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mindbleach,

Dr. Stuart Ashen’s most resilient contribution to internet culture, somehow.

mindbleach,

Paul versus Baby Driver really illustrates what Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s chemistry bring to a movie versus what Edgar Wright’s directing brings to a movie.

And even in combination, the trio only nailed it two out of three times. The World’s End is just… okay.

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When you see the entire world agree to one standard about anything, leave it the fuck alone.

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Holy shit. First in a while to get a genuine audible laugh.

Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)

ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more....

mindbleach,

Deleting this comment won’t erase it from your memory.

Deleting this comment won’t mean there’s no copies elsewhere.

mindbleach,

It is kinda weird they haven’t made the Teletubbies decision to stop making new episodes once they have enough to loop. Once they have, what, three hundred? Then they can fill twelve hours per day from Halloween until Christmas. Shift those by a few movies every year and people will catch a whole different set based on when they watch TV.

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And “communism has never been tried” is such a stupid word game.

They tried to try. What happened, fellas? How’d it go?

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The same! It’s the “CPU” in the View-Master Interactive Vision. They shipped with a poorly-labeled AMD-manufactured chip that could only be an 8051 or compatible, based on its pinouts. There’s also a 9918-ish video chip, like the ColecoVision, MSX1, or TI-99/4A. The only other big chip is some kind of gate array. I’m almost certain that chip shoves code into 256 bytes of PRG-RAM for the Harvard-architecture MCU… so that Mickey Mouse can fight ghosts with a shotgun.

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I blame explanatory headlines. If you searched “why does [blank] happen?” you’d get articles like “why [blank] happens.” ESL speakers (and under-educated native speakers) bungle the difference. (They’re already trying to solve some technical crap. Their [blank] stopped working.) As this spreads, reddit and Stack Overflow start displacing tech-support blogs, and suddenly the headlines themselves are wrong.

mindbleach,

And computing might be hard if Godzilla eats all the power stations.

mindbleach,

You don’t trust… a company that licenses an ISA?

When your current alternative is a duopoly spearheaded by Intel?

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Doing it faster doesn’t take a miracle - it takes flooding deck seven with deadly fluorine gas.

Do you need this done more than those people need to breathe? Serious question. I have the button right here. Tell you what, you press it when you’re ready.

mindbleach,

Language is an in-joke that got wildly out of hand.

mindbleach,

The cymbal’s not configured properly at the moment.

mindbleach,

Bear in mind the same ecosystem produced the Sarlacc.

Which apparently I know how to spell without checking.

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the stone-age of the internet

Oh honey, no. Even stuff like All Your Base and Mike Tyson Ate My Balls were at least the iron age. The stone age was Usenet lore like the SPISPOPD FAQ.

mindbleach,

I need to make a pie chart.

Reasons I have been banned from subforums:

20% swearing at trolls.

20% swearing at Nazis.

60% genuinely polite interactions catching a boot in the ass for incomprehensible reasons.

Still no idea what I was supposed to do here.

mindbleach,

Reddit’s automatic mesages on mod action were a positive and arguably necessary feature.

But if bans are long enough to annoy and short enough to frustrate, they basically are the warning. Less gun-to-your-head, more spritzing a cat in the face.

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