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gvwilson, 3 months ago to random

Looking for a word to use in contrast to "exascale" to mean "the laptop-sized computing that is all 99.9% of researchers need". Thought about "human-scale" but that doesn't have enough zing. Suggestions?

mattblaze, 2 months ago to random

Especially if this will be your first total eclipse, my advice is to go light on cameras and optics and focus on just experiencing the event. There’s a lot more to see and feel during totality than just the occlusion of the sun.

I’m planning on bringing a tripod (it gets dark!) and wide angle lens to capture the overall environment. But I’m leaving the “portable solar observatory” stuff to the astronomers.

organicmaps, 3 months ago to random

If you missed it, the February 2024 Organic Maps update is already available in Google Play, Huawei AppGallery, and AppStore.

Thanks to our contributors ❤️, there is a big list of changes!

Please read the detailed changelog on our website: https://organicmaps.app/news/2024-02-14/february-2024-organic-maps-update-is-already-available-in-google-play-huawei-appgallery-and-appstore/

Paphos
Washington, D.C.

ebel, 3 months ago to random

hmmm, looking into a way to split a password so X of Y people can reconstruct it in an emergency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing

flameeyes, 4 months ago to random

No, I Don’t Miss Google Reader

I don't miss Google Reader. Let me say that out loud, and explain why I don't feel the nostalgia that so many seem to find.

https://flameeyes.blog/2024/02/11/no-i-dont-miss-google-reader/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon

alanz, 7 months ago to random

So I took my periodic look at nostr again today, and although it is still chock-full of coiners, I was able to carve out a space where I avoided most of them. Choose your own community :).

FWIW I am npub122x04uqxrwtglxslxlcplkhkrepanp2drwp7ltsdjugnsdvfw58sc8l5l9

nil, 4 months ago to Lisp

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alanz, 11 months ago to random

There is a special place in hell for people that deploy sites that a) don't let you paste your password and b) only tell you the requirements when you press submit (clearing the entry in the process)

alanz, 1 month ago to random

Unpopular opinion: I really dislike the UI style of the magit pane, which is taking over for everything. It gives no feedback on location, the evil bindings don't work well, and it uses a different paradigm from the rest of emacs.

rabble, 2 months ago to random

I just had a comment removed from instagram for violating their community standards. Apparently they think I’m spamming for mentioning Unicode I guess. Honestly I’m not sure. It was in response to a instagram rule asking why the kiwi bird isn’t an emoji.

I posted it once, and to a instagram post from someone I’m following. I don’t think I’ve made a comment about Unicode or emojis on instagram before.

This is crazy.

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alanz, 3 months ago to random

Thanks to the @SocialCoop people dealing with the current spam onslaught.

I know one is happening based on what people are saying, but have not yet seen any here.

alanz, 4 months ago to random

I just listened to

Developer Voices: How Lisp is designing Nanotechnology (with Prof. Christian Schafmeister)

Episode webpage: http://www.developervoices.com

I love the concept of choosing common lisp as a "forever language" because things like Python change too fast and code rots.

alanz, 9 months ago to random

emacs 29.1 just landed on my Debian testing laptop. Time to kick the tyres.

alanz, 9 months ago to random

I am on some Mozilla email list that periodically sends news. I generally skim the mail but do not click anything.

They are now telling me I am scheduled to be removed, with a mail titled "Are you there".

So much for the anti-tracking company.

alanz, 5 months ago to random

@gwil
Congratulations on publishing the Willow Protocol. I look forward to a thousand gardens blooming.

https://willowprotocol.org/

enkiv2, 2 months ago to random

when movies were shot on film, screwing up light levels would make your footage utterly unusable (and you'd still be out the cost of the film and the cost of developing the film), so even very low budget movies would have absolute experts doing camera and lighting, so you got a lot of beautiful trash

frescosecco, 3 months ago to programming

Can the principles of moldable development be applied to Erlang? What would that look like? What is already there (good tooling for system insight, for instance)?
#MoldableDevelopment #Erlang

alanz, 10 months ago to random

@jbond

Here is one

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alanz, 2 months ago to random

I really like head.hackage. It means I can start on the GHC 9.10.1 ghc-exactprint update immediately, without having to wait for libraries to catch up.

alanz, 1 month ago to random

Hmm, I am shocked that the official mastodon UI doesn't prompt for alt text on images. Fedilab always does, I was expecting a step to do it.

alanz, 2 months ago to random

Things I hate about Google Maps. Parks simply don't exist.

Compare gmaps Vs organic maps

Map of the same urban area in organic maps showing a park, including the walking paths in it

alanz, 2 months ago to random

As I contemplate working the CPP hack tokens into the GHC ParsedSource for ghc-exactprint, I am once more motivated to go back to my GHC_CPP proposal. And implement it.