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New comment by joeypickles in "Leaving Mozilla"

joeypickles — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:44:35 +0000

I wish there was an article on the oral history of comic chat.

New comment by joeypickles in "What Is a Dickover?"

joeypickles — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:20:16 +0000

I agree, it’s dumb. I never call those things popovers (is that a regional term?) so the whole time the word was a bit jarring. Also, at first I thought this was a riff on combovers, and imagined some weird male Medusa creature with a thinning head of dicks, and it was so disappointing when that turned out to be wrong.

New comment by joeypickles in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

joeypickles — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:44:48 +0000

It randomizes slices of the sample and begins to play the slices in the random order. Meanwhile it begins the bubble sort algorithm at a pace that matches the tempo, sorting the slices into their chronological order. Throughout, it only plays the unsorted slices. (I was kinda hoping it would play the sorted sample at the end.)

New comment by joeypickles in "Unexpected things that are people"

joeypickles — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:44:08 +0000

Simpler in the short run, but creates tech debt I think.

New comment by joeypickles in "Unexpected things that are people"

joeypickles — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:24:59 +0000

Seems appropriate here: https://genius.com/Moondog-enough-about-human-rights-lyrics

In other words, why do we have to make something a person in order to give it rights?

New comment by joeypickles in "Seuss-Star Trek mashup crashes and burns at Ninth Circuit"

joeypickles — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 09:49:49 +0000

Reminds me of the lawsuit brought against South Park by Brownmark Films over the recreation of their infamous video, also done in a faithful “side by side” manner. Interesting that the courts decided the opposite in that case.