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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I have seen every single one of those excuses.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/24/i-blame-the-obscure-comic-strip-for-ogilvies-travails/

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ekaitz_zarraga ("Ekaitz Zárraga 👹") wrote:

RT @ekaitz_zarraga I need a graphics capable LCD screen (the classic type, no colors or anything) that has a high enough resolution to show 80 caracters in one line.

Impossible to find. How hard/expensive is to order this as a custom module?
#electronics #help

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wim_v12e@octodon.social ("Wim 🅾") wrote:

Haku is a natural language functional programming language I've created, based on literary Japanese.

I wrote and article about the implementation of Haku in Raku. You don't need to know Japanese or Haku to read it.

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/haku-in-raku/

#rakulang
#haku
#programming
#compilers

owl@beach.city wrote:

It's Plogue so I would guess this is the last word in DX emulation https://www.plogue.com/products/chipsynth-ops7.html

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Babies are more easily managed when they're in a bubble.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/24/friday-cephalopod-baby-in-a-bubble/

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owl@beach.city wrote:

force core and seven years ago

Gargron ("Eugen") wrote:

It's frustrating how cryptocurrency has poisoned all conversation about decentralization.

owl@beach.city wrote:

I bet @eigenellies post from a Yamaha CX5M.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Thanks to whoevers decided it should be solved for everyone and not just them, and had the clout to pull it off.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Did another laptop firmware update with fwupdmgr (so pressing a button.)
Would not have guessed that this would become so easy and good on non-commercial Linux.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

We need a better fix.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/24/that-seems-mean/

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owl@beach.city wrote:

88-key bungus ordered.

Anathema wrote:

also https://benchmarkdotnet.org/articles/guides/troubleshooting.html is just wrong, I don't have a .csproj

Anathema wrote:

Man bencharmk #dotnet is slick when it works but basically anything outside the happy path seems incredibly broken or require way too much effort to diagnose and fix than I have time with just now.

All I wanted to do was run my benchark in wasm / mono

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Regarding the site linked to in the LB*:

https://components.one/posts/the-new-pornographers-tech-reviews

It might be a little tricky to navigate as it, somewhat unfortunately, bucks conventional navigation. On desktop you can use scroll up and down as usual. But to navigate pages, you can hit left or right arrow keys (or look for your mouse pointer to turn into a giant arrow pointing to the side). I don't know what it is doing on mobile.

* https://post.lurk.org/@rra/106985906153489094

Anathema wrote:

Microbenchmarks are praxis.

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rra@post.lurk.org ("𝓻𝓻𝓪") wrote:

@robertwgehl

This came out the other day: https://components.one/posts/the-new-pornographers-tech-reviews

"This report argues that consumer technology reviewers have failed their basic nominal purpose of critiquing tools. Instead, inspired by values introduced by Apple in the late 1990s, the tech review industry prioritizes aesthetic lust as the primary critical factor for evaluating objects. The reification of these values in their scoring system is transmitted to consumers and manufacturers alike. Like other prurient things, the objects designed within this paradigm are optimized not for usefulness but for photogenic and telegenic properties, a framework that finds its fullest realization in YouTube reviews and unboxing videos. There, even the intimation of critical rigor within tech reviewing vanishes, the smartphone becomes the center of gravity, and manufacturers are even further incentivized to design products for end consumers who are less users than viewers."

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Now the racists are arguing that it's racist to interfere with their depredations on Indian communities.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/24/i-guess-cowboys-just-hate-indians/

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civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr ("Ludovic Courtès") wrote:

📢 Users and developers of #GNU #Guix in science & #HPC will be meeting on-line this Monday, Sept. 27th, at 9AM CEST (☕ time!):
https://hpc.guix.info/events/2021/user-developer-meetup/

We’ll be mapping out actions for the coming year.

Maybe you can join?

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I suppose every bit of recognition helps:

"Digital public goods are open source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm, and are of high relevance for attainment of the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)."

https://digitalpublicgoods.net/registry/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#iPhone 11 Pro is better than 13 Pro.

11 is 10% lighter, but thanks to rounded edges feels more like half the weight (easier to pick up, gentle in hand).

Stainless steel edges of 13 make hand grease very visible. Yuck. I've got the new phone for a few minutes, and it already looks dirty.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I have a fourth alternative. It's not any more satisfying, though.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/24/the-dilemma/

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The older I get, the more regrets I accumulate to haunt me. It's a biological adaptation to make us welcome death, maybe.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/24/i-had-that-dream-again/

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polychrome@cybre.space ("Polychrome :clockworkheart:") wrote:

All browser prompts need a "Lie" function in addition to Allow and Block.

wants to:
* Know your location
* Use your camera
[ Allow ] [ Block ] [ Lie ]

owl@beach.city wrote:

*Bites into a ray-traced apple to reveal nothing on the inside*

owl@beach.city wrote:

Happy computer people with their computer green rooves.
https://media.bonava.se/2460326/version/2/element/actual/0/storage/web-image/file/05066850.jpg

owl@beach.city wrote:

Looking at some planned co-op buildings; seems like green roofs are making a comeback. :]

Anathema wrote:

Trying to purchase cinema tickets from @vuecinemas@twitter.com and being punished for my hubris.

First my session expired while doing covid tracking details.

Now it’s been stuck on "processing payment” for literally over five minutes.

Why did I expect a website to work!?

owl@beach.city wrote:

It's called Azure because the sky is blue and it's supposed to be cloud.

owl@beach.city wrote:

"emoji® – The Official Brand"
🤔