tef

tef, 1 day ago to random

blinked and realised i've been using irc for over 25 years

lzg, 2 days ago to random

the idea that someone flashes their status by wearing an expensive watch is so beyond me, it's like reading about the behavior of another species. I have never, ever noticed an expensive watch. maybe a cool one, with a lil calculator.

tef, 3 days ago to random

today i've been learning how automatic transmissions work

i know how manual ones work, physically changing which gears are interacting, with or without synchromesh

but i didn't realise that automatic ones work on a different principle, using planetary gear boxes and applying a clutch to the ring gear to change the output ratio

that, and planetary gearboxes with clutches to change gears go back as far as the model t

tef, 3 days ago to random

not to call ai a big woop of nothing but slack absolutely slaughtering any remaining trust they have in order to provide "emoji suggestions" is incredible

bitprophet, 4 days ago to random

Either my N95 stealing skills are still crap, or they don't do much against industrial strength cleaner fumes. Guessing the latter.

tef, 4 days ago to random

i still miss pre sugar tax irn bru

tef, 5 days ago to random

the future will be incredible. i'm looking forward to proving i'm a human so i can talk to a robot

bitprophet, 5 days ago to random

Gonna miss the shit out of #Nix unless its governance stuff manages to pull out of the nosedive (though I've heard mildly positive news lately…).

Didn't have linkchecker installed, need it for checking my blog posts.

Classical config management: typically apt install linkchecker, then completely forget to go back and add it to the “website" CM recipe.

Nix/OS: add to the repo's flake.nix, rerun nix develop, bing bong so simple, any future setup of this repo will benefit.

tef, 5 days ago to random

thinking about that guy who licked a whisk clean end on

tef, 7 days ago to random

made "named arguments" work on the rpc toy, which is fun because go does not have named arguments, and you also can't use reflect to get the names of arguments

which is neat

lzg, 7 days ago to random

the most accursed position is to be smart enough to know how dumb you are

tef, 8 days ago to random

thinking about how my industry is piloted by nepobabies and failsons, and the leaders who don't spend 80% of their time sabotaging the product are hailed as visionaries

and well, i'm also thinking about how armies were stuffed with inbred nobility, people who believed they were born to rule, and how they kept getting defeated by military geniuses

tef, 10 days ago to random

finding out that it's still called kernel32 on 64 bit windows

glyph, 10 days ago to random

New version of Fritter today: https://pypi.org/project/fritter/0.0.9/

Containing this fun new API: https://fritter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/fritter.drivers.datetimes.html#guessLocalZone

tef, 10 days ago to random

[youth pastor voice] remember, it's not about a nex-you, or a nex-me

it's about a torture nex-us

lzg, 10 days ago to random

need a tshirt that says “unwilling to participate in allistic nonsense”

tef, 10 days ago to random

me, i can't believe the content mill would simply resell the content

tef, 11 days ago to random

in light of the stack overflow news i think it's time to bring back expertsexchange

mcc, 20 days ago to random

For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":