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I get that doing a comedic strip isn't trivial. it's hard to be consistently funny. are there any Diesel Sweeties strips that are funny though? I clicked through about 20 and couldn't find one.
#comics #webcomics #dieselsweeties

The Mandela Effect

"Yeah, the sim module has this crazy bug where if this one kid in *one* galaxy, on one f*cking planet dies, the process runs at like 95% CPU, then crashes"

"weird. can you patch the state array before it dies, so it stays alive?"

"no, it still crashes; just takes a few more cycles"

"you tried just running it from an earlier snapshot?"

"yeah, it works--"

"fixed."

"--sometimes, but I want to *actually* fix the problem so it doesn't crash in prod."

"blah. just re-run it from the start. it'll only take, what...a day?"

"mmm. yeah I guess. still f*ckin weird though: like who the f*ck is this kid?" *restarts the program and stands up from his desk*

"probably sim baby Jesus. you killed sim Jesus, dude. you're a monster"

"shut up. let's get lunch"

#movies #programming

I've encountered Ciro Santilli's pages on Github (https://github.com/cirosantilli#brainwashed-by-usa) and StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/users/895245/ciro-santilli-%E6%96%B0%E7%96%86%E5%86%8D%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2%E8%90%A5%E5%85%AD%E5%9B%9B%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6%E6%B3%95%E8%BD%AE%E5%8A%9F%E9%83%9D%E6%B5%B7%E4%B8%9C) and I don't have anything to say about the politics, but this is the most radical use of the fairly constrained medium of a profile page that I've seen on our modern platforms which I think is impressive for that alone.

I don't really notice it when I'm in the middle of it, but that smell of yeast fermentation is *all* I smell when I come leave and come back in.

I think we're closer this time #bread #baking

I've been playing around with the Surreal numbers and one thing that prompted is how to get to non-dyadic rationals from dyadic rationals. You can approach them by bouncing back and forth between dyadic rationals like this for 1/17:

- 1/8 ≈ 0.125 (target=0.058823529411764705)
- 1/16 ≈ 0.0625 (target=0.058823529411764705)
- 1/32 ≈ 0.03125 (target=0.058823529411764705)
+ 3/64 ≈ 0.046875 (target=0.058823529411764705)
+ 7/128 ≈ 0.0546875 (target=0.058823529411764705)
+ 15/256 ≈ 0.05859375 (target=0.058823529411764705)

This makes some cool little patterns based on whether you are adjust up or down. 1/17 is boring, but 1/13 is a bit fun: 000100111011000100111011
#surrealnumbers #math

I usually ignore these videos on ars because I hate that they automatically play videos on mobile (very rude), but this is pretty interesting. I'd like to actually play the Blade Runner game, and I hardly even play video games anymore.
https://arstechnica.com/79f5638c-4f0b-41aa-9086-1f60db0a962b