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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: There's something I just really enjoy about that terminal's design. You wouldn't just be staring at a screen. You'd be pondering your orb...
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/5424/Orb-Computer-The-Multi-user-Computer/
[1] https://oldbytes.space/@SinclairSpeccy/111789278444923013
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SinclairSpeccy@oldbytes.space ("Sinclair-Speccy") wrote:
Red is SUS
#Tech #Computer #RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputers #VintageComputer #RetroComputing
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Dang. I just looked him up to see where he's been only to find out he died much too young. We'll never know what other things he would've gone on to create. :(
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Finally, a song I can relate to. Klaus Nomi's "Simple Man":
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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽") wrote:
I’ll have some synonym with my morning brew.
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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:
This definitely makes it sound like they're misuing LLMs. As a reminder: papier-mache made out of good text is still papier-mache. It's not the result of someone using language to communicate something, it's not grounded a factual model of the world, and it sure as hell isn't journalism.
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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Christopher Biggs") wrote:
There were just a few at first. We dubbed them Canadian Boring Worms after news broke of the ones discovered tunneling through a landfill in Vancouver. They look more like enormous caterpillars than worms, and it turned out earlier specimens had been sighted under cities in West Africa, Thailand, and elsewhere, but the name stuck. Comedians quipped “boring is redundant, you already said they were Canadian”.
Their appetite for organic waste, and particularly plastics hinted at a revolution in waste management. When the Vancouver colony was traced back to a cache of eggs, the outsourced garbage contractor had seeded six other sites with eggs before anyone thought to stop them.
People stopped repeating the “boring” joke after the worms grew fat on garbage, pupated, and the adult dragons emerged.
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rreverser ("Ingvar Stepanyan") wrote:
Released a new version of Wasmbin - a self-generating #WebAssembly parser and serializer in #Rustlang - with updated support for exception handling and multi-memory proposals. https://github.com/RReverser/wasmbin
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ucsc@mstdn.social ("UC Santa Cruz") wrote:
The National Science Foundation recently awarded $3.9 million to researchers at UC Santa Cruz as the lead institution for the development of a next-gen telescope alignment system!
The researchers will work with an international team to build and test systems in Santa Cruz and eventually install the final designs in seven telescopes at three ground-based observatory sites around the world.
Looking forward to all of the new, exciting observations!
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Colors
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
love this [ h/t Prof Ed Wild @profwild.bsky.social ]
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
back from my usual Saturday AM volunteer gig, walking #dogs 🐕 at the #ROC City Pound. the snow and cold makes this an 'interesting' task...
had to duck into a side room with one of them, to warm up while their cage was being cleaned. that dawg was ready to be out of the cold ;^}
first, they needed to examine every inch of that room, tail tucked between legs. then, they head-bumped me... so I sat down and gently stroked it's side. by the end of our time, I was sitting cross-legged on the floor with this BIG dawg sprawled across my lap, giving it a good scratch.
couldn't help but larf at this fierce-looking sweetheart trying (and failing) to fit on my lap.
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Me in freezing temperatures, trying to find the one tire that the TPMS sensor said was low
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well now, you seem to need to read some of the actual writings of the actual Founders; the source documents as it were...
'“Christians don’t mean to impose what we believe on anyone. But this nation was founded as a Christian nation,” said Laurel Brooks, a march attendee from North Carolina.'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/19/march-for-life-anti-abortion-washington-dc
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solownh@mstdn.party ("sOlOw-NH") wrote:
Nikky Hillary Pelosi is the world's most dangerous woman!
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MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.social ("the happy leftist") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
'...the underlying finances of land offerings associated with the “Highland Rim Project” (HRP) in Kentucky suggest that buyers will pay a steep premium for living in a remote ideological enclave, while the scheme’s promoters are set to collect tidy profits after making few apparent improvements to the land.
The development was announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, and in a special edition of the New Founding by Joshua Abbotoy, who is managing director of venture fund New Founding and principal of real estate developer Kentucky Ridge Runner LLC according to company records.
Abbotoy offered few details on how the community would be run beyond saying: “Most of the leadership is going to be led by Protestant christians.”'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/20/kentucky-far-right-community-real-estate-development
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xahteiwi ("Florian Haas") wrote:
Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
Playing in my feed gonna be a big troll someday
You fall flat on your face, you big disgrace
We'll defederate your ass all over place, singingWE WILL WE WILL BLOCK YOU
h/t @dannotdaniel
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lupyuen@qoto.org ("Lup Yuen Lee 李立源") wrote:
"the school gave everyone on campus – including staff – a Light Phone ... a “dumb” phone with limited functionality"
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/cellphone-smartphone-bans-schools
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Passing the MoCA does not make you a smart person or a good person. Quit pretending it does.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Sometimes, the victims of quackery are just as guilty as the quack themself.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/20/real-immunity-homeoprophylaxis-program/
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
@frameworkcomputer I am honor-bound to amend this toot to say that yeah, the hardware difference is still pretty high. I understated how much better MacBook hardware *still* is in that original tweet.
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kentbrew@xoxo.zone ("Kent Brewster") wrote:
Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds.
“This is a form of implicit collusion,” she said. “Firms do not even need to talk to one another to know that a cost shock is a great time to raise prices. But when costs fall, price-setting firms do not have any incentive to decrease prices.”
If no firms launch a price war, Weber added, then companies “hold the line” on prices and widen margins. She pointed to food processors as an example.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflation-caused-by-corporate-profits
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
When you improve your Rust skills you feel like you've learned something, new ways to think about how PL theory can help engineering, you're more confident about your code, more appreciative of programming as a craft
When you learn more C++ you just feel like killing yourself
Fighting with the borrow checker is just a phase; after a while you learn that borrow logic is intuitive, and if you structure your code functionally, the borrow checker becomes your friend
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faho@octodon.social ("Tenacious B") wrote:
Pokemon Madeline & Badeline
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
The Book of Genesis, as written by GenZ 🤣🤣🤣
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
So [this little library](https://github.com/bkardell/shadow-boxing) to let you style shadow dom from the outside page has 6 different "modes" it can work in... I'd love for people to try it out and give us feedback about whether/which they preferred (including if the answer is 'none of them') and use cases, etc...
I thought perhaps a good way to prompt that is to illustrate the uses so here's a whole series of examples with each mode..
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I don't know precisely what I'm seeing or hearing here, but it's doing a good job lifting my winter blues. Enjoy the musical stylings of Goat:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
no, just no
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The oldest computer where I work used mercury delay lines as data storage. These worked by sending acoustic waves down a tube of mercury, the delay in the wave propagating to the sensor at the other end being the storage. This guy is doing the same thing, but by sending ping packets our over the internet, as part of his project of creating working, but wonderfully infeasible storage devices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio
