@scruss best gift for Meal Team Six
You ever load up a years-old game save and expect it to sound faded or something?
@socketwench Yeah, I've had bouts with enthusiasm toward live streaming and other misc content creation. But, of course, it's very sporadic and ADHD-wandering-focus-driven. So, I never have the kind of consistent effort to build up any audience or momentum
@socketwench I kinda want an "algorithm" that specializes in surfacing sporadic & infrequent posters / creators. Maybe in a special feed that weights them heavier than the regulars
@annika same same same same
COVID-19; health news (good)
Oh and an update to my supposed positive COVID-19 home test from a bit over a week ago:
Got both myself & wife over to Urgent Care. We'd both tested positive at home with the same 2-pack kit fresh from Walgreens. They tested us both 2 more times with different tests. All negative.
She felt fine. I felt rundown, cruddy, and in a digestive jumble.
But, neither of us got worse or showed typical symptoms. I feel mostly better after this past weekend.
Maybe just a false-positive fluke? Apparently the odds of that are very very small, but maybe we had a bum test kit from Walgreens?
How I feel about my Yubikey today: ccccchbuiglndiuvuenedchihjlkvbjeledglvbdglfr
I always pronounce this like Q*Bert swearing.
TIL about the mapFn argument to Array.from in modern javascript. And that you can just supply an object with a length property as the arrayLike parameter
So, you can populate an array with some garbage like this:
Array.from({ length: 10 }, (_, idx) => idx * 10)
[
0, 10, 20, 30, 40,
50, 60, 70, 80, 90
]
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/from
That thing when a captcha thing wants me to click all the squares with "motorcycle" but these are clearly all Vespa scooters and a bicycle but the machine disagrees
The Matrix except instead of humans as batteries (or co-processors as (I mistakenly believed) it was originally written) it's just humans in pods identifying objects so they can get back to their match-3 game
@williampietri Hmm, I might be confusing this with liberties Neil Gaiman took when he wrote his short-story contribution to The Matrix comics.
But IIRC, he claimed that early scripts / storyboards positioned humans as co-processor brains rather than batteries
@williampietri I also have a vague recollection of this being mentioned in a DVD extra interview for the original movie, but it's been years since I last watched those 🤔
But yeah, I always thought the battery thing was a dumbing down of a cooler concept
@williampietri That post also reminds me I need to re-read Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos 🤔