Sometimes I think about that time I went to the doctor and was reading The Dawn of Everything while waiting, and when I walked in the first thing he said was "that's a heavy read for an electrician".
That is going to live rent free in my head for the rest of my days.
The frustration of finding a program from a cassette tape had not loaded properly because you had not cued it to the correct position paled into significance compared to when it actually worked.
Remember manually numbering the lines in your software?
The satisfying feeling of sliding a disk into the C64 disk drive and clonking the little arm down. Then typing the little software incantation to bring it to life.
LOAD "$", 8
Remember when printers used to used perforated paper and after they all printed you got to tear them off the matching and remove the edge strip with the holes in?
What a time to be alive!
Using computers used to be full of joyful little moments like this, and now its 80% invasive cookie popups, and the rest is spam.
You will never convince me that there is anything more satisfying than when you finish burning a video to a DVD-R and the drive pops open by itself and presents you with the disk.
Biblically accurate fingers.
Motion to rename "chips" to "potato fingers"
The drive in my laptop died a while back and when I replaced it I put GhostBSD on because I had never used it as my daily driver. I had forgotten though.
I do not fire my computer up at home very often anymore so imagine my surprise when I turned it on and was greeted by GhostBSD and not my usual Arch Linux.
I had not used it in so long I had forgotten I had installed a BSD on it.
The mage knight box insert stuffed full of deck boxes with very little free space left in it.
Desperately trying to fit all the sleeved lost legions stuff back I to the mage knight box.
You know a toast rack? That, but filled with pizzas.
They should have put him in the Santa Clause films instead of Tim Allen.
My take for the day.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the finest comic actors there has ever been.
A whole lot of cards covering a tabletop.
Tonights game is Rome Fate of an Empire. To be honest I don't give two hoots about Rome as a theme, but mage knight inspired civilization builder was too good of an offer to pass up on.
The packet: serve with rice, or naan bread.
Me, having cooked both rice, and naan bread.
Did you ever read about the Icelandic version of Dracula? That's two very different books.
Shot of books shelf close up showing a copy of Frankenstein, the 1818 text.
Inspired me to check which edit we had, and it appears we have the earlier text.
Funny actually, that's what I tell her about 20,000 Leagues but she can't get past the extensive descriptions of fish.
I will admit here that I have never managed to make it past the letters at the start of Frankenstein.
It has been well over a decade since I last tried and I keep thinking g about picking it up again.
My wife taught it and insisted it is hard work, but worth it.
Can you find my old bands GeoCities page in there, we had a pretty rad guestbook.
A few days ago I woke up with "look out for the flowers cos' I'm sure they're gonna get you, yeah" and I haven't had anything to do with John Otway since Rebellion festival was called Holliday's in the Sun and was in Morecambe instead of Blackpool. So 2004 maybe. Why does this happen.
I would say anyone using this as a research tool is a deeply unserious person doing nothing of worth.
And from the output there was absolutely no reason to question what it output was false. It just presents it as truth.
And if you are expected to verify the output then why would I even use it instead of just picking a book of magic up and getting the information first hand.
You can not use these to research anything.
I know what a click pass is, and I can perform a number of variation of them in each hand, with different numbers of coins.
Because I have that knowledge I knew it was wrong, but as a research tool anyone looming it up would be fed lies as if truth.
The problem here is that a click pass is a relatively niche thing, and it has data on roughly what one is, but not how to do it.
It then outputs something that is not, but roughly has the shape of, a click pass in a confident way.
Unless you knew otherwise you would not know it was wrong.
He tried again and it gave him a very bad description of a retention pass that missed the key points of that make a retention pass work.
Again, a completely different and unrelated thing, and also incorrect.
Guy at work was using GPT and telling me it can tell you anything and kept pestering me to get him to ask it something.
I told him to ask it how to do a click pass.
He very excitedly shew me the output.
What it spat out was the instructions for a friction pass, a different thing altogether.
What if I were to fill the whole 400 pages with title, and put the rules on the cover though?
