angrygoat

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by angrygoat 2y ago
oh, thanks :)
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by angrygoat 2y ago
hah – yes, it's an old username, it's not possible to change username on here or I would :)
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by angrygoat 2y ago
thanks to you both, I'll check whenever and Pendulum out! :)
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by angrygoat 2y ago
I used this (via polyfill) for my Typescript implementation of the calendar of the church, and it was fabulous. Using the old Javascript dates I felt like I was always tripping over something... this was actually nicer than Python's (a
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by angrygoat 2y ago
How are decentralised platforms managing abusive content? TikTok had some bumps in the road maybe five years back with this, but got it under control. I know I don't want to be scrolling through video content and see illegal or unethic
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by angrygoat 2y ago
Some extension of the Patreon model onto decentralised social media could work. I pay a few bucks a month to the creators of webcomics and other content that I enjoy, just because it's the right thing to do, and I dunno, it makes me fe
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by angrygoat 2y ago
I was taught Biblical Hebrew by an Australian scholar who learned hers in the south of the US, and I picked up from her the habit of translating the second plural as "y'all" :-) You can of course do the same with Greek. For s
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Remnants of SpaceX rocket salvaged from ocean off Australia's Ningaloo coast(abc.net.au)
3 points by angrygoat 2y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 2y ago
"Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?" "My dear Doctor, they're all true." "Even the lies?" "Especially the lies."
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by angrygoat 2y ago
It's pretty heavily used in some on premises HPC contexts... used to run a large supermicro cluster which we would power down when not needed, which saved a fair amount of electricity (and by extension emissions and money.) It's q
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by angrygoat 2y ago
The great thing about Australia/Eucla is that it’s not officially gazetted, and yet there are road signs informing travellers about it. I love that people just do it and everyone goes along
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about E. Coli (2008)(scientificamerican.com)
42 points by angrygoat 2y ago|12 comments
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by angrygoat 2y ago
My car has this stuff in it too (BYD Dolphin) and it's a mixed bag. I find the "watch out, car/object moving into your path" stuff really useful – here in Australia, driving in the bush, it's picked up roos I'd
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by angrygoat 2y ago
There's a tendency for Westerners to view every religion through the lens of protestant Christianity. Religion is a notoriously hard to define concept (this was the running joke of a sociology of religion unit I took at university; eac
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by angrygoat 2y ago
We had a situation here in Australia where there wasn't an open source way to verify the outcome of Federal senate elections. The algorithm is slightly complicated, mostly because it's set up so that it's possible to count it
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by angrygoat 3y ago
Temporal is quite nice; should be coming to browsers soon: https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/
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by angrygoat 3y ago
Here in Australia, ISDN Data over Voice (DoV) was in fairly common use. Telstra (the major telecom here particularly in those days) charged an untimed flat "local call" rate (a few tens of cents) for an ISDN voice call, and by the
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by angrygoat 3y ago
Awesome! Have a look at https://github.com/grahame/church-calendar which the current code uses; it should be fairly easy to add the Episcopalian calendar. One neat thing with my church-calendar library is extensive met
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by angrygoat 3y ago
I was surprised too – and if you use Github's inbuilt editor for `README.md` you can literally drop an mp4 file on the editor and it uploads it and pastes in the link. Quite fancy! https://github.blog/2021-05-13-video-u
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Show HN: Building a 'liturgical lightbulb', bringing the Calendar to life(github.com)
109 points by angrygoat 3y ago|9 comments
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Dabbling in the Cryptographic World–A Story(bell-labs.com)
1 points by angrygoat 3y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 3y ago
Back in 2009, Matthew Garrett measured a blinking cursor as costing 2W of power consumption. Presumably it'd be less of a big deal now, but it does show that UI updates on a low frequency can cost watts. https://lwn.net&#x2F
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by angrygoat 3y ago
it's a complicated answer: faith is at the heart of it, of course. In Christianity there's the idea of vocation, which applies to all, not just the clergy. A simple way to think about it is to consider the things you're good
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by angrygoat 3y ago
I'm a priest who was a software engineer for twenty years. This morning during the service in a small semi-rural church, the bluetooth speaker broke. I paused the service briefly, joked that I knew what to do, and turned it off and on.
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by angrygoat 3y ago
or along the highway near the Western Australia/South Australia border, which informally uses +8:45 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B08:45
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by angrygoat 3y ago
it feels like every time I go into Jira with the intention to do something, I'm shown a needy modal about some new feature that I really don't care about. and then I can't remember why I went in there in the first place. it&#
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by angrygoat 3y ago
Yes, at least here in Australia there are a lot of libraries, churches and other public places where charging is available. Rather than expecting those without homes to pedal for basic access to services, access to basic infrastructure like
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by angrygoat 3y ago
+1 on fastmail, I've been nothing but happy with their service.
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by angrygoat 3y ago
Just to add (as clergy myself) that clerical titles are in current use, are not limited to one faith tradition, and space ought to be allowed for them.
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by angrygoat 3y ago
this has a nasty side-effect with NFS, at least <= version 3. ext4 immediately makes the file being unlinked invisible in the filesystem namespace, and then blocks while it does the work of deallocating the space. the NFS client will iss

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