Three different secrets and it still managed to lose two weeks of data. Fine, I'll pay you.

I see now that the reason for Signal making backup and recovery so painful was to sell their one-click service.

really wish kicad figured out how not to crash

looks like you did it 👏

my local mayor has started a fortnightly newsletter, and also a podcast is produced by the (small) city nowadays, and it's certainly improved the amount i care and understand about local issues and how they're being addressed

i'd call it the mamdani effect but it started before he was elected

There are only two types of video essays:
- ones that started by a friend/group conversation and then the essayist followed a rabbit hole
- ones that could have been avoided by having said conversation

oh, realisation that i didn't have a "go to the mall" culture (and was weirded out by it) because i came up somewhere that had several great dedicated youth spaces in walking distance (and also the "mall" was shitty)

huh i haqn't noticed that the pronouns labeller i had been using died... some time ago. that seems like a silly overlook. why wouldn't i get notified that a thing i subscribe to to enhance my service goes *poof*

Like, code is also a bit like catapults. Come to catapultcon, where catapult engineers talk about seriously making code like catapults. I will be dismissive of dozens of actual coders telling me I'm wrong, and then a professor will go "actually I teach first years that code is a bit like catapults."

I don't know law but it does seem like if the original post is presenting an analogy that only works in the first year of school (i assume that's what 1L means), that's probably why everyone who has moved past that is mad at it?

they were trying to (not the UI but the interfacing, which would have helped tremendously) but that got cut by national

unfortunately it's pretty hard to have cross linking systems like this but it's being worked on in various forms

if, in order to achieve your out-of-control doomsday robot scenario, a trillion dollars worth of human effort must be expended annually, and if any of it stops for even a moment than the whole thing implodes and grinds to a halt, _you can stop worrying_ that it is "the machines" which dominate us

mmmm the metservice website is crashing

i think that economist, and, frankly, everyone involved in the article should be fired. into the sun if possible.

A weather map showing a large cyclone approaching New Zealand

Look at this freaking monster

HISTORIC HEAT IN AUSTRALIA
"Absurd" Summer heat so far in these 10 days of April
Today was historic again
APRIL RECORDS
38.4 Walgett
36.9 St George AP
36.7 Coonamble
35.8 Gunnedah
34.8 Merriwa
32.7 Inverell
32.2 Coonabarabran AP
29.3 Armidale AP

the new "this was written by ai" tell: double spacing after a period in code prose. the great advantage of this tell is that any humans caught by this test are objectively wrong and should get in the 21st century

and it's mightily annoying but simultaneously feels too trivial to, idk, talk to my local MP about it or something. not that reti would give a shit

can't wait for trump to kark it and jd vance to invade the vatican

not super sure why nz accepts rental property managers being worse at scheduling than the average tradie

"we'll visit between 8:30am and 5pm"

okay, or you could manage your fucking calendar like a grown up and give a one hour time slot like everyone else

accidentally added some texture to my phone (case) by setting it down on a hot stove

it's too bad nobody has an equivalent space program than nasa because there are incredible trolling opportunities

gotta love paying for couriers specifically so they require signature and them not doing so and then calling like "hey we left the parcel at the door just checking it was received" not how it works shithead! do your fucking job!

Finally managed to go watch Project Hail Mary. Was fun.

Fuckng cops doing advertising in cinemas now

oh, one great thing about DST changing is that cluesbysam is earlier in the day now

great, can't wait to see what happens if tehran missiles kyiv

it's especially prevalent on the subreddit, initially as a reaction because for a while there was a lot of vibe coded (negative) projects that did not work being posted there with little moderation, and that created a kneejerk reaction that persists while the mods now largely filter the trash

Alternatively you could get fucked