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stephent

@stephent@mastodon.social

🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. Building software, making music 🎹, admiring art 🖼.

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stephent, to boulder
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You know you live in a nice place when you can say good morning to the local hawk family on your walk into town for coffee.

stephent, to classicalmusic
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Those foam inserts that were supposed to protect our CD sets? Hmm. Perhaps not so much…

The discs are fine after 30 years, but the packaging:

#compactdisc #classicalmusic #recordings #audio

Degraded foam insert sticking to an audio CD.

ianRobinson, to random
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My exercise data for 2023, as recorded by Apple Watch.

Total steps: 2,657,841 (2022 total: 2,774,537)

Total distance in Km: 2,370 (2022 total: 2,485)

Total distance in miles: 1,472 (2022 total: 1,544)

Chart showing the number of kilometres I walked each month during 2023. The total for each month fluctuates around the 200 kilometres line. The total for the year was 2,370 kilometres.

stephent,
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@ianRobinson impressive! That’s a lot of steps.

stephent,
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@ianRobinson but quite a few more than me (and I walk pretty much every day)

schwa, to random
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    @schwa it’s the endless cycle. I imagine there‘ll likely be some nominal exec casualties for appearances, then the surviving execs say “I have a cunning plan, but it requires hiring more headcount” and it all begins again.

    Feels like the ghost of wholesale telecoms past has visited tech.

    jsq, to random
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    stephent,
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    @jsq I need one of these for my desk!

    schwa, to random
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    stephent,
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    @schwa “…running through the field”

    simonbs, (edited ) to random
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    No, Apple, a well thought-out minimalistic pomodoro app from an indie developer is not spam. It provides users with a choice. Stop insulting developers, Apple.

    https://breaks.app by @zachwaugh was rejected by Apple as spam because the App Store already contains pomodoro apps with similar concepts. The App Store also contained quite a few journaling apps before you launched your Journal app yesterday, Apple.

    https://mastodon.social/@zachwaugh/111568177893170335

    stephent,
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    @simonbs @zachwaugh FWIW, I once had the ‘spam’ rejection when I submitted an app that had previously been submitted (in substantially different form) under another dev account. It had never even been released, but it seems it was picked up by some form of binary scanning/matching. I wrote to explain that the intellectual property had been legally transferred to a different company, and it was approved. (No idea if that might apply here, but sharing just in case.)

    stshank, to Mexico
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    Milde's tarantula-hawk wasp (Pepsis mildei). Can't emphasize how huge this wasp we saw in Mexico is — size of my thumb. Females tickle the web around a tarantula hole to lure it out, sting the spider to paralyze it, drag it back in, and lay one egg. The larva hatches and eats the still-living spider. Pretty metal.
    #Wasp #Mexico #NaturePhotography

    stephent,
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    @stshank saw one in Bandelier National Monument, NM. Disturbing!

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    Here's a post I wrote over the weekend reporting on a useful AI meeting at the World Economic Forum ... and calling bullshit on so much happening at OpenAI:
    https://buzzmachine.com/2023/11/19/artificial-general-bullshit/

    stephent,
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    @jeffjarvis I think you’re likely to lose a few people with statements like this: “The output of ChatGPT: Bullshit.” It needs more context.

    Many people, myself included, find it a highly useful tool, limitations and inaccuracies notwithstanding.

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    @jeffjarvis true, but it’s an incomplete characterization. If you acknowledge no benefits of ChatGPT I fear you're less likely to persuade on the valid criticisms.

    stroughtonsmith, to random
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    Apple has two great multipurpose game-ready engines on all of its platforms: SceneKit (for 3D), and SpriteKit (for 2D).

    Except visionOS, which tells you not to use them.

    It favors RealityKit, which isn’t a general purpose game engine that can be used across all of Apple’s other platforms.

    I think taking away a key enabling technology like SceneKit is a terrible move. ‘NIH’ on display. Competing platforms would kill to have something as powerful as SceneKit built right in and easy to use

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    @stroughtonsmith I love SceneKit but it has been hobbled for years by the random walk of ARKit then RealityKit, plus repeated undocumented behavioral changes from one iOS version to the next. Such a shame. And now visionOS…

    macrumors, to random
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    Apple to Acquire Major Classical Music Label BIS Records https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/05/apple-acquires-bis-records/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

    stephent,
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    @macrumors we can look forward to a miserable content-siloed future in classical too then 🙄

    ianRobinson, to cricket
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    Lunch - Australia are 107 for 2 after being put in to bat.

    Labuschagne on 29
    Smith on 32

    I'd say Australia are munching their lunch in a happier state of mind than England.

    #Cricket

    stephent,
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    @ianRobinson volcanoes and cricket - a no brainer follow! 👍🏻

    pixel, to random
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    Having some fun with scammers this weekend.

    stephent,
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    @pixel impressive - that doesn’t seem like a fact many would know! Too much time spent with date formatters?

    JenLucPiquant, to random

    Five Things to Love About A Knight’s Tale. "Was it really just a sports movie set in the past? Yes. Was it edited until the plot seems a little less-than-coherent? Yes. But are there things we can love about it? Absolutely." https://www.medievalists.net/2023/07/love-knights-tale/

    stephent,
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    @JenLucPiquant thought about this movie when we stumbled across a rehearsal for the “Giostro del Saracino” in Arezzo last month. So similar!

    A rider rehearsing for a joust in Arezzo, Italy.

    danielpunkass, to random
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    I'm in England for a bit, and as always, so jealous of the vegetarian culture here. Walking around London, I assured my kid: "any place we see that has a burger will also have a veggie burger." I know it's not 100%, but it's a LOT more common than in the US.

    stephent,
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    @danielpunkass you might enjoy The Gate Islington - had a great lunch there last Sunday. All vegetarian menu and a nice, bright, airy dining room.

    https://maps.app.goo.gl/fNmSxt3QxhgcDQK4A?g_st=ic

    simevidas, to random
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    Page elements for which it makes sense to disable the browser’s swipe-between-pages gesture:

    1. horizontal scroll container (e.g., https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/full-bleed-table-scrolling/)

    2. video scrubber (see video)

    What else?

    video/mp4

    stephent,
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    @simevidas I have a horizontal scroll container in my web app where this definitely would help. Is there a reliable standard way to do this nowadays?

    stephent,
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    @simevidas that’s great - thank you. I’ll get that implemented. And how very Apple…

    helenczerski, to random
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    Imperial units are a pain all round, but I cannot even begin to describe how maddening “thousandths of an inch” are. OH LOOK.. AREN’T DECIMALS USEFUL? I suppose that some other weird subdivision of an inch would be worse, but really, if you can cope with thousandths of an inch, what’s so hard about a centimetre? #units #rant

    stephent,
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    @helenczerski I used to work on threatrical automation systems, including some projects in the US. Some clients wanted positions to be displayed in, of all the possible absurd units, decimal feet. 🙄

    I suppose the rationale was ‘I kinda know what a foot is and the rest is a choice between the illegible [fractional inches] and the largely useless [fractional foot]’.

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