Daniel P. Shannon

@daniel.sh

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Not gay as in happy, queer as in mincing and villainous • Engineer, architect, technical lead • Formerly at Vox Media and Bauer Media, currently for hire • https://daniel.sh

Edward G. Robinson as Dathan in The Ten Commandments (1956). Traitorous, capèd Edward G. Robinson. "Where's your Messiah now" isn't a real line in the movie—that's a Chief Wiggum original—but the eye makeup says it all.
Adjusting the size of a disk from "128" to "125." Taboo!
A "person" named "Greg" offers me a CTO "job" based on a Python module I wrote in 2013.
ACT UP had been founded only a few weeks earlier. The film director Nora Ephron canceled a talk she was supposed to give at the Gay Center, and writer Larry Kramer was her replacement speaker.
Space Lily will be studying Space Journalism.
Would you like to plan this out as a refactor of pipeline.rs, or should we dig into the segmentation algorithm design first? The segmentation logic is the interesting part - it's essentially a line-breaking / text-reflow problem (like Knuth-Plass but with temporal constraints on top of spatial ones). > Knuth-Plass first, please, yes, Knuth-Plass.
"Encounter At Farpoint": a Q moue.
George Bluth announces: "These are my demands."
A fed-up Clark Griswold cries: "Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol."
Simpsons screencaps: HOMER: Scooby-Doo can doo-doo, but Jimmy Carter is smarter. A tumbleweed blows out of nowhere across the Simpsons' living room as the family stares.
Carol from Carol (Cate Blanchett) playfully shakes a gift-wrapped package from Rooney Mara. The package is clearly too light and thin for introspection by shaking. This is part of the seduction.
Diana Vreeland, editor of Vogue from 1962 to 1971, reclining in her "scarlet room." Mrs. Vreeland might not approve of my blooting this: DV, her memoir, opens: "I loathe nostalgia." (Read DV, her memoir.)
Sweaty Sith Manny Jacinto grinning with malicious intent and choking a child who won't even bother to thank him.
Bari Weiss's security detail is costing CBS $10,000 per day, according to report Weiss took over CBS News last month after its parent company bought her Substack, The Free Press, for $150 million www.yahoo.com
Barbarella (Jane Fonda) trapped in the Excessive Machine of the evil Durand Durand (Milo O'Shea). Neither of them is John Williams. "Your bloot misrepresents how the Excessive Machine works—arguably, you have it backwards." Why don't you fuck off back to the London Symphony Orchestra.
A hero photo of the President Horrorclown walking down an airport mobile stairway, except instead of his face, he wears the bold label GIFT ARTICLE.
An absolutely disgusting midwife robot with speculum flippers extracts a newborn from a natally sheathed Natalie Portman, tendering it with those selfsame flippers to Ewan McGregor.
1) What if the first few scenes of the Contact musical took place inside the Aricebo telescope, and 2) what if the actor who plays Matthew McConaughey also played the dad. How would it be communicated to the audience at the end that she’s meeting a vision of her father, not her fuckboy? Well that’s rather the point, no?
Also the bit about ad tech and data becoming an extension of the police state. That's gonna be a cool one to watch as our corrupt government continues to threaten data-hungry tech companies with coercive regulatory action. Google's ad-monopoly case is still being litigated! For now!
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes,” with a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent. Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.”
A conversation between A HUMAN, kissass brown-nose teacher's pet from way back, and A ROBOT. HUMAN: confusing struct with hoth newtypes, a higher level of abstraction that drives its way down, sitting alongside normal structs that moved in the opposite direction, abstracting over data and into the ubiquitous language. ROBOT: • That's a really precise articulation, and I think you've actually identified something more clearly than the code comments do.
A conversation between the user and Claude Code, in which normal code output precedes a suggestion that they play 20 Questions. - try_from_default_env() reads RUST_LOG. If RUST_LOG is unset, it returns an error, and the unwrap_or_else fallback kicks in: "auohp_api=debug" - That filter enables DEBUG and above for the auohp_api crate - tracing: :debug! emits at DEBUG level - Therefore the spans should appear I was wrong to hedge. The trace events should show up. We'll see once the task finishes. › can we play 20 questions while we wait • Sure, I'll think of something - you ask. › animal, vegetable, or mineral? • Mineral. > would I find it around my apartment> • Possibly, but not commonly. › is it loose or solid • Solid. › do i build things with it? • Not typically, no. › do i use it in large quantities? • No. › is it decorative? • No. › I give up • A nail.
When this code references config with &, it passes references such that diarize does not take ownership of the reference. By contrast, max_speakers is a scalar with a Copy trait, and its ownership will not change hands. Is this correct? pipeline.rs:50-52 Analyzed Rust ownership semantics for references and copies Mostly right, but the Copy description has a subtle imprecision worth unpacking. The & case is exactly correct. &config. segmentation_model creates a shared borrow - config retains ownership of the PathBuf, and diarize
The permitted exits from a &PathBuf without moving are: path_ref.clone() path_ref.as_path() path_ref.to_str() // explicit heap ( // re-borrow as &t // borrow the inne There's a neat corollary for the Copy case: if diarize received a &usize instead of a bare usize, *size_ref would be valid as an owned value, because the compiler implicitly copies the bits — no memory is left uninitialised. so the borrow invariant
Liz Lemon: We keep TGS going... as a magazine.
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A beautiful face, huge.
Keanu Reeves, as seen in The Matrix (1999), spooning the camera.
"The 31-line Indulgence," printed by Johannes Gutenberg in 1454. "The so-called 31-line Indulgence provides the earliest precise date for European typography. For thousands of pairs of eyes, it would have been their first encounter with typography." Image and quoted text from the Incunabula at Princeton collection: https://dpul.princeton.edu/gutenberg/catalog/d217qp581.
A screenshot of the Warp terminal emulator running in macOS. The window has a warning reflecting the contents of the bloot.
CD jewel case of Will Smith’s 1999 Willennium, signed by maybe-Will-Smith, though we were unable to confirm this at press time
Still, movies do have the greatest potential. You can say important things to a lot of people. About discrimination and hatred and prejudice. I want to make pictures that explore the themes current in the world today. In terms of entertainment. That’s why I’ve started my own independent production company.” He reached out affectionately to finger “A Burst of Vermilion,” which will be the first script filmed by Pennebaker Productions—the independent company he has formed. And did “A Burst of Vermilion” satisfy him as a basis for the kind of lofty aims he proposed? He mumbled something. Then he mumbled something else. Asked to speak more clearly, he said, “It’s a Western.”
So there you have the Mayan conch. A spiral with no beginning or end. Where does a conch shell begin or end? At its innermost point or its outermost point? Does a conch shell wind in or out? The Mayan rebel leaders’ conch began and ended in the “safe house,” but it also began and ended in the library. The Aguascalientes conch was the place of the encuentro, of the dialogue, of the transition, of the search. From what “architectural” tradition did the indigenous Zapatistas borrow? I don’t know, but surely that conch, that spiral, invites entry as well as exit, and really, I would not dare to say where a conch ends or begins. (Subcomandante Marcos, "The Spiral from the End and the Beginning," in Our Word Is Our Weapon)
Robin Williams and Nathan Lane in The Birdcage (1996), in an essay at butchness, high-five.
Lyon's memo sets out factors officers should consider to determine if someone is likely to escape, including the person's behavior before and after an encounter, refusal to follow lawful commands, attempt to evade officers, the person's age and health, possession of suspected fraudulent work permits or identity documents and whether the person has complied with immigration registration requirements. "If warrantless arrests become necessary under the circumstances, immigration officers must effectuate such arrests in a manner consistent with the ICE policy and the law" and follow up with the proper paperwork, the memo says.
! GREBNETUG Now, in our time, we are turning Gutenberg around. The tachnology of movable type created certain structures and practices around the written word. Now the technology of computer screen displays make possible almost any structures and practices you can imagine for the written word. So now what?
Top: Wayne Knight hunches before a CRT monitor, oozing nefarious intent. Bottom: Closeup of Wayne Knight's CRT monitor, oozing nefarious Pascal. Jurassic Park (1993)
Beetlejuice (1988): Delia Deetz (Catherine O'Hara) looking at you like she's going to set you on fire with her mind, and Otho (Glenn Shadix) looking at you like you deserve it.
A still from Beetlejuice (1988): bookshelves, atop which rests a photo of Delia Deetz (Catherine O'Hara) on the cover of Art In America.
BitTorrent search results for "Best In Show," with an errant torrent for "Gay Spy Cam—Best of Shower Spy" sandwiched between them