Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is “column” the right word? Anyway, apparently I also coined the Very Specific Object nomenclature now sporadically used in the 3D printing community. Yeah, that was me. This must be how Cory Doctorow feels all the time these days.
I will see your Nerf darts, and raise you airsoft BBs. I still find the cats playing with one every now and again, or pick up a stray one with the vacuum cleaner. I can’t remember firing an airsoft gun inside the house at any time more recently than about 15 years ago. And yet.
I never come up from my dungeon to talk to accounting. I send a precisely formatted, detailed, and concise email that they inevitably only read half of.
I’d rather have a paper trail anyway.
It’s not even. The data integrity algorithm is really kind of crap.
And setting upperbound limits on input length. Because if you expose it to users, it’s not a matter of if some joker will insist on entering precisely 4,294,967,297 bytes of random data into it to see if they can crash your shit, it’s a matter of when.
Not even. The rainbow was god’s covenant with man (or Noah, specifically) that he would not flood the world again in future hissy tantrums. Some wingnuts have not RTFM.
Well, okay. A lot of them.
Most, even.
Not that I recall, but the mere fact that they’re depicted as getting along with each other (consistently!) throughout the series is puzzling to anyone who, uh, actually saw the movie.
I will see your all of the above, and raise you:
Even at the time I could not believe that this was indeed a thing that happened. Insert Doug Walker meme here: It’s for kids!
That’s exactly what it is. I wonder if any of the users being “roasted” figured out they ought to unplug it.
Ooh, Jason, tell me what you’re chasin’
Because the night will never give you what you want
Ooh, Jason, and if you can’t escape it
I hope you find whatever you’ve been looking for
(Anywaythat’sMichaelMyers.)
Destiny Hope’s similarly fictitious last name for her “out of character” persona in the Hannah Montana show, which was in fact in character anyway. They’re all stage names.
And power it how, run it from an extension cord?
Hey, stop proposing solutions at us. We need to wallow in our self-induced learned helplessness!
(I have like four code readers. I can reliably tell you where at least two of them are right now.)
I still have one somewhere. I’m amazed at how quickly people forgot that for a period of about a year, the Razr was the “it” phone to have. It was a fashion symbol, and had the same general societal status as the iPhone… before the iPhone.
Then smartphones hit it big especially with the iPhone itself and nobody gave a shit anymore.
One of the Razr’s other big contributions was in abandoning the usual stupid proprietary multi-pin model specific cell phone charging connectors because it normalized the then state of the art USB mini B connector for both charging and data transfer. People were going around calling the mini B “the Razr plug” for a couple of months there, fully believing it was yet more proprietary bullshit because that’s what they’d been conditioned to expect.
Early cell phones were weird. We don’t get that kind of weird anymore.
I can:
But also:
Behold my mixture of skills, and tremble.
The Quest was never not Facebook. Meta/Facebook bought Oculus in 2014 and even the OG Rift wasn’t released until 2016. Arguably only the DK1 devkit units were produced not under the Facebook umbrella.
The major difference was that they weren’t playing it up at the time and they didn’t yet require you to have a Facebook account just to use the damn things. That came later.