@sarahtaber Here's the short story version, kinda

@ranjit @ranjit @casy Next time chop them in half and plop them (the whole green thing, not just the nut) into everclear for a few months, then strain and add sugar syrup to make a nice nocino. You want the unripe spring ones for this. I've done this with walnuts harvested from Prospect Park!

@jmac @emma At W4th St, there are dozens of these, every one of them corrected with notes like "AI is not your friend". Also some notes mentioned data center water usage. I saw a MTA maintenance guy ripping one down this morning; I don't know whether they're going to give up on the whole campaign, or if the notes on that one were just particularly awesome.

@mjd @ranjit Bat else could it whee?

@jmac Went to a kid's birthday party at a bowling alley yesterday. 90dB per my phone, which is exactly the OSHA limit for requiring ear protection if you work in it for 8 hours. Apparently some of the other parents got that same alert. I, too, wore ear protection (but don't have a watch to pester me about it).

@jmac I would love to go to Meow Wolf.

@jmac I think "we work at Amazon" is a weird way to say "we deliver packages for Amazon, but we work for an Amazon subcontractor so it's harder for us to unionize". (Or maybe I'm the weird one -- that does happen). Anyway, they can definitely ring a doorbell if they have a delivery.

@mjd @robinhouston I would argue that Fibonacci was important for introducing the place-value system to the West.

@mjd From the "long future career" perspective, 2014 was an epic fail. Maybe they should add "not currently dying of cancer" to the list of qualifications.

(Sorry, I recognize that this is extremely dark humor and probably I should not post it, but for some reason humor is often my response to tragedy).

@mjd @yourautisticlife I would not describe him as a big deal, but I would say he's an author I love, and Worth The Candle is probably my favorite of his.

@mjd Garlic, but cinnamon is a close second because of its baking uses.

@mjd Your intuition might also be off because most commonly-used metals (other than aluminum) are so much denser than rock, even though we just think of both as "heavy".

@mjd @ology I actually think this is a more reasonable question than it maybe seems. It would be totally valid for said generator to work by generating a thousand songs and picking the "best" one (by some criterion). That's how the puzzle generator for my game Deco Deck works.

Of course, a computer cannot tell what music you personally will like, but it could certainly apply some quality filters.

@jmac I don't think that's quite right. The idea is to give the strongest version of the argument, so that the attacks hit the right surface. Because folks have a tendency to attack the weak form of an opposing argument.

@mjd @yourautisticlife "I heard it from a phonograph playing in the middle of nowhere on a loop, recorded by a dead man who had heard it from others who were also dead," -Alexander Wales, Worth The Candle.

@jmac Just take it out at a 115 internal temperature (for farm-raised salmon), and it'll be perfectly rare.

@b0rk The staging area is where you build up the commit you're about to make (if you use the no-file-args git commit). Git add tells git that a file you've modified or just created should be part of that next commit.

@mjd @rowat_c Do you know about dorodango?

@NanoRaptor Someone made one.

@dave I've bought small bananas before at a Chinatown produce stand in NYC, but it was a very long time ago. Not sure if they were Thai, but definitely not Cavendish.

@mjd I sometimes just end a file to CraftCloud and get a model in the mail in a few weeks, if I need nicer finishes than my (probably poorly-calibrated; I got it for free) printer.

If you don't like the surface feel and don't want to spend 100 years with sandpaper, I recommend a two-part epoxy called XTC-3D.

re: Discussion of personal appearance

@bkuhn I am not an expert on clothing (you know how I dress), but that's what makes sense to me.

re: Discussion of personal appearance

@bkuhn I can envision you in suspenders, and I think they will be perfect. Belts are great if your waist is bigger than your hips, but not everyone has that build.

@bkuhn If you can't decide, you can borrow mine! It's "Maxwell", after Max in "Where The Wild Things Are".

@feorag https://www.oed.com/dictionary/duchessship

@attoparsec I have to disagree. I don't like vanilla-flavored water. I don't like lime-flavored water. I do like vanilla-lime (which I make myself).

@ranjit fresnel lens; wistar rats.

@mjd Yeah.

@mjd Sweet vs dent

re: west slope skunks, best slope skunks

@ranjit Park slope skunks, spraying drunks, to wash away the pain....

@NanoRaptor I think I found an earlier one...

@mjd Fast and loose

@SuperDicq I heard it, myself, from the person to whom it happened. I have to admit that I forget who I heard it from, but I remember where it was (a book release party for a fantasy novel, in NYC, in either 2006 or 2007). I was either working for, or had recently quit working for, the FSF.