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1. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 11:21:32 EDT Michael Vogel
   So ein bisschen Gewitter sorgt dafür, dass es im Sommer um 17:20 schon so dunkel ist wie eigentlich zur Dämmerung.
2. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 07:13:52 EDT Michael Vogel
   A: "Was hast Du mit der Axt im Büro vor?"
   B: "Es hieß doch, dass ich meinen Bildschirm teilen soll."
3. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 14:46:25 EDT Hypolite Petovan

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   ♲ @Miniver@mastodon.social: It is a common misconception that “Mary Shelley” is the name of the novel, when it is actually the name of the novel’s creator
   
4. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 15:26:00 EDT Hypolite Petovan

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   ♲ @kinetix@mycrowd.ca: Does whatever that is pair with these?
   
5. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 15:26:37 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   Filed to #ImagesThatHurt
   
   

   ♲ @kingu@mstdn.social:
6. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 15:27:07 EDT Hypolite Petovan

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   ♲ @TheMNWolf@furry.engineer: the screwdriver:
   
7. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 18:25:20 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   Weird that most of the contestant gender challenges I’ve been made aware in these 2024 Olympic Games have been brought against non-white opponents of white women who lost their match. 🤔

   As if it didn’t have anything to do with gender but with racism instead.

   • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 19:43:23 EDT Hypolite Petovan
     @𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat: Because one of the targeted athletes didn’t attract any scrutiny when they beat a non-white contestant during the previous World Championships they participated in. 🤷♂️
   • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 19:45:03 EDT Hypolite Petovan

     @𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat: So the “gender” they so thoroughly defend is only relevant when white people are involved.

     Hm 🤔

8. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 21:59:03 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   #LEGO people, I want to commission a #MOC of a real-world vehicle, however I’m not sure where to turn to ask. I thought I could message the designers of previous MOCs I bought on Rebrickable, but the website policies forbid soliciting work from users.

   I don’t have the direct contact of these designers, and I’m running out of ideas. Is there a centralized platform where LEGO designers can be commissioned to create specific MOCs I wouldn’t know about?

   Reshare welcome!
9. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 11:49:58 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   Why am I typing all this, when I should have been smart and slept two hours ago?
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 12:08:46 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     @steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶ I should be tired enough to buy that.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 15:41:27 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     wtf still awake

     goodnight friends

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 00:35:36 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @Kermode Swedish language lesson: Swedish has different forms for the infinitive and the imperative.

     "sleep well" as in "[It is important to] sleep well" is "sova bra"

     "sleep well" as in "[Hey, you there,] sleep well!" is "sov bra"

     That's grammatically correct and understandable, but then of course there's an idiomatic expression that decides which synonym of "well" fits the best.

     The native-sounding translation of "sleep well" is "sov gott".

10. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 00:09:38 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    South Korea uses euro plugs! Cool. It's like going to FOSDEM. 😃

    (or, you know, to visit my parents, but I try to combine the two 😁 )
11. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 11:19:28 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Re: How amazingly empty modern mother boards are

    libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-5…

    If you go back 15 years, there'd be a south bridge, a north bridge, memory slots, some other stuff. Go back 10 years more and there'd be an audio chip, a video chip, USB controller, capacitors everywhere ... go back another 10 years and they wouldn't even be surface mounted, they'd be in sockets.

    Go back to the 80s and you'd even have rows and rows of dumb logic gate chips! Just a handful of NOR gates taking up a whole chip, like two square centimeters of space! And your parallel, serial and IDE ports would be on an expansion card!

    It makes me feel old to have seen all this pass, but I'm not old enough to have seen the old IBM mainframe computers where even the CPU itself was too big to be a single integrated chip.

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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 13:46:24 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      Where are our Forth processors, our object processors, like those Lisp and SmallTalk processors with gc and type affordances in hardware, our clockless asynchronous processors, our Transmeta-like fluid lines between hardware and software, between microcode and ISA-targeted machine code, etc.

      How weird do our high-level languages need to be to benefit from an exotic CPU?

      JavaScript and even more so Python are embarrassingly non-weird, so imperative and linear that they trip up anything that wants any assurances, but my go-to expectation is that functional languages might do cool stuff with immutability, upfront data dependencies etc. And packages within meh languages might do cool stuff, like pandas and numpy within Python.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 13:52:38 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @Angry Sun I hear that ARMs have some exotic behaviors and instructions that C needs to work around when some other languages might not have to, but I don't have the details.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 13:55:59 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Efraim Flashner
      • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

      @Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: I don't know enough about them, but I guess GPUs and shaders are doing very non-PDP stuff, and what cryptography and machine learning people are doing with GPUs is something rather different from linear C code.

      @Efraim Flashner @Angry Sun

12. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 13:48:59 EDT Michael Vogel
    Ich mag den Pferdesport eigentlich nicht - aber die Begeisterung, die Carsten Sostmeier beim Kommentieren verbreitet, ist ansteckend.
    Sportschau Olympia 2024: Der Goldritt von Michael Jung in der Vielseitigkeit - hier anschauen ardmediathek.de/video/sportsch…
13. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 12:30:36 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    I wonder if chartodon supports me sending it limited-scope messages? Does it respond in kind?
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 12:37:01 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      It responds, but it responds in public.
14. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 22:55:19 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    Now where was that place I managed to get a covid vaccination half a year ago ...
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 23:10:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      Found the receipt.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 05:09:54 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @Kermode No.
15. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 09:32:01 EDT Michael Vogel
    Es gibt mal wieder eine interessante Online-Abstimmung. Diese hier dreht sich um ein Tempolimit auf Autobahnen: mobil.org/umfrage-zum-tempolim…
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 05:22:36 EDT Michael Vogel
      Der gesamte Club scheint ... etwas anders zu sein.
16. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 05:05:11 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    "We're in the DC universe. Marvel doesn't have supervillains this stupid."
    -- an internet
17. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 04:15:15 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    "They're calling everything AI these days!"

    The A* path-finding algorithm is 40 lines of pseudocode. You can find it in "Principles of Artificial Intelligence" from 1980.

    Ever since the 1960s, if it came out of a math department that needed grants for Lisp development, it's AI.
18. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 11:46:24 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    One of the shops in a nearby mall was playing Alan Walker's "Faded", but it was a version with another singer, and with more focus on the vocals.

    I'm looking around a bit to see if I can find it.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 11:50:09 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      Not it, but also cool: Julia Wu, Chinese-Australian singer, performing "Faded" and "Different World" together with Walker at KKBOX Music Awards in Taipei.

      farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

      youtube.com/watch?v=n03IDJcsy5…

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 15:37:59 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      Not it, but what I heard was more in this direction, with prominent vocals. It started out like this, but then shifted over to a bit more of a beat after the first refrain:

      Sara Farell: "Alan Walker - Faded"

      farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

      youtube.com/watch?v=2jZFsQS8Ve…

19. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 16:23:13 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    When you look back at old posts, some of them are very local to that timeframe, like "Andersson steps down as prime minister" or "Pirates win two seats", while some are timeless like "Conservatives promise more police" or "Covid is not over".
20. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 13:24:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    The computer was suddenly revealed as palimpsest. The machine that is everywhere hailed as the very incarnation of the new had revealed itself to be not so new after all, but a series of skins, layer on layer, winding around the messy, evolving idea of the computing machine. Under Windows was DOS; under DOS, BASIC; and under them both the date of its origins recorded like a birth memory. Here was the very opposite of the authoritative, all-knowing system with its pretty screenful of icons. Here was the antidote to Microsoft's many protections. The mere impulse toward Linux had led me into an act of desktop archaeology. And down under all those piles of stuff, the secret was written: We build our computers the way we build our cities -- over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

    
    -- Ellen Ullman, "The dumbing-down of programming", part 1 of 2 salon.com/1998/05/12/feature_3…

    /via social.coop/@eob/1124701033935… @Éamonn

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    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 13:41:01 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      Every visual programming tool, every wizard [ . . . ] [makes] the suggestion that the wizard is only taking care of things that are repetitive or boring. These are only tedious and mundane tasks, says the wizard, from which I will free you for better things. Why reinvent the wheel? Why should anyone ever again write code to put up a window or a menu? Use me and you will be more productive.

      
      26 years later, we are busy taking the collective forgetting to the next level and eliminate even the human-written wizard, replacing it with the matching of two statistical models; one of what the collective of other programmers have already written (and forgotten), and one of what we're in the middle of writing.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 13:53:08 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      TIL a "palimpsest" is an old manuscript that has evolved over time, as people have scratched things out or added new things.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 14:08:43 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      @Jez 📚 Aha! Thanks for the correction and clarification.