angst_ridden

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by angst_ridden 3mo ago
Tell me you don't understand the point of Mastodon without telling me you don't understand the point of Mastodon.
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by angst_ridden 4mo ago
Do non-Europeans not let their children outside? Or are you suggesting that non-Europeans make everyone else keep their kids inside out of fear?
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by angst_ridden 4mo ago
You can't control a society without keeping them afraid, so roll that tape of predators, kidnappers, gangs, and drug pushers! What? A child doing something without adult supervision? Next thing you know they'll start thinking for
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by angst_ridden 5mo ago
The the tar tar pits. (La Brea means "the tar"). A bit west of downtown, too, but I'm an annoying pedant.
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by angst_ridden 6mo ago
Ha. My first job in '89 was working for an FFRDC reviewing IBM's Jovial code that was going to "revolutionize ATC" by modernizing everything. I'm gonna guess that code never went into production. The problem seems e
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by angst_ridden 7mo ago
A lot of the restricted stuff is cargo-cult fear of symbols that could be used in SQL-injection or XSS attacks. A properly-coded system wouldn't care, but the people who write the rules have read old OWASP documents and in there they s
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by angst_ridden 7mo ago
contagi-yawn
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by angst_ridden 8mo ago
It was earlier than the 90s, and came with popular 8-bit CPUs in the 80s. The Z-80 microprocessor could address 64kb (which was 65,536 bytes) on its 16-bit address bus. Similarly, the 4104 chip was a "4kb x 1 bit" RAM chip and sto
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by angst_ridden 8mo ago
Ignoring all this drama. But I've always found Paul to be a good guy, who was helpful and honest and provided a great product. Teensy is a great platform, and it's too bad these other players will have a negative impact on it.
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by angst_ridden 8mo ago
How hard would it be to extend this to support bulk export of Apple Notes?
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by angst_ridden 10mo ago
Those who know how to fix the messes made by AI today will replace those who don't tomorrow.
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by angst_ridden 1y ago
Agreed. Prince also has a lot of good features for headers, footers, page numbering, etc, that make it very powerful.
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by angst_ridden 1y ago
It's not like Imgur didn't finance with ads. They did that for a long time. Dunno if it paid the bills. The latest kerfuffle is because they were bought and the new owners fired all the moderators in favor of "AI moderation.&
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by angst_ridden 1y ago
If you're not part of a group that will suffer under a white-supremecist theocracy they look very similar. If you're part of a group that will, there is a visible difference. Picking the lesser evil is actually a good thing if you
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
Any idea how long Experts should take to import/index data? I pointed an expert at a big directory of source files on a M4 iMac with 32G RAM, and it pinned a CPU at 100% for 24 hours but was not finished. A single file seems to finish
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
Never ask ol' Chesterfield about his fence.
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
They're now owned by "copyright trolls". They hit up a company I know because their web-crawler found a PDF that someone generated using their library over a decade ago. https://beemanmuchmore.com/software-lic
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
Of course, the Space Shuttle (and SLS, for that matter), are bad designs and inefficient not because NASA teams design them that way, but because of the way Congress funds things. They add mandates, and require the contracts to be spread ac
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
In the early aughts, I spent a lot of time writing and maintaining Open Source software. I burned out on that because of rude users. I had one guy track me down offline and phone me at all hours to demand that I drop everything and fix a
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
There is also a known phenomenon of "starvation euphoria." I don't know at what point of caloric deficit that kicks in, but it probably varies dramatically.
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
Many years ago, I built http://legacy-labeler.com so people could label their photos for posterity. It's admittedly clumsy, and nobody uses it.
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
I just walked a mile in Los Angeles for lunch. I had the following near misses where I would have died or been severely injured if I hadn't been alert: a Tesla coming out of an alley (driver was on his phone, never saw me), old diesel
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
I live in the US half the year, and elsewhere for the other half. Movie rights go in and out of availability even when staying in one place, but when you cross borders, you find your access changing pretty frequently. So for movies, I have
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
Oh great. NextDoor was bad enough. Now we get a map version, where anyone can post their inchoate terror of people who don't conform exactly to their ideas of appearance or behavior.
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
I once had a very frustrating battle with a new reviewer who told me my utilitarian app did not offer an "innovative experience" and wasn't "interactive" enough. So I had to add a completely useless feature where a
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Father of Radar Interferometry dies at 97(nytimes.com)
1 points by angst_ridden 2y ago|0 comments
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
Same here! And yet the only time I placed it was for an image I'd created in Strata Studio-Pro.
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
Same here! I still have some fairly simple 320x240 images that took all night to render.
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
If this were the only article, my judgment would be unfair. But have you read the web site of late?
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by angst_ridden 2y ago
Amazes me that Popular Mechanics used to be a (mildly sensationalist but sort of) decent magazine. Now, it's straight up ancient aliens and after-death experiences.

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