Random eyes on things is just a Yooka-Laylee theme. One of the enemies in the first game is a pair of cartoon eyes that can take over inanimate objects. A lot of characters are just a random object with a pair of cartoon eyes.

Bigger than Bieber, the old beaver brushed the broken lever while brandishing a bloody cleaver

¿Por que no los dos?

Going into physics was the biggest mistake of my life. I should’ve declared CS. I still wouldn’t have any women, but at least I’d be rolling in cash.

Honestly, there wasn’t all that much cash to roll in and there’s less all the time now. Plus, if you think busted equipment is bad, wait until I tell you about inheriting legacy code.

I managed until university when I left calculus and entered “Linear Algebra” and man, I really don’t like matrices.

I’ve absolutely driven past a cop who was playing WoW on his laptop while sitting in traffic.

Hmmm… perhaps this fan video?

https://youtu.be/Tw7EJ_mTmdM?si=Fp9uTNcwVWSMFHZZ

Well actually, the comments complained that the version I posted was missing some things. Though the audio is worse, this is maybe closer to the og?

https://youtu.be/5WPMP71ngqE?si=QCkDUDnxrZmoRi2O

I very vaguely remember this from ye olden days of the internet.

The semi-circle is one side, then the 2 straight edges, and the arc between them is the 4th side.

Good definition! I’ll often say it is a “primary unit of cultural exchange.” I consider a lot of things memes: internet memes of course, songs, scenes from movies, plot tropes, characters, basically any bit of culture that can be encapsulated and identified as a distinct entity.

Great book, one of my favorites! Can’t comment on the movie it (apparently) inspired.

Thanks! I hate it!

I guess assembler is sumerien then, only still written and understood? And cobol or fortran? Linear a and b?

Knives are also made of atoms

/\/\/\/\/\/\/=O-OH!

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I don’t get it.

(I do tho)

((or do i?))

Wow, hadn’t thought about that one in a long time. I thought it was an old Scott Hanselman blog and I was correct! I’ll have to reread it, been years now.

I’m not sure there’s much why to it exactly. I feel like a small fraction of people I’ve met in life were truly passionate and excited about the work they did. Most had some passion for an art, or a hobby, or for their kids very commonly, but people who really want to grow and master their craft are somewhat rare generally. Most folks just want to do well enough to keep their jobs and then go home to whatever they actually care about.

Consider that to go on a site specifically for programming questions and then take a survey about it, you have to be the kind of person that cares about getting their code “right”. The majority of programmers I’ve met would only go there to copy-paste a quick answer, and those people have all moved to asking chat-gpt for code now.

“P.J Féret, a native of Dieppe, member of various intellectual societies, offers you the boof across 200 years of time, wyd?"

Wow, I didn’t realize someone was making a game based on @[email protected] 's work! [email protected] will be so proud!

In Alejandro Jodorowsky’s concept for a Dune film from the early 1970s, each house has their costumes and architecture designed by a contemporary artist. Giger was the designer for the Harkonnen, and several of his ideas persisted beyond the failed film.

The Harkonnen Castle

A Harkonnen chair

I assumed Villeneuve was calling back to those designs.

I’ve been wanting to get a pipe Garfield tattoo since first seeing this. It changed me. Made me better.