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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 1d

the programming in question

He took that output and loaded the results into the heart of PECOTA—a Rube Goldberg contraption of an Excel spreadsheet. He'd finish making his changes to the PECOTA methodology for the year to the spreadsheet, kick off the macros, and generate the output on a player-by-player basis on his laptop. Just the Excel portion of the processing took days, barring a memory leak or computer crash that might necessitate starting the entire Excel process over. The output would be a monster CSV and a bunch of image files that I'd run a Perl script on to build the PECOTA cards. The output seemed to change in small ways every year, so the script had to change to accommodate those. For my part, I wrote the card-building script in late 2002, and just thinking of looking at the code today makes me cringe.

Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 1d

The main detail I will always remember about him is from his arrest affidavit where they recovered a laptop with cp on it and the password was IFUKKIDZ

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Jul 19

It's Friday night baby

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 4d

Bad news for people who believe this

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 4d

Blue Man Group with a speech bubble as if they were speaking the quoted post text

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus Christ lol

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 6d

I want a game that does everything eve online does but without making me ever interact with another player. Many games claim to do this but none of them come even close

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 6d

One time I was at a restaurant with my 75 year old uncle and he told the waitress she had muscular legs

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 7d

I think you’ve spent too much time online and it’s stunted your brain to the point that you no longer remember what real problems are

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Hausu M.D. 🎥👺📼🍉🖤 @suspiraserhead.bsky.social · 7d

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 8d

wizard frog is insane

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 8d

Tweet by @chlocialism that says "'i hate cigs' now replace cigs with women. not so funny, is it?"

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 8d

That disturbed cover is music for cops to cry to

Justin K Comer (fake name) @justinkcomer.rockhardcauc.us · 8d

@johncullen.bsky.social @murderxbryan.bsky.social

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 9d

i love how instead of just building a place for people to interact every one of these intellectually stunted coders thinks they're on some divine mission to shape human behavior

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 9d

100% guarantee if that thing with trump happened differently it would have been the same trajectory: a week of right wing psychos acting like they’re about to start a holy war followed by everyone just forgetting he ever existed

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 10d

I have a friend who once dressed up for him on Halloween and refused to speak to anyone at all, staying in character, to the extent that his girlfriend broke up with him

IGN @ign.com · 10d

Burger King abandoned its 'Creepy King' mascot, the one with the uncanny valley face and bizarre commercials, because it was too scary for families with young children who would end up at McDonald’s instead. bit.ly/4h2xppV

Burger King Says It Ditched “Creepy King” Because He Was Scaring Off Families With Kids

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 11d

Wrong

a man is dancing on a stage with a guitar .

ALT: a man is dancing on a stage with a guitar .

media.tenor.com

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 11d

It really seems like a Producers style plot to destroy their Xbox brand entirely for some as-yet-unknown secret payday for the executives

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12d

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 12d

Fuckin yikes, man

Some comics were transparent about their willingness to ignore their moral convictions in order to play at the festival. “So what, they have slaves?” asked Tim Dillon in a podcast segment that led to his firing from the festival. “They’re paying me enough money to look the other way.” Pete Davidson offered a similar take, acknowledging in a chat with Von that people have asked him why, given his father’s death on 9/11, he would take a paycheck from the Saudi government. He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’”

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 12d

Flanders New York… we suck avenue… this towns got it all baby

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 12d

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

A fundraising text

NEW MESSAGE
FROM:
Chuck Schumer
Meredith, is there anything I can say to convince you to donate $20 (becomes $80!) to help take back the Senate majority

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 13d

Even the image of government operatives sitting in a computer lab feels quaint. These days it’s one teenager with hundreds of android virtual machine windows open on an ultra wide monitor

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 13d

Finally someone tries an idea that’s never been tried before: pushing democrats to the right

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 14d

It’s 2006 which doesn’t make anything clearer for my dumb ass lol

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Doctor Poop @charredskeeverhide.bsky.social · 14d

God of course Jensen is wearing that stupid fucking leather jacket he wears all the time. It stinks like shit

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banword.bsky.social @banword.bsky.social · 16d

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TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsky.social · Mar 12

Sissy hypnosis can ruin lives.

Imagine what happens when a father of 4, struggling to pay rent, with a sick wife, gets affected?

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