🔥torstein🔥

@Torstein
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Developer, book reader, sleeps too little.
I boost stuff I find interesting, and toot stuff for my own amusement.

This is my English language account. My Norwegian account is far more active.

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🇧🇻https://andeby.city/@Torstein
Show thread🔥torstein🔥2d ago

@mysturji @anon_opin if they are "decent persons" why are they still billionaires?
Surely they haven't need of a whole billion for themselves?

Afaik Dolly Parton has never been a billionaire, but that is because she keeps giving away her money via the Dollywood Foundation.
She is still filthy rich, but has also improved the lives for countless families in Tennessee.

Show thread🔥torstein🔥4d ago
@anon_opin Hey guys, I found the person they make all that bland AI-porn for!
Show thread🔥torstein🔥4d ago
@AnguaDelphine @anon_opin it will happen eventually. I mean, Uderzo retired in 2011, it has been scripted and drawn by other people for over a decade now.
And Dargaud seems happy enough to let others publish those Lucky Luke tributes/alternates, so if somebody pitches a good enough idea that both Dargaud and Uderzo approves, I'm sure there will be an Asterix in Space! or similar at one point.
🔥torstein🔥6d ago
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Show thread🔥torstein🔥Mar 12
@anon_opin hmm… this is either from somebody who never deals with computers, or somebody with some maths who deals with computers too much.
Show thread🔥torstein🔥Mar 5
@renardboy same. if i ever win the euro jackpot, you will know because i will be cruising around in one of these bad boys.
🔥torstein🔥Mar 4
Sometimes I remember that Microsoft, the company that makes the OS Windows decided that taking fucking screenshots of the actual screen and then OCRing them with an LLM in order to store the data for potential retrieval was more effective than reading the data directly from the system and that makes me so disgusted I will never buy a Windows PC again.
I feel that is a greater insult than the spying.
Show thread🔥torstein🔥Mar 4
@dresstokilt @anon_opin iirc Rasmus Lerdrof said that in the start he added the functions people asked for, based of the syntax they were familiar with, consistency be damned. And some function names were made to match the base library function names, others renamed to improve the internal hash values.

Which is why we got function names like ```substr```, ```str_split``` and ```explode```.
Show thread🔥torstein🔥Feb 25
@anon_opin good idea, except blood donors can't have STDs or taken drugs for the last few months.
A bit awkward when most of the team is turned away at the blood drive.
Show thread🔥torstein🔥Feb 24
@anon_opin you can do as the Americans and willify both (as they have done with afro-american families for ages, ignoring that the myth of the absent father is a combination of a obviously racist legal system and bad statistics (only counting married couples as full families)).