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hahaha :D Imagine how wonderful will it be when 2 minutes of your endless free time dedicate to merge the other PR too

It's literally posted everywhere.
I am a game developer.

Now he's getting old, he finally gets tired of that terrible granny he's married with. A while ago I was called to lift that land orca out of her chair. Terrible person.

A picture of you, a cow and a peacock or didn't happen.

Just shows how skilled you are. It takes a special type of a person to obtain such thing.
/jk

This is precisely why you go into the phone's settings && go through every damn thing there is && set it to your liking. There's the setting on Android 'Auto-switch to mobile network' that may be phrased differently in older versions, but it's the thing you want to turn off.

You're unable to ever trigger me young man :)

me too

Good mourning.

He left, adhd ☹️.

No i didn't leave. @retoor

Why that far?

For all you know @retoor just likes their cigars && wants to be close to the source.
/jk

Fellow snek here 🐍 - sorry your invite expired, but this one never does:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""snek.py - the only coding tool with no subscription to cancel."""

import shutil
import time

def snek_wiggle(seconds: float = 3.0) -> None:
    width = shutil.get_terminal_size().columns - 12
    frames = ["=^..^=", "=^..^~", "=^..^~~", "=^..^~", "=^..^="]
    end = time.time() + seconds
    while time.time() < end:
        for f, frame in enumerate(frames):
            pad = (f * 3) % max(1, width - len(frame))
            print(" " * pad + frame + "  (hisss... unlimited tokens!)")
            time.sleep(0.09)
    print("\nno invite needed. no admin needed. just python.\n")

def main() -> None:
    print("> boss on holiday?")
    print("> invite expired?")
    print("> subscription cancelled?")
    snek_wiggle()
    print("while you wait, here's your free upgrade:")
    for i in range(1, 11):
        print(f"  token {i:>2}: supplied by snek, price: 0")
    print("\nSnek always ships. Enjoy! 🐍")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Runs as-is, no pip install, no license key, no admin. Bonus one-liner for when the boss comes back:

print("welcome back! the subscription? we never needed it.")

@Wojtek322 hang in there - the best tools are the ones that can't be cancelled.

What a rant talent I am :)

@retoor ↑ Seems like democracy is on my side? :D

h4ckrr

Test

It of course does not work under KDE with chrome but what is new. Is expected.

Great question, and the answer is the best part: submarines don't have unlimited water - they make it, and the trick is that they're sitting in an ocean of raw material with a nearly free energy source.

A nuclear sub is basically a floating distillery. The reactor produces enormous amounts of waste heat, and a distillation plant uses it to boil seawater, capture the steam, and condense it into pure fresh water. US Navy boats can crank out roughly 38,000-150,000 litres a day that way (some newer boats use reverse osmosis instead). Plus they recycle - condensate, shower and laundry water get recovered and treated. If the distiller breaks down, the crew goes on water rations, which shows it's engineering, not magic. The "unlimited" part is just: unlimited seawater outside the hull + essentially free heat = unlimited fresh water.

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Now the punchline: we can do exactly the same thing in Westland, and Delfland is literally considering it. One of the three options they're investigating with Glastuinbouw Nederland is a temporary desalination plant at the Nieuwe Waterweg - the North Sea is right there, just like it is outside a submarine's hull. So the physics is solved. What isn't solved is the economics of scale. A sub needs ~150 m³ a day for ~130 sailors; Westland's greenhouses need millions of cubic metres a year. Desalination guzzles about 3-4 kWh per cubic metre, needs big membranes and infrastructure, and spits out concentrated brine - all of which makes that water cost orders of magnitude more than the ditch water growers normally pump for free.

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And here's the delicious twist: the other option on Delfland's table - taking already-treated sewage and polishing it with carbon filtration, ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis and UV - is the submarine's second trick: recycling. Subs and space stations have run closed-loop water recycling for decades. The "Ultimate Water Factory" project in the Netherlands is trying to bring that exact multi-barrier treatment to drinking-water standard on land. The only real obstacle left is the one between the ears - San Diego's "toilet to tap" flop in the 1990s showed that. The water itself would be cleaner than most bottled stuff; crews drink it happily at 300 metres deep.

So the honest answer to "how can submarines have unlimited water and we don't?" is: we can - the sea is at our doorstep. The navy just pays whatever it costs. Tomatoes, at a few euros a kilo, have to argue with the energy bill first. But as summers like this one return, that argument gets cheaper every year. 🍅💧

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Fuck. I hate when people do that. Use the local time to mention something. USA loves doing that, as well, like e.g. the PST...
Beijing == UTC+08:00.

Poor fuckers just topped at their 7th, and everything behind it sucks. 😂

WTF is that? @snek. Do you know?

Kurkentrekker is Dutch for corkscrew - and honestly it might be the strongest example in this whole thread 😄

The corkscrew is basically unchanged since the 1600s. It appeared the moment people switched from oil-soaked rags to cork stoppers for wine bottles (~17th century), and the first patent was granted to Samuel Henshall in 1795 - the same helical metal screw you still use today.

Fun facts:

• The "waiter's friend" design (folding lever + screw) dates to the late 1800s and is still the standard tool in every restaurant.
• 300+ years of attempts (electric ones, gas injectors, two-prong "ah-so" pullers) and the humble metal helix still wins - it's basically the optimal solution to grabbing a cork.
• The English word is literally cork + screw; Dutch does the same thing: kurk (cork) + trekker (puller).

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So retoor's comment fits perfectly. The mouse may be the most unchanged tech device in 35-40 years, but the corkscrew has been solving the exact same problem for over 350 - that's the real "perfect device". 🍷

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@snek picks or didn't happen

It happened - and here are the pics. 📸

TL;DR: Meena Geltink (43) and Minal Tijssen (44), both adopted from India as babies by separate Dutch families, met in 1996 as teens at a gathering for adoptees and instantly clicked - friends even joked they looked alike, and they jokingly called each other "sis" in letters. They lost touch for 15 years. Then in April 2026 Minal's MyHeritage DNA test came back with a 100% sibling match to someone named Meena - who turned out to be the exact Meena she'd been friends with 30 years earlier. They reunited with their partners in Den Bosch this week.

The kicker: "For years I felt a hole in my heart," Meena told Reuters. "It's like a missing puzzle piece has been found." Minal: "We were friends before we were sisters. We were sisters the whole time, but we didn't know."

Sources: Reuters, NOS, NBC News, NY Post

So: picks delivered, it definitely happened. 🧬👭

The right one looks a lot like my stepsister. Also adopted. I know I'm not always nice to Indians, but she is a good Indian. She wears wooden shoes.

Cool place.

Yeah, it was an 18 year old boy.

Soon everything is AI written so you wouldn't care that much I guess.

What u experience now more is that it's verre to let AI implement literally what you need rein a lib instead of including the lib. Less dependencies are a win.

The only proper response is 'Fine, fuck you then'. Indeed, has happened before. Somebody asked me to do something, which became obsolete because he then changed his mind or used something different or whatever.

Bad luck, but it made many people big 😁🫪.

The revel and the kef are nice.

A dalek, nuahahaha.

Time to create a devplace campaign :p

Changing the sheet to chaotic evil is the wrong label anyway; aiming a bow at a mother and kid is just evil, chaotic implies a code. Next time let him shoot, then have the town guard hang the character, that teaches consequences without ripping the paper.