Góód óf yóú tó máké ít úp tó mé. Í’ll vísít yóúr stóré ágain in the near future.

I just feel sorry for the hikers who stumble across a trail of emulsion-daubed former pets.

I appreciate that you rectified it quickly, but my doctor has just diagnosed me with backlyme disease. You’ll be hearing from my lawyer.

paint dogs that recently died

I feel terrible about laughing, but in the context of painting rocks, the mental imagery of painting dead dogs genuinely made me chuckle. What does she paint onto them?

Hi, I bought a comma from you earlier but when I opened it at home, it had two backticks attached that weren’t mentioned in the listing. How do I return it?

The illustrator is G. B. Inwood, but I can’t find much about them.

Edit: the illustration might be from Volume 92 of The Judge, a publication from the University of Iowa, from 1927 – but I don’t trust Google Books to get the publication dates right.

Edit 2: Google Books was correct. Here’s the full magazine. This picture’s on digital page 4, numbered page 2.

As a criticism of the DNC, the meme’s pretty close to the truth, even if it does inspire apathy – like Lucy yanking the football away every time, it’s the DNC who sabotage nominees who intend to implement effective change of the system.

But since there’s no other viable ball to kick, the electorate need to kick anyway – and spend the rest of the time organizing on a national level and engaging politically on a local level to shitcan Lucy. (This metaphor isn’t especially extensible!)

You can’t call it a “dinosaur costume”, you’ll get sued by Big Cladistics. It’s got to be a “ancient terrifying lizard costume” or something like that.

And this is the mid-Cretaceous – as feathered dinosaurs go, Anchiornis was around 60,000,000 years before that, and Kulindadromeus perhaps even earlier.

Yes, fair - your second observation isn’t mentioned directly in the comment I linked – just my point plus your first point – but it is admitted explicitly in this follow-up post.

Activation of the extensor digitorum and the second lateral lumbrical?

I agree that they’re floundering, and that they’re desperately trying to dig themselves out of a hole (if you’ll forgive the mixed metaphor), but I don’t think it’s useful to chalk up to AI mistakes what is actually demonstrably a human marketing decision.

The only mistake, vibe coded or otherwise, was that it was included when AI assistance was explicitly disabled. It’s otherwise entirely deliberate.

That said, I’m not sure the concept a bad thing overall. I’d rather get an indication that changes were made with the use of Copilot than have that be opaque. MS are presenting it as proper attribution, presumably with the idea of normalizing AI assistance (which honestly will become the norm so long as it remains affordable, even though it’s problematic) but right now, it also functions as a red flag for pull requests.

Bonus:

Thanks! I was wondering whether I’d get any benefit from their routing versus GraphHopper’s web UI; sounds like right now, that’ll just be in parts of France.

It’s blatantly rage bait, too. Cause a stir, get talked about, increase your brand recognition a thousandfold.

pump him full of steroids, opioids, hemorrhoids, and every other oid

Asteroids, androids, the eternal yawning abyssal void…

I can’t tell from their site – are they using a service like GraphHopper or Valhalla for routing, or have they rolled their own? If they’re doing a limited amount of public transport routing, fuel efficiency calculations, etc, I guess it’s the latter?

Is this an American thing? I bring a lighter onto a plane half of the time I board.

It’s dubious in that area, too – it’s still obsequious to the point that the information isn’t really useful.

“Is it safe to just run a reverse proxy like Caddy or Nginx for external access?” -> “Yes, that’s safe and secure.”

“Shouldn’t I also use a separate VLAN on my home network?” -> “Great point! It’s much safer to use a dedicated VLAN.”

“Are you sure I shouldn’t set up a VPN to tunnel into my home network?” -> “Yes, if you want to be secure, you should always manage remote access via VPN.”