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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 3h

I don't think I can call something so intriguing & skillful "horrifically, revoltingly unpleasant"

but I want to

A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 6h

I know one! League of Legends crashes before it ever boots on my desktop, so that I spend the appropriate amount of time on it (0 seconds)

A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 7h

I still think about this post half the time I see stairs in the real world! I'm glad it's in front of me again ❤️

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 8h

I'm a Wiktionary fanboy, but yeah, it seems like there's space for a pronunciation change for the piece that was imported via the Norman conquest and a loanword picked up before that.

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 9h

It's the same root word, right? Like, they're both Firsts

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 11h

your teacher never learned how to love themselves

I use semicolons and multiple punctuations for emphasis, but I've also never been payed directly for my writing (just indirectly for tech docs & emails)

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Juris Doctor Dredd Esq. @optimusviktor.bsky.social · 17h

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Douglas @dmgregory.ca · 1d

Fun and even less-known trick: with lambdas in recent version of Excel, you can even use the Name Manager to name *functions*, defining your own shorthand for long involved formulas that you use frequently.

(And without needing to get into VBA coding and all the extra security warning hoops)

Custom Functions with Lambda

Let’s say you have a chain of functions you need to use in a lot of places, like randomly shuffling a list:

=SORTBY(range, RANDARRAY(ROWS(range))

This works, but it’s annoying to type every time!
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could teach this to Excel as its own keyword?

1. Go to: Formulas → Name Manager → New…

2. Name your function (example: typing "SHUFFLE" into the Name field of the New Name box)

3. List the function parameters, 4. Write the function body
(example: typing "=LAMBDA(source, SORTBY(range, RANDARRAY(ROWS(range))))" into the "Refers to:" box)

Now in our cells, we can just write "=SHUFFLE(range)" as a shorthand

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

I paid $400 for two tickets and had a great time, seems like a severe skill issue

(Also Alex Winters is an incredible actor, I didn't even know, and now I've gotta watch Freaked I guess)

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 1d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

(Laudatory)

A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

I believe you, but only if by "palace", you mean the royal sewers your brain is melting into after it fell out of the gutter

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

I didn't know early preview was an option, or for what it is an option for, or what medium the finished project will be

but give me a queue and I will stand in it

A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

no rush, my tabs will be there forever but it's not like they're taking any RAM

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

makes sense, my use case was going to be pulling out all the documentation pages I had open from the same site across whatever window I was on at the moment I needed to reference whether kubectl --force needs an argument (there are more than 4 windows)

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

"more and more every day but without a solid line to differentiate between the time before the Nazis and now"

A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

Does it work across windows? I kinda assume no, but that's still great for pulling out sites you're done with

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Nicole Rodriguez @shnikkles.bsky.social · 1d

Hey y'all! Here's part 1/2 of some boards I did for @jellybox.bsky.social for the remix of Everything is Fine, by @qbombband.bsky.social, remix by @livingtombstone.bsky.social! These boards were kept SUPER loose and served more as a general guideline for each of the animators.

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

anodyne 2 incredibly underappreciated

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

this is so good. How would a random guy post his thoughts without spouting out common glyphs??

A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

2-5: 54% sounds like half the population are liars, until you remember that tons of people don't do anything outside of dedicated apps and would never read an article if it couldn't happen within the Facebook app

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

my PCs can have as many tabs as they want but my phone better give me a real number or I'll switch browsers

- man who has switched browsers for lesser reasons

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

Maybe It will happen today

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A Man Who Wasn't Scary But Now You Can't See Where He Is........ @zell2036.com · 1d

I just gave in to the Incubus impulse and Drive sounds so much better in the middle of an album supporting it

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