@clacke I thought Alan's Joker was pretty meh, but Clayface is fantastic. And I was shocked Lake Bell was good, I *hated* her Surface series so much. Flames up the side of my face bad.

@clacke Also anyone who says that, hasn't seen a lot of corporate code, which was clearly not made by an intelligent designer.

@rudepundit People who identify with the goose-steppers in The Wall.

This should be the sign at the edge of all cities. Just untouched wilderness beyond.

https://scarysigns.tumblr.com/post/689326971880194048

@clacke https://www.reddit.com/r/DCcomics/comments/77v7bf/never_forget_batman_eats_hamburgers_with_a_knife/

It's brought up at times in all the Bat-family comics, Bruce's habits are super stuffy when he's out of uniform.

@clacke BATMAN. It's embarrassing but that's how Alfred taught him.

@calcifer I've worn Utilikilts in public, and didn't get any real shit for it, but I'm also a giant dude, and it was Seattle, where everyone's weird, kilts are common-ish, and summers are unbearably hot so not wearing pants is rational.

@derek How is that even controversial? It's an awesome movie. CGI's not so great mixed with cel, but at least it's not trying to be photo-realistic.

@clacke Noooo. The girl is a psychopath, leads the boy on in classic homophobic "trap" story, and then the boy throws up excessively and cries because he saw a weiner. Then he makes up because he's also a psychopath. The reviewers of the time thought that was fine because they'd also throw up.

Meanwhile, over here watching John Waters movies and listening to "Walk on the Wild Side", Boy George, & Annie Lennox, I was baffled by the reaction.

@clacke Yeah, it was a pretty terrible ending, even then. Tho it was riffing on/exactly copying a scene from The Crying Game, which was aggressively bad and serious. Ace at least has a good first two acts, and the sequel's OK.

Finally heard back, and they told me to go pound sand, the archive is in the profile. Which just leads back to the help site.

(also, my "photo ID" was a 16x16 Apple logo png, which they seem to have accepted as legal proof of identity)

UNLESS, you give them your phone number, and then a whole new world of actually working opens up, and now supposedly they're sending me my archive.

But they have my phone number. UGH.
#twitter

So, the only shitbird post archive I have is from 2013, and I came back at least once and posted a fair amount after that.

Request your archive on their site, and they take you to a help page, you have to submit a customer service request, and give a photo ID!

@SuricrasiaOnline Thus my "Other Peoples' Code is the work of the devil" pinned post.

I try to work as far down a stack as possible, and not use libraries unless I sorta understand them and could make them myself. Takes longer but I've got some time. My programs are less surprising to me.

@clacke Or, 9 years after the Twilight Zone "Special Service".

@vidak Chez is the best programming environment and fastest runtime. R6RS has more useful "batteries included", and Thunderchez or chez-srfi provide extra libraries.

Gambit just got updated and it's nearly R7RS. It's very fast, has some nice features & FFI, but it's thin on libraries.

CHICKEN is R5RS+some R7. Huge library support, and it literally is C so adding more is easy. Compiles take forever and it isn't very fast, tho.

Gauche runs everywhere, it has nice libraries.
#scheme

@clacke Universal sterilization. No more kids = no more school shootings. No more overpopulation.

Thanatosdrakon is my new best friend.
https://www.livescience.com/death-dragon-pterosaur-in-argentina
#dinosaur #pterosaur

@erinbee @clacke @eldang Worf might like flame, but I don't think any of them could produce it, without a complex gadget. TOS, sure, they had to build up from nothing several times, they understand stone knives & bearskins & fire. TNG? Nobody's made a fire in 120 years!

@erinbee @clacke @eldang I think they can't do things the easy way. They'd look at a tea kettle on a wood-burning stove, and go "good tea. nice house.", but couldn't manage it themselves.

They'd have to get Geordi in there to build a warp heating still, a micro-transporter to infuse the leaves, some elaborate piping system to pour it in his tea cup, hydraulic platform in a plastic tube lowers the cup to reach height. NOW it's Star Trek.

@clacke In 100 years, if Humans & computers still exist, there'll still be three languages from our time: COBOL, LISP, and C.

Banks will keep running COBOL because it's safer to maintain than replace a thing that processes money.

LISP/Scheme (but probably not ARC) because you can reinvent it from the papers in minimal time and mold it into your perfect dialect.

C because people are stupid and like to watch the world burn.
#cobol #lisp #clang