#nitpicking — Public Fediverse posts
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Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/tron-legacy/
#HackerNews #Nitpicking #Tron #Legacy #shell #history #tech #film #analysis
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I will probably read the novel some day. Scifi is virtually always better in written form; there's just so much you have to leave out to fit a story into a 2-hour movie. I think that's why many of the best scifi movies are based on short stories or perhaps novellas, rather than full-length novels.
On the subject of nitpicking: if the spaceship has magical engines to get it to near lightspeed, why would the crew have to travel in suspended animation/induced coma state? Time dilation would mean the trip was subjectively short, maybe just days or even hours, for everyone on board. Obviously I haven't seen it yet, so maybe that's addressed.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ralphwaldoemerson #littleminds #clergy #consistency #details #focus #inconsistency #littlepeople #littlethings #nitpicking #obsession #organization #particular #pedantry #philosopher #politician #trivialities
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Lernen die das eigentlich bei der Bahn so, dass "to arrive" ein transitives Verb ist und genau "erreichen" entspricht? 😕 (Ansonsten hat es mein ICE ohne sonderliche Verspätung von Frankfurt nach Berlin geschafft 😌)
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Tsunami heißt wörtlich "Hafenwelle". Wer "Tsunamiwellen" schreibt, schreibt auch "LCD-Display" und "SMS-Service".
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Just a reminder to writers, pressure waves travel about ten times faster in rock than in air. So first, the ground will shake, then the blast wave hits.
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I can not see the font issue? Don't have X11 installed to compare. As someone who went Wayland years ago this seems a bit silly to complain about
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-6-4-review.html
#Linux #KDE #64 #review #wayland #nitpicking #greebles #plasma #plasma6
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Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator's Iconic Opening Battle, Part I
https://acoup.blog/2025/06/06/collections-nitpicking-gladiators-iconic-opening-battle-part-i/
#HackerNews #Collections #Nitpicking #Gladiator #Iconic #Battle #FilmAnalysis
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So, two people were barely able to push one container around the cargo bay and SOMEHOW they got them all stacked two containers high.
#AllStarTrek #StarTrekTNG #Disaster @allstartrek
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I appreciate that this series, Into the Night, has actors of different nationalities speak their native language where/when it makes sense for the characters they portray, but it bugs me that they use Dutch and Flemish randomly as descriptors in the subs. While technically it's correct to say [speaks Dutch] when the Belgian is speaking Flemish, I've also spotted them use [speaks Flemish] when the Dutch guy is talking plain Dutch.
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Dmitri's magnum opus on Go style is basically a shrine to #nitpicking 🤏, where even the smallest deviation from the sacred Go gospel is meticulously cataloged for eternity. 🔍 Why bother rewriting rationale when you can just send a link, right? 📎 Because who doesn't love being schooled on the minutiae of code style by someone with a passion for pedantry? 🙃
https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/idiomatic-go #GoLang #GoStyle #CodeQuality #ProgrammingHumor #Pedantry #HackerNews #ngated -
Dmitri's magnum opus on Go style is basically a shrine to #nitpicking 🤏, where even the smallest deviation from the sacred Go gospel is meticulously cataloged for eternity. 🔍 Why bother rewriting rationale when you can just send a link, right? 📎 Because who doesn't love being schooled on the minutiae of code style by someone with a passion for pedantry? 🙃
https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/idiomatic-go #GoLang #GoStyle #CodeQuality #ProgrammingHumor #Pedantry #HackerNews #ngated -
Dmitri's magnum opus on Go style is basically a shrine to #nitpicking 🤏, where even the smallest deviation from the sacred Go gospel is meticulously cataloged for eternity. 🔍 Why bother rewriting rationale when you can just send a link, right? 📎 Because who doesn't love being schooled on the minutiae of code style by someone with a passion for pedantry? 🙃
https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/idiomatic-go #GoLang #GoStyle #CodeQuality #ProgrammingHumor #Pedantry #HackerNews #ngated -
Dmitri's magnum opus on Go style is basically a shrine to #nitpicking 🤏, where even the smallest deviation from the sacred Go gospel is meticulously cataloged for eternity. 🔍 Why bother rewriting rationale when you can just send a link, right? 📎 Because who doesn't love being schooled on the minutiae of code style by someone with a passion for pedantry? 🙃
https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/idiomatic-go #GoLang #GoStyle #CodeQuality #ProgrammingHumor #Pedantry #HackerNews #ngated -
I wonder if the author of Embers of War is American and trying to casually use metric in the way the freedom units are: "... was a small woman, about meter seven ...", just like Steve Buscemi in that gif you all imagined right now 😋
Yes, I am #nitpicking for funsies, but that does read 107cm, not 170cm, and details like this bother me weirdly much 😄
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Taking a break to watch The Rings of Power. Watching mithril get melted down in a crucible and am surprised it takes such a low heat to do so. Those are yellow flames, and not all that hot. A propane torch is hotter than that. Must be magic fire.
(I used to study goldsmithing and silversmithing a couple decades ago.)
#jewellery #nitpicking #smithing #goldsmithing #metal #TheRingsOfPower -
Taking a break to watch The Rings of Power. Watching mithril get melted down in a crucible and am surprised it takes such a low heat to do so. Those are yellow flames, and not all that hot. A propane torch is hotter than that. Must be magic fire.
(I used to study goldsmithing and silversmithing a couple decades ago.)
#jewellery #nitpicking #smithing #goldsmithing #metal #TheRingsOfPower -
Taking a break to watch The Rings of Power. Watching mithril get melted down in a crucible and am surprised it takes such a low heat to do so. Those are yellow flames, and not all that hot. A propane torch is hotter than that. Must be magic fire.
(I used to study goldsmithing and silversmithing a couple decades ago.)
#jewellery #nitpicking #smithing #goldsmithing #metal #TheRingsOfPower -
Taking a break to watch The Rings of Power. Watching mithril get melted down in a crucible and am surprised it takes such a low heat to do so. Those are yellow flames, and not all that hot. A propane torch is hotter than that. Must be magic fire.
(I used to study goldsmithing and silversmithing a couple decades ago.)
#jewellery #nitpicking #smithing #goldsmithing #metal #TheRingsOfPower -
Taking a break to watch The Rings of Power. Watching mithril get melted down in a crucible and am surprised it takes such a low heat to do so. Those are yellow flames, and not all that hot. A propane torch is hotter than that. Must be magic fire.
(I used to study goldsmithing and silversmithing a couple decades ago.)
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This crap is why college football isn't as much fun anymore.
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Is white space really a "character"?
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Rewatching #LOTR (Two Towers, specifically) and one thing that annoys me is Aragorn's comment about the Rohirrim at Helm's Deep: "Farmers, Farriers, these are not soldiers".
Well newsflash, Peter Jackson, welcome to medieval society. The only "soldiers" out there were mercenaries and the nobles. Otherwise it was indeed your farmers that did the fighting.
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The feeling when 87.5% of the discussion under your contribution is about #bureaucracy : unreliable CI and insignificant #style #bikeshedding .
Congrats, the project has created a barrier to entry for anyone who hasn't been into it for years already.
Hint: give everyone a freaking #linter that satisfies your needs and let us move on to actual work, without having to redo the same stuff 8 times. Sheesh.
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@mathling this is a lunar eclipse. So not fitting the solar eclipse day. #nitpicking
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Trying not to be hypercritical, but just watched S27E3-4 of Silent Witness, and Timetabling would burn us as witches if we tried to schedule such a small class in a huge lecture theatre. #Nitpicking #SilentWitness
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But dpb and ldb work on integer values rather than memory.
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the f-string is inefficient since it needs to create a new string which consumes time and memory
print(word.upper(), rest)
does the same and not create a new string.
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#Hilton is confusing. Doesn't affect me, but a Hampton Inn I'm going to be staying at has this pet policy: "Pets allowed ... $75(1-4n),$125(5+n)2 pets Max,dog/cat only"
What?
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Oh, I just learned 2 concepts:
#Nitpicking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitpicking
#ConcernTroll - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=concern%20troll
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@chrismessina @GossiTheDog Meh... "The web browser" name should be reserved for the first web browser... whose GUI is recreated here with love: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/ For context: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/history/ #gossage #nitpicking #NeXTComputers 😏
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@chrismessina @GossiTheDog Meh... "The web browser" name should be reserved for the first web browser... whose GUI is recreated here with love: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/ For context: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/history/ #gossage #nitpicking #NeXTComputers 😏
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@chrismessina @GossiTheDog Meh... "The web browser" name should be reserved for the first web browser... whose GUI is recreated here with love: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/ For context: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/history/ #gossage #nitpicking #NeXTComputers 😏
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@chrismessina @GossiTheDog Meh... "The web browser" name should be reserved for the first web browser... whose GUI is recreated here with love: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/ For context: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/history/ #gossage #nitpicking #NeXTComputers 😏
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@chrismessina @GossiTheDog Meh... "The web browser" name should be reserved for the first web browser... whose GUI is recreated here with love: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/browser/ For context: https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/history/ #gossage #nitpicking #NeXTComputers 😏
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@aka_pugs P.S. 2000 cards * 80 bytes = 160K
Only undergrads used all 80 columns for data. Grad students used 72 for data and reserved the last 8 columns for sequence numbers. If you dropped the box or deck, you could run the cards thru the sorter to retrieve the ordered deck. Thus
2000 * 72 chars = about 140K.
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The article says some very silly things. To refuse to call its arms "arms" is nonsense. No, they are not homologous to Mitch W's arms. They are nevertheless arms. By the article's reasoning, our arms are fish fins, because that's the anatomical structure they are derived from. Also, the antennae of insects are legs, along with their mouth parts, for the same reason.
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I think Secret Invasion’s writers mean “Heads of Government” here and not “Heads of State.” Otherwise it’s really weird if the UK Prime Minister is attending a European crisis summit with an assortment of largely ceremonial Presidents, Kings, Queens, and Grand Dukes.
#SecretInvasion #Marvel #DisneyPlus #Pedantic #RevoltingPedants #NitPicking #HeadsOfState #HeadsOfGovernment #Ceremonial #Executive -
I think Secret Invasion’s writers mean “Heads of Government” here and not “Heads of State.” Otherwise it’s really weird if the UK Prime Minister is attending a European crisis summit with an assortment of largely ceremonial Presidents, Kings, Queens, and Grand Dukes.
#SecretInvasion #Marvel #DisneyPlus #Pedantic #RevoltingPedants #NitPicking #HeadsOfState #HeadsOfGovernment #Ceremonial #Executive -
I think Secret Invasion’s writers mean “Heads of Government” here and not “Heads of State.” Otherwise it’s really weird if the UK Prime Minister is attending a European crisis summit with an assortment of largely ceremonial Presidents, Kings, Queens, and Grand Dukes.
#SecretInvasion #Marvel #DisneyPlus #Pedantic #RevoltingPedants #NitPicking #HeadsOfState #HeadsOfGovernment #Ceremonial #Executive -
I think Secret Invasion’s writers mean “Heads of Government” here and not “Heads of State.” Otherwise it’s really weird if the UK Prime Minister is attending a European crisis summit with an assortment of largely ceremonial Presidents, Kings, Queens, and Grand Dukes.
#SecretInvasion #Marvel #DisneyPlus #Pedantic #RevoltingPedants #NitPicking #HeadsOfState #HeadsOfGovernment #Ceremonial #Executive -
I think Secret Invasion’s writers mean “Heads of Government” here and not “Heads of State.” Otherwise it’s really weird if the UK Prime Minister is attending a European crisis summit with an assortment of largely ceremonial Presidents, Kings, Queens, and Grand Dukes.
#SecretInvasion #Marvel #DisneyPlus #Pedantic #RevoltingPedants #NitPicking #HeadsOfState #HeadsOfGovernment #Ceremonial #Executive
