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darryl_ramm

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Nerd.

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mattblaze, to photography
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Track 13 (Watch Your Step), Grand Central Terminal, NYC, 2013.

All the pixels, waiting to commute home, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/10101066135

darryl_ramm,
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@mattblaze Track 13, which might be unlucky for some, unless you are Carlito Brigante, in which case stay away from track 19. Brian De Palma really uses Grand Central Terminal well in that movie climax.

darryl_ramm,
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@mattblaze

Closer to my home... the problems in the car chase in Bullit can be amusing. But for movies as good as these I'm willing to suspend disbelief.

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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The remains of a gorgeous abandoned theater that was hidden for years above the roof of a grocery store built into the lower level

See the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/girard-theatre

darryl_ramm,
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@AbandonedAmerica The juxtaposition of the Meat Department photo 👨‍🍳 😘

https://www.abandonedamerica.us/photo41285472.html

darryl_ramm, to random
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Ah C is so lovely.... Attack of the unsigned variables.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Overheard today someone referring to the cybertruck as an Elon P76 and it just tickled my slightly obscure Australian motoring history gland.

darryl_ramm,
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@NanoRaptor I wonder if a 44 Gallon drum fits in the Cybertruck bed. 🤷‍♂️ My grandfather brought a P76, had pre-ordered it before they were available. I remember him being all excited when it arrived. I do remember how badly built it was. Leyland really did suck.

NanoRaptor, to random
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One of my oldest pics doing the rounds again.

One throwaway pixeljob 25 years ago, and now a substantial part of the population of Australia remembers the edit as the truth of it.

Bit proud of that.

darryl_ramm,
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@NanoRaptor It has Iced in the frigging product name... 🤷‍♂️ 🙂

Damn, I miss many Arnott's biscuits. Tim Tam (original), Royals, Mint Slice, Tina Wafer, even Milk Coffee, and yes Iced VoVos...

darryl_ramm,
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@NanoRaptor Damn I forgot about Venetians. Currently shopping for them on Amazon USA...

Quinnypig, to random
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Either Google Cloud has done something next-level horrifying, or this superannuation company is being highly misleading about their own mistake.

Bets?

https://www.unisuper.com.au/contact-us/outage-update

darryl_ramm,
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@Quinnypig @duncan_bayne

Self-immolation as code.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Apple recommended keeping the Macintosh Horizontal Product’s key switch locked in the On position for user safety.

darryl_ramm,
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@NanoRaptor I'm wondering how well the new one character row OLED display in the upcoming Apple pencil is going to work.

molly0xfff, to web
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Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

darryl_ramm,
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@molly0xfff White male straight garden gnomes everywhere just happy the article is about them...

NanoRaptor, to random
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small inlé-rah has grown into his once-oversized head, and shows off his sleek post-moult coat.

darryl_ramm,
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@NanoRaptor Oh so cute, and getting big!. Maybe it's time to see if Mastodon can handle Vanilla Bean Ripple ice cream 😬

NanoRaptor, to random
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Auspost. Aldi. Coles. Supercheap Auto. Bunnings. Home before midday.

darryl_ramm,
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@NanoRaptor Oh thank you. California resident now craving a Bunnings sausage sizzle. 😢

molly0xfff, to ArtificialIntelligence
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I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/

darryl_ramm,
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@molly0xfff

"Keyword-spam vomit" in this edition got me.

And it turns out image generators don't seem great at realistic looking vomit or printed labels on objects.

Had to help Google ImageFX out with some carrot and pea prompt engineering.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Vanillabean would simply like to be worshipped a little bit today.

darryl_ramm,
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@NanoRaptor Churn* that baby for me. 🙂

*rub forehead in circles.

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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Paintings on the basement wall of the abandoned Pennhurst State School and Hospital, an residential center for children and adults with physical or developmental disabilities. Pennhurst had a particularly bad reputation due to its overcrowding and reports of abuse and neglect.

More on Pennhurst at https://www.abandonedamerica.us/pennhurst-state-school-and-hospital

A painting of Bugs Bunny on a light green wall. The upper half of his head has peeled off. He is holding a carrot and smiling.
A board hung on a light green wall, on which Sesame Street characters are painted. From left to right, Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, Telly (maybe? I don't know?), and Oscar the Grouch. The representation is not bad but overall seems a bit off. Oscar is holding a hammer up and glaring at the others in a way that seems menacing.

darryl_ramm,
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@AbandonedAmerica Jeez I'm going to have nightmares about Big Bird.

darryl_ramm,
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@AbandonedAmerica Ha, thanks for that levity. 🙂 I think I am distressed like you are by the images of some of these psychiatric institutions and hospitals. Sad to think how bad some of them were for the patients. While some of these images are haunting it is fantastic you are sharing them, reminding us of that past.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Lieberman died.
You should not speak ill of the d…

Bullshit, he’s the reason we don’t have public health insurance.

darryl_ramm,
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@thomasfuchs Yep, fuck that weasel.

ismh, to random
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I finally got around to writing about my favorite concept that came out of Apple in the 80s. https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept/

darryl_ramm,
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@ismh Jon Fitch did manage to tweak Steve Jobs a little... https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB892507589126559000

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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The remains of an orange sectional sofa in the abandoned WFBR radio station in Baltimore. WFBR, which stood for World's First Broadcasting Regiment, was Baltimore's first broadcast radio station. WFBR helped launch the career of Robin Quivers, who was a consumer reporter on DJ Johnny Walker's show.

See the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/wfbr-radio

darryl_ramm,
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@AbandonedAmerica What is it with Baltimore and orange sofas? 🤔

darryl_ramm,
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@AbandonedAmerica

carnage4life, to random
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Stellantis, Chrysler’s parent company, laid off 400 employees by telling them there was a mandatory remote work day and then laid them off during the Zoom call.

I guess that’s one trick that only works once.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stellantis-uses-mandatory-remote-day-225053112.html

darryl_ramm,
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@carnage4life Could have been worse, they could have used WebEx. 🤷‍♂️

danderson, to random
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"Your pixel just got more helpful"

Highly doubt that, system update notification. Moving shit around and bolting "AI" into things that don't need any isn't a helpful thing.

darryl_ramm,
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@danderson

Google thoughts: "You just got more targetable".

stshank, (edited ) to california
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By-the-wind sailors, Latin name Velella velellas, spotted out on Monterey Bay but thousands of these are blowing onto Bay Area beaches now. They're related to jellies but not actually jellies.

darryl_ramm,
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@stshank In Australia we have blue bottle/Portuguese man-o-war type. Nasty sting, because, well... Australia. But not as deadly as a box jellyfish (because yes, also Australia).

NanoRaptor, to random
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The modern office, 1983.

darryl_ramm,
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@NanoRaptor Bob was found dead in his corner cubicle in November 1983, killed by coworkers because he had the loudest dot matrix printer.

mattblaze, to random
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Had dinner with a group of highly accomplished people in a field I know little about who mostly talked shop. That sounds like poor etiquette, but I love listening to experts talk shop, especially when they tolerate my occasional dumb questions.

darryl_ramm,
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@robpike @mattblaze As long as it's not a poker table.

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