extrafora

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Kid's playing a video game as a spider character.

I look carefully at the spider model. It only has six legs.

Hey, kid, I say. That spider is missing legs. That's not a spider. You should file a bug report.

Low-key lost it when I noticed the main image on the Wikipedia page for business casual attire is just an edit of the nude figures from the Pioneer plaque

I miss those bottles of Modelo Especial which bore the inscriptions

DRINK SENSIBLY CONTAINS MALTED BARLEY

and

BEST BEFORE SEE BOTTOM

@kenshirriff “it wouldn't halt.”

Hustle culture is everywhere!

it lives!  JVM in Bash

for now it only has ~5 opcodes implemented, and one virtual method (println). So this is literally the minimal amount of Stuff to get a hello world working

next up, conditionals?

@geekysteven Skill up with Baldi’s Basics first and you’ll be all set

"Ah yes, see, computers are made up of lots of parts, but the most important one is the GPU, the General Processing Unit, which often shares memory with the CPU, the Control-Flow Processing Unit—"

#misinformation

@zachleat new captchas just dropped
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Low-key lost it when I noticed the main image on the Wikipedia page for business casual attire is just an edit of the nude figures from the Pioneer plaque
What fresh hell did I wake up to
@sutter welcome to the overnight bacterial toot club!
@sutter calling boosts uppies is great!
@sutter they already took her pussy off, now this?

@BestGirlGrace @sutter

What does @vagina_museum think?

Also aliens may come to explore this situation, was Carl Sagan a puritan? So many questions...

@hnapel @sutter @vagina_museum the version of the story I'm aware of is that Sagan wanted her to have the vagina, but the suits said no.
@BestGirlGrace @hnapel @sutter @vagina_museum I mean… faces have apparently become a bridge too far for Business Casual, good thing the Pioneer mission left when it did.

@sutter

In memory of Linda Salzman...

@sutter @NewtonMark first alien civilisation to find the Pioneer probe will complain about receiving unsolicited nudes and wipe us out…
@bgrinter @sutter @NewtonMark
The plaque has instructions of which planet to target and which species is to blame for all the mess.
@geoffl @bgrinter @sutter @NewtonMark Don’t worry, the instructions include 9 planets.
@geoffl @NewtonMark @bgrinter @sutter It’s unfair not to count Eris or Ceres (actually discovered before Pluto!)
Eris (dwarf planet) - Wikipedia

@sutter @ifixcoinops they got jobs at Best Buy after some NASA cutbacks

@sutter

So the man has two left arms.

@dhobern @sutter

They may also think he has two arms left.

@sutter Wow I hope the aliens aren’t offended. Not sure what the dress code is for first contact.

@sutter

Vitruvian Man would have been too over the top.

@beadsland @sutter Maybe I should make a virtual paper doll game where one could dress the Pioneer plaque characters in various outfits.

@dmbaturin @beadsland @sutter Where do I subscribe for updates on this project, or to be informed when it's ready for viewing?

/sincere

@kagan @beadsland @sutter I guess follow me… I really do think it would be fun to make and if like to make it, but I can’t promise any sort of a timeframe, to be honest with you.
@kagan @beadsland @sutter I’m also terrible at drawing so I’ll need someone else to make the artwork for the outfits.
@sutter Well someone's got to teach the aliens how to dress business casual.
@sutter Was hoping the replies would include them dressed in other outfits.
@sutter Best Buy Business attire, more like it...but yes. :)
@sutter amazing, I had to check myself so if anyone else is wondering:
@unlofl @sutter Thank you!
@flowerpot @unlofl @sutter Except in the plaque, the male of the species is waving. Surprised 70s feminists didn't protest that.

@hoofin according to the Criticism section of the Wikipedia page for the plaque, it has been criticised by feminists (but maybe not in the 70s if that's what you mean?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque#Criticism

@flowerpot @unlofl @sutter

Pioneer plaque - Wikipedia

@SqueletteCool @flowerpot @unlofl @sutter Yes. I am surprised that, at the time, no one caught that it's only the male of the species making a gesture. I remember this plaque when it was going into orbit. The biggest issue was they had no clothes on.

@hoofin

They did protest it at the time, but the whole thing was hurriedly put together without public involvement

Carl Sagan was involved in the plaque's creation, and his wife at the time did the drawings. They were aware of how unrepresentative it was, both for gender and race and even biology (the woman's genitals are a blank space), but thought this image would be both interpretable by aliens, and approvable by NASA bureaucrats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque

Pioneer plaque - Wikipedia

@sutter

✅Pants
✅Shirt
❌Shoes, WTF?

@sutter 😆
This would be more accurate if the woman was wearing a sweater set.
@sutter Did an AI create the image I wonder?

@sutter

"Created by AI"?

It's a year round April fool's joke?

@sutter His has a line that starts as a crease and ends up as a seam. And what's with the angled sleeve ends?
By "casual" I think they are referring to the garment assembly process.

@sutter Yes, If you go to File:Business casual male & female(.)svg on commons it lists the source svgs including https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Business_casual_male_%26_female.svg

The interesting thing about this is that Carl Sagan 's original on the NASA site was a jpeg, there's no note on how it was converted to an svg, but it looks too clean to be a machine translation. Being uploaded in 2013 rules out it being done by an LLM.

File:Business casual male & female.svg - Wikimedia Commons

@sutter Well, that's awesome I think !
@sutter low key Simpsons aesthetic too
@sutter
That is really going to confuse the aliens!
@sutter if a human wore clothes would it be like this or this
@sutter 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
@sutter if Pioneer plaque figures wore jeans, how would they wear it
@sutter honestly a great idea.
The figures are public domain AND I bet that went through a zillion rounds of NASA meetings to end up with the nominate cisgendered-appearing couple.

@colinstu

I agree that it looks that way, but in fact Carl Sagan and Frank Drake designed the plaques in a matter of weeks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque

@sutter

Pioneer plaque - Wikipedia

@CppGuy @sutter jeez if anything their original design got watered down (more white) through further deliberations.
Frustrating those citations are buried away in a book I can't seem to easily access.
@sutter in order to be professional as a woman, you must not have LINES. LINES are for men only.
@Tattie @sutter Oh but they kept the lines for the pockets, which, we all know, are a joke on women’s trousers.