In Alejandro Jodorowsky’s concept for a Dune film from the early 1970s, each house has their costumes and architecture designed by a contemporary artist. Giger was the designer for the Harkonnen, and several of his ideas persisted beyond the failed film.

The Harkonnen Castle

A Harkonnen chair

I assumed Villeneuve was calling back to those designs.

This is especially funny because I think there’s only 7 positions on a typical trombone anyway, and unless you have godlike lips can only hit 3 or 4 octaves across those. i played trombone through high school and it’s like the easiest instrument, haha.

People in times of desperate oppression and violence rarely turn to the uncaring vastness of the chaotic universe for comfort.

Is it just me, or is it worrying how companies keep packing up and selling off the only parts of their businesses that actually, you know, make stuff, in favor of becoming full time bullshit peddlers?

I’ve been wanting to get a pipe Garfield tattoo since first seeing this. It changed me. Made me better.

I’m definitely getting my blog going regularly again… next year…

I guess you are, in some sense, “running Doom” as well as that AI that was supposedly running it, in that you are imperfectly emulating the experience of having previously seen Doom played.

Also my brain’s mod manager is total shit, long way to go catching up to DoomLauncher.

All these jokes about naming variables and yet no serious suggestions that if you have a turtle2, what you really need is a turtle array. I like to block out all the memory I’ll need for the whole program up front, put it all in one big array, and then I can use clean, easy to remember numbers for all my variables!

be you

wake up

cast spell

big bowl of lentils!

post lentils to lemmy

joy for all

The “tendies” thing (“nuggies” too) is so cringe to me, even more than Redditors and “le bacon”. It’s so easy to heat up frozen, pre-breaded chicken, and all these greentexts present it as though “being able to cook” (read: can put frozen food in an air fryer) is the pinnacle of love languages.

Can we make Lemmy lentils a thing or something? We’re already obcessed with beans I guess, feels like we need our own stupid food meme gimmicks to compete.

Space Mutiny is my favorite, but since OP already claimed it (now who will bring toys to the children!?) I’ll go with my close second, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. It’s such trash and Raul Julia tears up every blessed scene he’s in. He only dabbles in dopples but his love for the cinemas is easy to reciprocate.

He can’t even, it used to be a widespread problem

Programmers after slacking off for two days to improve their factories in Shapez2 because they already automated all their tasks.

If changing requirements mean you need to update the script, then updating the script is part of your job. QED. I don’t see the problem with a little job security.

If they called them “hot boxes” instead of “gas chambers,” i think the public support might be stronger.

“Hey Chad, we’re going light up this joint and gas chamber Alex’s car, want in?”

just doesn’t work as well.

I came into the industry right when XML fever had peaked as was beginning to fall back. But in MS land, it never really went away, just being slowly cannibalize by JSON.

You’re right though, there was some cool stuff being done with xml when it was assumed that it would be the future of all data formats. Being able to apply standard tools like XLT transforms, XSS styling, schemas to validate, and XPath to search/query and you had some very powerful generic tools.

JSON has barely caught up to that with schemes and transforms. JQ lets you query json but I don’t really find it more readable or usable than XPath. I’m sure something like XLT exists, but there’s no standardization or attempt to rally around shared tools like with XML.

That to me is the saddest thing. VC/MBA-backed companies have driven everyone into the worst cases of NIHS ever. Now there’s no standards, no attempts to share work or unify around reliable technology. Its every company for themselves and getting other people suckered into using (and freely maintaining) your tools as a prelude to locking them into your ecosystem is the norm now.

I’ve written Go code; they were right to fear.

I wrote a powershell script to parse some json config to drive it’s automation. I was delighted to discover the built-in powershell ConvertFrom-Json command accepts json with // comments as .jsonc files. So my config files get to be commented.

I hope the programmer(s) who thought to include that find cash laying in the streets everyday and that they never lose socks in the dryer.

Make sure to only eat oysters fed a strict vegan diet, then you’re all clear.

Angry driving can make one quite blunt

Enough to rage over a mundane stunt

At bicyclists abreast

a roar rose in his chest

SINGLE FILE YOU TWO-WHEELED CUN–

Skeleton Warriors!