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robey, 23 days ago to random

wait, duckduckgo is just another name for bing?!?!

robey, 25 days ago to random

ok i had no idea dark matter was still being made! ... we watched the first couple seasons and weren't blown away and dropped it, tho i have to say it was fun in a farscape kinda way

robey, 1 month ago to random

i'm going to be sitting for a few days with this info, that cops are so ineffective at property crime that they don't even recognize a common bike lock when they see one

robey, 1 month ago to random

evan, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

I'm sort of interested in "Civil War", but I'm a lot more interested in the idea of nonviolent revolution in the USA; that is, a discontinuous change in the rules of government based on popular demonstrations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_revolution?wprov=sfla1

rit, 2 months ago to random

Has anyone used Google fiber recently? New place apparently has a choice b/w Comcast Xfinity and Google Fiber…

robey, 3 months ago to random

what do we call this? the "atari fallacy"?

once the board installs a bean-counter CEO, firing creative workers (R&D) makes number go up! short-term savings traded for long-term viability.

then it's a vicious cycle, on the inevitable slide to death: each round of layoffs/flight keeps the company in the black by shedding potential future growth.

eventually you're left with the "neutron star": no workers, just a core group of lawyers & execs who manage a dwindling business as patent trolls.

robey, 4 months ago to random

blockchain! the genu-wine article! cures ALL ailments!

robey, 4 months ago to random

apple's press release today was so user-hostile and tone-deaf it reminded me of 1990s apple... they really are over the cliff now i guess

robey, 4 months ago to random

a lot of my interactions with the rust compiler go like this:

rustc: "i'm mad about A!"

me: [changes A to B]

rustc: "now I'm mad about this whole expression! you need to add a dereference or maybe remove one!"

me: [adds dereference]

rustc: "now I'm mad about B!"

me: [changes B back to the original A]

rustc: "all good 🥰 "

robey, 5 months ago to random

i'm sure mastodon needs more money and coding to meet some of their goals, but i'd rather see people fund and support some of the other social-web servers and clients so we don't end up with a monoculture just as bad as the one we escaped.

nothing against mastodon and i wish them well. let's just make sure there are several viable options in 2024!

evan, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

So, here's a problem I have with Mastodon: let's say I make a post and someone replies with a racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic comment. I can block the commenter, but that only hides it for me. Other people who come to my page will see the comment, and believe that I tacitly condone that behaviour. I'd like to be able to delete the reply from my replies list entirely. Or at least hide replies from blocked accounts. And, yes, I know that wouldn't delete it from the originating server.

robey, 6 months ago to random

i'm afraid i still can't get over blowhards saying "supply chain security" when they really mean "we built a capitalist enterprise on top of a pile of donated work from idealistic hackers, and now we're mad that they didn't have the same goals and process as our paid employees."

literally fuck off with that. people writing code for their friends is not your "supply chain", it's just an extremely bad business model for lazy people.

Jeremiah, 6 months ago to random

“i/o - Bright-Side Mix” by Peter Gabriel is my favorite new song of December 2023.

> So we think we really live apart
> Because we got two legs, a brain, and a heart
> We all belong to everything
> To the octopus’s suckers and the buzzard’s wing
> To the elephant’s trunk and buzzing bee’s sting
> Stuff coming out, stuff going in
> I’m just a part of everything

https://songwhip.com/peter-gabriel/io-brightside-mix

#NowListening

robey, 6 months ago to random

oh hell yeah

robey, 6 months ago to random

holy moly! that last episode of mrs davis will be sitting with me for a long time

A+ tv, i rate it five stars

saramg, 7 months ago to random

Me: Hrmmm Planet Crafter looks like my kinda game, I'll watch some youtube clips about it.

Narrator: ...and as you can see power is shown as kW/h.

Me (focus intensifies): kilowatts.... per hour.... as in.... kiloJoules per second per hour.

Nope. Woulda spent money here, but THAT SHIT WILL NOT STAND.

An angry panda (or rather, a human in a panda suit) smashes up computer equipment.

robey, 7 months ago to random

i really disagree with the terminology that in a register dependency graph (like SSA), register definitions "dominate" each other. i don't think of registers as barbaric or sexual.

if register r1 depends on r2, then r2's definition supports r1. it's a support network. no registers need to be dominated today.