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Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
did you know that the default Windows 10 desktop background is a photo, not a digital effect? it's a Kvant Spectrum laser projector with Saturn 9000 scanners beaming light into a sheet of transparent acrylic with black cardboard masks. there's even a short video showing an animated show variant of it here: https://www.precisionlasers.com/projects/windows10
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
the upside of having ADHD is that I can complete a month's worth of work for a whole team in the space of a weekend and a couple of evenings. the downside of having ADHD is that I keep putting myself in situations where I need to complete a month's worth of work for a whole team in the space of a weekend and a couple of evenings.
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William Pietri
@gsuberland I really appreciate the great conversation you kicked off here. So many good replies! 
Echedelle ⚧
@gsuberland@chaos.social the problem is when you burn yourself from that so hard that your average 2 hours work finishes being 10 hours work and there are days you cannot function x3 
TTimo
@gsuberland sounds quite similar to one of my former colleagues with narcolepsia. She'd go on a 40 hour+ coding bender sometimes, then collapse and you wouldn't see her for a week.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
"Karens shouting about masks at people in public" aka Non Maskable Interrupt
Patch Arcana
@gsuberland in the bored tones of someone reciting the responses at a mass take your damn upvote
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
hello I would like to talk to you about your blahaj's extended warranty 
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
this docker container could've been a shell script
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Christopher Wood
Is this a Bash shell script, C shell script, Dash shell script, Korn shell script, Z shell script? Or a shell script written in a specific defunct Unix vendor's custom version of a Bourne shell sold only to our company in 1982 and we can't find hardware for that box on Ebay anymore and the numbers don't work if we budget anything to port this? 
Scott Michaud
@gsuberland And sometimes the shell script could have been a python/C#/whatever script.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
"average GPU spends 70% of its time rendering raymarched stuff" factoid actually just statistical error. average GPU marches 0 rays a year. Shaders Georg, who lives in a demoparty & renders over 400 exegfx prods a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted 
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
reddit 🤝 bad doms
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
That the Internet Archive lost their lawsuit only serves to prove that we need more projects like Sci-Hub and Library Genesis to bolster the availability that more mainstream libraries cannot provide due to pressure applied by rent-seekers.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
I wanted to read a technical book the other day. The publisher was charging $130 for an e-book copy. A physical copy was listed at over $200. Both of the authors of the book have been dead for a decade. It's greed, pure and simple.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
if you've ever messed up a dimension or a hole position on something you're building, don't be too hard on yourself. at least you're not the Cisco design engineer who caused an entire product line recall by placing the mode button (which resets the switch if held) directly above an RJ45 port.
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Rudi (ryjelsum)
@gsuberland i feel like if this happened in 2023 they'd just do the apple "you're holding it wrong" thing and tell people to not use the booted cables
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
correct blahaj unpacking procedures source: https://twitter.com/Mahoukarp/status/1595937769540435973 |
Gregory's Server
@gsuberland but this is C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...
@gsuberland yesss i remember being so amazed at the vid lmao
@gsuberland 🤯