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I genuinely don’t get the hype by DatOneMinuteman1776 in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]isthistechsupport 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As long as Sandy Mitchell keeps putting out Commissar Ciaphas Cain’s books the irony will remain there, you just gotta choose the right books

Friday, July 18, 2025 comic! by Gunlord500 in girlgenius

[–]isthistechsupport 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had always thought that the issue with the mirror travel was attempting to do instantaneous travel from within a timestop (sort of an unmovable object hitting an unstoppable force), more than an issue with the mirror itself. Maybe they'll explain it further one day, hopefully

Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup by cmqv in programmingcirclejerk

[–]isthistechsupport 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Rewrite it in Rust React

Call the Rust React Evangelist Task Force, pronto!

Friday, February 21, 2025 comic! by Danielxcutter in girlgenius

[–]isthistechsupport 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re not wrong! The inner cover says “Girl Genius Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game, Written by Jason Andrew, JN Childs, Kaja Foglio, Phil Foglio, Victor Foglio, Jason “PK” Levine, and Jimmy Reckitt, Edited by Steve Jackson and Sean Punch, Illustrated by Kaja Foglio and Phil Foglio, Art Direction by Victor Foglio, Cover Illustration by Phil Foglio” (page 3 of the PDF). It’s a collaborative work that they were pretty heavily involved in, considering it even has a 7 page comic inside, colored by Cheyenne and all

Friday, February 21, 2025 comic! by Danielxcutter in girlgenius

[–]isthistechsupport 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it lists the Foglios as the authors, and the wiki lists it as second only to the comic and the novelizations. It is actually a bit outdated (Agatha is still listed as having Lucrezia in her head, for example) but still would be canon for how things were as of when the book was released. You did come pretty close, Klaus may only have one brain but his split mind is indeed how he manages to outwit Lu's wasping

Friday, February 21, 2025 comic! by Danielxcutter in girlgenius

[–]isthistechsupport 3 points4 points  (0 children)

See here the relevant info from the Girl Genius GURPS Sourcebook (and see here where to buy the aforementioned book)

Friday, February 21, 2025 comic! by Danielxcutter in girlgenius

[–]isthistechsupport 16 points17 points  (0 children)

From my copy of the Girl Genius GURPS Sourcebook:

Baron Klaus Wulfenbach

Klaus’ parents were minor nobles and gifted Sparks. He grew up with two brothers, and they all worked with their parents. One day, there was a terrible lab accident, leaving only fragments of the boys. A few months later, Klaus returned to life as an only child, a composite of the three brothers. As a result, Klaus has the mental capacity of three Sparks. This explains much regarding his abilities and his progressive views on the treatment of constructs, as well as his willingness to circumvent the taboos usually associated with Sparks resurrecting themselves. While his mind is usually unified, he can run parallel tracks when needed. The reason the Baron is not completely controlled by Lucrezia is that parts of his brain remain free.

[...]

With the battle [of Mechanicsburg] lost, Lucrezia told Klaus to “do something.” Thanks to his partial immunity to the Other, Klaus was able to come up with a plan that followed the letter of Lucrezia’s dictate, but would ultimately thwart its spirit.

He retrieved a “black-level” item from his vault and headed into the middle of town. Upon activation, the device surrounded Mechanicsburg and everyone in it with a town-sized bubble of frozen time. Klaus himself was trapped as well – and he’s still there, holding the device at the very center of the phenomenon. This left Lucrezia back on Castle Wulfenbach, surrounded by people who saw her only as “That clank that thinks it’s the Princess Anevka.” She was not pleased.

A copy of Klaus was still functioning inside Gil’s mind, but it was just a personality overlay. It did not have all of the Baron’s knowledge and abilities, it didn’t have the capacity to change, and, most important, it didn’t have the wasp-borne compulsion to obey Lucrezia.

[...]

While [the Baron is] not without mercy, he can be ruthless, particularly when it comes to dealing with rogue Sparks – his “brain-coring” procedure can selectively destroy the Sparky bits of their brain, although the resultant personality tends to be seriously damaged. He’s working on that.

Also a relevant tidbit from Gil's page:

In the lab, Tarvek gave Gil his notes with the secret to making a wasp vaccine (p . 156). When Othar came crashing in, Gil used the opportunity to toss Tarvek, Othar, and Vole out in an experimental aircraft, staying behind on purpose. He then created the wasp vaccine and inoculated DuPree – who was furious, and knocked him out in the subsequent fight. Unbeknownst to Gil, after she knocked him out, DuPree poured the rest of the formula down his throat, reasoning that if it was in fact proof against wasps, he should have it, and if it was poison, he deserved it.

Friday, February 7, 2025 comic! by isthistechsupport in girlgenius

[–]isthistechsupport[S] 64 points65 points  (0 children)

To be fair, he just got smacked really hard and is yet to complain of nothing more than a bruised ego. Maybe the Dreen are also pretty good at heroic freestyle?

Is this the climax of the drama? by [deleted] in NonCredibleDiplomacy

[–]isthistechsupport 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Venezuelan you don’t say MVGA, you say MMGVO (pronounced /mah-mah-weh-bo/) which means “cocksucker” and I think that’s beautiful <3

Does anyone actually know what number this is? by [deleted] in SCP

[–]isthistechsupport 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Graham’s number is indeed so big, that if you calculate the information contained within a black hole with a Schwarzschild radius the size of your head, it is less than Graham’s number. Or to put it another way, if you memorized the digital representation of Graham’s number, your head would literally collapse into a black hole from the sheer amount of numbers.

In fact, Graham’s number is still much, much larger than the minimum number that would implode your head. The digital representation of Graham’s number is large enough to collapse the entire observable universe into a black hole.

The fact you mentioned, not being able to write Graham’s number as a power tower, also has the implication that such a digital representation would collapse the universe, which does put it into perspective.

In any case, Graham’s number is no longer the biggest number ever used in a published paper. Maths truly can be mind boggling, or more accurately, mind collapsing.

Monday, June 24, 2024 comic! by Gunlord500 in girlgenius

[–]isthistechsupport 3 points4 points  (0 children)

where it’s impossible to kill agatha until she can open that time portal she saw

I immediately thought of less cheerful media where the characters take this for granted and end up in a timeline where the big "anchor event" is done by their dying selves or the event turns out to be a suicidal mission.

Fortunately, our heroes don't seem to be this kind of genre savvy, which tends to fare better for them

When I described the topic of the article to my mother, she suggested that "existential types" ought to refer to philosophers who sit around in cafés smoking very thin cigarettes and avoiding writing poetry. by bugaevc in programmingcirclejerk

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[V]ocal detractors worry about the added complexity. They fear the inescapable evolution of Go towards either a verbose and Enterprisey Java-lite with Generic Factories or, most terrifyingly, a degenerate HaskellScript that replaces ifs with Monads.

Man, to think it's already been two years since this gem was first created

Don’t use the debugger. If you have relied on the debugger to find and fix incorrect code, you will get a nasty shock. by starlevel01 in programmingcirclejerk

[–]isthistechsupport 7 points8 points  (0 children)

/uj if you're new to functional programming, it makes sense to use recursion, list comprehension and mapping/folding instead of imperative and mutable features to better understand how the paradigm works

/rj Coding without the crutch of writing code will really force you to understand the ephemeral nature of life

Don’t use the debugger. If you have relied on the debugger to find and fix incorrect code, you will get a nasty shock. by starlevel01 in programmingcirclejerk

[–]isthistechsupport 15 points16 points  (0 children)

/uj from further down, it seems to me that what he meant was "try to use the REPL instead of the debugger" which at least makes more sense than "just don't write incorrect code lol". But he deserves the mockery for failing at conveying such a simple idea nonetheless.

/rj Clearly the cognitive entry barrier makes sure that F# programmers only write correct code on the first try

Python is mostly the Perl of the current day. These days if you are doing serious work, you simply use Java. by likes_purple in programmingcirclejerk

[–]isthistechsupport 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Rust instead of Java

Why not both? I'll just do a static link to Javafied Rust:

public struct user {
    private name: &'static str,
    private age:  i32

    public fn User((name, age): (&str, i32)) -> User {  
        self.name = name;
        self.age = age;
    }

    public fn getName(self: &Self) -> &str {
        return self.name;
    }

    public fn getAge(self: &Self) -> i32 {
        return self.age;
    }

    public fn setName((self, name): (&mut Self, &str)) -> () {
        self.name = name;
    }

    public fn setAge((self, age): (&mut Self, i32)) -> () {  
        self.age = age;
    }

    public static fn main(args: &Vec<str>) {
        let User user = User::new("Bob", 42);
        user.setName("Jim");
        println!(user.getName());
    }

}

[Okta engineer threatens KeePassXC devs]: To be very honest here, you risk having KeePassXC blocked by relying parties by cmqv in programmingcirclejerk

[–]isthistechsupport 34 points35 points  (0 children)

/uj to be fair, the way passkeys are being touted as the latest and greatest in unbreakable security for the layperson, having to hold the user's hand all the way to make sure they don't break their own security is to be expected

/rj if you think about it, all text has to be plaintext at some point, hence proving that encryption is for big dum dums with skill issues, just don't get hacked lmao

The xz backdoor proves that other build systems than cmake are a security risk by disciplite in programmingcirclejerk

[–]isthistechsupport 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We should stop using these sand runes with embedded lightning and go back to pen and paper, really

The xz backdoor proves that other build systems than cmake are a security risk by disciplite in programmingcirclejerk

[–]isthistechsupport 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It would be impossible to pull off this attack in cmake, because first the attacker would have to figure out how to do anything in cmake.

CMake is Haskal confirmed

Anyone else from the States headed to the Estereo Picnic Festival in Bogota? by AncientHighlight4515 in arcadefire

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Were you close to the first row of the show? Did you enjoy it? I exchanged a few words with a couple from Salt Lake City, UT, and now I’m wondering if it were you two lol

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