I default to ibuprofen. Feels a little more effective to me than acetaminaphen. I’ve never taken aspirin for pain.

The DMCA is such bullshit. I mean, U.S. (and other WIPO countries) copyright law is bullshit in general, but it got 100 times worse when they passed the DMCA.

Metro Station - Shake It

Of all the Justice League members you could choose to have the powers of, you chose Aquaman?

FizzyOrange got it right. “Screen grab” is nicely asking a graphical system (X11/xorg-server or a Wayland compositor or whatever) via an api to give you an image of either the whole desktop or some particular rectangular part of it. And you can do it 30 times every second (or more) to get a video. OBS uses such APIs to get video from the screen for saving to a file or streaming to Twitch or whatever. Various tools can be used to get screenshots and save them to files. Etc.

Heck. On my work machine, because they require us to meticulously log the time we spend on individual tasks, I’ve got a script running that uses ImageMagick’s import command to grab screenshots of my desktop and save them to files once every 5 minutes so I can refer back to them while logging my time.

And as FizzyOrange said, various Wayland compositors have workarounds for the fact that there isn’t (or rather wasn’t until recently) a way to do screen grab in a standard way that would work across all compositors which properly and comprehensively implement the Wayland protocol. I use Sway on my personal machines and it’s based on something called wlroots which has built-in a nonstandard extension to the Wayland protocol that allows screen grab. But once wlroots adopts the new standard way of doing screen grabbing, the nonstandard extension will be unneeded/obsolete.

Wake me when they add screen grab.

I’m guessing it’s supposed to be a… dance hall? Or maybe a big dining room or something? But yeah. I think it’s just a polished floor.

Jeez. At first glance I thought that first pic was an indoor swimming pool.

Did people think they meant something else? Or was it more that they didn’t really elaborate and folks didn’t know quite what they meant?

Probably defacing PBS?

Though I think that may have kindof been the FBI’s idea rather than Anonymous’. (It took place after Sabu was compromised by the FBI and I think it was kindof Sabu that started… was it LulzSec that that PBS hack was done under?)

Fuckin’ FBI.

(Also, don’t know why you’re getting downvotes.)

So Wario, then? Maybe that makes Android Waluigi.

Even study accents. Watch some YouTube vids by professional voice coaches. You’ll get to where you can pick out clues about where someone might be from based on aspects of their accent.

This isn’t actually a serious question, right?

There’s no such thing as “correct” grammar. Different ways of speaking (or writing/typing) can certainly make people view you differently. For instance you might be seen as more or less smart or educated or affluent depending on your way of speaking. But that’s pretty much just stereotypes.

I watched part of an MIT OpenCourseware course on linguistics once. (Very good and recommended, despite the fact that I haven’t finished it.) At one point the professor told the students that “we’ll speak no more about prescriptive linguistics except to mock it.”

Mo’ unit tests, mo’ problems.

I think whoever made this map was on some wild grass ifyouknowwhatimsayin.

I have a flip-side story.

As a kid, I had a dog that we’d walk around the neighborhood kindof as a family on a regular basis. There was one spot along the walk where he would kindof flip out. Bark, pull hard on the leash, try to drag me into this one yard. And walk after walk, we had no idea what was possessing this dog.

So, finally, one day we decided to just let the dog pull us over and show us what it was going for. (This was in someone’s yard, so maybe a little weird and inconsiderate of their property, but yeah.)

He approached the concrete deer lawn ornament, gave it one confused bite on the neck, and realized the deer wasn’t prey. He was forever cured of the tugging on the leash at that specific spot on the usual walk route.

That dog wasn’t terribly bright.

Delete System32.

Get in the car:

• -10hp
• -10hp
• -10hp …

Until the AC finally starts to blow cold air.

To be fair, the team at the time was all business majors. (Is “Computer Information Systems” what they call that degree most places or just at my alma mater?) I think I was the only computer science major there.

They’d done a surprisingly admirable job of cobbling together a working e-commerce, loss prevention, customer sercvice portal, orderfulfillment, and CMS suite. And their schooling was in, like, finance, MS Office, and maybe one semester on actual programming.

None of them had ever learned how to count in binary. Let alone been exposed to 2’s compliment. And there were no QA engineers.

Oh, there was the sysadmin. He had a temper and was a cowboy. If you asked him to do something, it’d be fuckin’ done, man. But you did not want to know how he made sausage. The boss asked him to set up a way for us to do code reviews and he installed Atlassian Fisheye/Crucible on a laptop under his desk. We used that for years. And a lot of the business logic of the customer-facing e-commerce site lived in the rewrite rules in the Apache config that only he had access to and no one else could decipher if they did have access.

Those were good times. Good times.