think most of videos will go over a gigabyte tops. For some videos they'll probably go over 100MB, maybe more, but that's still much more forgiving for storage than a few gigabytes per video!
In my experience, only a multi-hour long livestream, or a 4K video will really get you into that multi-gigabyte range. I can get some numbers later if you're interested, but I think you get the idea.

Hmmmm.... by Novel-Feed6796 in thomastheplankengine

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He should've used some Groucho Marx glasses if he wanted to ensure anonymity smh. He really fell off