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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A little photo shoot around the Northern Quarter.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Manchester

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• Beautiful woman wearing a white top, light blue jeans, a snake pendant, and red lipstick, standing in the shade of an entrance of a red brick building, with one hand holding her chin.
• Beautiful woman wearing a white top, light blue jeans, a snake pendant, and red lipstick, leaning against a bus pole, with the sunlight illuminating her from behind.
• Beautiful woman wearing a white top, light blue jeans, a snake pendant, and red lipstick, sitting atop a red street planter, with a pair of blue tinted sunglasses tucked into her front pocket.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Working on a blog post covering some of the most heartbreaking performance disasters I'm seeing and the cultural forces that broke the web with JS.

Seeing 10s of megabytes of critical-path JS, served with no compression or caching still shocks, but no longer surprises.

Frontend is now failing in spectacularly performative ways. We stopped teaching the basics, and now all of society is paying the price.

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ryantownsend@webperf.social ("Ryan Townsend") wrote:

👏 more 👏 developers 👏 need 👏 to 👏 hear 👏 this

I can count on one hand the number of my clients over the past couple of years who haven't either over-architected for scale or were unnecessarily concerned about it (prior to coming to me for strategic advice, of course 😉).

You don't need to understand Distributional Little's Law to figure this out, it's obvious with primary school level math.

(screenshot excerpt from https://tailscale.com/blog/new-internet)

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• Screenshot from Tailscale's blog post with the following text highlighted: "I read a post recently where someone bragged about using kubernetes to scale all the way up to 500,000 page views per month. But that's 0.2 requests per second. I could serve that from my phone, on battery power, and it would spend most of its time asleep." (remote)

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zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:

I’m not sure how to say this but WASM isn’t a cheap way to avoid “needing to” write javascript. You use wasm when you need to optimise a slow core loop (most commonly, bitcoin mining); or when you have an existing codebase you are trying to port.

If starfing with no wasm; and add wasm, you’re adding the complexity of a build targeting an unstable api surface, to create opaque blobs that more likely than not will wind up unmodifiable in 3 years as the build tool chain used to create it bitrots

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DamienMarieAtHope@kolektiva.social ("Damien Marie AtHope") wrote:

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bojacobs@hcommons.social ("Bo Jacobs") wrote:

The "weird” strategy was laid out by a genius long ago

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• Quote: “Mel Brooks was once asked how he, as a Jewish man, was able to make so many silly jokes about Nazis. He said that evil people enjoy being portrayed as villains, but they detest being made out to look like fools” (remote)

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

Bitsavers seems to have a copy of the schematics and PCB from the university's now defunct ftp server.

https://bitsavers.computerhistory.org/bits/Indiana_Univ/

And you can find on archive.org acceptable scans of the issues in question:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230701215405/http://pestingers.net/pdfs/other-computers/circuit-cellar/1997/

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

This tickled a memory for me, and I couldn't let it go until I confirmed it. Thankfully somebody had an index of Circuit Cellar articles, which I could easily search once I used wget for a local copy.

Back in the early 90s, Ingo Cyliax of Indiana University developed an MC68030 based workstation, which was documented in 3 part series in issues 86-88 of Circuit Cellar Ink. It had an ISA bus and could run NetBSD. I had those issues for a long time, but never did attempt building it.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Ivan's one easy rule to resist the spread of misinformation online:

Before automatically re-sharing a social media post telling you what some linked source says, *go read what the source actually says*. Then make an informed decision.

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

yes!

https://music.apple.com/us/album/step-right-up/1485074801?i=1485074804

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

the sounds of my yute

https://music.apple.com/us/album/tom-trauberts-blues-four-sheets-to-the-wind-in-copenhagen/1485074801?i=1485074802

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

it is a good night for some Byrds

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

it is building, and the waters of the Gulf of Mexico are *hot* (and thus full of energy for that system to gobble up)

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

overactive fail2ban banned *mah* sorry a$$ from my main server just now... what wuz *that* about?

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workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 3 Aug 1945 a group in Melbourne called the Australian Soldiers' Legion (ASL) helped the Wagglens family, which included a homeless, wounded WWII veteran, his wife and children, squat a empty house in Bell Street, Hawthorn https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10160/wagglen-family-squat?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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MikeSaccone_@mastodon.online ("Mike Saccone") wrote:

A sunrise great blue heron flyby over the Potomac River.

📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2500, f6.3, 1/500s)

#birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography

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• A great blue heron in flight in profile. The bird has dark blue wing feathers on the bottom half of its wings and lighter gray-blue feathers on the top of its wings, back, and throat. It has a long beak, yellow eyes, and a cap of dark blue feathers atop its head. The background is out-of-focus water. (remote)

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

Troopers Koehler and Haggerty almost made it all the way to peacetime… but in war, unlike in horseshoes, almost just does not count 💦

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

TIL about the doodle grid method of scaling and transferring drawings. Cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF5A_9vylrQ

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jgeorge@oldbytes.space wrote:

LOL what the everloving heck is this, it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen an IBM logo on. Spoilers: it's legit. I have it, it works, it does precisely what it says on the tin, and I love it.

Takeapart thread coming soon.

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mhoye wrote:

[dad voice] We have panic at home.

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zens@merveilles.town ("Luci for dyeing") wrote:

Full source code for DOOM SNES released

https://gbatemp.net/threads/doom-for-snes-full-source-code-released-by-former-sculptured-software-employees.657118/

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cascadepine@mas.to ("Cascade Pine") wrote:

A leaf cutter bee, nomming on some pollen. You can see it’s got three extra eyes on top of its head. I never knew bees had 5 eyes until I took this photo!

#insects #bees #nature #macro #macroPhotography

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• A black bee with a white fuzzy band on its back is sitting on the stamen of a flower, absolutely chowing down on some orange pollen. (remote)

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1moremin@mastodon.ie wrote:

#ThickTrunkTuesday

The Tree is so big that no frame can contain it. There is no way to hold its integral essence in a single picture.
Everyone calls it The Cedar or just the Tree. They say “I’ll be at the Tree” and you don't need to ask “which one?”
The Tree is actually a juniper, not a cedar. It's an Arkeuthos (Αρκευθος), an oxycedrus Juniper I believe, though the subspecies of these trees vary a lot as I’ve learned these days.
Still, we all call it the Cedar.

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• The Tree as seen from northwest. Two distinct trunks, separated long ago, send huge branches around, shaped in forms that twist and swirl in time and space. (remote)
• East side, more curves and forms. The sky is still blue between the upper branches, but yellow and orange above the horizon. Someone's watching the sunset in the distance behind. (remote)
• The other side of the eastern trunk. Ancient grey shapes folding and flowing, leading up, to a labyrinth of sharp leaves and younger branches. (remote)

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

Good to know that the right-wingers want to quantify our genetics so they can tell us how to act during the day.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/03/blood-quantum-is-back-baby/

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• My DNA says I'm 2/3 scandinavian and 20% british (remote)

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

Also, without going on too long about this, I think this mindset has also protected me from any sorts of ideas of exceptionalism. Like the idea that certain groups of people can't develop their own tech or something. Just utter bullshit and nonsense. History is rife with independent invention. Much of invention is path dependence leading to a context where a lot of people will have similar ideas. It's foolish to the extreme to underestimate other humans' ingenuity and imaginations.

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

However, in my old age, I have also developed a reluctant acceptance of the limits of my own understanding. We can't know everything (no matter how much we *really* want to), but just be careful who you trust when you decide to delegate understanding to somebody else.

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

Regarding LB[1]: That is the attitude I've had about computers, but also other things. Computers were the first memory I have of seeing people talking about something as though they were mysterious and unknowable, and that just made me angery and sad for people. People made it. Other people can understand it! To this day, whenever I see somebody more or less say, "Don't worry your pretty little head about that," my gut reaction is, "WTF are you tryin' to pull here?"

[1] https://hachyderm.io/@psypherpunk/112898887050260641

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psypherpunk@hachyderm.io ("PsypherPunk") wrote:

Wonderful article: "Computers can be understood": https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/

"…no single human understands all of the layers…from the transistors and silicon up through …the application code, not even to mention all the network services involved…"—why I am, shall we say, not a fan of the phrase "full stack".

"…engineers I’ve worked with (including myself) who are the most comfortable reading unfamiliar code bases are at risk of habitually undervaluing documentation…”—ouch, that one hurt.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

View from around Old Dungeon Ghyll.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria

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• Fells partially illuminated by the evening sun, partially in shadow from the heavy clouds above.

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

I have a soft in my heart homebrew computers. Things like:

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6940

Or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC532

OR the many others I've seen. I'd like to add to that list with my own someday. 😄