A writer which is super prominent nowadays with the recent adaptation of his book into a movie, Project Hail Mary. Also the author of The Martian.

His website is also pretty cool. This page is just raw HTML, forget “no Javascript”, this page has no CSS. And the main page is straight out of the 90s, chef’s kiss.

Edit: leave it to me to forget to mention the entire reason I started talking about his website in the first place… Here is The Egg, the short story.

That could make me jealous, but then again so many men hit on me and I have zero response for it everytime so I guess we’re even

Actually if I’m being honest I’m just happy to know I’m hot to someone

I’m not gay but I’ve been told that I really look gay

Don’t talk shit about my baby the Dreamcast ever again

I don’t think the women dancing on lingerie phenomenon is ongoing. They make more money selling your data on free videos than they’d make after the money they’d spend programming it

Fake AND gay? The full package!

Just a few weeks (months?) ago:

Replace package nvidia with nvidia-open? [y/n] Y

Queue having to redo all my previous work to get the integrated graphics card and the dedicated graphics card playing well with each other

Do banking apps work well? I used to be pretty into custom OSes on my phone (it was the cyanogen mod at the time, I believe?). But banking apps are notoriously bad with anything they deem non-“standard”…

I am considering switching phones (or rather, my phone is considering dying anytime soon and so I want to get ahead of it) and if any custom rom works well with banking apps and whatnot, how easy it would be to flash a new rom would definitely factor into my decision

Is it OK if I delete the banking account for my company, or would you rather have me forward it to you and delete some random dll files?

Up and down and all around

On the other hand, when I was learning English this was the weirdest thing to me. What do you mean you have a gender neutral pronoun and it’s not acceptable to use it to refer to someone we don’t know the gender of?

Somehow this reads like it was said by T-Rex of Dinosaur Comics (qwantz.com)

Edit: this was not a criticism, I now wish to mate with you

Do you have a full ranking or is this ex just your least favorite while the others float around the same general score?

So if anyone does manage to hack TempleOS to have an internet connection, they probably earn the right to wank freely without losing the right to go to heaven right?

Spending a day doing SEM and seeing fuck all then seeing this meme feels targeted

I don’t know if you’re memeing but for anyone else, it’s angstrom (Ångström originally, but the Swedish spelling is not needed or appreciated anymore >:( ), or 0.1 nm, 10^-10 m

I need context for why my feed is filled with corn today

Honestly subreddit simulator was amazing. At that time I was super into text generation, I programmed a few basic Markov chains as well. It is a shame that modern generative AI sucked the joy out of what I considered a fun toy at the time.

Not an American, but here’s how I see it: It’s ammo.

To Trump supporters, deporting immigrants is seen as a good thing that he’s doing. But they also usually have a staunch anti-LGBTQ stance. Trump blowing a dude, regardless of if this bubba is or isn’t Bill Clinton, goes pretty hard against their stances. If there’s ever plausible evidence, it might be what makes Trump supporters see him for what he is to the rest of the world: a bumbling, lying idiot.

Putin potentially having such evidence further escalates this into yet another indicator that Trump might be playing his nation into Russia’s hands.

After a while you need to stop caring about the overall plot (which is pretty interesting on its own, but that is like drip fed to you) and start enjoying the arcs individually. Usually the structure is that they get to a new island, get to know the inhabitants and their culture and individual characters, the crew finds a mystery, problem or conspiracy, and they help the inhabitants. Quite often there are also multi-island plots that tie up all the plots of each individual island.

Admittedly the solution is always inevitably “Luffy punches the bad guy really hard in the face” while the rest of the characters are usually busy punching the bad guy’s underlings, but since you end up liking both the main characters and the characters they meet in each island (and the relatively rare but much beloved recurring characters), you don’t mind it as much.

Yeah, I’m always surprised at how common the opinion “one piece gets good after 50 episodes” is. One piece was pretty fun from the very start to me. Later episodes actually get worse for me because of how much they drag. I had to switch over to One Pace in dressrosa because I thought the actual plot was amazing, but I couldn’t handle the pace of the actual show.