Posts by halberd@poa.st
(DIR) Post #B0yzVs7cm2R10mqHyK by halberd@poa.st
2025-12-06T20:22:37.695222Z
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@professionalbigot69 @deprecated_ii I had that for VS 6. "The last version that won't try to stuff .NET bloat into your programs." :oldsnake:
(DIR) Post #B13mjTHTbNMIPPP972 by halberd@poa.st
2025-12-09T01:08:31.225890Z
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@binkle @RustyCrab I have hundreds of pages of PDFs of manuals that are configuration options:>Label: "Remodulation Coherence Hitchback">Options: "NRQ-M", "NRQ-L", "NRQ-O", "Triple", "Disabled".with text:>This setting allows you to configure the Remodulation Coherence Hitchback as NRQ-M, NRQ-L, NRQ-O, or to disable it.:tiredcat:
(DIR) Post #B1NzreEpvmWhH6b78S by halberd@poa.st
2025-12-18T21:50:15.868037Z
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@jeffcliff @lain @yockeypuck :rms: There really is a Poast, and and these people are poasting on it...
(DIR) Post #B1OZttXBd29BdxYF3A by halberd@poa.st
2025-12-19T04:37:17.422084Z
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@Groomschild
(DIR) Post #B1aPHADpFZKQvff852 by halberd@poa.st
2025-12-24T21:36:21.501917Z
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@catmanmancat >You have no endorsements, no funding, no real backers.You Will Never Be A Real Blackmailed Faggot Politician
(DIR) Post #B1j6TlB9WOTeJkLOsq by halberd@poa.st
2025-12-29T02:19:25.752505Z
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@SuperSnekFriend @SIC_Guy It was a very serious and thought-provoking exploration of its subject matter.
(DIR) Post #B1j724Nmd3PHirc1NA by halberd@poa.st
2025-12-29T02:25:25.837216Z
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@SIC_Guy @SuperSnekFriend I think the CA writers were simply full retard from the beginning, which is probably a better strategy.
(DIR) Post #B1kWLhNkXulWBw0s1g by halberd@poa.st
2025-12-29T18:43:57.470747Z
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@SuperSnekFriend Not quite an anime, but Yume Nikki got a manga adaptation by professionals.
(DIR) Post #B1mX3XLraYtm8lxDsW by halberd@poa.st
2025-12-30T17:53:24.003547Z
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@RustyCrab @benis_redux @vii
(DIR) Post #B1tZCHe2unr232TdMu by halberd@poa.st
2026-01-03T03:28:03.668586Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur I regret to inform you that Loran is a dude.
(DIR) Post #B1tZHOZOazUSyPjtdA by halberd@poa.st
2026-01-03T03:28:59.064302Z
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@EdBoatConnoisseur Ah, mea culpa.
(DIR) Post #B1wPgV9yoZuMaI41Wy by halberd@poa.st
2026-01-04T10:43:00.313265Z
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A few weeks back a discussion arose over what "dark" used to mean when describing a person's appearance. I wanted an example on hand, so I'll post this in case something similar comes up again.This is quoted in Chandler's "The Campaigns of Napoleon":> ...Bacler d'Albe, who served Napoleon with hardly a break from 1796 to 1813, “a little dark man, handsome, pleasant, well-educated, talented and a good draughtsman.”
(DIR) Post #B1xEeKh3qx4NCrGDa4 by halberd@poa.st
2026-01-04T20:32:57.555774Z
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@kamehamic I had thought it referred to hair color, but this guy doesn't seem to have especially dark hair. Sometimes it's depicted as pretty light.Looking at the pictures, this guy's cheeks and nose seem built in a way to cast more shadows on himself than normal. Also, his hair projects over his face a bit. So maybe "dark" just means "slightly more shadowed than expected, whether unintentional or intentional". Someone could be "dark" because of their hairstyle, or because they tend to wear hats pulled low and stand in corners, fitting with the "mysterious personality" interpretation that I saw put forward.(Alternatively, in the second picture I posted, he looks like he might have a tan. Maybe the word just meant "tanned" and he spent more time outdoors than the average French soldier.)
(DIR) Post #B24vAAtc3AStJx26SW by halberd@poa.st
2026-01-08T09:32:09.975974Z
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@Vidmastereon @SuperSnekFriend Finally, I can copy-paste Tomino's weird dialogue into jisho without having to spend fifteen minutes looping over the same three seconds of audio and trying to guess what the VA is really saying. Thank you!
(DIR) Post #B2FuVIqVizvGqKeUEa by halberd@poa.st
2026-01-13T22:09:16.339525Z
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@Red-Potato @Ghislaine @matty IIRC, he did the same thing when he endorsed Clinton in 2016. Right afterwards, he put out a blog post along the lines of "Endorsements don't actually change anyone's mind so it was zero cost to me, and now I've stopped getting death threats. I am very clever."I had hoped that getting bullied relentlessly over his cancer had made him reevaluate his axioms, but it seems as if the only thing he really cared about at the end was letting people know he was very clever.
(DIR) Post #B2IgH4kyUnshCwGRHM by halberd@poa.st
2026-01-15T06:15:26.806186Z
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@Will2Power @Kyonko802
(DIR) Post #B2UDXUz1uTSE8zO25o by halberd@poa.st
2026-01-20T19:49:59.475902Z
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@nugger To make money with a book, you've got to be able to sell it as a popular movie or a TV series. You can't sell a movie/series without appealing to horny women, and this has wormed its way into the minds of publishers, editors, and authors.It affects pacing as well. Reading a book written after the rise of Netflix feels disturbingly like reading a detailed pitch for an executive committee, with some hints thrown in for the effects director.
(DIR) Post #B2vgmtMDQju3L1O6EK by halberd@poa.st
2026-02-03T01:53:12.276832Z
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@RustyCrab @Checked @Junes Say it ain't big, Pig...
(DIR) Post #B2yyPV1y5hnbsZnBHE by halberd@poa.st
2026-02-04T15:49:22.575206Z
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@JoshuaSlocum At this point I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that the guys who merged Shellshock into Bash in the first place just happened to have dinner with Woody Allen and Prince Andrew the night before.
(DIR) Post #B2z8ByFtdXnS0OUjoW by halberd@poa.st
2026-02-04T17:05:26.799898Z
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@Frondeur >Sun [New]A blockchain in which the Proof of Work is essays on confusing things Gene Wolfe has written.