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happy halloween

"there are no microorganisms that can break most of them down (yet)." sounds like a pitch line from a monster movie. like some kind of creature that metabolizes plastic but then also becomes a huge plastic super-organism that comes ashore and breaks down all our carbon-carbon bonds
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/searching-for-solutions-to-a-crisis-decades-in-the-making/
#ecohorror

So, why would #GCC's cc1 need to be 25 MB in #debian (and that's without debugging symbols -- with is closer to 150MB) ? C's not that big of a language...is most of that optimization code or something?
#compilers

I'm trying to remember the title of this #SF book that consists of several vignettes of extremely long lived people (basically immortal). One of them involved a guy that meditated to slow down his body to kill himself and, I think, he got absorbed into a tree or something. sound familiar?
#scifi #sciencefiction

vision coverage is presented in such a bizarre way. in benefit election portals, it's like they go out of their way to deemphasize it's VSP that provides insurance coverage vs your health insurance. then, they don't send out a member card (at least not at my company: it depends on what the company asks for from what I've heard). like, I had no idea who provides my vision coverage until I needed to pay for an eye exam -- I thought it was just a part of my general medical

#shitpost #poe #halloween (kinda)

https://navat.substack.com/p/diy-acoustic-camera-using-uma-16 omg I had been wanting to build something like this for year to find this weird sound I heard in my bedroom, but I didn't know what it's called. $275 is still rather expensive for something I just wanted out of curiosity

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/a-trio-of-space-cowboys-saddle-up-for-adventure-in-official-cowboy-bebop-trailer/

I think this is one I'll have to pretend doesn't exist, kinda like the Last Airbender movie

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/a-trio-of-space-cowboys-saddle-up-for-adventure-in-official-cowboy-bebop-trailer/
I think

What makes you say that? This lab has received funding from US gov’t agencies, including in intelligence.