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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 1h

TFW you've spent £50,000 to drive round in an advert. It's bad enough when it was just for naziism... but Jared Leto?! Can you imagine.

Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 1h

Tesla pulls an Apple U2. electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners

Tesla has partnered with its recent foe, Disney, to promote its latest movie, Tron: Ares, with an in-car update that...

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 2h

Why is every <thing> in the twenty first century made by people who have no idea what a <thing> should do?

Alex Norris's famous "I want things to be different" three panel "Oh no" cartoon.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 2h

* the Sky box that is literally SWITCHED OFF ffs

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 2h

My TV: "Oh, the PlayStation has just switched on! I should wake up and display... the Sky box. Yes that's what I should do."

Later: "You seem to be playing some kind of game. I bet it'd be much better in GAME MODE! Just let me conveniently blank the screen for three seconds while I think about it."

a man is smiling in front of an amazon sign

Alt: Jeff Bezos, laughing at me.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 3h

And the idea that because a scanned and stored human (Flynn) can be *represented* digitally, that SoMeHoW anything digital can therefore become physical AND WORK is SO technically illiterate it's sort of insulting.

But directors and screenwriters always assume the audience is dumber than they are.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 3h

Concepts (structures, objects, instances) may get more complex, more capable, even larger over the years... but that doesn't mean the figurative visual representation must therefore be shinier or MORE NEON!

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 3h

For future directors: There are no light cycles on the screen of the light cycle game! They don't look like that because of "graphics".

What WE see is the manifestation of the CONCEPT of the light cycle within the code. Just as RAM and TRON are the personification of the users of those programs.

Screenshot from Tron (1982) showing the Light cycle game in Flynn's arcade, and its simple pixel-line trails on-screen. No light cycle is displayed in-game, only the trails.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 3h

That would require the director and screenwriter to understand the figurative nature of the depiction of the digital realm, and NOT say "But game graphics are bEtTeR thEsE dAys". 🤦

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 3h

a cartoon monkey wearing a pirate hat is playing drums in a band

Alt: The monkey pirate from the Aardman film wearily plays "baddum tish" on the drums, rolling his eyes.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 4h

Yes. Safer than storing yet another password on some half-arsed site.

They're public keys - the site gets a public key, your phone stores the private one. Then the site can send you a query which is signed by the private key and they can confirm with the public key.

If that's hacked it's useless.

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Mayfair Cynic @mayfaircynic.bsky.social · 8h

"Yes, she's Venezuelan. Yes, 'she'."

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 5h

Ta!

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 7h

"Every accusation is a confession"

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 9h

But both feature an Oops! daughter board. To fix the same problem?

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 16h

That was a hoot, yes.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 1d

Programming. "That module's annoying". Rewrite module.
Rebuild with new data. "That nemoBasic feature is annoying". Rewrite nemoBasic.
TaskWindow misbehaves. "That ZapMode is annoying". Rewriting ZapBasic.

This is why I get nothing done - I'm too busy being annoyed.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so tired of the "Don't insult the racists" trend. I'm very much in the "Punch racists" camp.

We had a war about this, we know who was right.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 1d

Just Cause 4 uses very crude 3D models with a highly simplified physics model for distant cars. Under very particular repeatable circumstances you can enter a vehicle that still has the simple physics model and hence drive straight through trees, walls and buildings; or even fall through the ground.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 1d

Let them eat cake

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 1d

two men standing next to each other with one saying that wound will never fully heal

Alt: Gandalf tells Lord Elrond, "That wound will never fully heal. He will carry it the rest of his life."

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 1d

Bravo!

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Nicolas Seriot @nst021.bsky.social · 2d

PostScript Brainfuck interpreter down from 6 lines to 5 :-)

github.com/nst/bfps

Did I mention how much I love PostScript?

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 1d

its

Come on now.

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nemo 🐦 🦣 🐳 🃏 @nemo20000.bsky.social · 1d

Spaces and LFs can be defined as {} by the same mechanism, and 'known' exists if you're determined to accept anything.

And it will go faster as dict lookup is faster than repeated getinterval/eq.

Failing that, getinterval once and dup/pop, and predefine the comparator strings.

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