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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

quinnanya@mstdn.social ("Quinn Dombrowski") wrote:

5.5 years ago I made this dolman top with the original 1966 ELIZA paper and code for the birth of my daughter with the same name. Last night I changed up the sleeves and today I'm wearing it to teach ELIZA in the undergrad AI class. #DHsewing

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• Quinn wearing a shirt with ELIZA paper and code, pants in different patterns in black and white, sandals, and a black and white mask. Right panel is a close up of the text and code. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Slowly realizing I need to be a lot quicker about blocking and muting these days.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

CanLehmann ("Can Lehmann") wrote:

I just released the RTL intermediate representation I originally wrote for my HLS compiler as open source software 🎉

It includes verilog codegen, visualization, simulation, theorem proving and a simple high level DSL: https://github.com/can-lehmann/hdl.cpp

#fpga #cpp

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Thinking about the #Tumblr engineer who said they believe interoperability with the social web would just be a cost center and wouldn’t bring any profits. The point is not how interoperability affects the bottom line, the point is that it allows your platform to survive in an ever changing social media landscape and have a bottom line at all. If #Pebble was part of the social web, they would have had a network of 1.8M active users, not 1,000, and perhaps wouldn’t have had to shut down.

ruben_wolff ("Ruben Wolff") wrote:

#fri

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ruben_wolff ("Ruben Wolff") wrote:

#freeway

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ruben_wolff ("Ruben Wolff") wrote:

#fidi

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ruben_wolff ("Ruben Wolff") wrote:

#waterview

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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

One of the most useful things I've ever found on the web comes from NOAA, and is about dealing with disruptive behaviors in meetings: https://coast.noaa.gov/ddb/ I've cached the PDF at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DgQmgHWWdRXdHv28zR5_4B84qUTwus1d/view?usp=sharing if you want to post a framed copy on the wall in your office…

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

"We changed out Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. We're not telling you what we changed but we definitely recommend you go read the whole thing and try to figure out what they were. No, we're not giving you the old version for comparison."

Tired of this. Supernormal (which I love as a product) triggered this.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

English-speaking Internet: DIY magnetic tape heads? Impossible, too hard to implement.

Russian-speaking Internet: Here, have a scan of a magazine from 1959 explaining how to make one.

I've translated the manual for those who are curious but cannot read Russian. https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/magnetic_head/

Fun note: I can't find much English info about Polyvinyl Butyral Phenol glue (БФ-2), which is the default DIY glue in Russia! Any hints?
Edit: _glue_ is important here. Apparently this kind of glue is not used anywhere but ex-USSR because it gives you cancer.

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• The scan of a magazine page explaining how to make a DIY magnetic tape head. Lots of technical drawings and such. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Bugs. Bugs everywhere.

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• Woody and Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story. Woody looks into the distance with an apprehensive expression. Buzz gestures in the same direction that Woody is looking with a bit of a smile and says, "Bugs. Bugs everywhere." (remote)

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timoelliott ("Timo Elliott") wrote:

A sobering thought! #statistics #analytics more at timoelliott.com/blog/cartoons

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• Cartoon of a stats professor pointing at a blackboard naked “people who confused correlation and causation end up dying”

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Brandi_Buchman@mstdn.social ("Brandi Buchman") wrote:

Today at 8:30AM MT/10:30AM ET - @CREWcrew go to trial in Colorado seeking to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in 2024, arguing that his insurrectionist conduct tied to Jan. 6 disqualifies him from serving in any public office under Section III of the 14th Amendment.
PREVIEW:
https://lawandcrime.com/trump/trial-begins-in-colorado-to-remove-donald-trump-from-2024-ballot-for-jan-6-insurrection/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club ("azteclady") wrote:

So many to choose from.

But this one is Ray Holmberg, who "served" in North Dakota.

While a state senator, he traveled to Prague to rape a child (sorry-not-sorry, it's never "have sex with a minor", it's motherfucking rape, always).

#NorthDakota #CSAM
#EveryAccusationIsAConfession #GOPPedophile

https://www.kvrr.com/2023/10/30/former-north-dakota-state-senator-ray-holmberg-indicted-on-child-pornography-charges/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

airbagmoments ("Airbag Moments🇺🇦") wrote:

When President Trump left office, the typical family could afford to buy a Supreme Court justice valued at $10 million.

Today, that same median-income family can only afford a lower-court magistrate at best.

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• Screenshot of an Elise Stefanik tweet in which she lies about what average Americans could afford under Trump compared to now.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

lots of automated JS8 HB responses on 20m/30m/40m but no replies to CQs [boo hoo hoo]... which means folks are running their rigs but not really paying attention to them. oh well...

like my friend used to say: some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you. the Propagation Gods are fickle; vicissitudes abound.

#AmateurRadio 📡

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

autumn@tech.lgbt ("Autumn Mahoney :sparkletrans:") wrote:

Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the public launch of Sound Bytes BBS.

My BBS was one of the places we as local computer hobbyists congregated before Internet access was commonplace. It specialized in being a place to discuss computer music and the PC demo scene that I was so fascinated by, and was a home base for our aspiring demo group The Coteric Continuum.

I even managed to mirror a few important Usenet groups via UUCP to the BBS message area, primarily so we could all read comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos.

It was a magical time where we could see the potential of online connection but we had to be really creative with the tools we had to find ways to make it happen.

I still dust off the archives and log in locally every few years or so to look around and remember.

They say that we Xennials have a strong footing in both the analog and digital worlds. I mark this day thirty years ago as one of my biggest leaps across that divide.

#retrocomputing #bbs #demoscene

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• A DOS computer running Sound Bytes BBS, showing the T.A.G. idle screen waiting for callers. (remote)
• Sound Bytes BBS information screen, showing "Online since 10/30/93" and today's date of "10/30/2023". (remote)
• The "Sound Bytes specialties" screen. (remote)
• Photo of the main menu when logged into Sound Bytes BBS, with menu headings for 🎵, Systems, Message, File, Doors, Bulletins, and Chat. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

BTW, while I was away, I happened across a radio program put on by some youths, and they introduced me to a Bowie song I had never heard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVW0ZyDNf94

Thanks, youths!

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MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

Winter is coming

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• very chubby squirrel (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

And now that I think of it, I may have just described my relationship to the majority of the "open source" ecosystem. :thonking:

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Old books in the humanities love to just throw in a quote that is several lines of untranslated French

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alenacpp@hachyderm.io ("Elena Sagalaeva") wrote:

The Green Card lottery is happening now. Green card holders can live and work in the US. https://dvprogram.state.gov

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

A browser extension that just replaces all instances of "using React" with "in a horribly inefficient way both in terms of authoring and end output."

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

Would you want these two morons to teach your children?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/30/vignettes-from-home-school-conferences/

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• Homeschooling tips from Answers in Genesis (remote)

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

gvy_dvpont ("Guy Dupont") wrote:

Introducing!:
✨The A LA QRTE✨

A portable QR code scanner/printer that turns pesky QR-based restaurant menus into physical, paper copies... right at your table.

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• Silver lunchbox with a thermal printer module in the front and a large antenna on top. I hold my phone with a qr code to the side, a light at the top changes color. An itemized menu starts printing from the thermal printer a few seconds later.

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

It's going to be unsafe out there on Halloween.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/30/i-think-there-might-be-a-few-other-things-about-halloween-that-repel-dentists/

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• Venn diagram of professions that share features in common with vampires (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

waiting for an advance in medical science to extract the part of my brain that twitches when people say they hate QR codes when they mean they hate looking at restaurant menus on their phone

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Wife: I really hate that shirt.

Me: [to the kiddo] What do you think?

Kiddo: I like it! You look like Dr. Robotnik!

Me: [to my wife] See? Other people like it.

Me and the kiddo: [high five]

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I think I've started a mental background process noodling on how to move away from Python as my default language. I can make Python do a lot of things, but the language is a poor fit for a lot of what I do, and the overall ecosystem is driven by players whose values, goals, and incentives don't seem to overlap enough with my own. 🤔