@neauoire they don't make ads that hit this hard anymore

@neauoire Raw bytes, the horror! 😱

@neauoire Feels oddly similar (although a bit more aggressive) to the LMI Lisp Machine advertisement.

I got a print of that one.

@neauoire this is seriously why I had to make a backup of my Twitter rather than just taking it down, because it's a ten year archive of every I couldn't get something to work on a computer writing down the problem and then coming back later to post the solution

@neauoire The worst is when you didn't even solve the issue and gave up.

I have a blog post that I ran head first into that re-iterated my problem.

Both annoyed and amazed at myself.

@neauoire serpent eats tail

@neauoire I bet this is where that felt ninja keeps felt armaments

@neauoire Small projects with a fast turnaround are so... touchable. 👉 👈

@neauoire it will only work when the CPU and the laptop are inclined at -30°

@neauoire ah yes the “bored grad student scanning in a xerox of a document” category of academic computer science docs

@neauoire
Very happy to see it archived on Internet Archive. The sequence shot in the gas station deserve an award by itself. The actress/actors are damn great too. And last but not least the topic is...on point (and was already really close to home back in 2020).

@neauoire oh merde ça apparait intéressant, merci :>

@neauoire mingming sounds like a nice boat.

@neauoire do you know what design features he's referring to that make Mingming "unsinkable"?

@neauoire nice job on the splices!!! Synthetic braid is hard to deal with IMHO.

@knasman Resplice your re-boarding lines!

@neauoire don't you constantly have to adjust the dyneema ones because of temperature fluctuations?

@neauoire UHMPWE is difficult to solution dye, although black has been possible from the start. The rest has been dipped in dye, which doesn't stick to the fibers well. Our blue rope was just dirty white after a season.

There's some progress recently: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032386123002033

#UHMWPE #Rope

@neauoire I used to do these massive custom rope contracts a few years ago. Go though thousands and thousands of feet of Amsteel blue a contract. The samthane coating on it was pretty durable but eventually I’d look like a Smurf.

@neauoire ohoho indeed! plucky synths 👌

@neauoire I miss being able to buy supplies in civilization.

@neauoire @rek you kids need to checkout Lost Frog Productions.

@neauoire woooom woooooom (foghorn sound)

@neauoire uh oh how

@neauoire I embraced inbox infinity many years ago... after 30 days unread emails get moved to archive to keep my actual inbox at a size that IMAP doesn't balk over. Now and then I open mail and read anything with an interesting or important looking subject. It's very liberating!

@neauoire I would say use NixOS, but I don't know if that's boat compatible.

Might be. Few more tests.

And, we're back.

@neauoire this is basically our raison d'etre over here at prsm.

@neauoire I have two minds about this statement and they sharply disagree with each other.

@neauoire sounds like a plan