You can’t. The minimum is still 3. The 1st is batsu which is a character in Japanese meaning wrong, not good, etc. The 2nd and 3rd characters are a Braille space or in Unicode-speak a Braille Pattern Blank.

This could have been an Onion headline years ago.

Ninja edit: Was it?

That’s how I am in the morning before I’ve had my coffee.

Who? The Big Guy of course…

For Boeing about to rock, we salute you

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News breaks when he and the media are on the tarmac waiting to get on Air Force One.

“Wha?” He cones his ear with his hand. “The Boeing Spaceship blew up and the astronauts died? That’s too bad. But it happens. Rocket fuel is dangerous. Very dangerous…” And then he tells a bizarre two minute story about “my uncle at MIT - the physicist who made airliner planes”. For a few days lib media fulminates that he didn’t give proper respect to the deceased astronauts who Lawrence O’Donnell calls “explorer heroes for humankind”.

it’s probably not comfortable enough to wear for 2 hours straight

That’s the sort of tech bro thing that always leaves me mystified. They always assume their force of will can beat reality. They’d say that people need to get used to the device’s flaws. They’ve had that POV since the very first “consumer” VR headset thing was unveiled. I guess it must have weighed 20 pounds (or whatever) and it was uncomfortable after just a few minutes.

Matty’s 2013 Vox text: “Different places have different safety rules and that’s ok. American jobs have gotten much safer over the past 20 years, and Bangladesh has gotten a lot richer.”

OpenAI: “Different places have different safety rules and that’s great. American jobs are safer and Bangladesh got richer.”

Matty’s 2024 Substack text: “AI is making vast strides all the time. OpenAI’s comments on working conditions in the US and Bangladesh are worthy of note. Different places have…”

You made me think of the Boombox Serenade.

there’s no support for quoting in a post (>) and posts are too short so it just looks like shit

Ditto. I’m the uncool kid of the class…

> 𝙸 𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚙 𝚍𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜.

And I want four other things: italics, bold, bold italics, and a monospace font. Using online generators are a pain in the ass but they give me 3 out of 4. There is no Unicode for bold italics. : (

I posted about a company that spies on teachers and professors. The company says - and I’m not making this up - “Hi, My Name Is Panopto”.

Hi, My Name Is Panopto - Panopto

September 6, 2018

Panopto /pə-näp’-tō/

Ask anyone who’s founded a business – if you’re going to hang out your shingle, it helps to have a name to put on it. So — why “Panopto”?

Panopto derives from panoptic, “the point at which everything can be seen in one view.” Panoptic in turn comes directly from the Greek word panoptos, “seen by all”.

In video, the panoptic view is the one that allows the viewer to see everything at once.

I wonder if we are going down a well-trodden path and other intelligent species did similar things before us. Insane.

⍙⟒'⍀⟒ ⏚⍜⟟⌰⟟⋏☌ ⏁⊑⟒ ⍜☊⟒⏃⋏⌇ ⏁⍜ ⋔⏃☍⟒ ⏚⍜⍀⟒⎅ ⏃⌿⟒⌇ ⏃⋏⎅ ⎅⟒⟒⌿⎎⏃☍⟒ ⌿⍜⍀⋏.

That’s a translation of your comment according to the Alien Language Translator

A comment at a different site

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steam powered submarines

I didn’t even know there there was such a thing.

Of the 18 built, none were lost through enemy action, but six sank, with significant loss of life, in accidents.

[…]

With a dive time of around 5 minutes (with the record being 3 minutes 25 seconds which was claimed by K8) it allowed the captain the luxury of being able to walk around the superstructure to ensure that the funnels were securely folded. The last, improved, boat, K26 was completed slowly, being commissioned in 1923. She had six 21-inch (530 mm) bow torpedo tubes but retained the 18-inch beam tubes. Her higher casing almost cured the problems of seawater entering the boiler room, and improved ballast tank arrangements cut the diving time to 3 minutes 12 seconds to get to 80 feet (24 m). She also had an increased maximum diving depth of 250 feet (76 m).

Musk has been busy squeezing the company through hot-headed layoffs in an effort to make the company “absolutely hard core.”

He’s such an idiot.

I’m looking forward to a Youtuber making fun of that in their ~37 hour video.

Corruption in Ukraine is rampant and despite some efforts to curtail it, it is growing.

There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza
There’s a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, a hole.

the cheapest Enterprise API plan… starts at $42,000 monthly. Higher tiers can allegedly cost $125,000 and $210,000 per month.

In action - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnl_EdtgG3k&t=58s