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  • author here - there is of course a good chance Disney will want to squash them like a bug.

  • oh yeah, "they're making a bundle bootlegging our clearly in-copyright shit" is rather more clear cut

  • AI->Cocaine replacement, in which AI really is God's way of telling you you have too much money

  • originally old soviet/post-soviet saying but highly applicable here also

  • it was entirely to appease Wall Street and not in any way because they had a product, let alone one consumers would be interested in

  • speaking as someone who uses bash all the time, it's a fully equipped programming language and you absolutely should not use it as one because it's made of footbullets. Use Python. For extra sysadmin flavour, make it a Python script that does all the hard bits with a system call to bash.

  • dunno about mechanism, but as someone absolutely fried by ADHD i can tell you there's no nap as sweet as the nap after your third coffee of the day.

  • many ideas cribbed from rants by our valued comrade @fasterandworse, who rants about Hooked at the slightest provocation

  • fly.io is closed source, of course he's not gonna show you the engineering excellence. trust me bro, you fool, you poltroon,

  • this is the one who pinged me to see if i could tell her about using Urbit a while back

  • reddit sneerclub had some of those. I deleted the comments and banned the users with "sorry, we really aren't equipped to help you"

  • when I started work at Ericsson Australia in late 2000, they'd found out that a third of Australian employees had Nokias, lol. So they bought everyone an Ericsson with a company plan! My first mobile! I hated it so much.

  • I tried using a Nokia with Symbian around the time and browsing on it was just fuckin' infuriating, so

  • you seem to have invented a definition of pseudoscience on the fly

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