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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
And yet, somehow, this guy who took three times longer to do the job than he said, and who didn't even build some of it right, is not even the worst contractor I've hired in the last two years.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Who wants to join the I love websites club
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
(This toot brought to you by the GM who told us we "should've known better" than to hire him in the first place when we had the nerve to point out that the job we hired him to do was not done the way the contract explicitly said it would be, nor on the timeline promised, when we signed it all the way back in May.)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Either I am cursed when it comes to hiring contractors, or every company that does manual labor in the Kansas City area is some combination of apathetic, untrustworthy, and/or run by complete assholes.
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jennosaur@mastodon.art ("Jenn") wrote:
You’d have to stop the world just to stop the feeling~
CHAPPELL ROAN BABES 💋🗡️✨
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jenn@pixel.kitchen ("jenn schiffer") wrote:
i think i’m gonna have to block the threads instance, not because of some moral issue (unfortunately people i know and love use it lol) but because i keep trying to engage and forget that they don’t see shit from me and i can’t engage back *and* they’re just talking about news stuff, not like personal updates so i am not gonna be missing out. anyway you asked
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
The cloud is other people's computers, and the invisible hand of the market is other people's operations research
Mastodon Feedandreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:
That moment when it's 8 PM on Friday, before an international trip you're taking on Sunday, and you find out that a patch you committed caused a memory regression in Chromium.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We're in the midst of a transition to True Fall. Right now, the Midwest is just dreaming about October.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/20/pre-fall/
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lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:
Theory: It all started going to hell when the mainstream media decided it was "internet" not "Internet".
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
JanMiksovsky@fosstodon.org ("Jan Miksovsky") wrote:
@davatron5000 I no longer focus on web components, but back in 2020 wrote about my experience trying to use Storybook and my decision to replace it with something much simpler and HTML-first: https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2020/11-02-storybook
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Quinnypig@awscommunity.social ("Corey Quinn") wrote:
Oh, so that’s what happens to them.
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The Californian Ideology (1995):
"Individual freedom is no longer to be achieved by rebelling against the system, but through submission to the natural laws of technological progress and the free market."
My oh my, how nothing has changed. https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Hyperloop has only one sensible use case: if you've already built a city on Mars and need to move workers out to peripheral installations. Small-diameter tunnels are cheaper, the near-vacuum comes for free, and you want to minimize surface exposure time (to avoid high energy cosmic radiation).
On Earth it's a stupid idea that Dilbert Stark only promoted as a spoiler for high speed rail, which he saw as a threat to his electric toy cars.
https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/113169440612521612
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sinituulia@eldritch.cafe ("Sini Tuulia") wrote:
Meanwhile, I have a deep need. :blob_heart_eyes:
I can't believe this is a toy that was sold and that it's so beautiful and such a weird shape, and apparently you can still find original ones that work? To sew with?? What a fantastic fucking apparatus, truly.
Here's the original ad and then a random auction photo, I typed in the entire text in the alt text if you need it to read it!
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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
From the studio that brought you "Could this meeting have been an email?" comes...
Could Storybook just be a web component?
...and...
Could snowflakes in a design system just be a handful of CodePens in a Storybook sidebar?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:
*logs on*
*checks headlines*
*logs off*
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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
We've been talking a lot recently about how to enable more small to mid-sized projects by avoiding a lot of the trappings of complex modern stacks. I think we should talk more about how the data layer fits into this. Both on frontend and backend.
https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/113170675996221391
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Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:
Hello!
30 trillion cells in my body are human, whatever that means, and 38 trillion are various bacteria! There are a bunch of viruses too which are currently impacting my functionality!
I am 68 trillion microorganisms in a trench coat which results in a sort of self-propelling, self-replicating digestion tube, but I am paid to act as if I am a clean, rational, thinking machine!
This is very stressful for all 68 trillion of us, so sometimes we complain about it on the internet.
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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
I've had a background thought thread running for over a year now that focuses on dissecting our interactions with the software we build and use, for ourselves and to share with each other, and how much it's shaped by the goals of commercial entities that are in direct opposition to what would be most useful/pleasant/effective for us as people. I'm trying to keep that thought thread as close to foreground as I can whilst I build new software for our various social enterprises so the thoughts can inform my decision making as I build.
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ieure@retro.social ("Boosty Collins") wrote:
I had to steal all those books, films, albums, television shows, papers, and video games, etc. to train my natural intelligence model.
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vertigo@hackers.town ("Vertigo #$FF") wrote:
Anyone looking for an #embedded engineer? Full time remote strongly preferred. #getFediHired
I am experienced with #EmbeddedC and, to a lesser degree, #EmbeddedRust and #EmbeddedJava. I even wrote JNI bindings for Java in Rust to call into Tock:OS. I have some recent experience with a very large C++ code base, but I wouldn't call myself an expert with it. I also have experience building test automation frameworks written in #Python and #Rust.
Oh, sorry for the edit spam. But I almost forgot to mention that I have extensive experience with the #RISCV architecture and instruction set.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the details reveal their fears
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“In the wake of Thursday’s explosive revelations about North Carolina gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson, JD Vance abruptly cancelled his entire campaign schedule in order to clear his search history.”
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mxshift@treehouse.systems ("Rick Altherr") wrote:
It's finally happening. I'm bringing a early FPGA exhibit to @SDF Interim Computer Festival (https://sdf.org/icf/).
Tonight I got 86Box setup and did a run through of installing OrCAD386 and X-ACT v2.4. Discovered I have a tutorial for that version and I was able to go through it. It builds a design for an XC3020 demo board that I have as well.
Now I need to replicate the setup on my RapidCAD machine, run through the tutorial again, and download the design to my board. That'll be the main exhibit.
With that out of the way, I can turn my attention to getting my Epson Apex 200 upgraded to 3MB of RAM so it can open XC3000 designs in X-ACT v2.12.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
a friend of mine just booted Linux on an Intel 4004! (yes, the first microprocessor)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is interesting, more will come
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
Re-opened Three Mile Island will power AI data centers under new deal
Microsoft would claim all of the nuclear plant's power generation for at least 20 years.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
watching the 1st in the PBS series on LBJ, I was struck by how they skipped over both his time teaching Brown children in a segregated school and his brief active duty time during WW2. one period helped form his politics, and the other revealed a great deal about his character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson?wprov=sfti1#Early_life
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon:🇪🇺") wrote:
VLC Media Player has encountered a problem with Windows
