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anthony

@anthony@bitbang.social

Time Travel World Champion 2098. Artificially Unintelligible. Programmologist. Drinks tea. Lots of tea. Thermopot. Bloviator. Worst case scenario. Much nicer IRL. Really

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anthony, to random
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It's "Anonymous Employee Engagement Survey with Unique to you URL" time again!

saramg, to random
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Friends in the UK, please sign this petition. Everyone deserves health care, even if you don't like them, they're still people

Though, like, wtf is with not liking trans people? That's fucked up. What is wrong with you?

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/661601

anthony,
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@derickr @saramg my MP is a self-serving megalomaniac weasel, so it doesn't make much sense to write to them, either

(I have still signed and shared the petition, incidentally)

michelle, to random Swedish
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If you read a review for a book, usually people point out what they liked and what they disliked.

How come when you read a review for code, usually, it’s only the dislikes or if “lucky” a general comment about lack of dislikes? 🤔

anthony,
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@brunty I know you did that with us, too. I've definitely done it as well, and I see the team continuing to do so. Not a bad legacy to have, eh?

@rob @heiglandreas @michelle

NanoRaptor, to random
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Commodore 128DD

anthony,
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@NanoRaptor Can we get a Commodore 64DD? A normal Commodore 64 with a weird proprietary disk drive underneath like the Nintendo 64DD? 😁

brunty, to random
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Spent today playing with my new toys

#MacroPhotography #Photography #CanonR6M2 #Canon #MechanicalWatch

anthony,
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@brunty Neeweer from Amazon? I have some of their tripods, though nothing as fancy looking as that

anthony,
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@brunty yeah, I've been mostly happy with mine. Didn't realise yours was a Neewer

ramsey, to random
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What’s up with 19.2 fl oz beer cans? I mean, I like the size, but it’s not an even amount of anything. It equates to 567.81 ml.

Yes, I know American units are wonky, but sometimes they’re weird because they actually equal to an even metric number. For example, they sell 16.9 fl oz water bottles because that’s a half liter.

So, what gives on the 19.2 fl oz / 567.81 ml measurement for these tall cans?

anthony,
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@rob @ramsey @heiglandreas @afilina @derickr because it would be too much to ask that miles were different in the same way as pints and gallons? 😁

asgrim, to random
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I wonder if the Bri'ish "bo'u'o'ua'ah" is the longest English string of vowels in a word? 🤔

anthony,
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@asgrim this is not English, James 🤣

anthony, to retrogaming
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Saw someone say that the more save games you have on a battery-backed cartridge the faster the battery will deplete and I honestly can't tell if they're trying to trick people into wiping their cherished 16-bit era game saves or genuinely believe that. Like, how is that even possible? Whether you're holding a specific flip-flop high or low, doesn't that take the same power? Why am I doubting myself? Intuitively it makes no difference, does it? What the hell?

anthony,
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@afilina I think this is the sort of legend that was passed on from the time period that they were in use. Like blowing on the cart. Like that ET on the 2600 is definitely the worst game. They've not measured it. They've not tested it. There's no logical reason for it. But they just say it anyway. SRAM will use more power as you read and write, but I'm confident that the power draw whilst idle is identical whether holding your saves or not. I mean, what is "no saves"? It's just holding zeros

grmpyprogrammer, (edited ) to random
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And while I am on the topic, here some challenges I’d like to see other devs take up for PHP:

  • langchain support
  • our own version of numpy
  • abstraction layer around FFI, similar to how FrankenPHP/Swoole provides an implementation/framework for Fiber usage
  • Jupyter notebooks with first-class PHP support

I know there are folks out there looking to sink their teeth into some #php-adjacent projects

anthony,
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@grmpyprogrammer is NumPHP not what you're looking for?

https://numphp.org/

Is it more about NumPY's API specifically?

sean, to random
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I get that there’s a colloquial convention for this in the UI design language (left off, right on), but it’s uaully accompanied by a label or at least a colour change.

This is especially complicated for an international audience (e.g. US power switches up for on; UK down for on).

I have a hard time believing this is not an intentional anti-pattern to trick users into doing the thing the website wants them to do (which is often the opposite of what the user wants to do).

Please don’t do this.

A website cookie opt-out banner with controls for advertising, personalization, analytics… but controls are slider buttons with no state label, and the visual presentation is the same for both states other than a left/right orientation.

anthony,
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@sean I dislike these controls more than anything on the web, including ads, jumping content, and unnecessarily large JS dependencies. They're just a freaking checkbox but worse. Why do people use them? I found some of the macOS UI that mixed and matched toggles and checkboxes. WHY? WHY? WHYYYYYY?

anthony,
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@sean yeah, I think that's a pretty common theory. It's similar to how a lot of software people are solving problems that either a. don't actually exist or b. were solved decades ago and you just need to study more bro 😉

GossiTheDog, to random
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    anthony,
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    @GossiTheDog um… I feel attacked 🤣 in my defence, I work in a part that I know isn't for everyone, and I sure as hell don't know anything compared to our actual experts. I'm just here to help them deliver the best that they can

    anthony, to gameboy
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    This has got my attention all over it 😁

    https://youtu.be/ZeaZWBrG__s

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    anthony,
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    @GossiTheDog this can't be real. Can it? I mean, I know it's Truss, but holy hell

    ActionRetro, to random
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    Vintage computer nerds will see this and think “hell yeah”

    anthony,
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    @ActionRetro

    Image from Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard

    afilina, to random
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    A teammate just shared this piece of PHP code to enhance my nightmares: https://3v4l.org/C0slo

    anthony,
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    @afilina I can't decide which version's interpretation I hate more

    sean, to random
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    Ever notice how some web sites put you into a sign up flow every time you try to log in?

    I infer a company’s focus by how this works.

    If they prioritize logging in, they’re focused on customers.
    If they prioritize signing up, they’re focused on growth.

    This also informs who won the internal arguments: people who care about users or people who care about sales.

    I’ll take a company/service that’s focused on the existing relationship I already pay them to maintain, any day.

    anthony,
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    @sean wait, why would anyone redirect users to sign-up first? Do they have no users?

    ramsey, to random
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    It’s cloudy in Nashville, where we’ll see 95% totality at the eclipse max, but we won’t see it because clouds.

    anthony,
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    @ramsey too soon?

    https://mastodon.social/@oatmeal/112237079405485827

    sean, to random
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    Every year I forget, but the LockPickingLawyer on April Fool’s Day might be the filthiest thing in the Internet.

    anthony,
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    @afilina @sean Mrs Lockpicking Lawyer's back door?

    anthony, to random
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    I'm trying to get into #Constellation on Apple TV+ but I just can't. It doesn't make any sense. Giving up after 2 episodes

    anthony, to random
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    I share this pearl of wisdom from @michelle every year because it's always valid:

    "I think we should all pretend every day is april fools day, because being critical of sources online is actually not a bad thing."

    TechConnectify, to random
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    Several people now have tagged me in the Mini arrow-lookin'-tail light thing.

    You're correct that it bothers me but you're incorrect if you think the arrow part has much to do with it.

    It's bothersome to me only because it's a combined brake and turn indicator!

    I am surprised at folks who think the resemblance to an arrow pointing the wrong way is actually confusing: I find it extremely unlikely that people even parse the presence of the arrow over which side of the vehicle is flashing.

    anthony,
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    @TechConnectify wait, I voted right because I looked at the photo and not the video 🤦‍♂️

    NanoRaptor, to random
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    The modern office, 1983.

    anthony,
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    @NanoRaptor cubes > open plan offices

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