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clacke, 2 months ago to random

I accidentally factory reset my phone. Now it's all set up again but my 4G is super slow. Curious.

clacke, 25 days ago to random

On Saturday, the Fediverse is celebrating it's 16th anniversary!

How are you celebrating?

#fediverse16years

clacke, 10 months ago to random en-us

Veritasium recently released a video on the history and double-edged nature of early 20th century synthetic chemical research, the German chemical giant BASF and the Nobel prize-winning chemist Fritz Haber, inventor of both synthetic fertilizer and chemical weapons.

Here is a video with historian MakingHistory mostly agreeing with the historical perspective, but adding more context and detail along with a few minor corrections, while also guarding a bit against Veritasium's implied moral perspective.

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=Hl233GBfI3…

Veritasium original:

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

youtube.com/watch?v=EvknN89JoW…

clacke, 4 months ago to random

"He moved toward the giant vision screen with a graceful flowing motion that no mere biped could ever hope to imitate."

I love a scifi story where aliens are more alien!

"Rescue Party", a short story by Arthur C. Clarke

Earth is doomed and aliens come to find out about humans, find some human artifacts, and hopefully find some still-alive humans, before the planet is consumed by the Sun.

baen.com/Chapters/0743498747/0…

/via astronomy.city/ @hendric

clacke, 6 months ago to random

> tres
> cool

‌#TShirtSpotting

When it's all caps I prefer to think of it as lowercase in a font where all letters look uppercase.

clacke, 7 months ago to random en-us

Another one in the line of co-conspirators turned witness: Mark Meadows
♲ mastodon.social/

clacke, 7 months ago to random en-us

Friendica shows me the alt text in the light box when I click an image wooooooh! ❤️

This will save me so much trouble.

clacke, 2 months ago to random

Every year for the last 13 years, some post makes the rounds complaining that calculators disagree on what an expression like 8/2(2+2) or 6÷2(1+2) means.

And every time some loud people show up saying people are idiots if they don't know there's One Correct Answer, and if you know Math you know the Answer.

Here's science educator "The How and Why of Mathematics" with full receipts from papers around 1917 and full receipts from maths and physics publishing guidelines of today explaining that it's Just Not That Clear.

It seems the people who think it is unambiguous are mostly people who went to US primary school and highschool and learned the PEMDAS initialism in the 1990s or later.

She even goes through various calculator brands and what their representatives have said! Basically only Sharp calculators are consistent within their product lines, others have moved back and forth over time.

farside.link/invidious/watch?v…
youtube.com/watch?v=4x-BcYCiKC…

If you don't like videos, Berkeley professor George Bergman has written something similar back in 2013 or so:

math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/mi…
The Problem with PEMDAS: Why Calculators Disagree

clacke, 9 months ago to random en-us

Which Free Software project had an in-joke where there was a text file like "cabal.txt" on their web site and the file just said "there is no Swedish cabal"?

Gnome? Mozilla?

clacke, 3 months ago to random

Is there such a thing as a soup pot with a cast-iron bottom?

I don't want to buy non-stick pots and inevitably get micro teflon in my food as it deteriorates, and I really like how my cast-iron frying pan works.

I suppose there are full cast-iron pots, but those would be super heavy and also easy to burn yourself on.

I suppose it's not possible to make something like this without getting a seam that would inevitably leak?

clacke, 10 months ago to random en-us

Both Barbie and Oppenheimer are at their core about our moral responsibility when we create technology and how technology and politics can never be truly separate. They just wrap it differently.

#barbenheimer

clacke, 1 month ago to random

"Voting isn’t marriage - it’s public transport. You are not waiting for “the one” who is absolutely perfect."

With this metric, is even marriage like marriage? Do people believe there is exactly one person out of seven billion that is your soulmate and you have to find them?

Tangent from:

mstdn.social/users/sandlapper3… @sandlapper37

clacke, 6 months ago to random

After five minutes side quest, find a window open with an email.

"Oh, I didn't send that yet?"
send

Oh right, the side quest was to find some data that was supposed to go in that email.

clacke, 1 year ago to random

The company has about 100 laptops here. Dell, i5 CPU, probably 6 years old. I'll ask for more detailed specs if anyone is interested.

We're selling them off, wiped and reinstalled with a fresh vanilla Windows.

They'll go for 100 HKD ~= 10 EUR. If you want one I can send it to you if you pay the shipping. That'd be like 30 EUR I guess to most of the world by surface parcel.

IT said maybe they won't do it because of lack of interest, so I hope I can get some interest and they won't have to become e-waste. They're all in good shape, mostly used in a climate-controlled office for max 3 years before they went into storage in the same climate-controlled office.

clacke, 1 year ago to random en-us

> If I'd be building software to use for the next 100 years I'd be using something like CL or SML that has "failed" to change this side of the century.

Re: libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-3… (by myself)

Someone wrote a blog post on this, the heirloom program or the 100-year program or something and drew the SML conclusion, but I can't find it now.

It was written over a year ago. It wasn't the CollapseOS guy, nor was it anyone at Merveilles Town.

#PostCollapseComputing #HeirloomComputing #SmallComputing #PermaComputing

clacke, 6 months ago to random

clacke, 2 months ago to random

Easter call with Sweden.

One of the friends of my siblings has become a grandparent. The last time I saw the mother of the grandchild she was three years old.

clacke, 9 months ago to random en-us

I just bought a can opener.

[insert my standard rant about can openers and the can opener market here]

clacke, 10 months ago to random en-us

Several shapes of OSHA vs NSFW memes are making the rounds and I love it.

clacke, 1 month ago to random

It's becoming more and more common that I can't search-fetch a post. Reposting it from another place brings it here and then I can search and find it.

I'm guessing this is because more sites are enabling authorized fetch and Friendica hasn't yet implemented it ... for search specifically? Otherwise I shouldn't get the reposts either?

Not pushing anyone to do anything, it's not a weird corner case, I'm sure the relevant people are aware and it's in the backlog, and a fix will arrive in due time.

clacke, 3 months ago to random

> me: i can never tell if someone is flirting with me or just being friendly> them: maybe we should kiss until you figure it out ;)

> me: like platonically or

‌farside.link/nitter/smithsara7…

clacke, 3 months ago to random

I'm estimating that I might be about 95% straight. My track record only looks like 100% because of the limited sample size.

clacke, 4 months ago to random

If someone prefers Dune 1984 to Dune 2021, I can understand it. It's weirder, more fun, has cult status, maybe they like the worms better.

If they prefer it because it's "closer to the book" I am allowed a very strong suspicion that it's because Liet is a man. Other than that and a few minor things added from prequel books, 2021 stays much closer to the book.

clacke, 1 month ago to random

HP = Hewlett-Packard
HP = hitpoints or health points
HP = Harry Potter

Recently I learned that among AA people:

HP = higher power

clacke, 1 month ago to random

Oh cool. OCaml 5, which came out 2 years ago, had a big update adding multicore support.

I became aware because 5.2 RC 1 is out just now.

OCaml is still on my to-learn list.