John Cholewa

It's saying that December numbers were quite low but October plus November plus December numbers were really high.

If you're going to be camping overnight with a bunch of gamers, it's a really good sign that they understand that "clean is better than dirty".

(that's not to say I disagree with your general conclusion)

There's something odd with the data in this chart. I see similar #s for the others, but 5.7% is more like Biden's best year, not his average. I got a mean of 3.75% for him, high for this era but not matching Clinton. Still, he seems to have the best economy for a first term prez since Johnson.

This makes me more satisfied with my decision to preorder one of the new pebble watches.

Alt-. (alt key and period) pastes the last argument in, and you can press it more to get the last argument of each command before that in your history, at least in the version of bash I'm using.

The context is that today's input was international trade. For some reason, there was a shitload of international trade over the last month. Without the context of future input, that means higher economic activity. In context, it likely includes a lot of panic-buying ahead of tariffs.

My RAV4 Prime has plenty of buttons, which makes me happy, but I would loved if it had a play/pause button. Somehow, you can seek back and forth, raise and lower volume, and change audio sources, all from the driving wheel, but you still have to go to the screen to start and stop your media!

The tab islands look quite similar to Vivaldi's tab stacks. Not a bad implementation to follow. Otherwise, I'm interested in that list tab layout, if it's anything like I'm hoping. I've been trending towards more text and fewer dubious icons and tiny screenshots in my interfaces.

Me, sitting at a table. One arm is resting on the table, bandaged with my hand gripping a bottle of apple juice. The other is doing a V sign.

So this run went almost entirely flawlessly, but the very beginning actually was the first time I've ever had to alert the phlebos for immediate attention (by way of loudly saying "ow. ow! OW!") for what ultimately was a minor overpressure issue.

Donating platelets is ultimately worth it, though

Hah, my coworkers use this word all the time... because they're research scientists, and that's a setting where the word has a precise meaning.

Agreed on the general principle of not using words only because they sound fancy, though.

(btw, it's "cohort")

So is it pithy when I autogenerate a 128-character password and -- when told it's not complex enough -- just create the minimalist possible, least secure password that technically fits the requirements?

The answer is yes, even if it's not for a site I particularly care about. But it feels good.

Heh. I went totally crazypants and started hoarding canned foods in early February. Never done that before, but now I can eat for a couple years in a now-less-remote scenario where the supply chain gets totally wrecked.

"but math doesn't add up" should be attached to nearly every article title about the administration, or Congress for that matter.

Distant future historians will confuse this US president with the rise in AI chatbots. It's almost the same kind of "these are definitely sentences made with real words, but they don't seem to completely connect in a conversational context" phenomenon.

It *was* sold out, but I played the "I don't believe you" card a dozen times, and now I'm in line!

I'm in. Ever since a random worker in the parking log randomly told me the day the week 2 shipments were coming in for the Wii, I've locked myself in to buying every new console I get from Best Buy. I'm not usually into customer loyalty, but they got me here.

You know, I was actually joking all the times I suggested that they were just working their way up to infinity percent. Now I'm less certain. But they'll have to really hoof it to get up that asymptote!

It's OK, a lower number means it's more efficient.

For what it's worth, while I do think there's a decent enough chance that Q1 had a contraction (depends on how much pre-tarriff panic-buying offset downward pressures), I did look back on the GDPNow historical record. It didn't seem very predictive.

It's more like "the decision to carry around a bucket of radioactive waste wherever you go is a personal one". At least keeping it in your basement doesn't risk harm to others.

Why does it have a ZL button if it can only be used for games that don't use a ZL button? I know that you can remap it, but that (and, to a lesser extent, the chat button) feels weird in light of this news.

Oh great. Now I'm going to live in terror of the flusles for the rest of my life.

Obviously just a minor nit, but at least in SMB it was red on brown -- they might not have been able to get the same blue across all the level palette swaps. Like maybe sky blue would've been the only blue option, which'd look real bad on 1-1.

I think that in Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros, and the cover art for Super Mario Bros 2, Mario wore red suspenders. In Mario Bros, Luigi wore green suspenders (and white in others). None of this stuff was really super standardized back then since colors were limited by palette availability.

I've actually brought up on the facebook group the idea of extending an olive branch and having a bunch of us down here bus up to Vancouver for a hangout. It's not the same as being able to move the convention or whatever, but it'd be nice if we could do something with International fen informally.

At this point the White House could announce tariffs up to infinity percent, and it wouldn't really change things.

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Maybe next civilization we'll have learned to complain about bad ideas before they've already been implemented.

Blorp! My melon mead, cleverly named "M5" after the number of melon variants involved, is well on its way to becoming a beverage that can make you fall down.