So do I! When I saw that 9 stealing a 1 and becoming a 10, I thought “Wait… These are electrons. This is chemistry. That 9 is a halogen!”
- 12 Posts
- 37 Comments
Joined 10 months ago
Cake day: December 27th, 2023
You are not logged in. If you use a Fediverse account that is able to follow users, you can follow this user.
2·24 minutes agoJesse, we need to cook!
Closely related to that:
JD Vance, is that you?
- “Gentlemen, your verdict” by Michael Bruce - trolley problem on a submarine (attention: weird vertical formatting)
- “Just Lather, That’s All” by Hernando Téllez" - a barber during a civil war
The second one actually gave me half of a mental breakdown, but not because it was too violent for me.
One analysis that I read made the exact opposite conclusion that I made, and it showed me this: in the subject of English, two diametrically opposed points can both be equally correct! Nothing is fixed! Reality is mutable!Also The Lottery, The Veldt, Harrison Bergeron (which others have already mentioned)
Could have just said man instead of ma’am. They sound almost the same.
1·22 days agois fox? or is snake?
1·22 days agoThe entire community, apparently
Why are there so many question marks??? That’s not how questions work??????
No? What does Mr. Rogers have to do with leopards? Tigers I can see, but these aren’t those.
Still faster than Windows
It’s very energizing too
23·2 months agoAI? In medical research? But rulers!!!
1·2 months agoUpvoted solely for the last line
Everything here reminds everyone of that.
It wasn’t anything big that caused me to switch. It was just a general feeling of “oh, maybe I’ll switch” and annoyance at Windows, and then I got a new SSD.
Here’s a few of the micro-hacks that I’ve hacked up in the past.
A 2-line script to chroot into Debian when logging in as a certain user on FreeBSD.
#!/bin/sh clear doas chroot /linux /bin/loginI didn't have an IDE, so I just made a script called
idewhich runs Vim, and then compiles the code and makes it executable.#!/bin/sh #Works only for C vim $1.c && cc -O3 -Wall -Werror -Wno-unused-result $1.c -o $1 #MODE=`stat -f "%OLp" $1` if ("stat -f "%OLp" $1 | grep -e 6 -e 4 -e 2") then chmod +x $1 fiThis thing, called
demoronize, which does what it says in the comments#!/bin/sh #dos2unix -O -e -s $1 | sed 's/ / /g' | sed 's/“/"/g' | sed 's/”/"/g' cat $1 | sed 's/ / /g' | sed 's/“/"/g' | sed 's/”/"/g' #Convert DOS line endings to Unix ones and add a final newline if there isn't one, #replace sequence of 4 spaces with tab, #and replace "smart" quotes with normal onesI just keep those ones for historical value, but there’s one hack I use every day. My keyboard doesn’t have a function key (Fn), so I use the Super/Windows key instead.
I havexdotool keyup Super_L keyup Super_R keyup F4 key XF86Sleepbound to a custom keyboard shortcut. It unpresses the keys used for the shortcut (Super + F4), then presses the sleep key.
Damn Taskbar is gold
Tom Lehrer, “New Math”