Agreed. However, in fairness, if a person goes to the bathroom to poop then one probably will have forgotten by the time they left the room, but if instead a couple looks at each other meaningfully, excuses themselves for a bit, and then returns slightly flustered, then one will have a harder time forgetting.

As another example, if one sees a member of the attractive sex naked, then the first visceral emotional response will be to their sexiness and not to how efficiently their butt could be used for pooping.

So the analogy doesn’t quite fit, and that explains why sex-adjacent things can trigger sex parts of the brain, even when this reaction is undesired, which I think was the point of the comic–not to make some kind of grand statement about the propriety of telling people that you are trying for a baby. (And really, in the end, it is just a dumb joke, and in my opinion the slobbering detracted from the humor value so it was not executed as well as it could have been.)

Or maybe… it is just a dumb joke?

I’ve seen this exact comic circulate on Lemmy before. I think it is mildly amusing because it has the dumb kind of humor that I like, but the slobbering kind of made it weird which detracted from the humor value.

Yeah, at that point they gave up on getting the emu to have the correct number of toes and decided to go ahead and ship it.

Look, all I am saying is that if you go out of your way to talk about how you are trying to have a baby and you are fairly attractive then my brain might file that information away for… later purposes.

There are a couple of approaches you can take, depending on your learning style.

The first is that you could start really easy by creating a 1d engine, and then once you’ve gotten that mastered keep adding more dimensions until you get to 3d.

The second is that you could skip all the way to creating a 4d engine, and once you’ve gotten that mastered just chip off one dimension and bam you now have a 3d engine.

Hey now, I will have you know that I am also addicted to video games!

That makes two personality traits.

So in other words, you don’t know.

Also, In Time, Elysium, or Chappie.

I even have the perfect movie title: Out of Time

My favorite part is how this meme itself consists entirely of plain text plus a little styling.

You have got it backwards. The correct analogy would be if the Confederacy won the Civil War by conquering all of the states in the Union except for Rhode Island, but then later claimed that it was actually Rhode Island that was the separatist group and demanded that everyone in the world agree with this.

2026 will finally be the year of the Haiku desktop!

I wonder what the fine folk of the Phoronix comment section have to say about this!

Let’s check out comment #2:

Does anyone still care, besides maybe Putin? [emphasis mine]

- anarki2

I see…

The researchers in the academic field of machine learning who came up with LLMs are certainly aware of their limitations and are exploring other possibilities, but unfortunately what happened in industry is that people noticed that one particular approach was good enough to look impressive and then everyone jumped on that bandwagon.

By handwriting raw lambda calculus.

The impression that I got from this article is that even the author of imake feels the same way, and is only maintaining it out of consideration for legacy software still using it.

Who would have thought that there would be a context in which GNU Autoconf and Automake were considered the modern way to build software?

My species uses e as its base because that is proven to be mathematically optimal. In our number system, humans use base 2.3025850… (but written entirely as powers of e using our far superior elegant notation, of course!)

No, scratch that. Even black holes radiate out the information they receive. M-Files doesn’t.

That is an amazing zinger!

I was also a bit surprised to see that Vala is so widely adopted, but it is a very natural fit when you consider that it was specifically designed to use GObject as its OOP implementation, making it essentially a “native” speaker in GNOME.

If it makes you feel better you could stuff all of your savings under a mattress?