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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Oh well, I suppose if I better understood biology, I would also be frustrated with how "terribly" engineered it is, and yet it's been pretty successful technology deployed on this planet for billions of years. Maybe that's apples and oranges, but then again... :thonking:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I mean, it's possible that this is just what happens to any technology that is widely deployed over time and has to interface with humans in multiple places with conflicting goals and requirements, and it's also possible that improvements are lost in the larger jank signal, but... it's so disappointing and... not enjoyable.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Look, I know we've been collectively pouring billions of dollars and possibly billions of person years building out and building on the web stack, and it works in that we're all using it, but it is just super frustratingly janky in multiple dimensions. Some sort of hypercube of jankiness.
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robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:
Y’all spending money on iPhones should send some to St Jude because you didn’t _need_ that new phone right? https://stjude.omg.lol
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
If you would like to bid on one of ten hand printed copies of this linocut print, all proceeds are going to the Internet Archive's Open Library.
https://givebutter.com/c/2cScHO/auction
#InternetArchive #OpenLibrary #libraries #linocut #printmaking
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I guess we've adopted some new pets.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/13/cozying-up-to-the-enemy/
Mastodon FeedIf AI companies used a significant amount renewable energy, we'd definitely hear about it, and every piece of slop would have a green logo on it. The silence means they have nothing good to say.
When hardware uses a lot of energy, it can become instant junk when a more energy-efficient generation comes out, because the cost of (new hardware + less energy) can be less than (free hardware + more energy). The effect is so significant it even makes old PCs not worth using.
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
Newsletter: The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.
https://www.citationneeded.news/hachette-v-internet-archive/
#InternetArchive #HachettevInternetArchive #libraries #newsletter #CitationNeeded
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xahteiwi ("Florian Haas") wrote:
OK "far-white Republican party" is an epic burn to begin with, and then it just keeps going like that.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Completely unrelated (a non sequitur indeed), it's pretty amazing what you can use yt-dlp to download to save locally for later.
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anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:
❌ DON'T
use `div`, `span`, other random elems for range `input` value displays/ rulers✅ DO
✨use `output` for value displays & set their `for` attr to `id` of the `input` whose value they display
✨use `datalist` for ruler & set its `id` as the value for `input`'s `list` attr#html #code #coding #tinyCodingTip #frontend #web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
They recently performed with an orchestra. It was recorded, and the BBC appears to be letting anybody listen to it (at least I can stream it over here in the US).
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Me: [solemnly] "May God's little thought experiment remain uninterrupted..."
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michalis_averof@drosophila.social ("Michalis Averof") wrote:
Can we observe how the injured leg of an animal is regenerated?
We have figured out how to do this in the crustacean Parhyale. Over the course of a week, we can record the entire process of leg regeneration at cell-by-cell resolution.
Our latest preprint describes how we do this and what we see:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.11.612529v1More info/links on https://bsky.app/profile/michalis-averof.bsky.social/post/3l3xonnzt6u2n
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
One thing of many that frustrates me about this systemd world we live in is that the whole notion of a dependency tree is entirely one way.
If I activate something, the whole dependency tree under it lights up, and that's totally fine, that's a reasonable thing to do, but after I deactivate it the whole tree under it just keeps trucking away.
Is anyone working on a computer-as-campsite, aggressively use-only-what's-required, clean-up-when-finished process manager?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jschauma@mstdn.social ("Jan Schaumann") wrote:
This is the start of the Fall semester for my class "Advanced #Programming in the #UNIX Environment". Syllabus and all course materials including all code examples available here:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/
All video lectures are public and available for free on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@cs631apue/videos
If you want to follow along, I'll be posting weekly links in this thread throughout the semester.
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
This talk from Bruce Waggoner of @NASA on saving Voyager 1 is absolutely extraordinary -- and surely humanity's greatest single act of debugging?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
gl33p ("Preston Austin") wrote:
A few things publishers seek to bring an end to, with courts' help:
“Libraries are critical infrastructure. Access to information is a human right. When you buy a book you should truly own it. When a library buys a book, they should be able to lend it. Readers should be able to read without any third parties spying over their shoulders, or preventing them from accessing the materials they have legally obtained.” @molly0xfff
Big publishers think libraries are the enemy https://www.citationneeded.news/hachette-v-internet-archive/
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
6 × 8” linocut relief print, CC BY 4.0
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
As proof of concept for a Mars colony, I think Musk should build a mansion on top of Mt Everest, and move there permanently.
Mastodon FeedI'm disappointed that AI companies are not transparent about their energy usage.
AI training technically isn't time sensitive, and could be scaled down to run entirely on renewable energy, but the AI companies probably feel they must race it 24/7 on full blast to justify the billions invested.
The GPUs they've spent the billions on are about to become obsolete junk when the next generation comes out, so gotta max them out while they're competitive.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
🤔 .oO( I wonder what the inside of a star smells like... )
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
When I was a kid, we used 100% all natural fusion to dry our clothes. It worked pretty well most days.
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harshad@sharma.io ("Harshad Sharma") wrote:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
100% all natural fusion. Accept no substitutes.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
They're eating the pets!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/13/we-got-our-soundbite/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
All natural, organic pesticide for the home.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/13/who-needs-fly-paper/
Mastodon Feed"Capitalism has made it this way,
Old-fashioned fascism will take it away."-- Marilyn Manson, The Beautiful People
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I’ll try to curb my enthusiasm @CARROT
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