toynbee

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

I got offered a job at NASA. It was very tempting, primarily because I would have gotten to see space maneuvers.

However, they had no WFH openings and the department that was offering me a position was only using technologies with which I was already familiar. Unfortunately I had to decline.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

In the show, he was a good doctor and was able to troubleshoot a kidney by hand (eye, actually, IIRC).

You're right, though ... In real life a good doctor couldn't and wouldn't.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

But there has to be a twist!

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

You've clearly never watched The Good Doctor.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I believed you for the first sentence, then you betrayed me.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I guess it's cool that Windows finally has an official package manager.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Noted, thanks!

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

An abyssal panda using pandoc. Who could have seen it coming.

Markdown is very useful, but I don't think I've ever written enough to earn template files.

My brother is one of the two smartest people I know and knows a lot of things I didn't know I didn't know. He's earned a lot of respect from me.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Last night, I was talking to my brother - who's a mathematician by trade - and learned the following from him:

LaTeX is Leslie Lamport's (hence La) macro package on top of TeX.

I've never used it, but for around fifteen years I've been working around people who do ... And yet I never knew that.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It'd be more impressive if you went ZZ.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Sort of, but it's a stretch on my part. The premise of the movie is that some people have been hired to clean an abandoned psychiatric hospital and, well, some things go wrong.

At some point one of the cleaners finds the crematorium and collects various leftovers from it. That's the extremely tenuous connection I was making.

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Duke (lemmy.world)
 

This was Duke. He's unfortunately long gone, but he was a good dog. He was the first dog I got as an adult, but really he was my then girlfriend's, now wife's dog. Still, hopefully this clip shows that he loved me as well, at least when she wasn't around.

 

There were a lot of good things that happened, but a lot of things I wouldn't mind having have skipped.

 

Nothing to add here.

 
 

Now it's a genre.

 

I'm not really sure why.

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Yesterday I hurt myself sufficiently that I wasn't really able to leave my bed. As such, I did three things: work, sleep and read. I did technically eat, but I couldn't sit up long enough to finish my meal. I did not shower, sadly.

Anyway, because that's not the first time this has happened, I keep a cache of books in my bed to read when I'm immobilized. Most recently it was these two. The one on the right is the one I started last night and the one on the left is the sequel.

Out of the corner of my eye, I keep thinking they're the same book. They're both from 2019, so it's not impossible AI was involved, but it's not terribly likely.

edit: Visuals aside, it's a pretty good series. The books pictured are numbers eleven and twelve and I like the characters enough to have made it this far into the series.

 

But there's something about them I find distracting.

 

I didn't think my cats would care, but since my dog died, Maze has been ... Aggressively affectionate. To the point that I need to shoo her away if I need any alone time. She wasn't this loving any time over her past fifteen years or so of life and didn't seem like she cared about the dog, but she's been completely transformed since then.

 

I mean, just look at it.

edit: For anyone wondering, it's from the first few seconds of HARDY - Sold Out.

 

They almost blend together.

 
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