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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social also, did you know, he appears in Erasure's video for "Run to the Sun" - he's one of the painted dancers
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Computer nerd. Avid collector of retro computing gear. Ham radio operator. Gear head. Wannabe pastry chef. Amateur runner.
Actually autistic and ADHD.
Living in the Palm Springs area.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social and, like all his other work, I will watch it 😍
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@ibwatson@mstdn.party
@ibwatson@mstdn.party I totally get it. I would have liked to have both but I just couldn't swing it financially
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@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social
@ChrisPirillo@mastodon.social this really is the most Seattle thing ever and I love it
Welp don't bother asking the Promox Community Scripts folks for help or submitting bugs.
https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/issues/15508
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@izzy@social.shadowkat.net
@izzy@social.shadowkat.net @doskel@masto.doskel.net I have a T440p here that could do it too, but it's quite a process to get it installed.
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@doskel@masto.doskel.net
@doskel@masto.doskel.net Guile is awesome
the biggest drawback to Guix for me has been non-free firmware and drivers 😔
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@aphyr@woof.group
@aphyr@woof.group fuck indeed. 🤬
The impact the slop is going to have on free software is huge. I expect more and more maintainers are just going to give up. 🫠😫
I've always had trouble with learning to do OOP in Ada. This blog post helped a lot:
https://entropicthoughts.com/object-oriented-programming-in-ada
as a result my Ada impl of Crafting Interpreters is starting to do something. Well, I can read a file through the Streams_IO package, and that'll let me actually write the lexer.
The new Muna album is fantastic queer pop.
I would like a directory of LGBTQ Twitch streamers
trying to find them on Twitch's website itself is not good
This is sad. LittleBigPlanet was such a great game. I still miss it.
https://kotaku.com/littlebigplanet-3-servers-shut-down-fan-project-lbponline-ddos-attack-2000693676
I still find it amusing that Dom DeLuise's son Peter was a producer and writer for Stargate SG-1
and of course Dom had a character on the show too
I want a way to turn my 4U servers into towers
it's not hard to change the PC to it's own tower case, but the IBM i server can't easily do that
Hello Alexi Lalas showing up on Next Level Chef
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@thomholwerda@exquisite.social
@thomholwerda@exquisite.social don't make me go back to Slackware or Gentoo damnit
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online
@octothorpe@mastodon.online yessssss my copy arrives imminently
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space
I liked Corin Nemec on Stargate SG1, but Jonas was no Daniel Jackson
Every once in a while I see a tech related thread that gives me some hope.
Yes that was vague intentionally.
oooh my OpenEVSE finally shipped
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online
So what job boards do people use anymore?
I'm really starting to question if I can remain in tech. Or at least within tech companies.
Philosophically I'm hitting my limit with how it's going.
But I can't really leave without losing, well, everything. So. Fuck my life I guess.
I didn't see myself liking Al Hashimi at the beginning of the season
And that conversation between Abbott and Robby?
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@bri7@social.treehouse.systems
@bri7 Ahhh that was the Macintosh Application Environment, provided a MacOS System 7 desktop in a window on Solaris
Whitepaper: https://ia601504.us.archive.org/10/items/Macintosh_Garden_Manuals_2021_M/MAE3WhitePaper.pdf
Software: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/32453-macintosh-application-environment-3-0-4
If the AI tooling works for you, that's awesome. But this feels like dictating if you use emacs or vi or VSCode in some ways.
I'm not saying there aren't usecases for AI, but I'm just not seeing it in coding.
Humans have a hard time writing detailed enough specifications to start with - and that's what's required for an AI to work. It can't make the cognitive connections a human brain can.
Maybe someday it can, but at what cost?
I also regularly see really detailed, long prompts that are given to a AI.
The time it takes to write something that detailed, and the test cycles, cannot be that much faster than just doing the task yourself.
Maybe having 32 years of professional experience gives me a bias there, but I'm having a hard time challenging that bias.
"AI is the future"
I could not get Claude to understand today that it could consult a git log, run find, awk, grep without asking for my permission today
no matter how I phrased it or configured it, it kept prompting me.
If I wanted to do that manually, I wouldn't have asked Claude.
This is a tool I'm required to use at work, and it actively slows me down.
seeing a post about "vibe coding" for the Atari ST makes my soul die
Updated to a Hue Bridge Pro and got my bedroom lights working again
it's starting to feel like home
Well let's see here.
One person, Mike Johnson, blocked the funding bill.
Trump is now going to allocate funding himself. Which he doesn't have constitutional authority to do.
These fuckers need to all be put in prison.
Permanently.
I made it exactly 12 minutes into the movie "Mercy" before I turned it off.
It's not just that the premise is bad, but the effects and "UIs" in it are even worse.
And I will never watch any Olympics event again.
Were React callbacks and hooks designed to be as inscrutable as possible or am I missing something
Balancing out the sedative effects of Benadryl with coffee
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I have been in meetings since 9 am
And if I hear AI one more time today
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Hey Trump? NATO is meant to be a defensive force, not an offensive force.
I love that the members are telling us we're on our own.
I forgot to wear green today.
Since the painters are currently painting an accent wall green, will that save me from the haunting and ancestral rage?
(Mom's family is like 3/4 Irish and 1/4 Polish)
Heh. Now I'm recovering my
machine, booted into Haiku OS on a thumb drive, doing a wget | dd to another thumb drive
Because apparently I don't have a thumb drive with Linux around here.
note to self: 1 GB isn't a big enough /boot partition anymore