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@lukhash I feel like I would be remiss if I didn't somehow draw @foone attention to this picture...

@foone What does pink smoke signify?

@foone I've had this idea for a long time so now I'm giving it to you in the hopes that someone less lazy than me might actually bring it to life: a one-button keyboard that emits the character corresponding to the ASCII code of the current outside temperature. You have to get up in the cooler parts of the day to type an "A", most of the capital letters are available year-round in southern California, if you want lower case letters you'll have to go to Arizona.

This is a Good Ideaᵀᴹ.

@foone
Do they give you one or do you have to buy one when you become pope?
@chipperdoodles

@foone @The4thCircle I'm almost certain for the money you're spending on multiple cameras and 3d printed gadgets you could just hire a couple poor slobs on fiverr and make them take the pictures by hand...

@foone I think "shenis" ... uh ... "rolls off the tongue" the best...

@foone Surely there's a 1-bit ALU we can throw in on top of that to make is a 69-bit system...

@foone Maybe it's time to start carefully considering whether it might make sense to give Windows Server 2003 a try?

@foone

@foone I'm assuming you've tried the obvious (run with a different, known good memory stick)?

@foone this may be the right moment to note that much of what we call "the eighties" today was mostly an epiphenomenon of the production, distribution, and consumption of cocaine...

@foone as someone who has dabbled with enough code to state with confidence that I'm NOT a programmer, was there ever a functional difference between a vector and a list? If not, why were they distinguished? If yes, how was that resolved going from 5 to 6? This sort of stuff is endlessly fascinating for me (as a bystander that doesn't actually have to do any of this for real)