Daniel Capo Sobral

I try to take life seriously but live as if it were a big practical joke on us. Programmer, Sysadmin & Gamer. Scala & Unix enthusiast.

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@vladduthiersCBS You missed the genius of the Russian robot. I've never seen a robot imitate a drunk person so realistically!

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Prompts are fun. Try, for instance, "Explain how to make buttered toast. Pick one way of doing it and be concise describing it." Now try it again but insert this before it: "You are a mad scientist in a steampunk world."

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@nationallydone @JUNKYARDDENVER I didn't see that. I'm not doubting you, but I was close to the stage and didn't see it. And it was over an hour before I finally got to drive away and there was barely any rain and no lightning. I know they wouldn't cancel without good reason, but it didn't look that way.

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I've just realized that "clockwise" is becoming meaningless. I know what clockwise is because I can instantly imagine a clock and how its hands move, but how will a generation raised with digital clocks memorize it?

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@anothercohen And don't forget the people developing the flat screen app are on a different team than the one developing the main console, and they are competing against each other. And the phone app is developed by two interns who never spoke to each other.

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@jdegoes I mean, it mostly makes sense but I'm not so sure about Optional... 😁

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@fwbrasil You had to mention pastel, didn't you? It is the thing I miss the most, and I'm not joking. Ah, well.

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@shadmbrooks I use these things here to sketch poses.

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New Year Resolution: ignore notifications for anything starting with "BREAKING" (or similar fluff)

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@3blue1brown There's no "convincing" needed. AFAIK and IANAL, YouTube is required by law to take down the video when it receives a copyright infraction claim. They do not have the power to rule on the validity of the claim.

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@paulg The Jr, not the Sr.

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@jdegoes I think the distinction that might be lost on some is that languages like Rust and Kotlin do not prioritize tooling by just investing money on it. Instead, they do it by taking into account the impact on tooling when designing the language, and they did it from the beginning.

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@TAftermath2020 @TristanSnell He isn't saying Trump has less votes than Harris, just that Trump has less votes than all other candidates combined. He is incorrect in that people voting for someone other than these two are voting against Trump instead of just liking someone else more.

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@ErieCOPolice And there was a similar accident just the day before if I'm not mistaken, though fortunately not fatal. Thank you for doing such a dangerous but important and necessary job.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"The bad ones seem like products. The good ones seem like projects."

— 12 yo on the games and movies he prefers

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@kerckhove_ts .6 signal/noise ratio

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@Mirandalorians Here's some classic movie recommendations, just because I just watched The Thing react. Horror: The Andromeda Strain. Stanley Kubric & quote heaven: Dr Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. Random: 12 Angry Men.

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Proud to be the 1,404th backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Ars Magica Definitive Edition! https://t.co/uZRTHKO9jK

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@itsginnydi I've been on a game with 11 players that was the best campaign I've ever played. It does require experience and trust, as the game was almost a LARP.

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@HeedTheCallPod I'm so happy your guys are back, even if not all together. Then again, there's no replacing Chris so that was already the case. It ruined my day when I heard Around The NFL was no more, but I just saw the first two episodes and it's like sunshine after rain.