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@jk ... and there were dirty computers that generated poisonous waste as a by-product of their computations, but everyone had grown dependent on them for all their clouding around, CGI and essential game playing.

@skirts I miss this so much. My youngest (thirteen) wanted a bedtime book. Jumped at the chance!

@christianp @ColinTheMathmo Now that would be a really innovative experiment!

@fluffy There's another timeline where they called jpeg the "JPEG image format" or "jif".

@Megan I have a composer friend who always write tunes with his voice, then develops them on instruments. Says he gets better tunes that way.

Not sure if the analogy _really_ works for writing, but there you go.

@Megan How could it not be true? Do piano players write the same kind of tunes as guitarists?

@Pasty She said she hated clickbait - you won't believe what happened next!

@catdad Yes, it was a bit alarming. I suspect some DHCP mess up with another host on the same IP. To be honest I'm surprised it RDP worked at all at those rates.

@catdad A broken one? Actually it went away when I rebooted the target machine. Weird.

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38% packet loss makes remote desktop to work quite painful, it turns out. Who knew?

@bunnyhero At least they _have_ an option, unlike certain other sites I could mention. But yeah, that is irritating.

@NeuroWinter Maybe he thought you looked like you needed it more?

@kingu_platypus_gidora Chrome debugger does it. Look for the {} button

@carrie I mentioned Emma Gonzalez in a post, and no alt-right NRA bots jumped on it! Feels like I'm home.

@jordyd Format. Makes all look neat and tidy. Happiest Emacs command I think.