Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were originally started by Warner Bros. to showcase their music publishing interests, promote popular songs of the day which they owned and featured in their musical films, and to serve as advertisements for their recordings and sheet music. Today, the descendant Warner Music Group is one of the big four music publishing conglomerates. Fun fact.

Edit: Here’s the short film, courtesy of the Internet Archive.

"I do have a test today. That wasn’t bullshit. It’s on European socialism. I mean, really, what’s the point? I’m not European, I don’t plan on being European, so who gives a crap if they’re socialists? They could be fascist anarchists. It still wouldn’t change the fact that I don’t own a car.

It’s not that I condone fascism or any ism for that matter. Isms, in my opinion, are not good. A person should not believe in an ism. He should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon: ‘I don’t believe in Beatles. I just believe in me.’ Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I’d still have to bum rides off of people."

– Ferris Bueller

You can’t be grounded if you’re always grounded.

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Game developer Jonathan Blow gave a great talk with a dramatic title in 2019 before the slopocalypse in which he gripes about buggy software and the ever increasing complexity and how it causes knowledge loss. It has aged. I’m sure the same talk today would be quite a bit different. It’s still relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk

oopsie woopsie

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Oh, I’d recognize those parenthesis anywhere. Any sufficiently complicated javascript program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, supply-chain-vulnerable, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

http://idema.org/?download=7934

To make things more confusing, there’s a goofy formula which tells you the actual capacity of a given advertised capacity. A drive advertised as 1 TB will always have exactly 1,000,204,886,016 bytes. It helps to have consistency, but nobody seems to knows where the formula came from.

https://superuser.com/questions/1037272/why-does-my-500gb-hard-drive-have-a-capacity-of-exactly-500-107-862-016-bytes

And that’s only one of the hundred or so reasons he’s the most corrupt president in modern history.

Take care of your wetware.

I just created [email protected] if you’re interested in sharing/discussing academic CS papers.

It’s not as impressive when they get help with AI. I would argue impressing people is the entire point with this sort of thing. Using AI defeats the purpose.

How the Executive Branch Works

Oh god it’s 10 hours long.

How does it look for double hyphens? I would expect those to be more common in code comments (before the LLMageddon at least) as an em dash just looks like a hyphen in the typically displayed monospace type.

Feed me, Seymour.

I couldn’t remember the name of the game. Looks like I found an off brand version.

why not both

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KvWwJ6sh5s

Best advice in this entire thread.