Customer: Why is the pub such a mess‽ Barman: A famous Spanish actor came in earlier, got really drunk and smashed the place up! Customer: Javier Bardem? Barman: No but if he does it again I will for sure.

kontextus nélkül is örökzöld poszt

drifting in the stillness of space enclosed in a capsule with two outlooks but no toilet sounds quite attractive now

I just learned about something called recency bias. It's my favorite thing ever.

this is one of my two favourite "wtf is HE doing here" moments in astronomy, the other one being the first modern (and still more or less accepted) hypothesis on the formation of our solar system by immanuel kant

as an antidote to all this ai noise i've quietly been coding away on my pet project not only without ai but without any third party libraries as well it was an interesting exercise, and i've learnt a lot from it, which tbf was one of the main goals

is it "fucking pipe down"? it works for me every time

Red Bull is dying, Carabao struggles to be born, now is the time of Monster.

this is a cracking article for me what is often feels jarring in some systems is not that professionals can fail, it's more the actual shape of the proficience-failure rate curve it's why i chose for example skill level x exploded d10 for my system: it offers a far more nonlinear failure curve

turns out the secret of an extremely long life is pension fraud www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: etc. in the beginning there was "és a többi" ("and the others") and then the race for brevity began

i put it to you that the most reassuring sound in the world is the microsoft teams voice chiming "muted" in your ear right after you've let out a massive belch

i've got mixed feelings watching the technical marvel of this launch while earlier today my train got stuck at bradford interchange due to a broken down train ahead of us on the line

llms are the var of machine learning

it will be ironic if the flight is terminated due to a malfunction in the flight termination system

this is the crux of it i love random generators for example in ttrpg story creation, i've written a few myself but their point isexactly that they're random their output is jagged and ill-fitting, so rather than replacing creativity they just shift where it's happening: to make random things fit

Princess Anne continues to merge with the Christopher Walken meme

i can trace back the world going to shit to the point when we lost the concept of googlewhack

cancel culture ftw you can't even monopolise all the ram in the world these days because of woke

Actually maybe we shouldn’t?

it is possible to take a fixed size and evenly distributed sample from a stream of stuff without knowing in advance how long the stream will be okay, this is not something many people in my field know but it's true and it blew my mind when i first learnt how to do it, and how simple it is to do it

it's gonna be a long two weeks

my sharona? m-m-m (am i doing this right?)

the way a lot of people talk about “worldbuilding” as if it is an exercise conceptually distinct from the rest of the parts of writing a story (plot, characterization, etc) is incorrect IMO

#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: more of a question really i've mentioned in passing before that my favourite book ever is an obscure 80s sf novel called "bolygófalók" i mean it's obscure even in hungary

or as an alternative you can also choose not to opt out and push tons of atrociously shit code

that's nothing, i know of a tech bilionaire who identifies as a simulation

the one and only

love the quietly understated derangedness of this argument it creeps up on you slowly at first, but once it does hit, it lingers

hadjuk is a heripótert, de valyon etikus-e nestlé kutyaszarbombont enni

same in hungarian

*at an orgy with five dentists so which one of you didn’t recommend my toothpaste

possible the most accurate satire of medieval warfare www.youtube.com/shorts/Z1paf...

i'm so european that i've never even been to the usa but what sort of dimwit is claiming that? come on lads, fess up and please don't embarrass the rest of us

#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: let's have a nosey so yes, the hungarian for "nose" is "orr", with a long, rolled "r" sound that many english people find hard to pronounce the approximant we all know and love unfortunately won't really cut it, "r" has to be at least a tap, and "rr" a definite roll

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

help, i'm wheezing

Today in ‘things that are funnier than they should be…’

funnily enough the research i commissioned conclusively revealed that the only way to save the economy is...[paper rustling noises]..."give loads of money to bald transylvanians living in west yorkshire", apparently

i must respectfully disagree: i was on a bus recently and actually it was quite small

fully automated luxury christianity

I’m not sure how or why we gave the impression that we were an autism support group but we are, in fact, a satire website. Adjust your expectations about how our work is supposed to make you feel accordingly.

Pufuleți! The battle cry of all Romanians worldwide.

i vaguely remember going to a bread factory when i was 7 or 8 what with this being mid-80s romania, with its empty shop shelves and rationing,, i presume the goal was to teach us what bread looked like

[Sade voice 🎵]

new ttrpg campaign title just dropped

what i find odd about birthrate discourse is what a mid dange to our speciesr it is: yes, the consequences can be dire but there's little time pressure and it's the most predictable existential risk ever almost like there are other, less intellectually honest reasons people are so into it

érdekes, hogy magyarországon nem nagyon ünnepeljük a pi-napot

it's difficult to appreciate how wildly shit markdown is until you try to do something complicated like umm...parse simple emphasis syntax