Deebster

I’d swap Arch and Gentoo - I think Gentoo should be on the precarious peak and Arch at a more accessible altitude.

gnuplot is not related to the GNU project or the FSF in any but the most peripheral sense. Our software was designed completely independently and the name “gnuplot” was actually a compromise. I wanted to call it “llamaplot” and Colin wanted to call it “nplot.” We agreed that “newplot” was acceptable but, we then discovered that there was an absolutely ghastly pascal program of that name that the Computer Science Dept. occasionally used. I decided that “gnuplot” would make a nice pun and after a fashion Colin agreed.

http://gnuplot.info/faq/index.html#x1-70001.2

So another punny name that was picked when it was assumed it didn’t matter since no-one would really use it.

This is great news, right? I know Lemmy tends cynical and anti-corporate but this makes it easy for containers to be a lot more secure by default.

I did look it up after posting, and thought this one explained it better:
https://nic.moe/en/

What is moe?

The word “moe” (in Japanese: “萌え”; pronounced as “moh-ay”) is a slang word rooted deep in the Japanese Otaku culture. It has often been used to mean a particular type of “adorable” or “cute” towards fictional characters, people, animals, etc.

My laptop doesn’t have stickers all over it, but this could be my gateway sticker.

I think that’s the first time I’ve seen the .moe TLD outside catbox. What even is it, I just think of the bartender from the Simpsons.

Amost ready, just a little more knitting to do

It’s there and showing 12 days. I’m currently beating you.

I have faith that your bot will work! Cheers for organising this again, and thanks for the heads up about the shorter event. I assume the compressed schedule means that the difficulty will ramp up quicker, but we will see.

(btw, you’ve swapped the order of the [ ] and ( ) in your link)

I enjoy the contradiction of middleend

Given that the internet is a series of tubes, it’s a better mnemonic since the pipe connection will help you remember it.

You mean Cloudflare is down this evening. Timezones, how do they work?

Again, that’s not how clocks work. The label on an analogue clock appears at the end of the hour segment. If the hour hand is halfway between two times, it’s half past the lower one.

If, as you argue, two is at the top (like in OP’s picture), that means that when the day starts and the hour hand is pointing up then it’s already in the second hour. Half an hour later it would appear halfway between two and twelve which is an hour ahead of where it should be.

But that’s not how clocks work - when the day starts on a normal clock it’s not 1 o’clock straight away, there’s an hour that happens first. The label is at the end of the hour’s segment.

Think about it this way: when a new day begins, where are the clock hands?

I did, the hour hand would be pointing at the (end of the) final hour, which is now eight. The minute hand’s position is a whole different discussion.

Indeed, which is why 8 should be at the top.

The hours have been reassigned in reverse alphabetical order. This means the number which you hit at noon/midnight is “eight”.

@Agent641@lemmy.world right now

(image proxy seems broken, it’s this gif)

I’m happy to believe it’s intentional - some metahumour (metaprogrammerhumour).

Shouldn’t 2 be where 1 normally is, etc and 8 be at the top?

edit: I see you’d posted a similar one a few days ago and that had the same thing. Off by one, an evergreen programming error!

This creates a perspective effect where objects farther away (larger z) appear smaller:

Oh, that’s on purpose! Strange choice, I guess it’s just to show you can…

That StealthWriter thing doesn’t feel very reliable to me, e.g. it pick up the first paragraph:

After 4 years with Rust, I love the language – but I’m starting to think the ecosystem has an abstraction addiction. Or: why every Rust crate feels like a research paper on abstraction.

I think AI would write “four” instead of 4, would use an em dash, and the construction of the second sentence (a Doctor Strangelove reference?) doesn’t feel like most LLM’s style.

Anyway, there is this massive red flag at the end which suggests I was completely wrong:

P.S grammarly forked me over vro 🥀

I’m not 100% sure what that means, but Grammarly is an AI writer thingy (or maybe it’s only their premium level?). I know that AI tools do pick up on Grammarly-filtered stuff as these somewhat false positives are a problem in educational circles.