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Meyerweb

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Armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist. Agnostic in principle, atheist in practice, #CSS guy, mzungu. I’m only here for the food.

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Meyerweb, to random
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Been seeing a rising tide of vitriol over upcoming voting in the US and UK, and I really think it’s almost entirely rooted in whether you see your vote as an affirmative statement of your values, or as a pragmatic political choice. Both views are understandable (to me, anyway) but they can’t ever agree on where those views lead them, and it results in a lot of sniping condescension and outright disgust between ostensible allies. I guess that’s first-past-the-post for you.

Meyerweb, to ai
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An old saw holds that if you can fake confidence, you’re ahead of the game, and if you can fake sincerity, then you’ve really got it made.

This is a toot about “#ai”.

aardrian, to random
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I have no recollection why I made this a couple years ago, but stumbling across it just now brought me joy. I mean, not the kind of joy others might feel, because I am kind of fucked up.

https://codepen.io/aardrian/pen/OJvQdjK

Meyerweb,
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@aardrian

Richard_Littler, to ai
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#LinkedIn
"Learn how you can use #AI to give your projects that personal, human touch"

"My new AI meditation app does all my meditating for me, freeing me up to work as many hours as I can"

"I used AI to write my CV/resume and got the first job I applied for. And although I don't possess any of the skills/qualifications on my CV, AI has give me the confidence to believe that anything is possible if you put your mind to it."

Meyerweb,
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@Richard_Littler On that last point, as others have said: if you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made.

Jamessw, to random
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I'm excited for Thursday- I'll be livestreaming with @mia all about Anchor Positioning. I have some fun demos ready, and we'll be talking about updates to the spec and how to use it right now.

You can get a reminder to watch here- https://www.youtube.com/live/76hIB2L_vs4

Meyerweb,
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@Jamessw @mia It will be available on-demand later, yes? I don’t think I can be there for the live debut.

Meyerweb, to random
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It is almost unfathomable to me how confusing and difficult it is to do car-buying research online. This is almost entirely down to the car-makers’ sites, which seem deliberately designed to make things much harder than they should be. Just maddening.

timbray, to Israel
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No argument can stop Israel’s bloodthirsty leaders. The only thing I can think of is to re-run the BDS/boycott playbook that was deployed against South Africa. Start with the Olympics?

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-05-26-24/index.html

#gaza #Israel #BDS

Meyerweb,
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@timbray That will be harder here given how many US states have more or less outlawed BDS action. Last I saw it was over half (including mine).

lynnandtonic, to random
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What if Knives Out 3 is a musical

Meyerweb,
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@lynnandtonic A MUPPET musical

katienotopoulos, to random

Everyone wanted to blog about the Google AI glue pizza. Not me. I wanted to EAT the glue pizza https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-glue-pizza-i-tried-it-2024-5

Meyerweb,
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@katienotopoulos 🫡

kjhealy, to random
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The horror twist of course is that it turns out the skeleton is also me

Meyerweb,
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@kjhealy At least we finally know what happened to DenverCoder9.

Meyerweb, to random
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I know language is fluid and I try not to be overly prescriptivist, but I am never going to be able to accept “learnings” as a valid noun. I’ve tried, but I just can’t, and I need to accept that about myself.

Meyerweb,
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@bmac 🤜🤛

Meyerweb,
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@watters The cutoff is in my soul, Cameron.

Meyerweb,
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@steveportigal Iffy at best.

Meyerweb,
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@bjhess 🤜🤛

Meyerweb,
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@elb I feel pretty much the same about it, though I think there are a few contexts in which I can probably draw in a deep breath and let it pass.

jwz, to random
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Outrage that a reckless driver's car might gently beep at them.

...as early as 2032:

The technology uses GPS to compare a vehicle's speed with a dataset of posted speed limits. Once the car is at least 10 mph over the speed limit, the system would...
https://jwz.org/b/ykQi

Meyerweb,
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@jwz As a driver in a place that almost requires it, I want this on all my cars. If I’m that far over the limit, either I screwed up big and need to know, or I’m doing it in an emergency and a beep will be the least of my concerns. Hell, give me the “Overspeed” warning aircraft pilots get.

boolat, to webdev
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Once I thought, what if there was a CSS file that makes the document look like it is a command line interface... So I made one, but I really don't know what it could be used for :)

video/mp4

Meyerweb,
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@boolat Perfection.

glennf, to random
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Six Flags Over Alito

Meyerweb,
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@glennf s/Six/Sick/

timbray, to Israel
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On the ICC warrants for Hamas & Israeli leaders, one line of protest is that “Hamas are autocrats but Bibi is democratically elected.” Um, so what? Whatever you think of Israeli voting choices, only leaders can be held responsible for giving the orders amounting to “Go ahead, slaughter the innocents.” I honestly don’t get it.

Meyerweb,
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@JaneSmith One that gets charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity, that’s what. As they have, starting with leaders but not necessarily ending there. These are not rewards, and claiming them as such makes no sense.

Meyerweb,
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@xi_li_24 You’re replying to a reply to a post by an account that’s been suspended, so you should assume you’re missing context and misunderstanding the point being made. That’s what I’ll assume in order to give you the benefit of the doubt, anyway.

mathowie, to random
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Someone make this:

• a digital photo frame with an embedded raspberry pi
• use microphones to listen for birds
• check audio against the Merlin Bird ID system
• display photo and name of most recently heard birds, tap screen for more info/history of all birds heard

Bird ID done in Merlin Bird App
House Wren photo

Meyerweb, (edited )
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@jimfl @mathowie Yeah, if BirdWeather has a semi-decent API, this should be entirely possible to do. And… I really want it.

Addendum: the API in fact looks like it would be perfect for this use case! https://app.birdweather.com/api/v1

lynnandtonic, to random
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📝 Ten years of A Single Div https://lynnandtonic.com/thoughts/entries/ten-years-of-a-single-div/

Meyerweb,
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@lynnandtonic Such an incredible body of work, Lynn — often an education, always an inspiration. Thank you for ten years of greatness!

Meyerweb, to random
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If you need to have calendars on your site and would like some pre-baked minimally-assumptive custom elements to help you do that, Nick Williams has something for you: https://wicky.nillia.ms/cally/

Meyerweb,
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@WickyNilliams The shout was entirely earned. Good stuff, Nick!

Meyerweb, to random
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Reality is being written by a malfunctioning Markov chain generator.

(Hat tip: @cstross)

Meyerweb,
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Reality continues to be written by a malfunctioning Markov chain generator.

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