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mansr

@mansr@society.oftrolls.com

Bad jokes, good cats.

Self-employed.

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revk, (edited ) to random
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It is Tue 30th Jan

When is “next Friday”?

[boost boost boost]

mansr, (edited )
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@nicr9 @revk I'll table that at our next bifortnightly meeting.

coreyspowell, to space
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Only three humans have ever witnessed an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth. It happened while the Apollo 12 crew was returning home from the Moon, on November 21, 1969.

Fortunately, the astronauts filmed the moment so you can share in the experience.

https://archive.org/details/Apollo1216mmOnboardFilm [at the 4:50 mark] #space #science #nasa #eclipse

Footage of the eclipse of the sun was taken with a 16mm motion picture camera from the Apollo 12 spacecraft during its trans-Earth journey home from the moon. The fascinating view was created when the Earth moved directly between the sun and the Apollo 12 spacecraft. Aboard Apollo 12 were astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., commander; Richard F. Gordon Jr., command module pilot; and Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot. While astronauts Conrad and Bean descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Intrepid" to explore the Ocean of Storms region of the moon, astronaut Gordon remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Yankee Clipper" in lunar orbit. Source: NASA/Johnson Space Center

mansr,
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@revk @steven @coreyspowell It's all quite simple, really:

☀️ 🌔 🌍 = solar eclipse
☀️ 🌍 🌔 = lunar eclipse
🌍 ☀️ 🌔 = apocalypse

mansr,
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@revk @steven @Ptisan @coreyspowell I just picked the first match for moon. Didn't mean to open up for more pedantry, but you're welcome.

Chrishallbeck, to comics
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Appointment

mansr,
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@Chrishallbeck Plot twist: he skipped the appointment.

exador23, to random
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seems legit.

mansr,
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@revk @exador23 Audiophools do exactly that.

One of many examples: https://www.entreq.com/en-GB/products/ground-boxes-17667704

mansr, to random
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I have a pile of (mostly) PCI cards that I really don't need. There are NICs, storage controllers, graphics cards, sound cards, and a couple of USB adapters. Any takers? In the UK. Shipping elsewhere is probably not sensible.

Feel free to boost.

Chrishallbeck, to animation
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An important distinction. #cartoon #animation #funny

Two people sitting in bed.

mansr,
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@oblomov @Chrishallbeck And then there's "sooner or later" which in Spanish gets turned around to "tarde o temprano". Languages are weird.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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I'm at UT Austin for a lecture and a nontrivial number of students, of diverse gender and ethnicity, are carrying huge plastic jugs of water? Or sitting with huge jugs of water? What are they afraid of?

mansr,
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@ZachWeinersmith They're afraid of witches, obviously.

mansr, to random
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The Apple M4 CPU, optimised for running autoconf scripts.

mansr, to random
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Remember, genuine Marmite looks green in UV light.

mansr, to random
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Two election related thoughts came down my timeline today:

  • If abstention benefited the left, voting would be mandatory.
  • Abstaining from voting is like waiting for the perfect piece when playing Tetris.
mansr, to random
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These two posts appeared (boosted) like this in my timeline, and at first I thought the image belonged to the topmost post. I'm not sure how, but it feels kind of right.

https://infosec.exchange/@paco/112331644608514932
https://mastodon.social/@leandrocorrea/112258217756358038

@paco @leandrocorrea

bloor, to random
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Interchangeable lens cameras: the true story.

See bird out of window.

Go to get camera.

Realise wide angle lens is on it.

Pull out telephoto.

Take telephoto out of its protective bag.

Realise you need a back cap for the wide angle.

Find back cap.

Remove wide angle.

Fit back cap.

Install telephoto.

Check camera is in the mode carefully set up for birds.

Go back to window.

… bird has gone.

mansr,
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@bloor Just use the back cap from the telephoto lens.

akosma, to random
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"The industrial design of the HP-35 was unusual not only for Hewlett-Packard, but for the electronics industry in general. Usually, the mechanical and electrical components of a product are determined before the exterior is designed. The HP-35 took the opposite approach."

http://shiftleft.com/mirrors/www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/72jun/jun72a3.pdf

mansr,
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@akosma I read somewhere that a design requirement for the first portable CD player (Sony D-50) was for it to be no larger than a stack of 4 CD cases. It ended up almost exactly that size.

mansr, (edited ) to random
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If some syntax uses a single character to start a comment, which do you prefer?

mansr, to random
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I have about £100 of Google store credit. Do they sell anything useful other than phones (the credits will expire before I need a new phone)?

mansr, (edited ) to random
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Which empire do you think about most frequently?

mansr, to random
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The people railing against LLM training are basically arguing that remembering anything you read is illegal.

mansr, (edited ) to random
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If you regularly share a bed with the same person, do you always sleep on the same side?

(Sides from your point of view facing the ceiling.)

mansr, (edited )
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If you answered yes, which option best describes you?

(4-option limit, and non-binary, agender, etc don't really fit the question anyway. Sorry.)

revk, (edited ) to random
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My wife just got me some really nice chocolates in London.

I know they are really nice as I have tried them.

I also know, as my wife got them for me and she loves me.

I also know as they are individually in labelled cellophane bags and each one is in a separate branded wrap, and the whole lot in a thick branded card bag with rope handles.

Why does nobody sell really nice chocolates in a simple paper bag any more, and 8 a penny?

mansr,
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@revk Since they were already bought, it would've been a complete waste not to eat them.

revk, (edited ) to random
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No, Kryten, it is not "aye ess see two". The II in ASCII is II, not 2. Indeed, it is before the insane days when people turned two letters in a row such as II in to I².

#RedDwarf

mansr,
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@avatastic @revk You're both wrong. It's Kryten.

revk, to random
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What does a white line and cross hatching (faded) mean on a footpath?

mansr,
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@revk "We had spare paint and didn't know what to do with it."

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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10-year-old just got to function stuff and I'm having trouble explaining in general why you should care which variable is dependent vs independent? Other than that, in stats, you should know the direction of causality, does this sort of thing matter?

mansr,
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@ZachWeinersmith The independent variable is something you know, the dependent something you want to know. Causality can go either way or not at all.

revk, to random
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I understand sat nav, and I also understand that the time and distance for a route can be different for traversing a road one way or the other, or for traversing a junction one way or the other, and even depend on time of day or location traffic at the time.

But for walking directions that does not apply, and I would expect a walking route A-B to be the inverse of B-A.

So WTF does apple send me one way to get there and another to get back?

mansr,
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@revk It's trying to make you walk uphill both ways.

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