I see, thank you again for the additional details! I feel like I finally understand the joke thanks to you.
I think the reference to the track in the title text threw me off the most, and I didn’t even realize that it was supposed to be a joke until reading the top comment.
Thank you for also clarifying that you weren’t speaking negatively about me if I had been intentionally obtuse. I hope the mild distastefulness of the post isn’t due to bigotry.
Thank you for the clarification. I suspected as much, as you can see from my later comment, but I was legitimately confused.
I’m still not sure if I understand the humor (something about the implied double meaning of “hot wheels” I’m guessing), but it’s not at all uncommon for a joke to go over my head. I’m also not sure what is in any way distasteful about the post, and I hope I haven’t contributed to any distastefulness.
I’m on the spectrum so I’m used to misunderstanding things that are obvious to other people. I apologize if I came across as being intentionally obtuse to you, OP, or anyone else.
I don’t think those plastic tracks could support the weight of a human adult even if they were large enough for the wheelchairs. Especially not at the force they’d have to endure to reach sufficient looping speed and the looping itself. That’s to say nothing about the risk to the person in the wheelchair.
Is that the joke? The absurdity of the scenario?
I’m also not entirely clear how wheelchairs = hot wheels implicitly. Are you commenting on the appearance of the women in the wheelchairs, is it something to do with the wheelchairs themselves, or is it just the association that they both have wheels? Maybe something else entirely?
Apologies for my struggling to fully understand. I appreciate your clarifications.
I don’t understand, are they supposed to be looking at the reader seductively because the reader has hot wheels? Is that why you need a bigger track? So that everyone can play with the hot wheels together?
Something is clearly going over my head.
Where do the active code contributors to FOSS software exist on this scale?
My understanding is that focus on the mouth in social interactions is also influenced by culture. That’s why some cultures generally represented a happy face with the emoticon :) while others used ^_^
The former is focused on the mouth and the eyes lack meaningful expression, while the latter is the opposite.
Master(bater) of none?
They don’t mess around with their requirements either and strictly enforce them. If you don’t follow their rules and your domain is deleted, there is no refund or recourse.
That’s usually determined at the registrar level, not the registry level, though of course there are always exceptions.
Some ccTLDs have strict requirements (looking at you .de), but most are fairly standard TLDs. The last time I checked, .tv (for Tuvalu) was responsible for something like 40% of the country’s GDP, so it’s not surprising that most ccTLDs are welcoming to outsiders.
Edit: I was curious so I double checked, and apparently as of 2019 .tv was closer to 9% of Tuvalu’s Government spending according to Wikipedia. In my defense, the last time I researched the matter was several years prior to 2019, and additionally I have no doubt that I’m misremembering and/or unintentionally exaggerating that figure.
Regarding .de domains, I’ve seen multiple examples of a registered domain being completely deleted with absolutely no refund or recourse because the Registrant/Admin contact(s) didn’t respond to a physical letter sent by DENIC via post in Germany.
I would like to think that I’m capable of writing maintainable code like seemingly everyone else in this thread, and I have multiple code bases that have existed for decades that have included necessary updates over time to reinforce that opinion.
I’ve also seen some truly unfathomable, Lovecraftian horror code in the wild that has persisted for decades.
Seeing Will Smith’s character as a representative of humanity, and Sonny as a representative of LLM/GenAI in that context makes this joke absolutely hilarious.
Thanks for the clarification. Given the context of how this comment thread has developed, I didn’t know what to expect.
I’m not sure how to interpret this since I don’t wear glasses. I can’t tell if your response was intended as a compliment, insult, joke, or something else entirely.
Full disclosure, I’m on the spectrum so there is likely something that is going over my head. I can only hope that your comment was given with positive intentions and was intended to evoke positive feelings in the reader.
My understanding is that the Dr. was referring to her glasses prescription, but the numbers he provided were misinterpreted as some sort of rating on her appearance (or perhaps basketball performance).
He didn’t intend to cause that confusion, which is why he acknowledged that his choice of wording was not ideal. I hope that clears things up.
I hope the launch goes well, I’ll certainly give it a try.
I didn’t find anything wrong with it on Mac, it was a perfectly cromulent browser. And anything that can help dethrone the chrome monopoly is a win in my book.
I’ve used it on both macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) and iOS.
On macOS it’s been fine, but nothing about it was unique or beneficial enough to make me switch to it as my default browser. I imagine the experience on Linux will be similar.
On iOS, I’ve been daily driving it for almost exactly a year. At first it was very buggy, and I once lost all of my opened tabs. But for the past 6-8 months it has been very solid, and is the only browser on iOS that allows me to use both ad and sponsor block plug-ins to my knowledge. Tab groups are also fantastic and easy to manage.
Already done!
LoRa is a low power radio communication protocol that is very useful for warehouse and farming equipment, among many other things. I currently use ESP32s for GPIO, LoRa, and Wifi, and occasionally FPGAs for various tasks. But ad-hoc testing and diagnosis can be a pain for these devices, requiring multiple different dongles, power adapters, and converters.
If I can consolidate 75% of that gear into a single, handheld device, it will easily pay for itself in productivity gains.
I already have a work laptop running Linux, but it doesn’t support GPIO or LoRa without additional dongles/accessories. Working on industrial equipment while occasionally in remote locations, makes this device appealing to me specifically.
I’m also fortunate to have my employer willing to foot the bill, especially when they can also see the utility of this device in our line of work.
If you don’t work in this specific niche, your mileage will obviously vary.
I’ll take you at your word that my lack of association is a good thing, and I appreciate your patience and continuous efforts to help me understand.