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The joys of distributed algorithms. You can now get more errors, more quickly than before!

I remember writing a chat system in assembler, for DOS, using, IIRC, IPX networking. When it went wrong, one or more machines would just freeze, with the string “NETWORK ABEND” in the middle of the screen.

I should fork vim and call it ‘death’, so I can shout “give me vim or give me death!” any time someone suggests a different editor.

That has unironicaly made me nostalgic for the days when the web was a place of experimentation, joy and just a bit of crazy.

This is painfully true. I want to say something pithy about it, but my brain is filled with cotton wool and sludge.

“They will hunt you, they are like a cross between a lentil and a velociraptor,”

Well, that’s a horrifying image.

Yes, the IMEI uniquly identifies the phone itself, so if the GSM radio is on, the network can monitor it’s approximate location.

There’s a couple of caveats: IMEI cloning is possible, but unlikely, and he accuracy of the triangulation will depend on a lot of factors including how far apart the towers are and what sort of obstructions there are between you and the towers. My understanding is that it is done by comparing your signal strength at each of the towers as a proxy for distance. If there’s a large obstruction that reduces your signal to a tower it could throw those measurements off. They’ll know you’re in the area, but not exactly where.

You didn’t “punish” them in the slightest, they’re not the ones who will suffer, you punished everyone else instead by deliberately acting to boost the republicans.

To be clear, this is not a good, or even acceptable situation, but it is the reality. Each voter had the choice to accept that reality and work within it to seek out the least bad result or vote as if their fantasy was true, and aid the republucans.

The time for trying to change the Democrat positions is every other day, not on the day of a massively consequential election.

The same as before, that you made your choice to hand the White House to trump rather than a Democrat you didn’t agree with. It’s the same story down the ticket too. The Democrats may have run a lousy campaign, with poor candidates, but we all knew what the alternative was, and some ostensably left wing voters chose not to oppose that.

He needs this on his office door. It’d really set the tone for meetings.

All right, fine. It’s wok fried rice… No, wait, I see where this is going.

Quite right. It’s human fried rice with shrimp.

It looks like you’re going to have to reconnect a couple of traces, but if you’ve got some magnet wire and a fine tipped iron you should be good to go. You probably don’t need that bit on the left, it doesn’t look important.

The thing is, humans are astonishingly good at conserving energy when running. We can literally run prey to death by just keeping on going when most animals run out of energy.

Yeah, you’re exhausted and feel like you’re having a heart attack. It is deeply unfun.

If you feel like that all the time, you can probably run through walls. I’ll keep an eye on the news!

I like it. We could combine it with @sbv@sh.itjust.work 's blood and skulls suggestion for extra pizzaz.

I love it, it subverts the trope perfectly. Who do we have to talk to to make it happen?

Do we still get the sparkly, spinny transformation sequences, or is it more of a flash, and instead of the worryingly young protagonist, Mo’Gar Skullcrush stands in front of the wizard Balath, who’s been causing problems, reaches forward and squashes him flat with one hand.

Either way, I’d watch it.

Take your eye roll and hearty groan and get out!

Thanks for a good chuckle this morning.

I’m browsing all by top/6 hour. Bad news: they’re multiplying. I counted at least three or four users on the first page.