jstgord

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by jstgord 4y ago
... cheaper still, Im experimenting with two 3-litre plastic milk containers, filled with water. [ be sure to a) check for leakages regularly and b) do arm curls well away from electric outlets, just in case ]
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by jstgord 4y ago
Getting up and running on Mastodon went fine for me, I just signed up and tried it, with minimal hassle. Nova at hachyderm.io seems to be doing a great job managing the tsunami of signups, as people flee Twitter. I do like the social archit
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by jstgord 4y ago
Borland manuals were a pure delight.. as was the speed of Turbo Pascal compilation and the elegance of their text mode windowing object system. I remember scouring all the possible BBS dialup file servers to find a compiler for my first 808
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by jstgord 4y ago
yeah.. sometimes you do need to sit under a tree, or on the beach with a paper notebook and no internet connection. But I also think we [ the species ] need a way to discuss ideas which cant be turned off at a whim by a single rich or power
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by jstgord 4y ago
https://hachyderm.io/@justgord or should that be @justgord@hachyderm.io in canonical format ? I signed up today to see if M was usable [ it seems to be ] .. listened to a stream with the oxide guys discussing Mastodon :
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by jstgord 4y ago
Au contraire.. I think it has been maturing slowly, quietly.. and now there is enough churn/pain on Twitter to overcome the activation energy hump of moving to a new platform. We need a social network to share short texts which cannot
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by jstgord 4y ago
... because I think we need something like Twitter that cant be sold out from underneath the users. Perhaps an idealism that cant be justified.. and yet I think we should at least try things in order to get there. I sometimes think of a pa
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by jstgord 4y ago
me 3
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by jstgord 4y ago
My gut feel after using M web for a few hours is that its good enough. I think a lot of our systems are overly centralized.. which makes them vulnerable to the whims of rich individuals or governments. Now is a great time to make the move,
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by jstgord 4y ago
What is the truth of this ? I would really like to know if my x86 'linux PC', is actually running another 'hypervisor' OS that runs Linux - it seems like a recipe for security vulnerabilities. If so, there are a lot of Q
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by jstgord 4y ago
.. and why is infra-red more useful ? Can we see through dust or something ?
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by jstgord 4y ago
indeed .. Top offenders were essentially 2048 pixel wide png photos which should have been 1024 wide jpgs at max - weighing 6MB instead of 250k for a difference the human eye probably cant detect : ) but.. more than that, just an endless s
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by jstgord 4y ago
oh.. I had assumed this referred to the _technical_ dark side .. Was just toying around with porting a friends very successful shopify store to another platform .. noticed the main home page weighed in at 89MB .. wowza. [ To be fair a lot
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by jstgord 4y ago
As a followup .. I pushed writes to around 120/sec before I start to notice impact on performance [ latencies start to go up beyond that ] https://quantblog.wordpress.com/2022/06/29/node-js-perf-foll...
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by jstgord 4y ago
Would be interested in peoples thoughts on what realistic read/write pressure is a good level to test at, to feel confident in real-world performance... [ if not HN level dos'ing ] Did a basic test of our new new thing, seemed to
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Visual Time Sheet(time.tiyuti.com)
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by jstgord 4y ago
Your ideas could potentially be encoded in a better ranking/recommender _algorithm_ .. ie. recommenders using something akin to page-rank could/should inject some random items so as to allow new content to bubble up and good new c
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by jstgord 4y ago
Could this effect also explain why a lot of seemingly truly original music came out in the 80s .. roughly coincident with a peak in wealth distribution in the middle class ? My reasoning : a post-war relatively wealthy middle class and free
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by jstgord 4y ago
Although mostly horrified / entertained watching a flat-earther documentary a while back with my teenage son .. I was also kind of impressed at one point when the flat earthers did a measurement with a laser over some kilometers to &#x
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by jstgord 4y ago
I hope one day you will forgive us in the West, for not doing enough to support you.. while you fight our war. Slava Ukraine. Slava Heroime.
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by jstgord 4y ago
WARN : deeply disturbing and utterly compelling Im 10 pages in, taking a break because its too heavy .. Random thoughts come to mind, given recent events, such as how a whole populace can be subjugated by regular abuse and misinformation ..
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by jstgord 5y ago
well this is what Putin is gambling on - that he is willing to go closer to the nuclear brink and thus will win. That was true a month ago, I'm not sure its true today. Wars are not decided based on pure logic - we are somewhat intell
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by jstgord 5y ago
Surprisingly, I think the West _is_ actually willing to risk nuclear war over this. I would not be surprised if EU offers interim membership to Ukraine, and then offers air support / no fly zone - calling Putins bluff and widening the
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by jstgord 5y ago
The wider West is only too happy to pay the price of accommodating refugees and reducing fossil fuel dependency .. and may even be happy to risk all out nuclear war to defend our "way of life" and liberal freedoms. We now have the
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by jstgord 5y ago
indeed.. I think there is a chance Europe will offer air support in Ukraine, and get drawn into this conflict, and thus be at war with Russia. which will mean EU, USA, UK, CAN, AUS .. will be at war with Russia. ie. WWIII. I see the attack
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by jstgord 5y ago
late reply .. here in Australia, party politics means a tiny minority of coal/gas enthusiast incumbents get sway over the general populations desires [ admittedly many of whom are apathetic, but not a majority I think ] This works both
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by jstgord 5y ago
I'm not going to read this, yet - PGs ideas always seem to be so interesting they drown out my own - rather Ill pose a question : What if being 'smart' is a measure of the useful 'technology' we have running as the
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by jstgord 5y ago
stored procedures/functions in javascript, out of the box ?
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by jstgord 5y ago
If you read the Monash paper showing Ivermectin kills Covid at high doses in-vitro, link below, it does discuss how they surveyed various well known widely available medicines against a variety of viruses in 2012 and found that Ivermectin s
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by jstgord 5y ago
charming article, as always, from burntsushi. You may also enjoy his xsv util [ https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv ] for wrangling large csv files.

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