SGU is so perfectly poised for a continuation at any point. Everyone but Eli is in cryo and we don’t know what happened.

Some actors won’t come back? Ok, the characters died in cryo. Some actors are sceptical about returning? Their cryo pods are stuck and can’t be shut down. David Blue specifically won’t come back? Eli didn’t manage to fix the last cryo pod. Or maybe he’s just missing, along with a shuttle.

Anything could have happened on the ship in the intervening time. Any plot device that’s too powerful (like the stones) could go missing. Don’t like the enemies that were being set up? That’s cool, it’s a new galaxy.

And of course, since it’s not actually certain how long Destiny will take to cross the gap (maybe Eli had to slow it down?), this continuation is evergreen.

I write developer tools. When I was doing web stuff I hated my job.

Man I’m so glad I love my job.

I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to reveal to the world that your butt is an outie

Uhh this is a bottle stopper

In case you missed it, it’s an xkcd reference

At a previous job we had an unholy combination of the last two:

HTTP/1.1 200 POST /endpoint 
{
  "data": null,
  "errors": ["403", "unauthorized"],
  "success": false
}

That’s the idea of those “which pictures contain bikes?” ones and the ReCaptcha (where you had two words from books). In the book one, one of the words is known and the other is not. They’ll present the same unknown word to people until they get a clear answer from many dozens or hundreds of entries, using the known word as a control. Then that other word goes into the known words category.

This is the opposite of the time my friend posted a link to my personal site on Digg. It was running on a Pentium 1 with 128 MiB of RAM on a home internet connection.

I believe the common terms now are “domme” and “sub”

Carrying the body of a smaller plane in a larger plane isn’t an antipattern either. Airbus does this between body assembly and attaching the wings.

I learned lolcode in college because we had to write a sorting algorithm in assembly and “any other programming language.”

What about ed?

They don’t call it a viitor or an emacsitor. It’s an EDitor!

blåhaj.squashfs

Kubuntu

The best version of the Signal app was back when it was available as an actual web app.

It’s because it’s an electron app. So in addition to the chat app itself, it also includes a full Chromium runtime. Worse still, the Electron architecture doesn’t really lend itself towards reusing electron itself; this means you might have several copies of the same version of electron on your machine for various apps.

People complain about the sizes of things like flatpaks and snaps, but tbh the whole architecture of applications is like this these days. Ironically, flatpaks and snaps could help with this because their formats can work decently with filesystem level deduplication.

Yep! Most of us are even homo sapiens!

Here’s a real-world use case that also won’t require insane GPU power.