Well that got a shudder out of me. Hope it isn’t as unpleasant as it sounds for you these days.

Though, if you prefer, you can also move your hand to the mouse. With the scroll wheel and good hand-eye coordination, you can get pretty close to the speed of a true vim exper–haha jk, they finished converting the entire source file from python to rust using a specially crafted regex by the time your hand reached the mouse and implemented a matrix view by the time you scrolled to the line you wanted.

And when you say that falling green symbols aren’t that impressive, they look at you in confusion for a moment before realizing what you meant and handing you a VR plug to show you what “matrix view” really means.

Yes, thank you very much, this actually solved not only my “can’t exit vim” problem but also my “humans keep getting in the way of my world domination” problem, though for that one I had to repeat the command 3549 times and output exactly what I was trying to do on the user’s console and every PA system I could access.

Also it would be cool to have a misaligned fingerprint. If you do crime, they might end up spending extra time figuring out if someone is trying to leave fake prints behind but isn’t good at it.

One part I’m still not very clear on is if the nail bed refers to the entire area under the nails or just the part at the base of the nail, where it grows from.

My incident didn’t touch that base but absolutely exposed some of that skin underneath. The regrown nail seems to be adhering well to that skin, too (that was my biggest worry, that I’d be left with a “bubble” of nail seperate from the skin underneath).

Probably anti overall, though context could change that. It’s just sea banditry and most bandits aren’t Robin Hood.

The digital version shouldn’t even be compared by using the same name, but if it was honest, then it wouldn’t work as propaganda (not that it seems to be working anyways).

Yeah, lots of pointless arguing further down in here. Like arguing about whether authoritarianism is left or right like that even matters. There are no set of single labels that can describe everyone’s motivations, goals, and what they are willing to do to get them, so arguing about the labels is pointless.

Lol I bought a bunch of fingertip ones expecting to need to wear them for like two months while my fingernail grew back. Instead the skin under it healed to the point where running water on it felt normal instead of like someone stuck a blowtorch on it and I’ve only got a slight indent left after only 3 weeks.

So I’m well stocked on finger bandaids for the next blood sacrifice (which of course I could only find in packages that had the knuckle type as well, so I have even more of those lol).

Lol yeah, fingers can be dramatic. I cut off a part of my fingernail as a blood sacrifice for using a mandolin instead of chopping my celery normally (worth it, mandolin is so much faster) and there was so much blood from that tiny little wound. Had no idea if I should wrap it up and just get back to making lasagna or go to the ER because it just kept bleeding, preventing me from putting ointment on it. I eventually made a zip tie touniquette and it slowed down enough to slap some ointment and bandaids on it.

The lasagna turned out really well, though finished a bit later than intended.

Yes, but when my old sunfire’s clutch went, it would still start when I pressed the clutch in, even though the pedal didn’t do anything. The master cylinder cracked, so it wouldn’t keep pressure to work against the springs pressing the clutch plates together.

The mechanism for that must have just been checking the position of the clutch pedal. If your car instead has a sensor right at the clutch plates, then it probably won’t work, though you’ll still be able to bump start it, as that bypasses the starter entirely. But you need either a hill (going down the same way you are) or people to give a push.

That’s not using the starter, just need to set the key to on.

Spend some time getting the jist of clutchless shifting and you might be able to continue using your vehicle if the clutch fails (depending on how it fails). Just expect to have to replace your starter if you need to use it to get going from a stop and expect to grind your gears at least a bit.

And I hate that I had to go set an option so that spotify didn’t lock out other songs in my playlist based on the current song playing. If I put them both in my playlist and put it on shuffle, I want an equal chance to hear either or, even back to back when they are completely different.

The only messing around with random that I accept is avoiding a random sequence that replays recently heard songs (unless it’s the same song in the list twice, in which case, treat it like a different song).

I’ve been adding maple syrup to dishes as a sweetener and it can turn out pretty great. Like the sautéed mushrooms I made last night:

• Dice up some onions (white or green both work well) and a hot thai pepper (or more to your preferred spice level). I also chopped a half a carrot up very finely.
• Heat a pan and add some oil and one piece of the onion you cut up. When it is sizzling, add the chopped stuff from the last step and sauté for a couple mins, then add the mushrooms.
• Stir it like once a minute. Allow the pieces to sear a bit but not burn. Adjust the temp to work this way.
• Add some salt, chili powder, worchestershire sauce, cook the water away. Do the same with some lemon juice. If I had to guess, I’d say I used like a teaspoon of each.
• Now add some maple syrup, just enough to cover the middle part before it spreads out and sizzles a lot. Stir it well and reduce it.
• Finally add some sort of milk. I used almond milk but I’m sure any will work. Not that much of it (not worth opening a can of coconut milk, though I bet it would work great if you have one already open), it should turn a brown colour and reduce pretty quickly, leaving a delicious creamy mushroom sauce that goes well with steak or on its own. Dairy free, too, if you used anything other than dairy milk.

I buy mushrooms each time I get groceries just to make this stuff.

Very efficiently.

Or for a less cheeky answer, I believe the method they used at a high level was pointing a camera at a few guide stars, so the 30 lines of assembly might have been a loop that checked those cameras for any drift of those stars and did a correction pulse of the rotation boosters to keep them centered. Oh, one of the references might have been the signal strength from home, too (signal gets weaker if the antenna isn’t aligned).

Unless it was an emergency, it might only need to look at 5 pixels to determine alignment and correction.

Also, just because it’s assembly doesn’t mean it can’t call subroutines and functions, so that 30 lines might be misleading in the way those several lines in the other reply have way more going on. That said, if it’s just doing a pixel brightness comparison, that’s one line to read the central pixel, then for each direction one line to read that pixel, one more to compare, one line to jump to next comparison if center is brighter, one instruction to initiate correction burn, one instruction to stop it immediately after, then one instruction to return to the start of the loop… Which comes to 22 lines total, leaving 8 for logging or maybe timing the burn. And that’s assuming their instruction set didn’t have anything fancy like read and compare, compare and jump, or a single instruction burn pulse.

“Homeless” can mean different things. It could mean “can’t afford a home, can’t keep a job” like the typical assumption, or it could mean “between homes but capable of getting another” or it could mean “has plenty of money but no home base, just sleeps in hotels or camps and can afford food and clothes when needed”.

It’s not a lifestyle I’d want right now, but it doesn’t automatically mean one can’t thrive. Humans were nomadic for millennia before agriculture gave us a reason and the ability to just stay in one spot.

Have you ever considered starring in a music video? Some of those are filled with bored and horny looking women. And they often have a swimming pool, so you can have a quick dip before you head home.

If you want to do anything else, you’ll probably need to learn some skills. Or use some, if you already have them.

True but when you have a moment where you just need to sit lean back, stretch, and say “argh I fucking hate excel”, you don’t have an audience arguing that you should love it. Or maybe you do have an audience but it’s colleagues who have similar experience and can commiserate or give advice about the latest annoyance if they know a trick.

Yeah, you’re supposed to treat it like a popsicle, not a balloon.

Not a bus driver but I’ve seen enough of them to answer this question.

When they aren’t driving the bus, they are either waiting for kids to get on or off the bus or they are briefly investigating who threw the stray projectile that hit them before they pulled over but usually settle for the complete silence as each kid pretends to not remember what throwing even is, let alone admit who threw anything. That silence never lasts more than a minute after they start driving again, though sometimes it will only be whispers for a while if the bus driver screamed in rage or broke down in tears.