valleyforge @valleyforge@qoto.org

I'm watching Skyfall and I'm pretty sure this movie would be much shorter and the bad guy would be dead like half-way through if James Bond were replaced by "the ugly" from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

Why don't construction cranes have the cab on the ground? Why does it need to be at the top?

Say hello to my little friend. I believe he's a Texas Spiny Lizard.

Is it possible to give an explanation of functional programming without using factorial or fibonacci as an example?

Evil Knievel is one of the few people for whom the phrase "the man, the myth, the legend" is applicable

based rabbi
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-deadly-attack-chief-rabbi-urges-synagogue-goers-to-bring-guns/

People who complain about political "gridlock" are just saying "why can't I force people to do what I want?" Those people shouldn't be in power.

My thought process in the past few weeks has gone from "I should get a little duel-sport. That would be fun" to "maybe something with a bit more power so if I need to jump on the highway I can" and finally I'm at "I should get a $15k 100 horsepower cruiser".
So far all I've done is sign up for motorcycle lessons which still aren't for a month.

This is not dumb.

From the same article, "On a more extreme end, if someone intends to be racist, sexist, or exclusionary in their writing, and wants to draft that up in a Google document, they should be allowed to do that without an algorithm attempting to sanitize their intentions and confuse their readers."

This is dumb.

"Cutting phrases like “whitelist/blacklist” and “master/slave” out of our vocabulary not only addresses years of habitual bias in tech terminology, but forces us as writers and researchers to be more creative with the way we describe things."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dk8m/googles-ai-powered-inclusive-warnings-feature-is-very-broken

Someone explain to me what the downside to nuking the moon is.

What was that country next to Yemen? O man I can't think of the name.

I guess RISC processors could be faster is you really optimize for them

https://www.raptorperformance.com/collections/shift-lights/products/shift-light-raptor-single-mode-shift-light-gen-ii

This shift indicator is advertised as having a "RISC processor for extreme precision and easy user interface"

There's an episode of Scrubs about how the black main character doesn't like affirmative action. I don't think you could do that today.

Fun fact: the US Constitution is dated "year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth"

There was some effort to start dating things with year 0 being 1776 and this line is almost always left off of transcripts of the Constitution.

The process for getting a motorcycle is more difficult and expensive than I had assumed. It might take me a few months. Currently looking at the Kawasaki Versys x300 or the BMW G 310 GS. I don't see an American bike that competes with these. Indian needs to start making lightweight bikes.