It’s pretty much a rule for funerals: wear black clothes and if you wear a tie, use a black one, if you wear a ribbon, make it a black one

IRL 1984 was fine. America was still good; the Soviet Union didn’t nuke us all

Australia prefills all the information from employers, banks, share market registers so most people can log onto the government website, go to their tax account and accept the prefilled form

Musk is a shit, but lying doesn’t help

The last attempted helicopter prison escape in the Wikipedia list is from 2020

Hijinks are harder now than they were in the '80s but not extinct; though even in the '80s success rarely lasted more than a few months for helicopter escapees

How the fuck you do get a bullet to the head and then try the same shit again?

Perhaps he was not unharmed by the bullet in the head

My mother fed me brains as a kid. They smelled terrible cooking but tasted great

You can make a date from a datetime in cell A1 with

=Date(year(A1), month(A1), day(A1))

The old way of saying that is close to obsolete. One now must take it from context whether the “you” means you or one.

A human artist might have said “1/2 full” instead of “half full” but LLMs don’t understand jokes so there’s no hope they’ll be able to make the joke easier

If you want the joke decoded:

-e return immediately for some failed commands

-u throw an error for unset variables

-s non functional

-a everything is marked for export

My favourite AI code test is code to point a heliostat mirror at (lattitude, longitude) at a target at (latitude, longitude, elevation)

After a few iterations to get the basics in place, “also create the function to select the mirror angle”

A basic fact that isn’t often described is that to reflect a ray you aim the mirror halfway between the source and the target. AI Congress up with the strangest non-working ways of aiming the mirror

Working with AI feels a lot like working with a newbie

I wonder how the zillionairs supporting Trump are enjoying this worse than 2017, worse than 2020 market freefall

Shame their god isn’t more powerful than their devil

For those who want to know which story, the short version is family house in a flood, family make it to the roof. Boat comes, another, another they send them away “God will save me” a helicopter comes, is told to go. The family die. God tells them they fucked up 'cause He sent three boats and a helicopter which they refused

I hate antivaxxers. As a kid I couldn’t get my first dose of measles vaccine because I was sick, and wasn’t vaccinated until my 5 year old vaccinations. I was sick with measles, but was okay.

I got measles because vaccination wasn’t widespread then and there. The same happened to other kids and they weren’t as lucky.

This kid was betrayed by their community, denied vaccines that would have kept them alive because people lied to them

Ed. Swipeographical errors

🎵can we please hold hands again?🎵

The fish is screwed either way, it can’t dance and it has no ability to make a fist, its flipper is too inflexible

Even if it were a bite contest, the fish has a much smaller mouth

My money’s on the fem boy, unless it’s a swimming race

I’m glad you know them so well. In what way is such a popularly used rule not a rule?

Incidentally I find it interesting that d&d 3.5 specifically calls out that a 20 isn’t automatic success, and a 1 is not an automatic failure, where 5e removes that clarification, simply saying “if the roll plus bonuses is less than the DC the check fails”.

That looks to me like they are leaving it more open to the common house rule

In BG3 (which mostly follows d&d 5e rules) you succeed in a skill check with DC 30 on a natural 20 even if you have less than +10 as a modifier on the roll

Are you sure a 20 has no special meaning in checks in d&d (I presume you mean in d&d as it’s the most popular system)?

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