[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

"Every Little Helps"

[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

That's ok, so is the population distribution.

[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Maybe we misheard and he said "this lets me sell more shoes"

[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

Velcro sewn to just inside the top of your pocket, so sticking a hand in your pocket makes a loud noise and you can feel it, for any pickpocket to separate the velcro.

[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

What's up with the giant standing on the minaret in the second picture?

[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

But maybe they could thank the doctor first.

[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Easyjet. They sent us an update in their app saying they delayed our flight a few hours due to ill pilot. We were waiting near the gate (nearest cafe) but not quite within view, and no flight boards nearby. They decided not to delay after all but did not send an update to the app, and nothing over loudspeakers. My paranoia got the better of me so i wandered down to the gate around the original time of flight to take a look. When I saw they were boarding after all i called the family down, but we had missed it by a minute or so. They would not let us board. They preferred to delay the flight while they unloaded our baggage. We had to pay for and book with another airline to arrive at our hotel at midnight losing a day of our Greek Island holiday. When we complained to their service desk, they refused to refund us, and said "we DO suggest you always keep up to date by watching the flight boards". There was a giant sign by their desk that literally said "download our app to keep up to date on your flights". I will never give those fucks another dollar, and I tell this story to anyone who will listen.

[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That would only add one extra process instance with each call. The pipe makes it add 2 extra processes with each call, making the number of processes grow exponentially instead of only linearly.

Edit: Also, Im not at a computer to test this, but since the child is forked in the background (due to &), the parent is free to exit at that point, so your version would probably just effectively have 1-2 processes at a time, although the last one would have a new pid each time, so it would be impossible to get the pid and then kill it before it has already replaced itself. The original has the same "feature", but with exponentially more to catch on each recursion. Each child would be reparented by pid 1, so you could kill them by killing pid 1 i guess (although you dont want to do that... and there would be a few you wouldn't catch because they weren't reparented yet)

[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

Whoever owns the camera presumably has an interest in reducing/solving crime in the area (why else have cameras?), so they would likely be happy to make the footage available to police if asked nicely, with no warrant required.

[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
  • Wings of Fury
  • Populous
  • F/A18 Interceptor
  • Pool of Radiance
  • International Karate+
  • Jetset Willy (also Blagger, Monty Mole series and other similar games)
[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah

[-] kablammy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Once AI and robots can do/make anything they want on demand, they won't even need money, so don't need to make money by selling stuff. For sure, they will probably have a tough time transitioning from the idea of making money, but they won't need to any more. The rest of us could split off our own fairer economy, but they'll probably have the IP locked up on all the technology so we can't use it and have to keep working 5 day or more weeks.

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