Something I just noticed on iOS. Pushing the volume buttons draws a small black outline on the side of the screen, as if the screen were pushed in.
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Purveyor of modest software.
The drugs you have a resistance to are not in the pills, Donny. The reason people stop taking the pills is because they begin to remember, not the other way around.
All this talk about bluesky bailing on Mississippi, but nobody mentions whether twitter complies? Imagine a journalist who journals.
The 200 IQ reader will note that at no point in this article about college expenses does it mention the subject's parents' income. https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/college-cost-financial-aid-3b3df06d
It's not communism, it's national security socialism. https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-to-announce-u-s-taking-nearly-10-stake-in-intel-1a38225d
Stochastic stoicism.
"By taking part of a discussion about the editor, they are contributing." Have you ever wanted to contribute to a project, but didn't know where to start? Just start yapping about the features you want. Now you're a contributor.
Mindlessly repeating a story about a dumb thing an AI did 10 years ago as if it happened yesterday is also pretty dumb.
You and your three friends, a fox girl, a goat boy, and a cabbage kid, are trying to cross the river but you only have one canoe. They're all friends, not cannibals. How do you get across?
Going to revise my captcha scheme to make the user drag and drop a bunch of anime characters into the correct cat/dog boy/girl quadrant.
Oh, noes, the bots are solving my challenges. It's definitely still blocking many more stupid crawlers, but interesting. All that work to end up with a 500 error anyway because that file revision doesn't exist. Heh.
101.91.134.60 964.745µs humungus.tedunangst.com [2025/08/20 04:48:51] "GET /r/honk/v/1a928b3bf2f0c582/f/bloat.go HTTP/1.1" 402 1819 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"
101.91.134.60 1.01047ms humungus.tedunangst.com [2025/08/20 04:48:53] "POST /anticrawl-challenge HTTP/1.1" 303 0 "https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk/v/1a928b3bf2f0c582/f/bloat.go" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"
101.91.134.60 4.412493ms humungus.tedunangst.com [2025/08/20 04:48:53] "GET /r/honk/v/1a928b3bf2f0c582/f/bloat.go HTTP/1.1" 500 461 "https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk/v/1a928b3bf2f0c582/f/bloat.go" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 16_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1"
Holy smokes, the Tavis Anubis thread made it to 800 comments on HN. Literally nothing more important to discuss than whether it's a cat or a jackal.
Today's amazing HN winner is why didn't the author google to find their own post? Other sites make you pay extra for such insight. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962744
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Went back and watched Doomsday Machine (TOS S2E6) for comparison. As TV, I think Doomsday Machine does a much better job of introducing the terror level. You don't see the big boom, just the emptiness in its wake. And they kept the tension high throughout. They got all the same chain of command, weight of command, stuff in there too. The fighting in the hallway was comically bad, as all TOS fights were, but otherwise clear why it's a classic episode. As moral scifi, Doomsday was pretty explicit about the metaphor. "Back in the 20th century, humans built H-bombs, doomsday weapons." SNW was just like "what if the scavengers were us?" which I think is an attempt at being cerebral that's actually really shallow. What's the lesson? If the best of us could turn bad after centuries of unknown experiences, well, uh, I guess we shouldn't bother being good? I don't think the refresh did any good to improve the concept.
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honked back 18 Aug 2025 23:20 -0400
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ST: snw E6
Overall, not a bad episode, but not very exciting being a mashup of all old episodes. Did the lol, zoomers don't know what landlines are, really spark joy in the writers minds?
ST: snw E6
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honked back 18 Aug 2025 23:16 -0400
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ST: snw E6
How many prewarp space seeds are out there???
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honked back 18 Aug 2025 23:04 -0400
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ST: snw E6
They're going to sour the milk!
ST: snw E6
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honked back 18 Aug 2025 22:49 -0400
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I could really do with about 75% less Pelia. She's become really grating of late.
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This better not be a doomsday machine reboot.
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Well, friends, I signed up for the 99c three month trial of kindle unlimited, so see you some time in November.
Is this states rights? “The States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them.” https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-election-mail-in-ballot-vote-4e78daf7
TV: foundation
I think the way they're presenting Mule and Magnifico onscreen is going to lead to quite the pickle. Mule had a lot less screen time in the book as I recall. I like that they're getting some of the Mycogen story in here, but not the placement. This was from Prelude to Foundation. Maybe they should have just done a few prequel episodes instead of slinging events forward. Also, Mycogen looks a bit too Blade Runner, imo. I don't like the temporal projection stuff. The mentalic stuff is science we don't understand, not violation of laws of physics.
TV: foundation
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@kitten_tech havent played, and my orbital mechanics are pretty amateur, but a 1g burn for a week means 6 million meters/sec. That's about 2% c. I think the descriptions of time spent flying are simply off. Solar system is actually pretty small if you can sustain 1g accel. But it's fiction, it's fine; I think the discrepancies stand out because they've clearly tried to avoid magic.
I'm very puzzled by the experience of the "well, actually, email addresses can contain (comments)" people. You have people signing up for your website entering comments into the email box? This somehow comes up every freaking time, but nobody ever shares the rest of the story about the time they didn't parse comments properly and lost a million in sales.
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honked back 17 Aug 2025 15:40 -0400
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Also, the decel burns always seem a bit short? They spend two weeks burning towards a target, then flip around and in five minutes they've matched velocity.
Reading the expanse books now, and 1. I do like the realism, except 2. when they just disregard it. Are the ships and stations in the system close enough for real time comms or not? Half the time there's a long delay, half the time they're just chatting it up.
Remarkable line from Murder on the Orient Express: "It was abominable - wicked. The good God should not allow such things. We are not so wicked as that in Germany."
"customers who wanted more teenie-weenie in their bikini" New pickup line: hey babe, you want some teenie weenie in your bikini? https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/2025/08/17/bikini-bottoms-thongs-swimwear/