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Steveg58

@Steveg58@aus.social

Retired Configuration Manager, Game Player, Fountain Pen collector, Garden Railway afficionado.

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foone, to random
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I'm always kinda surprised that Factorio is so popular with developers, given that it's basically "technical debt, the game!"

Steveg58,
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@foone
Yeah developers, create the most awfully masochistic but ineffectual configuration management and change control systems and they are wiling to argue to the death with actual trained and experienced Defence/Aerospace grade Configuration Manager who are telling them they going overboard. Yeah, you've done an ITIL course, nah you have no clues.

sortius, to random
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Having dumplings, watching a white dude struggle with chopsticks and noodles.

It's amusing, but at the same time, good on you. The rest asked for western cutlery

Steveg58,
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@sortius
A couple of decades ago I was driving back to Perth from Sydney and stopped for the night at Port Augusta. For dinner I went to a local Chinese restaurant and ordered something and steamed rice. An old guy brought out a rice bucket and a plate of food with a knife and fork. As he put it down I asked if it was possible to get a rice bowl and chopsticks. Immediately his face lit up and he said something like "oh, yes, yes" and scurried off to the kitchen. I went home feeling like a had done a good deed bringing a little extra joy to him.

cstross, to random
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Shockingly, Royal Mail FINALLY DELIVERED the portable USB monitor they've been sitting on for a week since it arrived in the UK. So now all I need is some free desk space and two mains sockets and I can try out my new Spectrum Next rig!

(I am too old to get down on my knees in front of the living room telly and play with the speccy there.)

Steveg58,
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@cstross
My best Royal Mail story was from when my wife ordered some metal dollshouse miniature appliances from England.
After an inordinate wait the parcel arrived by sea mail with an official Royal Mail sticker saying "Dangerous Goods, not to be sent by air freight".Tthe reason? A 1/12 scale model of a kerosene fridge.

nyrath, (edited ) to random
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The Dungeon Master cackles sinisterly, and tells the players "When you regain consciousness, this is what you see..."

Steveg58,
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@nyrath
The image is too low contrast to make out. Something flying? Waves? A tree?
Some alt text to describe what is going on would have been nice.

Steveg58,
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@nyrath
Thanks for the high contrast version, now I can actually see it.

Steveg58,
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@nyrath
It showed up for me giving the artist and origin of
the image.

kcarruthers, to random
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Eek! 😱 Japan Airlines pilots in Tokyo plane crash had to be told of fire by cabin crew – Flight attendants needed permission from cockpit to open emergency exits, broadcaster reports

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/04/japan-plane-crash-haneda-airport-japan-airlines-pilots-cabin-crew-fire-tokyo

Steveg58,
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@djb @kcarruthers
Yeah, in the footage shown on the ABC at the point the person was yelling "please let us out" (in japanese) the plane was still in motion sliding down the runway. All the brakes would likely have been taken out by the crash and the pilots may not have been able to set reverse thrust on the engines. The cabin crew would inform the pilots about the fire as a matter of course in case they did not know (which seems unlikely but then the flames stream backwards and there are no rear vision mirrors in the cockpit) and the cabin crew would have to inform the pilots that there was smoke in the cabin. A well executed escape with a well trained crew.

nyrath, to random
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Disability Can Be a Superpower in Space (2018)

https://nss.org/disability-can-be-a-superpower-in-space/

Steveg58,
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@nyrath @swope
Clarke knew about Douglas Bader.
Also Quaddies.

simon_brooke, to random
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Well, abandon your ineffective politics, then, 'Sir' Keir. Throw us some red socialist meat. Promise to

  1. Reverse the privatisations in the #NHS;
  2. Accelerate the transition from fossil fuels;
  3. Bring railways and utilities into public ownership (ideally as worker/consumer co-ops rather than nationalised);
  4. Bring in wealth taxes and, in particular, increase inheritance taxes.

#Starmer #Labour #Useless

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/starmer-apathy-could-keep-tories-power-2832287

Steveg58,
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@simon_brooke @sethb @Wen
Well that is what happened in Australia. Conservatives and Conservatives light.

drahardja, to random
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The Y2K bug is a great illustration that a well-handled potential disaster looks like “nothing happened” in retrospect. The fact that Y2K seemed to be a non-event is a testament to how seriously people took this emergency, and how everyone buckled down and averted a worldwide infrastructure disaster.

I started working at Honeywell Aerospace (AlliedSignal back then) in 1998, and by that time people were already working on Y2K issues. We were in the GPS navigation business, and there were real issues that would have caused aircraft navigation to go awry unless they were fixed.

People buckled down, found the bugs, ran simulations, got FAA sign-offs, and deployed the fixes to all affected aircraft well before Y2K. Thanks to the effort, “nothing happened”. But I assure you (bad) things would have happened if we did nothing. https://infosec.exchange/@tychotithonus/111670219441506220

Steveg58,
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@weezmgk @drahardja
And that was in part because customers were demanding that everything be Y2K certified regardless of whether it was ever a Y2K risk.

cstross, to random
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"Here at the Laundry we pride ourselves on our great employment security! If you join us you get a job for life plus ten years."

Steveg58,
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@cstross
So that would be 30 years then? (At some point the legal system here redefined a life sentence to be 20 years).

gregeganSF, to random
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When in doubt, divide by two!

Steveg58,
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@gregeganSF
Wouldn't you divide by three because each vertex is shared by 3 triangles? Topology is not my strong suit.
I eventually read the Alt Text and saw it was a LLM answer.
"Smarter than the average LLM".

cstross, to random
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On Summoning a Vengeful God - Webworm with David Farrier

TLDR: explainer on premillennial dispensationalist batshittery and vile antisemitism, explaining what evangelical Christian Zionism is, and hilighting its genocidal anti-semitism. https://www.webworm.co/p/christianzionists

Steveg58,
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@cstross
That kind of thing is common through the South Pacific. we get it among rugby players in Australia who refuse to wear things that acknowledge LGBTQIA+ causes. But just be a bit more sparing with that "premillenial" bullshit or we will start to consider you ageist.

Steveg58,
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@cstross
Yeah but "premillenial" is also used as a derogatory term.

cstross, to random
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About Amazon's decline in recent months: I have an Amazon account I use ONLY for buying ebooks. Nothing else, ever, going back over a decade.

My recommendations page in that account now contains no ebooks, only products from categories I never purchase, like lawnmowers (I don't have a garden) and dresses (I'm a boring cis male).

I can't actually find any new ebooks I want to read via Amazon recommendations any more. And this seems to be an outcome of deliberate changes? Why would they DO that?

Steveg58,
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@cstross
They don't care about selling you e-books because they know from your history that you will seek out and buy e-books. They are casting around trying to find some other category that will attract your eye and broaden the range of things they can sell you.

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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Steveg58,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat
Problem is that takes you to the alternate 1984 that George Orwell envisioned not the real one.

rivetgeek, to random
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There's "Hey it's raining" and there's "Oh fuck, how big is a cubit?"

Steveg58,
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@rivetgeek
"Noah, how long can you tread water?"

gregeganSF, to random
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Sure, the 2 papers I coauthored on spin networks, and that one on celestial mechanics, absolutely qualify me to whip up something in the next day or two for your highly prestigious journal of biomedical research & environmental sciences.

Ah, case reports? Hand me my stethoscope!

Steveg58,
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@gregeganSF
Ah! The well known conference paper scam.

rivetgeek, (edited ) to random
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Some tinkering with a reskinned Vimary map for my game I'm going to run on . It's meant for just quick reference which is why the labels are kind of big.

Steveg58,
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@rivetgeek
I do like this third one. The second one looks like a refugee from the 1980's. The first one is okay but not very useable. You are going to have to have another usable map as well. Why do the job twice?

Steveg58,
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@rivetgeek
Yeah but the presence of those overlays changes the entire visual presence.

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    Steveg58,
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    @marcelias
    A quick and painless death compared to be in locked in a school while a gunman hunts out and shoots all your classmates or being locked in a detention centre for decades while your family goes insane and dies from lack of medical care.
    RECALIBRATE YOUR OUTRAGE.

    annaleen, to random
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    FACTS. CHECK THEM. WHEN YOU SEE A FACT, CHECK IT.

    Steveg58,
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    @annaleen
    Learn to recognise factoids so you don't waste time on them.

    nyrath, to random
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    KING HENRY'S SPACE SUIT

    https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacesuits.php#henrysuit

    Steveg58,
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    @nyrath
    Just imagine what he would have done if he had a starship to go with it!

    rivetgeek, to random
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    We're diving into the build pipeline for our database servers as we gear up for a migration. The pipeline was by a consultant AWS provided over two years ago when we migrated from on-prem. It's worked for us since but as I've gone to modify things for the new migration I'm finding all kinds of small mistakes that are getting in the way and have to be fixed

    Steveg58,
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    @rivetgeek
    Except you always have to consider if it is the documentation that is wrong (or incomplete).

    rivetgeek, to random
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    I woke up with Celebrity Skin stuck in my head and I don't know why.

    Steveg58,
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    @rivetgeek
    Okay, you do know that if you go around flaying celebrities in your sleep that there is going to be pushback?

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