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ai6yr, to random
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Hmm, they mention using pheromones and a swarm of bees as a "radical idea" to attack enemies for the military in "The Men Who Stare At Goats", LOL. (It would work, but you can't cart around beehives, really)

gparker,
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@ai6yr The best-funded militaries did take the bee swarm threat seriously: today they all have CBRN (chemical/bee/radiological/nuclear) suits and vehicles available.

mcc, to random
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Does anyone happen to know whether the ".xm" tracker format is little or big endian

According to wikipedia this is the best available documentation https://github.com/milkytracker/MilkyTracker/blob/master/resources/reference/xm-form.txt and it does not say. I assume it's little endian because DOS, and because the one big-endian field in the documentation is specifically marked as such, but like, idk

gparker,
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@mcc gonna tell my kids this was how DOS extended memory worked

danielpunkass, to random
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Breezy Friday NYT Crossword. 7:06.

gparker,
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@ejalbert @danielpunkass probably sub-14:00 but for a typo. Never mind the puzzle, I'm not sure I could fill the squares with correct length words that fast.

steve, to random
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/reads about a romance author getting locked out of google docs for inappropriate content/

“See, this is American Puritanism run amok.”

/continues reading, gets to the bit where they write “hockey romance”/

“You know what, Google might be right about this.”

gparker,
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@steve Hockey? Must be Canadian instead?

NanoRaptor, to random
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20,000 followers! I would like to thank everyone for helping make this dream come true, I've wanted 20,000 followers on mastodon since I was six years old.

You're all gems.

gparker,
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@NanoRaptor this is 100% true and if you don't believe it she'll produce an image of her first grade homework where she wrote down what she wanted to be when she grew up

mcc, to random
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Just had to complete a game of IRL Sokoban in order to launch Quartus SignalTap. I will not be explaining this post.

gparker,
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@mcc tiled window manager but it's Sokoban

regehr, to random
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an LLVM developer and I weren't seeing eye to eye on a miscompilation, and it turns out the AArch64 backend is doing different codegen when invoked via clang vs invoked via llc 🤯

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/88950

gparker,
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@regehr @resistor @whitequark Try also clang -### … to print the clang -cc1 command generated by the compiler driver.

ai6yr, to Energy
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Basics on Passive and Low-Energy Cooling (from PNNL). https://basc.pnnl.gov/resource-guides/passive-and-low-energy-cooling

gparker,
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@ai6yr "Sensible" as in "can be sensed by a thermometer".

When you remove heat from hot, humid air there are two effects. Some of the energy goes into decreasing the temperature of the air; this is sensible cooling of sensible heat, because it can measured by a thermometer. Some of the energy goes into condensing water vapor; this is latent cooling of latent heat, because the gas to liquid phase change is an energy transfer with no thermometer-sensible difference.

gparker, to random
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My view of the solar eclipse was photobombed by a satellite transit.

© Brant Smith. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

video/mp4

gparker,
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@joat This object (and the one that followed it in train less than a minute later) had faint thin lines extending out to each side, perhaps some sort of booms or edge-on structure.

So yes, obviously aliens, but maybe not the same aliens that you’re thinking of.

gparker,
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@joat I assume the circular silhouette is either a solar array pointed up at the sun (circular deployment is common) or a dish antenna or imaging mirror pointed down at the earth.

gparker,
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@ancientjames @joat Good point, that does seem to be too big or too close to be a satellite. If they’re balloons then they must be moving horizontally across the sky, if I have the orientation correct, and with significant speed.

ai6yr, to random
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Yay! Finally, the vehicle won't start at all... rather than being intermittent. New starter or cables needed, likely. Has been spotty for months, but neither I nor my mechanic had been able to diagnose it since it was so intermittent. Intermittent car problems are worse than car problems.

gparker,
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@ai6yr Manual or automatic? Bad clutch interlock switch got me once.

gparker,
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@ai6yr Currently my kit car starts reliably when it cranks, but sometimes it cranks on the first turn of the key and sometimes you have to turn the key about ten times before it cranks. Intermittent problems are the worst.

drahardja, to retrocomputing
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Face it, you’ll never be this cool.

gparker,
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@drahardja I still have one of those Game Boy cases. It's attached to my cello case to hold accessories: endpin holder, rosin, mute, etc.

foone, to random
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I finally lugged my Highscreen SkyTower AT tower up to my office. This machine is beautiful, even when it's yellowed and dusty and grimy and rusty.

gparker,
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@foone When do you start building a greaseweazle for HDD platters?

NanoRaptor, to random
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Vantabeige.

gparker,
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@NanoRaptor I know you can’t photograph them effectively, but do you have any of the classic vantabeige Macs in your collection?

danielpunkass, to random
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Easy (or some might say, accessible) Friday NYT puzzle today. 7:27.

gparker,
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@danielpunkass Not for me, defeated by two entertainers I'd never heard of and a perfectly reasonable alternate crossing them.

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

Wait is StarCraft just 40K for people who can’t read

gparker,
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@SwiftOnSecurity 40K is StarCraft for people who can’t click fast enough.

ai6yr, to cycling
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Well, that explains a lot. Stripped pedal thread. Pretty sure this was old damage exacerbated by having to use a lot of force to remove 30 year old pedals. Already replaced it with a new one.

gparker,
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@ai6yr Did somebody forget that one of the pedals is reverse-threaded?

ai6yr, to Animal
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Free pet adoptions this weekend January 26th – 28th at all County animal shelter locations in Santa Barbara, Lompoc, and Santa Maria. https://www.edhat.com/news/santa-barbara-county-animal-services-sbcas-releases-2023-annual-report/

gparker,
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@ai6yr is that bunny wearing a guinea pig costume?

gparker, to random
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Downside of the everything is USB-C world: all the wires on my desk look the same now and my devices charge rather poorly from the network cable.

ai6yr, to random
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Googling "removing drywall mud from power outlet"

gparker,
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@ai6yr When I bought my house there was a key hanging on a wall in the garage—and both wall and key had been hastily spray-painted.

ai6yr, to delhi
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Ooopsie, another semi got stuck on the Potrero Grade.

CHP log notice showing "Semi Blocking Roadway"

gparker,
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@ai6yr Down the road from my house a few weeks ago.

GeekAndDad, to random
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Is this the place that blew out? It seems to match the location from the inside pics that show the wing outside the hole, but I’m not sure.

I was wondering about the shape of the hole and this makes it look like an optional door or something that was covered over badly. This looks to match the shape. https://press.coop/@NPR/111710453844540465

gparker,
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@schwa @GeekAndDad It's an optional door in the design. On some configurations of the plane it's an emergency door. On the accident plane it is not a door and the hole is blocked off instead (at the factory, I think).

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