Posts by RogerBW@discordian.social
(DIR) Post #B0R8EVsREOxTDe1Nrs by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-11-20T12:22:21Z
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@futurebird First I'll split functional from purely aesthetic signs. Aesthetic, I don't judge other people's taste, just whether I agree with it. Functional, well, I'd label a whole lot more of what's in the fridge than my wife puts up with, because I don't like wasting time looking at multiple opaque containers to find the thing I want.(I do quite fancy one of those plaques reading "In this house we believe… this is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here." etc.)
(DIR) Post #B0T6KHMKJIZIL0Xib2 by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-11-21T11:10:28Z
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@futurebird How can you beat "Zohran Mamdani to force all NYC schoolchildren to learn Arabic numerals"?
(DIR) Post #B0mkTEQFZhOs65JnNo by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-11-30T22:39:47Z
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@futurebird "To scale. Look up."
(DIR) Post #B0nsTrrHwhpRCIju6q by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-12-01T11:44:16Z
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@futurebird I have a biased sample, of course, but I'm much more likely to hear "that's AI" or "that's ChatGPT" as a synonym for "that's obviously nonsense".
(DIR) Post #B1F0ZQJ9Kve0OCqig4 by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-12-14T13:52:05Z
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@futurebird Like bars, they will go in as complete innocents at age (whatever). Nothing can possibly go wrong with this plan.
(DIR) Post #B1MvzIgnL83Vme6mZs by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-12-18T09:38:23Z
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@futurebird You didn't grow up in the culture, you can't understand the emotional resonances.
(DIR) Post #B1PQo8kDSZR4eMmqO0 by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-12-19T14:33:12Z
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@futurebird innocent by Pica Rules, which are the only rules that matter.
(DIR) Post #B1PRdBh8FaYYZKgZUW by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-12-19T13:03:44Z
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@futurebird "It's not a sin when good Godly people do it." See also domestic violence.
(DIR) Post #B1ZYmiNR19FMGWJgWm by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-12-24T11:49:42Z
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@futurebird Emily Henry's _Book Lovers_ starts off with its heroine as the city woman whose beaux keep going to the country, meeting a local girl, and dumping her. Sadly, while the romance is enjoyable, not as much is made of this as might have been.
(DIR) Post #B1jJ22TeuZMvGP71QO by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-12-29T04:40:16Z
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@futurebird @josh0 Homoeopathy irks me more because refusing medical treatment kills people. Dowsing may encourage you to believe untrue things, but it's not that.
(DIR) Post #B1kMxDgsO5l3ZFDCxU by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-12-29T16:59:00Z
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@futurebird "I borrowed the movement patterns from the antennae of ants. Oh, no reason."
(DIR) Post #B1mAYjDzCIsozlAqRc by RogerBW@discordian.social
2025-12-30T13:49:30Z
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@futurebird 3, but that feeling is the result of experience and self training.
(DIR) Post #B278EgX23fuqJes7Qe by RogerBW@discordian.social
2026-01-09T16:32:24Z
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@futurebird In 2024 this argument might have held water. Trumpcoin exists _only_ as a way to bribe the President. How can any attempt at probity stand in the face of that?
(DIR) Post #B27EiKI9uSLpkjQrVg by RogerBW@discordian.social
2026-01-09T14:59:09Z
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@lproven @theregister Just stop fighting and try to enjoy it. Where have I heard that before.
(DIR) Post #B28nmzDBP6jLNK1RQm by RogerBW@discordian.social
2026-01-10T11:52:44Z
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@futurebird Never had a login, but the hardest one to give up was maps.
(DIR) Post #B2AqxoUOIYxTU4qTOS by RogerBW@discordian.social
2026-01-11T11:37:44Z
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@futurebird So Your Code Won't Run: great! Errors like this that stop it running completely are much easier to track down than errors that just give you the wrong answer. Or give you the wrong answer _sometimes_.
(DIR) Post #B2J8OgO5mT5Af4ycD2 by RogerBW@discordian.social
2026-01-15T11:30:45Z
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@futurebird Process, but I got the job 20 years ago and I've stayed with it.
(DIR) Post #B2Va5aeNjsBziPLkbg by RogerBW@discordian.social
2026-01-21T11:37:34Z
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@futurebird You might get some vacuum welding too. So a brittle crust that you could break through by, say, stepping on it.
(DIR) Post #B2mBfXVJR67qX5190q by RogerBW@discordian.social
2026-01-29T11:54:01Z
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@futurebird Addition in the RPN I know takes strictly two parameters, so your first example would be10 10 + 10 + 30 =(Forward) Polish doesn't loop any more that reverse does; it's just= 30 + 10 + 10 10where "+" or "=" means "take the next two arguments and do the thing to them".(Obviously both of these could be expressed differently.)
(DIR) Post #B2mVPdUNPmGPXoH2HY by RogerBW@discordian.social
2026-01-29T15:35:16Z
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@futurebird Reverse Polish is best notation! No ambiguity! No parentheses! The world shall learn to program in PostScript!