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Well my Gen Z kids often reply to my texts with that emoji and I've always assumed (a) but now I have to ask them something.

24.02.2026 22:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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x86CSS x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required!

Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now?!?!? muwahaha. muwahaha.

lyra.horse/x86css/

24.02.2026 16:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Having thought about this a bit more, my best guess is that if an MP believes floor crossing is in the best interests of their constituents, then doing so correctly prioritizes their representational responsibilities over their loyalty to the party.

18.12.2025 13:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's obvious that he is wrong. But the 'arguably more' is not obvious.

Would you mind sharing that argument?

18.12.2025 01:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's been a while since I've seen it but I recall at least one joke involving a deliberate mistranslation.

"Il a l'Ontario dans le cul."

It's probably funnier if you understand French but the subtitles convey it adequately.

16.12.2025 15:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Gerson: "What I thought was interesting about that column, is that at no point did you stop to consider whether America is a country worth joining."

Douthat: "That's true. I did not."

The 63-minute podcast should really have been condensed to that 20-second exchange.

26.11.2025 03:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It was like in his first term and he noticed that the justice system can be draconian to people accused of crimes, as Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and others were indicted. Someone described his interventions as "Artisan bespoke criminal justice reform, one friend of Trump's at a time."

04.11.2025 06:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I can't think of another team that ha had such a huge chasm between starting pitching quality and relief pitching quality.

30.10.2025 02:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If 'Lax-allowing-unsafe' refers to the mitigation to not break SSO, then yes it appears to still be in place:
source.chromium.org/chromium/chr...

16.10.2025 04:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

All true. We use the establishment of the federal government as the most important event, but also the Statute of Westminster in 1931 meant that we could finally have an independent foreign policy, which is a key feature of statehood.

14.10.2025 16:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I see.

The thing we call Canada didn't exist until 1876.

You're saying there were no monarch visits to Canada, or colonial territories that would eventually be incorporated into Canada, until 1939, which is true. But 1786 has no relevance as a starting point.

14.10.2025 15:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The reality is that we don't *dislike* him enough to bother with changing our whole constitutional system.

We have... more pressing things to worry about.

14.10.2025 15:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I feel it important to nitpick here: You mean 1876, not 1786.

14.10.2025 15:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's like a vehicular equivalent of NIMBYism. "I want safer roads as long as it doesn't affect me or the way I drive."

06.10.2025 13:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Aside from the self-contradictory ruling on the review, that ball wasn't out of the park if the fan hadn't snagged it. Lukes still had a shot at catching it, and if he missed then it would have been off the fence.

17.09.2025 00:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The US did not request that Article 5 be invoked in 2001. The North Atlantic Council did so anyway.

I'm not saying the conditions for it to be invoked have been met. Just pointing out it doesn't depend on Poland.

10.09.2025 21:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thinking of submitting a DEFCON talk complaining that passkeys don't *really* keep me safe because I still have to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle.

02.09.2025 18:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Isn't this the law everywhere? The ability to consent to someone beating the crap out of you is why professional hockey players are almost never charged with assault.

02.09.2025 17:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I appreciate the good work by @dangoodin.bsky.social.

28.08.2025 18:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Jays tried out that "winning" thing for a while. Apparently it wasn't for them.

Their hitting is still good, but the shortage of quality pitchers is always going to catch up with them.

30.07.2025 03:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes the game frequency shapes a lot. It's that high because for all players except the pitcher a game is just not all that physically demanding. So pitchers are conserved as a limited resource and everyone else plays every day.

20.07.2025 05:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same idea as word lookups in the game manual. At a certain point in Monkey Island it would show you a picture of a pirate and give a word like "Tortuga". You'd have to turn the wheel to make that pirate face, and enter the number in the Tortuga window.

30.06.2025 16:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"Dial-A-Pirate" physical code wheel, which was the copy protection for The Secret of Monkey Island.

"Dial-A-Pirate" physical code wheel, which was the copy protection for The Secret of Monkey Island.

Also, code wheels...

30.06.2025 15:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this also led to Mossad burgling my gran's flat in Coogee.

17.06.2025 20:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 296 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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two men standing next to each other with the words as god as my witness ALT: two men standing next to each other with the words as god as my witness
17.06.2025 17:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Wikipedia article headline "Hippotamuses in Columbia", to which users are redirected if the search for an article titled "Cocaine hippos".

Wikipedia article headline "Hippotamuses in Columbia", to which users are redirected if the search for an article titled "Cocaine hippos".

Correct.

16.06.2025 18:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It seems amazing today to think about how small 1.44MB is.

13.06.2025 16:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If the vertical side was 2i instead of i, making the hypotenuse length -3, how does that change your isomorphism?

01.06.2025 19:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have 139 purple first, out of 329 total.

An interesting goal is to try to solve with a "reverse rainbow" (purple blue green yellow). It forces you to work out all the categories before trying any.

It's usually easy to tell which one is purple. Predicting which one is yellow vs green needs luck.

18.05.2025 16:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Chromium

Behold my favorite weird Chrome security bug of 2025 so far!

A jaw-dropping URL / omnibox spoof via ligatures, specifically the googlelogo ligature.

issues.chromium.org/issues/39178...

16.05.2025 15:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 9 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1