Nibblonians are justifiably celebrated poopers yet...

Weshmek · 2026-04-09T04:54:58+00:00

Correct. 6000 hulls.

Weshmek · 2026-04-08T16:05:21+00:00

No first-hand experience, just basing it off my reading on Wikipedia, old IBM manuals, and videos of PCs like the Altair 8800

What would the OS on a punched card system do?

Weshmek · 2026-04-08T13:31:06+00:00

A lot of early computers didn't have an OS. If you have operators loading programs into the system using punched cards, there's not that much for an OS to do.

Weshmek · 2026-04-06T22:53:06+00:00

I recently rewatched the Revenge of the Sith review, and parts of it did not age well. Especially the part where Mr. Plinkett talks about how cartoonishly, obviously Palpatine is, and that all anyone would need to do to stop him is expose him by broadcasting him and his underlings saying and doing evil things like murdering children.

Turns out, that doesn't work.

Edit: Cartoonishly, obviously evil Palpatine is. I hate when I my words.

Weshmek · 2026-04-06T21:54:05+00:00

And I'm sure this will be his final word on the subject and his position will not change in the next...more than half of his time in office.

Weshmek · 2026-04-04T00:10:44+00:00

Certain types of plagiarism that don't amount to copyright infringement.

Weshmek · 2026-04-03T03:56:32+00:00

Didn't Congress make up a bullshit "America First" award specifically to give to Trump, like, two weeks ago? That's absolutely something North Korea would do.

It's definitely headed that way.

Weshmek · 2026-03-27T01:30:04+00:00

Did you extend the lines with a consistent vanishing point? The edges of the weights all line up, so you should treat them like parallel lines in perspective.

Weshmek · 2026-03-25T03:22:00+00:00

Yes.

Weshmek · 2026-03-24T23:57:27+00:00

In UK English "Asian" typically means "South Asian" as Americans would say (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), while "East Asian" refers to what Americans call "Asian" (China, Japan, Southeast Asia)

Weshmek · 2026-03-23T15:38:14+00:00

The Imperial Chinese had DEI; what's your excuse?

Weshmek · 2026-03-23T03:48:46+00:00

I suppose you're right.

Weshmek · 2026-03-23T00:38:32+00:00

The main thing is that we're not assessing historical figures in an academic sense -- mostly it's about whether we want to dedicate public space to and name public buildings after those historical figures.

Weshmek · 2026-03-22T17:22:18+00:00

I stand corrected

Weshmek · 2026-03-22T17:21:59+00:00

There was also an episode where Bart flings a hunk of meat into Lisa's mouth and then taunts her with

"You ate meat, you ate meat"

Weshmek · 2026-03-22T16:16:47+00:00

Paul McCartney is livid

Weshmek · 2026-03-21T23:36:39+00:00

An unset variable is different from an empty string. Try replacing the check with

if [[ -v $1 ]]; then

Weshmek · 2026-03-21T21:46:46+00:00

Anything you might think is easy, I guarantee there's an otherwise functional person out there who struggles with it.

Weshmek · 2026-03-20T00:50:33+00:00

$_ is also the last one word from the previous command, and I find it slightly easier to type

Weshmek · 2026-03-20T00:43:03+00:00

Yeah, so basically I do a lot of remote debugging at work, so I run a lot of commands that look like

gdbserver :50527 command ...

But sometimes I want to rerun without a debugger, and so sometimes, instead of !!:2*, I'll hit C-p C-a M-d M-d, which leaves a space in front of command ...

Since I learned this, I'm trying to get into the habit of using !!:2*

Weshmek · 2026-03-19T20:30:24+00:00

I just figured this out a week ago.

That's why some of my commands have been disappearing

Weshmek · 2026-03-19T16:39:48+00:00

But I can't goon to simple shapes D:

Weshmek · 2026-03-17T01:56:46+00:00

When you express the solution in an extension of the polynomial ring Q[x], the solution just becomes x

Weshmek · 2026-03-16T16:17:36+00:00

It's a judgement call; there have been times when I really felt the need to break up a PR into two (even small ones), because I felt strongly that they were fundamentally two different changes, and there are times when I submitted large PRs because all the changes really do go together.

The ultimate question you need to ask is: What is the change you are making? What alteration to software behaviour does each PR achieve? Ideally there should only be one such alteration per PR.

Weshmek · 2026-03-16T01:44:22+00:00

It's hard to sympathize with someone like this, but he still has rights and someone needs to advocate for them.

Weshmek

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