I’ve been a programmer for decades and I still sometimes look at code I wrote 6 months ago like what the fuck was I thinking. Code is as much art as science.

In Osaka last year on holiday with some mates, out at a bar and we’re all pretty loaded and somehow ended up talking about the Fallout games (because we’re all huge nerds), I assume pretty loudly. An American woman comes up to us and tells us that she heard us talking about Fallout and that she is a producer on the TV show for it and how cool it is to hear some randos talking about how much they like the games and that she’s really excited about the show and how good its going to be.

Made our night, we’re all kicking ourselves for not getting some kind of contact details off her because it would be great to message her and let her know how much we like the show.

Linux, bro.

Linux.

“I bomb atomically, Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses can’t define how I be dropping these mockeries”

Literally just tell them what you said in this post.

This… doesn’t look real? Like, what position is that cat at the top in?

Not calling anyone out, obviously it could be legit, just looks very strange to me.

Soulseek is the best option I’ve found for this: https://www.slsknet.org/news/node/1

It’s an old style file sharing app, like Napster and Limewire, but is focused on underground music. I’ve been using it for years and had no problems with spyware or anything like that.

Yeah that’s exactly we did, had a couple of big wipe outs on the crazy stairs we were doing 180s down and were just like, is this all there is? And even if you’re doing grinds that’s like, one trick (no matter how many different angles you can position your feet when you do it).

I save my knees for basketball these days, but I miss the skateboard.

I think the realisation that rollerblades are pretty boring once you’ve become decent on them had a lot to do with it. Unless you’re going to get into serious acrobatics, there just isn’t a wide variety of tricks you can do on blades, compared to skating.

Malmsy.

“Yikes”.

As an Australian I always take a burner phone when I travel and just reformat it after getting home.

My understanding is that typical N95 masks may not prevent facial recognition. Different systems have different performance but many will work successfully with a masked subject. The position of the eyes are one of the key inputs to many facial recognition systems.

Carlin’s podcast (and a lot of popular history podcasts) are generally considered fairly poor by academic historians, in regard to accurately portraying modern historical research. I think those kinds of podcasts are good to engage and stimulate interest in history, as long as the listener understands that they are a kind of “pop” history and should be taken with a grain of salt.

Same goes for a lot of popular books, like Sapiens.

One of my go-to tracks to introduce people to DnB, just moody and intense af. Teebee was so far ahead of his time.

The track Clockwork is one of the all-time dancefloor shredders. Sounds as good today as when it came out.