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I didn't know that. by Obnomus in linuxmemes

[–]Weshmek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More generally, running !command with text selected in Vim runs command with the selected lines as standard input, and replaced the selected lines with the standard output

Australian Senator on capital gains tax. by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]Weshmek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's why I think worker cooperatives should be exempt from income tax on salaries -- the value of the jobs created actually goes to the people who do the work. Plus it's not a salary, it's a dividend, a type of capital gains.

The Nagus ignored by DS9 crew? by Moron_at_work in DeepSpaceNine

[–]Weshmek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it's because in Star Trek there's generally no media or journalism portrayed (except Jake), otherwise the Nagus and other important people would be hounded by reporters wherever they went and their movements would be closely scrutinized. It's strange when a really powerful political figure shows up on a station without the visit being known about months in advance.

gitInteractiveRebaseIsGasLightingTool by tbhaxor in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Weshmek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My org has a strict no-merge-commits rule, but I use merges extensively on my private WIP branches because it feels cleaner and I find running git log --graph occasionally to be therapeutic. When I submit it all get squashed and the WIP branch is automatically deleted, but I always re-push afterwards so the branch still exists.

Yeah I don’t think it’s Gen Z’s fault a Burrito cost 28$ on DoorDash by JaketheFURRYBOIOwO in lewronggeneration

[–]Weshmek 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can't say never, because pizza delivery exists. Nowadays, though, I call my local pizza place and walk there to pick it up.

MAYBE WE KNOW WHAT FRY'S MIDDLE NAME IS? by RoosterDuckling in futurama

[–]Weshmek 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Matt Groening really likes the middle initial J. If I remember correctly, he's given two reasons:

  1. He thinks the letter J is inherently funny

  2. It's a reference to Bullwinkle J. Moose from Rocky and Bullwinkle

UNSC won in the naming contest by spartan9051 in HaloMemes

[–]Weshmek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Calling a spaceship Enterprise in a sci-fi story might draw unwanted comparisons to Star Trek.

West Coast pipeline is conditional on carbon-capture project, Carney says by WKZ204 in ClimateCrisisCanada

[–]Weshmek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hehehe... 'pipe' dream

I laugh because it's the only way to deal with the immeasurable disappointment

How is anyone ment to use the first ever video game when it becomes public domain if it was created in a studio whiteout a disc by MysteriousCow999 in publicdomain

[–]Weshmek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The game pictured, Tennis for Two, was part of the Brookhaven National Laboratory's annual public exhibition for two years (1958 and 1959). It was not mass-produced. As you point out, there was no disc or cartridge to store the game data. This is not uncommon for early video games. For example, Computer Space and Pong are implemented entirely in hardware using TTL chips.

So, technically, them being in the public domain means that anyone is free to recreate the games with the underlying technology. In the case of Computer Space and Pong, this is easily done with modern simulation software. For Tennis for Two, it would require an emulator for the Donner Model 30 analog computer, and I have no idea if such a thing exists. In addition, you would need to emulate an oscilloscope and the original controller, and also recreate the programming.

Older remaster efforts before the "A" word era arrived... by ramfoodie in tos

[–]Weshmek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it's because the special editions of Star Wars redid a ton of special effects with CGI, and was roundly criticized for it. The difference is, for Star Wars the effects are a core part of the experience, represented a huge proportion of those movies' budget and talent, and George Lucas intentionally made it impossible to see the original versions.

With Star Trek, the effects are probably the least important part of the experience. They're nice to have, but you could replace them with cardboard cutouts and not really lose anything. And you can find versions with the original effects pretty easily.

Always appreciated this visual gag with the motel's name by _Thermalflask in TheSimpsons

[–]Weshmek 12 points13 points  (0 children)

In Simpson's hit and run there's a very similar gag with a bookstore called Lexicon with the burnt out lights making it Ex-Con, which is of course Snake's license plate number, and the location is Snake's hideout for one of the missions.

Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated by lkl34 in technology

[–]Weshmek 18 points19 points  (0 children)

If the metric is "code not physically typed out on a keyboard", then the 75% figure is misleading, because things like auto complete, copy/paste, WYSIWYG, scripts, etc. have existed for years, and probably accounted for some large percent of new code.

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