i thought seeing someone do the voice for thunderstruck would be the peak karaoke moment at EMF, but no
it was "Call me al", a crowd favourite, but i did not expect the singer to stop during the tin whistle solo to announce "I will now fill the time with quotes from Sun Tzu" and then did exactly as promised
(you can concatenate gzipped files together, and you still have a valid gzip file. it will uncompress as if you concatenated the inputs then compressed them)
do you ever think about how, for years, we used X- or x- in front of experimental or yet to be standardized names, only then to find that the x- prefix had fossilised
<m0zzie> ok do this exactly without the quotes: "rm -rf /home" then do "shutdown -h now"
<murder> k sweet man thx!! [n] Quit [murder]-[Read error: Connection reset by peer]
<m0zzie> I'm a bastard.
today i've been learning how automatic transmissions work
i know how manual ones work, physically changing which gears are interacting, with or without synchromesh
but i didn't realise that automatic ones work on a different principle, using planetary gear boxes and applying a clutch to the ring gear to change the output ratio
that, and planetary gearboxes with clutches to change gears go back as far as the model t
not to call ai a big woop of nothing but slack absolutely slaughtering any remaining trust they have in order to provide "emoji suggestions" is incredible
for context, slack is launching "AI Features" trained on global data
and you can tell it's being launched without purpose as the list of benefits includes "emoji autocomplete"
like
no-one in their right mind would go "so we're going to make every sabox customer panic so slack knows if to use the party hat emoji or the party baloons emoju by default"