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What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
  • satay-sauce

    I've been on the internet since 1996 or so, and this is the first mention (in English) of Satay. Amazing.

    Satay with some mayo is nice as well.

  • What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
  • Some good kebab helps too, probably due to the fat and salt, but water over kebab, if you have to choose.

  • Thoughts
  • You are now breathing manually. Take that, OP!

  • My daughter decides what we watch..
  • Fight me.

    Can we do a Blueyathon instead, so we can see all the foreshadowing they've secretly been doing all along? Take the Winton foreshadowing of his dad bumping into the mom of one of the other kids at a store...

    spoiler

    some two episodes before it's even revealed that they like each other, and then even later THEY are the people that sell their house (with a pool) that the poodles end up buying instead of Bluey's house, because Winton's dad moves out of his house to live with the other mom!

    It's such a good show.

  • Goodbye, Reddit: How the Internet’s Front Page Is Eating Itself
  • that guy who took increasingly elaborate pictures of himself taking the previous picture of his camera

    This one: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cmwov/hey_reddit_what_tattoos_do_you_have/c0tpyls/

    Make sure to click [+][deleted] 14 years ago (156 children) to get even more.

  • Goodbye, Reddit: How the Internet’s Front Page Is Eating Itself
  • I remember Reddit helping to make a kid do his homework.

  • Goodbye, Reddit: How the Internet’s Front Page Is Eating Itself
  • People kept complaining about “karma farmers”

    I remember the "Reddit is just you, me and /u/karmanaut" meme from 2008. He was the original "karma farmer". It was a problem since the early days due to how they setup Reddit as a system. It just enforced his behaviour.

  • Kotaku being Kotaku
  • I feel there's this trend where movie directors must and shall make their own story in whatever world is in front of them, instead of trying to make a movie that would fit in the game, or simply take the game's story and make a movie out of that.

    It's why Lord of The Ring was so fucking good (Christopher Lee/Saruman read the books every year of his life, and corrected Peter Jackson whenever necessary), whereas Rings of Power is shit (I mean, a loving Orc family? What the FUCK have they been snorting!?). It's also why I'm hopeful to get something good out of Henry Cavill directing any 40k movie (that, or we're getting nothing, at best. At worst someone else takes over and we're getting female custodes for no good reason).

  • Kotaku being Kotaku
  • OK, so it's going to be a shitty movie and no one is going to watch it, other than YouTubers, so they can dunk on the movie.

    This is a second shitty movie with Black Jack in it. Lets hope he's not a trend setter.

  • Why YAML sucks?
  • And lack of trailing comma's

  • Why YAML sucks?
  • and no possibility of (a lack of) trailing comma's. Unless you use JSON inside Yaml, you heathens!

  • Why YAML sucks?
  • Depends on the data structure. If you want to save a table of sorts, you're getting a bunch of unreadable [[[]]] nonsense.

    For flat structures it's great though.

  • Why YAML sucks?
  • That lack of trailing comma has been the bane of my existence.

  • Why YAML sucks?
  • People are working on making S-Expressions a standard: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rivest-sexp/

    Note: This is just a draft, but improvements have been happening since 2023.

    I probably won't like the parentheses, but I think I'll take it over yaml/json/whateverelse.

  • Why YAML sucks?
  • YAML is fine if you use a subset (don't use the advanced features - not like you know those anyway) and use explicit strings (always add " to strings), otherwise things may be cast when you did not intend values to be cast.

    Example:

    country: NO (Norway) will be cast to country: False, because it'll cast no (regardless from casing) to false, and yes to true.

    country: "NO" should not be cast.

  • Why does it seem the world is all of a sudden concerned about sexual orientation? Especially America. Did I miss how far we came as a society to see it take a 40 year step backwards?
  • The prosecutor argued that the murder of Shepard was premeditated and driven by greed

    McKinney's girlfriend told police that he had been motivated by anti-gay sentiment but later recanted her statement, saying that she had lied because she thought it would help him.

    Price said she had lied to police about McKinney having been provoked by an unwanted sexual advance from Shepard, telling TV journalist Elizabeth Vargas, "I don't think it was a hate crime at all."[9][37] Rerucha said, "It was a murder that was once again driven by drugs."[9]

    Doesn't seem to be a hatecrime. Just a crime against someone that happened to be gay.

  • specialization is for insects
  • Did you know swans can be gay?

  • "Ladybird announcement" by Andreas Kling (from SerenityOS)

    Ladybird, the browser from SerentityOS, now has a non-profit behind it! The guy in the video is not Andreas, but Chris Wanstrath (former CEO from Github), and he's pumping some financial backing into this non-profit.

    I for one am happy we're getting an alternative to the Chrome/Firefox duality we're stuck with.

    https://ladybird.org/

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