I don't have a solution, but I have the same problem. I've been on the 470 drivers as a result.
I have to bounce around between languages so much I don't really think I'm fluent in anything anymore. I may not be a bad programmer, but some of my programming is bad.
This was in the 90's and Portland had a group of 6 or 8 skinheads that just like to wander and cause trouble. I was just their randomly chosen target. Security was expecting it and had the guy by the shoulders to throw him out before I even realized I was in a fight.
They'd usually go after the guy we referred to as "Portland's last Mod" if he was around, but he must have been at another show that night.
I'd be relieved for a 50/50 even though I'm guessing Fedderman is going to pull a Manchin and block progress.
Admittedly I've been thinking I'm overdue to rewatch nearly all of Ent, but I have a vague memory of this getting explained (in a hand wavely kind of way). Maybe in the scene where Archer tells small children they recycle their poop? Or maybe my brain invented a scene to maintain my suspension of disbelief.
I vaguely want one for diorama purposes with my MST3k Funko Pops.
It's a playtime of savings, at Menard's!
The real sea puppers are sea lions. They're like angry mastiffs who like to shoulder check anything and everything that's the same height as them, but seals just want to watch the world burn.
Just fork peeler from 4.2, rename it to "Skininator 4000" and set up a BuyMeACoffee button.
I use the phrase "wide-awake nightmare" kind of a lot.
At least I know where I picked it up from, the Screaming Skull episode of MST3k.
I occasionally hear "catty-corner" too.
My biographer keeps refusing my calls, so Lemmy posts are all I have.
Now lets talk about the time I got sucker punched by a skinhead at the Paris Theater in PDX...
That second part was the best idea of the plan. But it worked out so well they got cocky and thought up that whole "message encoded in your DNA" craziness and now the galaxy is in the condition it's in.
Hemmer was also always reversing polarity, he just made it sound more profound and quasi-metaphysical.
Did Charles take over taking the Chaney family for walks?
The idiom represents a race so close that someone has to be watching the wire to be sure which horse crosses first. It's one step from a "photo finish."
Good, but then we'll want some comedic relief at Navigation and Helm. Maybe Mitchell and Webb?
Former Bob’s Burgers actor Jay Johnston was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for his role in the January 6th US Capitol riot.
> Johnston... previously pleaded guilty to a felony count of interfering with law enforcement during civil disorder in July 2024.
> The 56-year-old actor was initially arrested in June 2023 after the FBI tweeted a photo requesting information about his identity. He is alleged to have led a group to the “front line of rioters confronting the police who were defending the entrance” to the Capitol, helping to launch an assault against a group of officers.
For the next three years, anyways.
> US Copyright Office granted an exemption allowing third parties to diagnose and repair commercial equipment — including the ones that make your McFlurries.
> The decision is part of the Copyright Office’s final rule granting exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This exemption-making process happens every three years and is supposed to ensure that the DMCA doesn’t negatively impact people trying to use copyrighted material.
Worth nothing that DMCA exceptions are reviewed on the same 3 year cycle and are frequently revoked. So if you're a McD ice cream fan, enjoy it while you can.
Proof that LCARS runs on top of Hannah Montana Linux
If that doesn't work try sudo systemctl restart engines && sudo engage
I know we've already done Mot's apple sauce, but I pictured the Mott's Apple Cannibal as Mot. Now you all have to see it too.
Does anyone know where I can buy 3 to 5 pair of normal looking human hand (or finger) gloves within the next week or so?
I finally thought of an idea for a Halloween Zoom-based costume contest to go as an AI generated person, and one of the key ingredients of it is WAY too many fingers. But as I've searched for non-monster looking latex costume gloves and I'm coming up empty. I assumed I have lots of options but that none would fit my XL sized hands. But instead I just find zombie, ape, alien, or skeleton. Some of the 4 finger alien gloves could work, but its not quite what I'm going for.
Update: Thanks all. Between magic trick thumbs, dismembered prop hands, and tiny novelty hands I should have what I need to put my costume together!\ Update 2: I just placed an order for 14 hands and 10 thumbs. I love Halloween.
I happened to notice today that the "Itchy and Scratch Land" episode of The Simpsons aired just over 30 years ago (on Oct. 2nd, 1994).
That means that, for a full 3 decades now, I have checked every single gift, souvenir, and tourist shop I've been in for a Bort plate. Its not obsessive and I'm not going out of my way, but if I see a rack of novelty license plates I make a point to look for Bort.
Anyone else, or am I alone in this particular pop culture predilection?
Thought about posting this to lemmybewholesome, but thought it might not fit everyone's definition.
A North Carolina dam failure is imminent after water levels at the Broad River rose 10 feet in only a few hours from Hurricane Helene.
> Some North Carolina cities were forecasted to receive 10 times their monthly rainfall amount.
> The emergency flash flood warning issued by the NWS says that at least 3,000 people are at risk of emergency flooding downstream of the Broad River and Lake Lure Dam
This is in additional to the flash flood warnings happening all over the state.
Thanks to Costco fueled bulk buying, between the last time I bought deodorant and this week, my deodorant changed from the Scent of Adventure to the Scent of Cypress.
So is Cypress the sum total of adventure or an overdue respite?
I don't know why my brain connected Trump's "a concept of a plan" and his obsession with Hannibal (Lecter, but I went with Smith), but here you go.
Heated platforms and purge towers are among Stratasys' infringement claims.
Stratasys is claiming infringements on patents it owns (included ones acquired from Makerbot) on things like purge towers, heated beds, and force detection. Many of them things common to most FFF/FDM 3D printers.
Its an interesting coincidence that this lawsuit against one printer maker is happening on the same day as a new product announcement (the Prusa MK4s) from another major printer maker.
> In two complaints, filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, against six entities related to Bambu Lab, Stratasys alleges that Bambu Lab infringed upon 10 patents that it owns, some through subsidiaries like Makerbot (acquired in 2013). Among the patents cited are US9421713B2, "Additive manufacturing method for printing three-dimensional parts with purge towers," and US9592660B2, "Heated build platform and system for three-dimensional printing methods."
> There are not many, if any, 3D printers sold to consumers that do not have a heated bed, which prevents the first layers of a model from cooling during printing and potentially shrinking and warping the model. "Purge towers" (or "prime towers" in Bambu's parlance) allow for multicolor printing by providing a place for the filament remaining in a nozzle to be extracted and prevent bleed-over between colors.
Global Alliance for Responsible Media disputes X lawsuit but stops operations.
The SLAPP seems to working as intended.
> An advertising industry initiative targeted by an Elon Musk lawsuit is "discontinuing" its activities and has deleted the member list from its website.
> Stephan Loerke, the CEO of the WFA, wrote in an email to members, seen by Business Insider, that the decision was "not made lightly" but that GARM is a not-for-profit organization with limited resources.
> Today, the House Judiciary GOP's official account on X called GARM being discontinued a "big win for the First Amendment" and a "big win for oversight." X CEO Linda Yaccarino also applauded the news.
SpaceX to the rescue?
Originally set to return in mid-June, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams may be on the station until February, 2025.
> During a press conference today, NASA representatives confirmed they have a contingency plan to bring astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams home from the International Space Station (ISS) early next year. If they’re unable to leave sooner aboard the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that brought them there
> Tests conducted at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility pointed to deformed Teflon seals being a potential cause of the Starliner’s thrusters failing, but the agency isn’t expected to make a final decision on whether or not Williams and Wilmore will return using Boeing’s spacecraft until mid-August.
Back in the 00s there was a Canadian nature show called The Nature Nut (hosted by John Acorn) that did an episode of dedicated to beavers. It featured a catchy kids tune Big Wet Rodent Day that got some internet attention back then... mostly in kids music circles- never mind what age I was. At some point people decided this celebratory day was July 26th and we'd celebrate the beavers, nutria, coypu, and alike every year.
Full Episode of the Nature Nut episode in question\ Same episode, timestamped to the original song
With beavers large and muskrats small\ We stop to celebrate them all\ The glory of a beaver dam\ That makes you say I am (that makes me say I am)\ A big wet rodent fan.
> Biden delivered remarks from the Oval Office outlining his decision not to seek reelection, his first on-camera remarks since making that announcement on Sunday. In addition to explaining why he is ending his candidacy, he listed off his priorities for his remaining time as president.
> “And I’m going to call for Supreme Court reform, because this is critical to our democracy,” Biden said.
> Multiple outlets have reported that Biden is considering proposals to establish term limits for Supreme Court justices and an enforceable ethics code for those on the high court.
I’m an AWS Serverless Hero, principal engineer at an AWS centric logistics company, and I build and maintain the AWS News Feed. It’s fair to say that I am very interested in everything AWS does. Bu…
As an AWS focused solutions/systems architect, I've been feeling this for the last 10ish months too. I attended the first 9 re:Invent conferences (up until Covid upended things) but I was glad I didn't attend last year; and re:Inforce sounds like it was even worse.
While Europe has some of the most advanced data privacy legislation, businesses are also collecting biometric data, without our knowledge.
> These days, our biometric data is valuable to businesses for security purposes, to enhance customer experience or to improve their own efficiency.
> Facial recognition technology [...] scans images or videos from devices including CCTV cameras and picks out faces.
> From supermarkets to car parks and railway stations, CCTV cameras are everywhere, silently doing their job. But what exactly is their job now? > > Businesses may justify collecting biometric data, but with power comes responsibility and the use of facial recognition raises significant transparency, ethical, and privacy concerns.
> If your password gets stolen, you can change it. If your credit card is compromised, you can cancel it. But your face? That’s permanent. Biometric data is incredibly sensitive because it cannot be altered once it’s compromised. This makes it a high-stakes game when it comes to security.