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  • “Back to Earth” feels kinda off, but still had some funny bits.

    Series X to XII feel like a return to form, with X feeling more like the first few series in tone (more sitcom-y), and the next two feeling more adventurous like series 3 to 6. A few episodes get pretty Black Mirror-ish (in a good way) while keeping up the humor.

    Promised Land kept the level of quality, but told a longer story, while remaining very funny and imaginative.


  • I’ve been using Cursor at work (been kind of forced to, not entirely my choice) but I’m not a developer, as I do “development-adjacent” tasks. So I sometimes ask it to read large config files and such, and extract information for me.

    Seeing how it works, I suspect if I asked it to write the word “elephant” 30,000 times, I kind of expect it to write a script that will do that by writing it to a file, run the script, then display the resulting file.

    ChatGPT would probably just start writing “elephant” repeatedly until it runs out of context, then start doing weird things.

    But I haven’t tried… To anyone reading this: feel free to try it and report back




  • I think you’re right. I guess they had parents who were big on setting rules, but not on justifying them.

    I’m pretty sure my parents throttled my bread intake at restaurants when I was very young for the reason you state, but they accompanied their directive with a “don’t fill up before you get your main course” justification. So I didn’t assimilate it as a rule of etiquette, and instead understood the underlying logic.





  • I need a CPAP to sleep, so naps are basically impossible for me

    But at a past job doing tech support at a web hosting company, where I was still new and assigned to the night shift, it was just me and another guy who was supposed to support me, and be the acting manager.

    At night we’d be lucky to get more than one or two calls, and maybe a handful of live chats, so we’d mostly do tickets all night.

    Well, I would. He would curl up at his desk and sleep for 7 hours, then speed through a bunch of really easy tickets (that he’d botch) in order to have respectable metrics.

    There were others in a different department who knew about this, so on at least one occasion, they drew a penis on his forehead while he slept. Even though our boss saw this, the slacker wasn’t fired, as he was one of the few who actively wanted the night shift.