Tag: anecdote
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electronic old men i have met
In the early-mid 90s my dad ran a PC repair business, which I get the impression he spun up in advance of knowing much about PCs and more or less learned on the job. I remember that when he hit a PC he really couldn’t do anything with, he’d hit up a guy called Jim,…
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coolest apology i ever got
Sometimes kids in their teens or early 20s rock up in my discord, and stay for years, and become adults. This only happens if they don’t get banned for irritating me, and I’m surprised by how often that happens. I can’t imagine being cool or thoughtful or insightful at that age, but some of ’em…
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probability is hard to think about
so i was working on a game. the game has haystacks sometimes. if you set fire to the haystack, there’s a one in six chance that when it burns away, it turns out to contain a treasure chest! you can get some loot i implement this. much later, QA reports a bug: the chance of…
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at a chip shop in scotland,
i ordered a “sausage in batter” and the woman i ordered it from gave me a look like i was the stupidest prick in the world and said “we only do them in batter”. i said “i’m just reading off the menu”. she rolled her eyes. the menu was next to us both, large backlit…
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malmer puckey
randomly remembered the time i met palmer luckey when the oculus dk2 was new. i was like, “positional tracking is super cool, but the camera is a bummer. keen for in a few years when you can do it without an external camera” he goes “no, that will never happen. it’s impossible”