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attilakinali

@attilakinali@society.oftrolls.com

Expert on chocolate consumption

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What's with the obsession of USians to measure thicknesses in ounces?

I can kind of understand measuring copper thickness of a PCB in oz/ft^2, as that is easier to measure than actual thickness in the ยตm range. Especially if you don't care about the thickness being even.

But who the f*** came up with the idea of measuring leather thickness in oz? What thickness is an 5oz leather? And does that change with each leather type or do you just pretend it's some ideal animal hide of known density?

attilakinali,
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The only measure more ridiculous than this, that I know of, is measuring nails in pence. Yes, the price that nails had somewhen in the 18th century is the way how nail thickness and length are measured. Today. In the 21th century.

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mansr, to random
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Could it be that people no longer know how to craft good search queries?

attilakinali,
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@mansr Did they ever know?

20 years ago, I showed engineering students how to use google to find stuff in minutes after they told me that they have been looking for days and found nothing.

Today, we have way more non-technical people online. And these have way less of an understanding of how computers work and interpret search strings. It's no wonder that people are even less able to google for stuff than they were 20 years ago.

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People keep complaining that it's harder to find things online now than 20 years ago. Do any of them stop to think about how much harder it is to make a search engine now than 20 years ago? Unlikely.

attilakinali,
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@mansr It is harder to find things? I remember the good old days of altavista, of having to wade through dozens of pages of unrelated search results to find that one link I was looking for.

Yeah, search engines have gotten more in-your-face with sponsored results, there is more SEO that obfuscates what we are actually looking for, but overall, we get far more and more relevant results than we ever did.

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New ebay score!

No idea what condition it's in, need to find or make a breakout for it.

Anybody know of a readily available commercial or OSH breakout before I design one of my own?

attilakinali,
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@k5em
Prices vary quite wildly on the used market. Anything below 200$ is ok, IMHO. Below 100$ is a good price.

I don't know what the SA.22 costs new, but similar Rb standards are usually in the 2000$ range for single piece.

@azonenberg

attilakinali,
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@azonenberg Congrats! The SA.22 is a nice Rb standard. The tiny header-socket at the bottom is a bit of a unfortunate design choice, but otherwise it's quite solid. If you need manuals, let me know.

BTW: there are breakout boards floating around ebay from time to time... though making one yourself is probably quicker.

attilakinali,
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@azonenberg @k5em You can be sure that the seller didn't test either.

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A few weeks back I encountered a FOSS guy here explaining that when he sees open source devs ask for money, he blocks them and then stops using their code because they're morally wrong and he only wants to work with tools made by people who are doing the work for the right reasons. (I'm paraphrasing to avoid indexing the post.)

I've resisted writing about it because I'm slammed, but the question I can't shake is: Who benefits from the ideology of "pure" volunteerism?

attilakinali,
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@kissane As someone who spent over a decade write OSS, one that millions of people use every day, I can wholeheartedly say: f*ck this guy. We had so many bright and productive people who had to leave projects because they needed to put food on the table and after a long workday had no energy left to keep on coding for other people.

OSS has an idealistic aspect, but at the end of the day, everyone has bills to pay. They can either do that working on OSS or on commercial software.

attilakinali, to random
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Today in : The nib of an Pilot 823 really close up.

attilakinali, to random
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Dear Fediverse,

I am currently at a place with very German internet and a Berlin firewall. Ie everything but ports 80 and 443 are block

This means I can ssh home as I have an ssh server running on port 443, but I cannot run wireguard, as that runs on a different port.

I remember once reading somewhere that on can run ssh and wireguard on the same port and some multiplexing thingy would disentangle the two. But my google foo is too weak to find anything

Does someone remember how to do that?

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Today in: "This shouldn't look like this"

attilakinali, to random
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Reasons why I love physical books over pdfs: I can clearly remember what a book looked like, even if I can't remember its title. Hence finding it is just a quite browsing of the shelves.

A pdf is just a filename. It has no color, no texture, no smell. (ok, the last one is a good thing). So finding a specific pdf depends solely on remembering its title, or bits of it. Which of the 28'000 pdfs in the 7000 directories is the one I'm looking for?

This toot has been brought to you by a 3h search.

attilakinali, to random
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TIL: Until 1971, he UK used imperial units for their money as well, because, obviously, it makes sense that 12 pennies are a shilling and 20 shillings are a pound.

(Most of Europe went "metric" with their money somewhen in late middle ages / early renaissance, at latest during Napoleon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=045Pm78sPkQ

attilakinali, to science
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and

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When it isn't yet

attilakinali, to random
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I sound like a doomsayer, but I am more and more convinced that the German economy is doomed. Not because Germans aren't good engineers (they are not), not because they aren't hard working (they are not), not because the whole country's infrastructure is as rotten as a third world country's (it absolutely is) but because the bureaucracy is designed to kill the economy. Any form of innovation is killed by those who pretend to support innovation. All while they pat themselves on their shoulders.

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attilakinali, to random
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Today in the office:

Oscillators and cookies.

attilakinali, to random
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Did you just say ?

attilakinali, to random
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When your cat is melting

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Early

attilakinali, to random
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Finally, I'm happy with the sheen I get from this wonderful ink.

Just needed to get the right fountain pen (only really available in Japan) and the right paper (only really available in Japan) to get the desired effect. ๐Ÿ˜…

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Dear Lazyweb,

On Linux (or SysV in general) is there a way to determine roughly how much time has passed without going through the kernel?

I.e. I am running a lengthy process and want to update the GUI every 100-500ms. Each step is usually quite small (0.01-1ms), but occasionally there is one that can take several seconds. So I have to check the time at every step to determine whether an update should be done or not. But calling into the kernel is rather inefficient and time consuming.

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When the Universal Outlet isn't

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Never leave till tomorrow that chocolate which you can eat today.

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