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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I just don't know how to trust your opinions unless you write them down and share a photo of them
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benwis@hachyderm.io ("benwis 🦀") wrote:
saad - software as a disappointment
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
painful
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“It looks like Claude instead handle a smaller amount of extra knowledge but paste the whole thing into the context window, which avoids some of the weirdness around semantic search chunking but greatly limits the size of the data.”
some interesting trade-offs happening here
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eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:
You can support privacy and free speech online for as little as $5 a month. You know what's even better? Right now Craig Newmark Philanthropies will automatically match your first YEAR of donations for free. https://eff.org/summer-r
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
almost felt too depressed to call the governor today but then i reminded myself that complaining about congestion pricing delays is the main thing cheering me up
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Throwback project from 2005 !!
I brought my old NES back to life by turning it into a giant handheld console, just like a Gameboy. It took a lot of work to fit everything into a small case that I built myself out of Lexan. I used a cheap controller with turbo buttons and a screen from a PlayStation 1. I even managed to squeeze in a rechargeable battery that lasts for over 3 hours!
The hardest part was making sure everything fit together and worked properly without changing the way the NES played games. I wanted to keep the original sound and feel, and I didn't want to use one of those imitation chips. In the end, it turned out a little heavy, but it's comfortable to hold and definitely worth the effort!
#retrogaming #nintendo #NES #diy #handheldgaming #gameboy #custombuild #modding #electronics #gamer #neslife #portableNES #giantgameboy #retrogamerlife #nostalgia #childhoodgames
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anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:
There's NO text duplication here. The text isn't included in the image either, it's actual text, the image is the backdrop.
Done with #SVG filter magic!🪄✨
Live demos on @codepen :
🌟 https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/dyEeVrg
🌟 https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/gOJzXEL(technique similar to selective saturation https://mastodon.social/@anatudor/112472767054974233)
#filter #svgFilter #poster #textEffect #filterEffect #typography #code #coding #frontend #web #webDev #dev #webDevelopment
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- Screenshot. Shows a poster. The background image is that of a woman photographed from above, wearing a bright red dress and lying in on the ground the snow. The text "fashion" is written in all caps, vertical and upright on top of it. Wherever the text is outside the bright red dress, it has a black fill, contrasting with the white snow. Wherever the text overlaps the red dress, it has no fill, just a white stroke to contrast with the strong red of the dress.
- Screenshot. Shows a poster. The background image is that of a woman photographed from behind, wearing a dark blue dressthat contrasts with everything in the field around. The text "inner peace" is written in all caps on top of it. Wherever the text is outside the dark blue dress, it has a dark orange fill, contrasting with the green scenery around. Wherever the text overlaps the dark blue dress, it has no fill, just a very light bluish stroke to contrast with the dark blue of the dress.
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mttaggart@infosec.town ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:
Don't sleep on this; I am pretty sure 100k is an undercount. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/polyfillio-javascript-supply-chain-attack-impacts-over-100k-sites/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
we likes this… tls works fine now
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
My first experience with Ilford Delta 400 was on medium format, so I should not be surprised it's a bit grainier than I expected on 35mm.
📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8, Yellow filter
👤 Wife
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Warning.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/25/defending-my-castle/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
although I must admit, my test server really should return “218 This is fine” on success rather than “418 I am a teapot”.
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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
Having gone through the job search process, @collinsworth's opus on tech job hunting covers all the bases.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
The opposite of an anti-depressant is a Google product dashboard.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
given the situation in Kenya, they might be needed back home
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dnc@vive.im ("Dining and Cooking") wrote:
Just what I want for my housewarming party https://www.diningandcooking.com/1470441/just-what-i-want-for-my-housewarming-party/ #StupidFood
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
for that newlywed couple
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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:
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agitatra@berlin.social ("Mark Kahl 🚲🐻🦁🇺🇦🇮🇱") wrote:
@TonyStark As a German I'd like to remind you that we also had a guy who even wrote a book about what atrocities he's about to do when he comes to power, and most people were like: "he's not serious, he wrote it but is not going to act on it". A decade and 20 Million dead later it became obvious he literally meant it, and the whole world had to come to us to get rid of the guy. So better take your guy serious!
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richpuchalsky ("Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝") wrote:
the sickest burns are also completely accurate
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AnthonyFStevens@mastodon.online ("Anthony Stevens 🇪🇺 🇯🇲 💙") wrote:
#FarRight #Immigration #Migration #GE2024 #UKPolitics
🚨*BREAKING NEWS*🚨
Far Right thug & leader of the anti-foreigner #EDL, Tommy Robinson arrested at an extremist event in #Canada on suspected immigration offences!
Plain-clothes police detained him under an outstanding immigration warrant.
The Far Right activist was due to speak at several other events in Canada. He's been ordered to stay in the country & hand in his passport.
Oh dear... Oh well 🤷🏾♂️
https://news.sky.com/story/tommy-robinson-arrested-over-immigration-offence-in-canada-13158512
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LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt ("Shoshana 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
On a serious note, Jews have a concept "Minhag HaMakom" which means "the custom of the place," and one is supposed to follow Minhag HaMakom in order to keep peace and tranquility in our lives.
Note: Minhag HaMakom only applies to customs (like taking one's shoes off) and not to laws (ie. a custom cannot be used to justify horrible acts).
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- A Wall Street Journal opinion piece that I've edited. It was originally titled "Here's why I'll be keeping my shoes on in your shoeless home," and subtitled "Why are you assuming that your guests' shoes are dirtier than your floors?" I've crossed out sections and added new text so that it reads "Here's why I'll be a shitty house guest," and subtitled "Why are you assuming that I want to be invited back to your place?" It's originally by Kris Frieswick and has a cartoon of people's legs, some with shoes and some with socks (remote)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
with Rust coding, I find I am constantly having to scratch my head at the compiler complaints & the VSCode/CoPilot suggestions for edits. with D coding, I look at the docs & examples & I understand what is going on enough to immediately write my own code that “just runs right, right away”. I do not need/use generative AI support to code, and frankly the code I turn out is clearer, cleaner, shorter, and probably faster that way.
for sure, that way I actually know what I’m doing next time I code.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I am very happy (so far) with my decision to put learning-Rust-while-writing-in-Rust aside & instead write this service I am working on in the D programming language. I was about as far into learning D as I was into learning Rust when I started this project up, and I find that D code is *way* easier for me to read (in tutorials & examples) & to write (without having to wrestle with the borrow-checker), & to understand/apply immediately to what I am working on.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Should a liberal pacifist like me buy a handgun before hell breaks loose in the fall? I'm not optimistic about the fate of the USA anymore.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/25/do-i-need-to-buy-a-gun/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It was yesterday (24th), but I bet any day could be make a terrible comic day if I make a terrible comic. :thonking:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
There's a make a terrible comic day? Hmmm... I bet I could make a terrible comic!
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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:
The controversy over the Great Red Spot had lasted for centuries. Was it a single endless storm, or merely (if anything sixteen thousand klicks across can be “mere”!) a series of storms that came and went.
The question was more than academic for the inhabitants of Olympus City, floating above the Jovian cloud deck, supplying helium and honeymoons to the rest of the Solar system. The notion that a storm of that size might form on radically brief timescale was a potential existential threat.
The /Creti/ expedition took over five weeks to reach the Spot from Olympus’s equatorial location, three dirigibles powered by ammonia-breathing ramjets. Two of the craft—/Bellona/ and /Lucina/— held back to observe and relay data while the third—/Minerva/—flew over the spot, preparing to descend into the Eye.
Back at Olympus, the scientists of /Creti/ were held rapt by the telemetry feed and radio transmissions from /Minerva/.
“We’re beginning descent from nominal zero level. One kilometre…two…ten”. It would be a long night but nobody thought of sleep. Eventually: “One hundred and twenty kilometers; we have reached the vertical midpoint of the storm. Conditions here at the eye are stable, we are launching probes now.”
Olympus hung on every word and datum.
“Oh. Oh no. Olympus we have a problem”
Through the confused babble in the control room a few phrases stood out:
“It’s breaking up”
“It’s not a storm, it’s a swarm”
“They’re heading your way”
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jonny@neuromatch.social ("Dr. jonny phd") wrote:
I dont know how they keep getting away with it
https://hiatuskaiyote.bandcamp.com/track/everythings-beautiful