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martin_piper

@martin_piper@mastodon.social

Programmer and eater of pizzas.

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skinnylatte, to random
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I find the vast majority of yogurt products in American grocery stores to be totally inedible, except the stuff made by immigrants and sold at immigrant markets (desi yogurt, or Lebanese or Turkish labneh). Way too much sugar, or hype, sometimes both. My stomach also does better with the dairy from immigrant markets.

martin_piper,
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@skinnylatte milk protein type related?

jacqueline, to random
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number one most popular topic with my few australian suppliers continues to be "it sucks how we don't make anything in this country anymore"

martin_piper,
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@jacqueline iron ore. Coal. Immediately spring to mind

skinnylatte, to singapore
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If you’re in Singapore, like din tai fung, but don’t like how crowded / expensive their restaurants get: here’s a hawker stall that does functionally the same food for $4ish. Will also be crowded, but it won’t be $40

(I believe the chef used to work at DTF)

Taste of Jiang Nan
https://maps.app.goo.gl/CK7YDYrk2x7RkaMF7?g_st=ic

If you’re interested in making the DTF fried rice, here’s how: https://youtu.be/-YO63Wnz_Vo

#Singapore #TootSea #Food #dumplings #Recipes

martin_piper,
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@skinnylatte also silently chuckle at the DTF acronym each time you see a restaurant.

futurebird, to random
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I feel like I need to say that Trump had a rally in the Bronx after all. He even found some black people to stand with him. It seems like he's making friends at the courthouse ... people he can commiserate with about how mean those prosecutors are. The guys he was with are notorious criminals. Gang leaders responsible for shootings.

They are not well liked at all.

But I can see how Trump would find them ... relatable. They are his peers in so many ways.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/trump-appeared-on-stage-at-his-bronx-rally-with-19477236.php

martin_piper,
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@futurebird he doesn't care who they are, only that they appear in a photo.

jacqueline, to random
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INSPIRING: local woman clears her workbench

martin_piper,
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@jacqueline daily news: local man buys another workbench to avoid clearing the pervious one. :)

jacqueline, to random
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what a useful library! https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_DAP

martin_piper,
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@jacqueline write protect stops further external and internal reading and writing if the boot loader?

martin_piper,
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@jacqueline one of the things in the back of my mind is to design and build a minimal board with FPGA and associated memory for bitstream and boot loader etc. To connect to my C64 cartridge port.

jacqueline, to random
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achievement unlocked: ordered enough of something from mouser that they just sent me the manufacturer's package

martin_piper,
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@jacqueline that's a lot of Standoffs & Spacers WA-SBRII M2x6mm SW4

martin_piper, to commodore64
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Do you want to find out how to alter level data in Nebulus? How about adding compressed data back into the game? Or how about the sprite flipping? Source code included!
https://youtu.be/893jG1PXW-k

futurebird, to random
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OK this might be the right idea. You fill it with books, they don't get dusty... they go in the closet or deep in some storage nook.

Then in 15 years you can look at them and maybe part with a few... I can do this!

martin_piper,
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@futurebird in 15 years those handles and seams would disintegrate. :)

skinnylatte, (edited ) to magASEAN
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This story of this probably trans Burmese-Chinese warlord and Golden Triangle opium smuggler turned peace broker has always fascinated me.

What a life he led. (He was often described as bisexual, but that was because he had to marry a man earlier in life; at the end of his life he asked to be called uncle by everyone)

(cw: Story doesn't use his pronouns)

https://coconuts.co/yangon/features/royal-turned-warlord-opium-pioneer-golden-triangle-olive-yang-dies-aged-90/

martin_piper,
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@skinnylatte although some of the language used needs a bit of a tidy.

martin_piper,
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@skinnylatte I understand it can be tricky when talking about historical events and people, but still the article really needs a refresh.

futurebird, to random
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I've been reading some history books about Europe in the middle ages. The matter of the education of kings is incredibly interesting. It seemed nearly universally recognized that an excellent education is essential to a family holding on to power. And even in the controversies of the day (such as religion) children of the ruling class were exposed to a surprisingly wide range of ideas. Including those treated as heresy for the general population.

martin_piper,
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@futurebird male children were. The girls often not.

MattMerk, to random
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I just had a conversation with a guy who said, “Yeah, well I’m a capitalist.”

So I asked, “Okay, how much capital do you have?”

Boy, oh boy, does that question put things in perspective. He became a caricature of an old Warner Brothers cartoon character, trying to compose himself as he fumbled for words, all while he avoided actually answering the question.

So I simply repeated the question. I highly recommend.

martin_piper,
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@MattMerk are you prepared to tell me how much money you have?
If you are not prepared to answer a question but you expect others to answer the same question then you are being dishonest and inconsistent.

Answer the question. Asking another question in response would be avoiding the question.

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

martin_piper,
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@mcc according to the creative commons agreement you don't have the right to remove content which would cause others to lose access to what you wrote.

martin_piper,
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@mcc they are following creative commons. Nothing in there prohibits the use of AI.

martin_piper,
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"OpenAI said ChatGPT would attribute its answers when they’re sourced from the platform."

martin_piper,
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@simon_lucy they do provide actual sources.

jacqueline, to random
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the thing about c++ is you can do

std::numeric_limits<uint32_t>::max()

and be technically correct, portable, more expressive, etc.

or you can just do

UINT32_MAX

which is probably Wrong and Bad in many ways, but has the strong advantage of not sucking ass

martin_piper,
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@jacqueline in the standard headers how is UINT32_MAX defined? A constant number or the template?

ben, to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

martin_piper,
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@ben you gave them information for free. You don't own it, they do. That was the working relationship.

Imagine if you were working for a company producing work and you suddenly tried to sabotage that work. That's what you were trying to do, sabotage it. They would be perfectly within their rights to restrict your access.

The moral of this story is, if you want to retain ownership then don't give it away (for free) to someone else.

martin_piper,
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@ben GDPR does not apply here since its not personal data. It's technical data.

martin_piper,
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@asthargf @ben I didn't say it's exactly the same, it is analogous to though. Enough to make the point that the company does own the content that the users contribute for free.

martin_piper,
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@asthargf @ben it is also not victim blaming because the poster is not the victim. The actual victim here is the forum owner because the posts were sabotaged.

martin_piper,
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@ben "This means that you cannot revoke permission..."

The terms you agreed to are very specific to say you cannot do that.

https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#licensing

martin_piper, to commodore64
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My new #MegaWang2000 video board for the #Commodore64 was built by @PCBWayOfficial and worked first time! This board provides RGB565 colour and 32 palette banks each with 256 colours. I'm really happy with the build quality from PCBWay.
https://youtu.be/z-Phui5EcDo

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