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labria

I found this (provenance unknown) in my 'temp' folder and it made me chuckle.

A still from the oppenheimer movie of Einstein (labelled 'HTML'), oppenheimer (labelled JS) with Ryan Gosling from the Barbie movie wearing a garish pink shellsuit superimposed, labelled 'CSS'
labria

I am a bit confused about this Oasis reunion. Do all their songs suddenly not sound the same live? I mean if you have their record do you need anything else?

And I mean, I can listen to the original versions by The Beatles too.

๐Ÿ˜‡๐Ÿ˜œ

labria

Something I learned the wrong way (via burning out hard):
There are 3 โ€œzonesโ€ in a company:
0: your direct impact zone (where you can just _do_ stuff)
1: indirect impact zone (you can convince/bribe/blackmail people into doing stuff)
2: the rest of the company
IMO, the key to keeping some kind of sanity is to bin the issues you see around into one of those 3 zones and act accordingly. And that sometimes means you need to just let something you deeply care about go, just because itโ€™s in zone 2.

labria

@tikibunnyimports
I love this era of Nissan design. The Pao, the S-Cargo, the Figaro... why doesn't Nissan revive all of them as small inexpensive EVs? #WeirdCarMastodon

OMG we've hit 38 likes, only 99,962 before #Nissan pays attention and makes this happen. LET'S GO!

en.nissan.com.eg/experience-ni

A quartet of small Nissan cars in cute shapes and colours
labria

NOTE: in the early 90s late 80s, on a road trip I was camping along the Mississippi River somewhere, id eaten and it got dark, mosquitos were hell, so I was sitting on the sites picnic table, long pants and sleeves, hoody over my head strong pulled into a small hole to breathe through. I had ingested some lsd and was sitting utterly silent, long enough that in the pitch black, large birds arrived to raid the trash can next to me. They did not know I was there!

I sat for hours listening to the incredible orchestra of animals, mostly birds I assume... The cacophony was loud, dense, relentless. After I while I noticed it was patterned... Birds were singing in rounds. A bird squawked, then the next, each waiting for a gap to speak in. I could hear the same, or similar, voice repeat on loose patterns of a few seconds. Probab ly some of the "same" voices were birds of the same kind talking. It was like a party line phone with a thousand simultaneous conversations...

... Every night, forever. Absolutely fucking amazing. Profoundly profound and all that.

So I'm making a simulation of that.

NOTE: in the early 90s late 80s, on a road trip I was camping along the Mississippi River somewhere, id eaten and it got dark, mosquitos were hell, so I was sitting on the sites picnic table, long pants and sleeves, hoody over my head strong pulled into a small hole to breathe through. I had ingested some lsd and was sitting utterly silent, long enough that in the pitch black, large birds arrived to raid the trash can next to me. They did not know I was there!

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klausfiend

@inktrap If guessing is allowed, the following are C library functions:

- mbsrtowcs
- strxfrm
- wcstold
- wcsoll

Dave Neary

@inktrap Very annoyed that the C or C++ functions in this are *not* in the C standard library! "wcs" is a wide character string - and are not a standard C type.

labria

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself coming downstairs, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.

labria

I definitely
used to have more spoons than this.
Where have they all gone?
#dailyhaiku

Annie from Canetoad

@trike

They have run away
with the spoons I used to have.
To hell with them all.

labria

Problems can be classified by difficulty into either be p, np, or npm.

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millennial falcon

@nordern I love how you post a witticism and we all just all immediately and instinctively start becoming a problem

Tommy Thorn

@nordern Weird. My problems are usually pnp or npn (or often vpp).

labria

Remember that day when you first compiled ACPI support in, and `shutdown -p` actually shut the power off? #MagicalMoments #OldPeopleStuff

labria

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I think: Wow Google Maps, you really fucked up this time

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clay anderson ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ”ฐ๐Ÿฅ‘๐ŸŒ๐Ÿšฒ๐Ÿ—ฝโ˜ข๏ธ

@quaap what did they do? I'm about to work on a thing kind of similar to Google street view on my mapping team at a self-driving car company.

Rupert

@quaap Last time I drove down to Whakatane Google maps sent me down a dirt road between Paeroa and Waihi and I'm sure the only reason was that they didn't have any recent data on that road and they were using me to find out.

Michael โ˜•๏ธ

@quaap
Shoulda took that left turn at Albuquerque

Bugs Bunny, upset, looking at a map that he's spread out on the ground in front of him. He's popped up from his burrow inside a bullfighting arena, though he hasn't quite realized it yet.
labria

I did a calculation yesterday that made me want to scream. If you look at the *current* density of satellites in 1km altitude bins in Low Earth Orbit, and assume they are travelling at circular velocities (generally true), then Starlink satellites pass within <1km of each other EVERY 30 SECONDS.

At Starlink altitudes, everything is travelling at 7 km/second, so <1 km close approaches are terrifyingly close. Every 30 seconds. WHY.

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๐ŸŽ“ Dr. Freemo :jpf: ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ

@sundogplanets why is that terrifying? Even worst case scenario and they all collide with each other being a LEO all that debris will just come down to earth in a few years anyway. But that happening is extremely unlikely.

Steph Roccia

@sundogplanets

There are no satellites at 1km altitude: Satellites do not orbit below 160 km because they are affected by atmospheric drag. The lowest orbiting satellite is the Japanese satellite Tsubame, orbited at an altitude of 167.4 km ๐Ÿค”

labria

Generative AI is just digital cigarettes. It looks cool and fun and itโ€™s easy to shove into every moment of your life. But thirty years from now youโ€™ll be upset you ever started.

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