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One of the fascinating things about the mass migration to GMail is how giving your email address to a company and having them send you almost daily spam is considered *normal* and *good*.
@tjrobotham Spam filtering is not a legal requirement.
While I completely understand the logic being used - it's still fucking garbage
While I completely understand the logic being used - it's still fucking garbage
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@HippyWizard of course it's not a legal requirement; the parallel was simply there
I'm more baffled by the marketing minds that think multiple emails per day to infrequent customers is good and okay
I'm more baffled by the marketing minds that think multiple emails per day to infrequent customers is good and okay
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The first question to ask yourself when writing a novel set in the modern world:
Is this work cyberpunk
Is this work cyberpunk
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So they hack cellphones? Use the tracking devices everyone carries? Grab metadata from insta posts? Or do they just act like there's no internet?
@HippyWizard The second question then potentially becomes, "If it's not cyberpunk then why bother writing it?" 😏😍👩🏼🎤
Also, twitter needs better cyberpunk emojis. Insufficient representation of neural enhancements and external body mods with the current options.
Also, twitter needs better cyberpunk emojis. Insufficient representation of neural enhancements and external body mods with the current options.
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When I was 8ish the Disneys Aladdin game had Abu follow Aladdin everywhere but act on his own and not take damage
Rather than giving my brother a turn, I gave him the second controller and told him he could be Abu
So, that but non-evil
Rather than giving my brother a turn, I gave him the second controller and told him he could be Abu
So, that but non-evil
Babysitting a 4 year old has me convinced that what video games need is “little buddy mode,” where a kid can have a character that just jogs along with you and can help/get their own encouraging score but cannot be harmed
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Sir, I do not own random piles of bricks, they are neatly stored by mold type in drawers and bags, inventoried in my BrickLink store!
This morning I am annoyed
I went to my mum's outdoor 60th birthday party and she had invited her wheelchair bound friend to the party. It was in the back garden with a very narrow pathway to the party and they (my mum's friend and her mum, also my mum's friend) wanted to get past this awkward part that was too narrow because of the concrete stairs to the house.
So my brother and I stick around to help. He suggests he lift the very heavy wheelchair in which the person in the wheelchair and her mum both say that it's too heavy and they'd rather not try. To which my brother starts inspecting the wheelchair and goes to touch it multiple times, at which point I said, each time, "you can't touch it, you need to ask first" (he did actually touch it once, I think)
Which like should be common knowledge, I thought was common knowledge. Like, in the vein of, you wouldn't touch someone's purse without asking why would you touch their wheelchair (obviously this is an imperfect example because wheelchairs are not just like purses etc).
After they were past this tricky point, my brother, gives me this absolutely furious-with-me look and storms off to calm down. I hate it. But I feel incredibly strongly about consent, and it is actually an important thing... :(
I went to my mum's outdoor 60th birthday party and she had invited her wheelchair bound friend to the party. It was in the back garden with a very narrow pathway to the party and they (my mum's friend and her mum, also my mum's friend) wanted to get past this awkward part that was too narrow because of the concrete stairs to the house.
So my brother and I stick around to help. He suggests he lift the very heavy wheelchair in which the person in the wheelchair and her mum both say that it's too heavy and they'd rather not try. To which my brother starts inspecting the wheelchair and goes to touch it multiple times, at which point I said, each time, "you can't touch it, you need to ask first" (he did actually touch it once, I think)
Which like should be common knowledge, I thought was common knowledge. Like, in the vein of, you wouldn't touch someone's purse without asking why would you touch their wheelchair (obviously this is an imperfect example because wheelchairs are not just like purses etc).
After they were past this tricky point, my brother, gives me this absolutely furious-with-me look and storms off to calm down. I hate it. But I feel incredibly strongly about consent, and it is actually an important thing... :(
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It’s like touching someone’s leg, so the purse comparaison indeed doesn’t really work. This is also why the expression “wheelchair bound” doesn’t make much sense. A wheelchair is liberating rather than limiting or confining. Prefer “using a wheelchair”.
I recognize the irony of pointing this out as a comment to a story about someone who got upset to be pointed out their behavior regarding disability wasn’t welcome, but I felt it was important other people knew about this expression.
I recognize the irony of pointing this out as a comment to a story about someone who got upset to be pointed out their behavior regarding disability wasn’t welcome, but I felt it was important other people knew about this expression.
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No, thank you for pointing it out, I think it's important and I can always learn and improve on my language ❤️
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The real problem with USB-C is that it doesn't implement the C11 standard and is stuck at C99
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I think the intersection of the USB and C standards amounts to UnSpecified Behavior 
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I've got some ancient USB-A cables that are looking more and more Rust-compatible as time goes by
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child goes to the doctor. says his suffering is unbearable. says all the world's miseries are on his head. doctor says, "You should go to Omelas. Remarkable place. It's the Festival of Summer, and almost everyone there lives in joy and peace."
"but doctor," the child says--
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"A snapshot which is also called a backup"
I feel like this is designed to make my head explode
I feel like this is designed to make my head explode
And now the quiz:
"Application Load Balancers accept the following protoctols EXCEPT"
The answer was "TCP" - since HTTP is obviously not TCP
Fucking AWS
"Application Load Balancers accept the following protoctols EXCEPT"
The answer was "TCP" - since HTTP is obviously not TCP
Fucking AWS
Amazon - can we talk a second?
"Warm Pool Instances" sounds like someone peed.
Pick a different name
"Warm Pool Instances" sounds like someone peed.
Pick a different name
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Working through trauma really makes you feel internally turbulent in a way that is really complicated to express
One day I'll feel internally stable again and I look forward to it... I feel lucky and thankful that I have some idea what it's supposed to look and feel like ❤️
I should do some art expression tonight 😊, and consider what audiobooks might be fun
One day I'll feel internally stable again and I look forward to it... I feel lucky and thankful that I have some idea what it's supposed to look and feel like ❤️
I should do some art expression tonight 😊, and consider what audiobooks might be fun
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@HippyWizard How did this work out for you
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@PizzaFacts2go Perfectly! Giant sandbox! only mild concussion!
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@HippyWizard Lmao did you actually have a mild concussion??
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@HippyWizard @PizzaFacts2go Only mild concussion is too much concussion already!!
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Wishing I had a VR headset so I could have a large xterm that didn't take a large monitor
Like a normal person
Like a normal person
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:P No I get it! I actually wonder how it would be
I feel like in VR it would be weird and dark - and I'd need to figure out so much weirdness to make it work
I feel like in VR it would be weird and dark - and I'd need to figure out so much weirdness to make it work
People always tell me their systems with an arcane DSL are better and more maintainable than "a bash script", but then their jobs require 10 years with that DSL
Almost finished deleting everything labeled "Do Not Delete" in our AWS account
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@DCuplink That's what I said! We can't prove it's erasable!
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@HippyWizard ah hah ha! wait! there's more! we rsync'ed that to our cold site storage too!
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As a hacker from the 90s this is basically making me vibrate with stress
My simple secret to "being good with computer" is using a mouse. This 12 EUR device allows me to reach every pixel on my screen with unparalleled precision while most other folks fumble around with a touchpad that requires them to set interface scaling to 200% so they can with at least some chance hit screen areas roughly the size of Liechtenstein #protip
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Yesterday my 3yo saw a 2yo have a ball taken from them at the park, and start crying. (They had taken the ball from another kid, so it wasn't anything bad). But my 3yo went over a comforted the crying kid and gave them one of his toys.
And... uh... hard not to be the proudest
And... uh... hard not to be the proudest
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@PizzaFacts2go He did try to hold her hand, and I had to tell him to ask for consent, but it was so nice to see him being amazing
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One shot RPG called Murder at a Circus:
1 investigator who is defined by the series this is an episode of
1 strong man
1 clown
1 acrobat
"Bonus Roles" (sheriff, ringmaster, elephant trainer)
There is always a murder, players draw lots and spend the whole game inventing details
Each scene the next player (by turn order) can invent a clue, and then has to convince the investigator that their clue is true. At the end of the scene the investigator says if the clue is real or not.
Catch: The Murderer is always lying
At the end, the Investigator explains how the death happened, using only clues they accepted.
Then the murderer shows which clues were false. Then if the Investigator can still rebuild their story with those clues being false (rest of table arbitrates) they solve the murder.
1 investigator who is defined by the series this is an episode of
1 strong man
1 clown
1 acrobat
"Bonus Roles" (sheriff, ringmaster, elephant trainer)
There is always a murder, players draw lots and spend the whole game inventing details
Each scene the next player (by turn order) can invent a clue, and then has to convince the investigator that their clue is true. At the end of the scene the investigator says if the clue is real or not.
Catch: The Murderer is always lying
At the end, the Investigator explains how the death happened, using only clues they accepted.
Then the murderer shows which clues were false. Then if the Investigator can still rebuild their story with those clues being false (rest of table arbitrates) they solve the murder.
Each scene the next player (by turn order) can invent a clue, and then has to convince the investigator that their clue is true. At the end of the scene the investigator says if the clue is real or not.
Catch: The Murderer is always lying
Catch: The Murderer is always lying
So. I'm a full-time student for the next four months. If things go according to plan, I'll be (up to paperwork) an alumnus by Christmas.
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Hardware is a necessary evil for Firmware or Embedded Software Engineer. You can get by without ever touching it, but I wouldn't recommend it. Feels to me like being a mechanic without ever having driven, which must exist I'd guess, but i wouldn't take them my car.
hehe, that project used a out of spec I2C bus that pulled down the line at zero cross, I had to rewrite a bit banged kernel driver software to handle it. The LCD used standard I2C, it was an interesting problem grateful to never have to solve again.
I've heard that people definitely follow I2C and never violate it, and that's why firmware developers love their jobs!
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That is for the most part a truism.
However these dudes were from the oldest of old schools, they used the zero cross of the power line to tick their clocks across multiple microchips/devices on the bus to literally keep the time, no rtc, no battery always on.
So when I added a couple of more than 8 bit cpus into the mix, they would not let me implement it standard, lest they (read I) would have to rewrite 20 yrs of hardware in the field.
Needless to say a modern 32bit arm chips do not like the i2c pin to be dragged to zero for no good reason 50 or 60 times a second depending on continent the device is plugged in on.
I love my job title because I can implement "Correct by Construction" principles I learned from those guys & all those Hot Tubs and Hot Tub accessories on any device no matter its function. Something I found nigh on impossible for just software products. Plus I enjoy watching the hardware guys face drain of blood when mid proj the reqs change.
However these dudes were from the oldest of old schools, they used the zero cross of the power line to tick their clocks across multiple microchips/devices on the bus to literally keep the time, no rtc, no battery always on.
So when I added a couple of more than 8 bit cpus into the mix, they would not let me implement it standard, lest they (read I) would have to rewrite 20 yrs of hardware in the field.
Needless to say a modern 32bit arm chips do not like the i2c pin to be dragged to zero for no good reason 50 or 60 times a second depending on continent the device is plugged in on.
I love my job title because I can implement "Correct by Construction" principles I learned from those guys & all those Hot Tubs and Hot Tub accessories on any device no matter its function. Something I found nigh on impossible for just software products. Plus I enjoy watching the hardware guys face drain of blood when mid proj the reqs change.
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I mean, I'm glad I only have to worry about making sure the right responses come out for the stimuli that went in and don't have to worry about things like policies about who gets access to what...
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I often think of myself as not a maker, because I rarely take projects to the point of sharing them, and I tend to do projects mostly from manuals. Like, buying a broken tablet, installing spare parts from offbrand retailers, and then putting a beta linux on it.
Or writing 30 thousand words of RPG rules in order to port Dragons into Burning Wheel as having a full suite of lifepaths.
Or making experimental muffins where I take a recipe and ignore it and make a different thing.
I feel like I'm not a maker because I rarely change the state of the art, just grow my personal circle. If I write a software tool, I generally assume no one wants my changes, ans never advertise http://git.obscuritus.ca because I assume that it's just stuff no one wants.
I dunno, this is a weird anxiety, and it's the kind of anxiety I assume makes me a worse person, or at least a foolish one who is too focused on culture.
Or writing 30 thousand words of RPG rules in order to port Dragons into Burning Wheel as having a full suite of lifepaths.
Or making experimental muffins where I take a recipe and ignore it and make a different thing.
I feel like I'm not a maker because I rarely change the state of the art, just grow my personal circle. If I write a software tool, I generally assume no one wants my changes, ans never advertise http://git.obscuritus.ca because I assume that it's just stuff no one wants.
I dunno, this is a weird anxiety, and it's the kind of anxiety I assume makes me a worse person, or at least a foolish one who is too focused on culture.
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Others have stated the obvious regarding your status as a maker, but more importantly, not believing you are a maker doesn't make you a worse person. I'd rather someone who makes things and doesn't call themselves a maker rather than the opposite *side eyeing Elon Musk*.
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Yeah, it's far more about tenseness about leaving a mark and bettering communities by my presense
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Obviously make sure that it crashes the *keyboard* and only the keyboard
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My PinePower seems to violate the USB spec by having all the ports wired in upside down - is this normal?
Also - I hate it
Also - I hate it
Also - I just realized this made it sound like I hate my pinepower, which is a wonderful device
I hate that the ports are flipped!!
I hate that the ports are flipped!!
In grade 8, I dressed up as Jessica Fletcher when asked to dress up as my favourite tv show character for school
We're rewatching Murder, She Wrote again, and feeling like not much has changed in my preferences, apparently
We're rewatching Murder, She Wrote again, and feeling like not much has changed in my preferences, apparently
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Trying to explain it to a developer:
Version pinning is a great way to cause yourself problems with old code
Not version pinning is a great way to cause yourself problems *in your dev environment*
Version pinning is a great way to cause yourself problems with old code
Not version pinning is a great way to cause yourself problems *in your dev environment*
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Things developers should know but don't: In your dev environment is where you *want* the problems to show up.
I am shocked at how often "Fail when someone who can fix it is looking" is considered groundbreaking advice
Mail client that automatically fetches remote data in the email via a small cluster of proxies so that everyone gets the same locations for their tracking, but we don't need to tell people to not use features that are often necessary for them
Bonus points: GMail plugin
Bonus points: GMail plugin
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Dear pipeline:
You may fail with an error
You may succeed
But you cannot do neither
You may fail with an error
You may succeed
But you cannot do neither
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONne1YQclbI
Ok - does anyone else remember this movie
IN THIS MOVIE THEY MADE A SUPER VIRUS! BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO CURE A SUPER VIRUS!?
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS LOGIC?! It has been bothering me for 22 years!
Ok - does anyone else remember this movie
IN THIS MOVIE THEY MADE A SUPER VIRUS! BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO CURE A SUPER VIRUS!?
CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS LOGIC?! It has been bothering me for 22 years!
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•For it to be at the origin of a change in legislation, it must have caused a loss of data somewhere
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