Biggles @Biggles@social.cleverlibre.org

Jim quietly smiled in response while looking away from the young software engineer, “You know what I did before this? Before coding?”
“No.”
“I was a chemical plant operator. You can’t just restart one of those. The fire, the spark, the pressurization, the catalyzation, it has to keep running. Has to be tended at all times. You walk the jungles of process lines at 4AM and feel their swirling and vibration and heat. They are a physical thing. An obligation. They are more a child than the thing back there will ever be, John. You drop them and they break forever. You talk about your fear of machines. But I know someone killed by a machine.”
John started to talk, but was gently preempted in a rumbly voice.
“A human decided that. Not the braided stainlessless steel hose rotting away. A human decided it could last longer, to save money. That machine was just a messenger for the choice of a man.”

Three new TILs today:

Running Varnish on Fly: https://til.simonwillison.net/fly/varnish-on-fly

How to get Cloudflare to cache HTML: https://til.simonwillison.net/cloudflare/cloudflare-cache-html

Writing Playwright tests for a Datasette Plugin: https://til.simonwillison.net/datasette/playwright-tests-datasette-plugin

"You forgot? Must not be important."

Listen bro, I can and have forgotten to eat, pee, sleep, cash cheques. I've lost my car by taking the bus home after driving there.

Importance is not a distinguishing factor here. The fact a commodore 64 has more RAM than I do is the issue

Vanilla whut? https://www.comicsands.com/trump-vanilla-ice-ninja-turtle-2666852177.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

Happy New Year everyone!

A wee #picotron update: I've updated the faq, roadmap & playground with a sound toy:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php?page=playground

Press ESC to get into the terminal, then "load /demos/bells.p64" and hit CTRL+R to run it.

@ferricoxide All 3 seasons of "Connections" are there as well.
https://archive.org/details/bbc-connections-1978

I spent a decade of my life creating game assets, the result is a lot of game assets. They're free, no ads, no tracking, no registration, no subscription, no permission needed, no need for attribution and suited for any use including commercial.

https://gameassets.com

@BoredomFestival @cstross @FredKiesche

🧝Elf Curling :: a 2P game for the #pico8 holiday bundle. Last sock on the right: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=55407
(or LOAD #ELF_CURLING from inside PICO-8)

I just saw “Gen X became 30 at age 10 and is still 30 at age 50” and wow, do I feel seen.

Which is a very strange feeling for a Gen Xer, just sayin’.

@georgetakei Santa is all of us.

As a holiday treat, and because I haven't finished writing about my walk on the Camino yet, I present a rant that I went and polished up.

TL;DR: If you tell me "It's a training issue", I assume the problem is with yours.

https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2023/12/its-a-training-problem/

I should be threading all of this, but what makes the "he was just faithfully executing the laws" particularly absurd is that a president has nothing to do with elections.

Nothing. That was intentional.

It's the business of Congress, state governments, and the courts to resolve disputes.

That's because a president may be running for reelection.

The drafters of the Constitution didn't htink of everything, but they thought of that.

DÄRMOK and JÅLAD at #IKEA

reindeer herder

Absolute treasure trove of #pixelart tutorials 🤩
http://saint11.org/blog/pixel-art-tutorials/

@Biggles @matt @danilo @maria @dalias I agree, "actively dangerous for the lazy or gullible" is a good summary of where we are today

That's why I spend so much effort trying to counter the hype and explaining to people that this stuff isn't science fiction AI, it's spicy autocomplete - it takes a surprising amount of work to learn how to use it effectively