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Re:Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole on Friday August 08, 2025 @02:03PM (#44839829)
I'm curious what the WLB is like?
Re:Source code art in the Rivulet language on Thursday March 27, 2025 @06:12PM (#43498792)
Would love to see what a quine looks like
Re:The Rules of the Games in Tudor England on Thursday April 13, 2023 @06:52PM (#35563244)
Grew up in Western New York and called it the same thing ("Mumbly-peg"). Though our version was where you simply drop the knife between your feet and then move one foot inward until touches the knife, then repeat until you chicken out. Looks like Wikipedia contains a similar variation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumblety-peg.
Re:FAA changes course on eVTOL certification on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @08:06PM (#31347616)
Lol I have not seen this. Good point though. Will comply.
Re:FAA changes course on eVTOL certification on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @03:53PM (#31331820)
Anybody noticed that you can't highlight text on this website? When I try to double click, it pops up an "! ALERT: Content is protected !!". Seems like a futile usefulness oversight, especially since if I really need to, I can:

- copy the text via eyeballs->keyboard

- copy the text from the dev console

- take a screenshot and extract the text with Google Photos or something

Re:Did HAL Commit Murder? on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @06:55PM (#30280576)
I thought murder was the killing of a human by another human?
Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:31PM (#26959641)
I will use this to stream Inception
Re:Gabe Newell on brain-computer interface technology on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:30PM (#25906783)
this is a very appropriate thing for Valve to be working on considering their logo
Re:My Favorite Shortcuts for JetBrains' IDEs on Monday April 20, 2020 @05:07PM (#22928585)
ctrl+Up: selects increasingly larger scopes, great for selecting the content of a string literal (either with or without the quotes) or grabbing chunks of call chain