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kboyd

@kboyd@phpc.social

Software Developer, Photographer, Sailing Enthusiast.

I talk about #photography, #sailing, #ebikes, reading, writing, watching TV, cooking, politics, climate, EVs, more sailing, programming, the open and sustainable web, php, sailing again, and more. Ask me about sailing co-operatives. (he/him)

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mcc, to random
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The problem with udm14* is that Google Calculator is legitimately one of my favorite pieces of software (the natural language unit conversion is so good), and I expect udm14 is going to kill Google Calculator because that's the point

Maybe I should just make my own js calculator with builtin unit conversion.

  • See https://mastodon.online/ ; it's great, although since similar "give me the old version" flags on YouTube have sometimes stopped working without warning, I wonder how long it will last
ravindra,
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@mcc it turns out that the Star Trek computer's most valuable and technologically complicated responses are "Unknown." and "Unable to comply."

jake4480, to microsoft
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With the impending doom of ICQ in June and the new crappy version of Teams coming in July, I would like to post this meme one final time

#ICQ #Teams #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams

theluddite, to random
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The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

TheNeedling, to random
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You can read more about this 2022 study here: https://theneedling.com/2022/03/06/geologists-mount-rainier-will-not-erupt-during-your-lifetime-with-possible-exception-of-very-end/

raganwald, to random
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Those who describe moving all of an automobile’s controls behind a touch screen as “minimalist design,” don’t understand either word.

jackdaw_ruiz, to random
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periodic reminder the Oregon Zoo has a beaver named Filbert that the let carry sticks and shit through the offices and they post videos calling him "the branch manager."

grmpyprogrammer, to random
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Given how my head feels I understand why people started trying out trepanning

benroyce, to ai
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this is not #AI

this is not a scene from a movie

this is simply a one in a billion video shot at the right time at the right angle by a teenager in #portugal a few days ago, may 18/ 19

fucking amazing! positively biblical

#space #meteor

experts say it was a #comet fragment, a few feet wide

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/blue-meteor-falls-through-the-sky-over-spain-and-portugal/news-story/7bd39d794d6a5e79feade5723e4d4787

amazing meteor video

BrentToderian, to Vienna
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This Vienna street isn’t “closed” because cars have been removed. It has successfully been “opened” to everything else, to a diverse and invigorated civic life, because cars have been replaced by a multitude of wonderful things.

Language matters.

HT @dmoser for pic
#urbanism #OpenStreets #Vienna

luckytran, to random
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A new gold standard review of 100 studies finds:

  • masks are effective in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases

  • N95 respirators are significantly more effective than medical or cloth masks

  • mask mandates are effective in reducing community transmission

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

gvy_dvpont, to random
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We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME

(warning: probably loud)

Before shot: egg cooker finishing an egg before modification. Jarring alarm goes off, I say "fuck!" After shot: egg cooker finishes. A few moments later, a small mechanical music box next to the cooker starts playing Pachelbel's Canon

reconbot,
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@MLE_online @timonsku SEVERE EGG WARNING WE ARE HARD BOILED THIS IS NOT A DILL

VileLasagna, to random
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Honestly, it's hard to overstate the power and seeming rarity of "this is shit on accident, and not on purpose" these days

Just not being actively malicious is becoming so increasingly rare. Even more trying to find things which are being worked on to make them LESS shit instead of more

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ifixcoinops@retro.social/112481957995522322

golgaloth, to CrystalsHashtags
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Someone reminded me it's time to post some alternatives to Adobe software:

gamolf_dev,
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@golgaloth Hi. The list has evolved in text format for those who prefer not using an OCR to understand this great picture : https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives

ramsey, to php
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This is a pretty cool package, if you use with and . https://github.com/ajgarlag/AjglBreakpointTwigExtension

mhoye, to random
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I linked to this earlier, but this is genuinely great: a new ways counting enormous quantities of data that will give you something statistically likely to be very close to the correct answer for potentially a vanishing fraction of the computation cost of the deterministically correct answer: https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

mhoye, to random
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There is an expression that I find useful far too often, that you do not let the camel's nose into the tent if you do not want the camel's ass in the tent.

RustyBertrand, to random
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Trēowþ

Viss, to random
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they put ai ...
into the ssh terminal.

aburka,
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@Viss can't believe we spent DECADES telling people not to copy/paste sudo rm -rf * from forums and these chucklefucks put a goddamn "run commands automatically" checkbox on their random command generator

mhoye, to random
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"There's an apocryphal story about asking a bank robber why he robbed banks and his answer was, 'because that's where all the money is'. Anyway, I study anxiety in software developers."

mhoye, to random
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I have work to do today, which my inner monologue is definitely helping by producing sentences like "do you think dogs know that barking is one syllable so it's like a cheat code for making haikus".

jclermont, to php
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Ever run into a timeout from a Composer script in CI? Test coverage reports are a super common example for me.

Here's how to prevent that, along with a gotcha if you're calling scripts within scripts. #php #laravel https://masteringlaravel.io/daily/2024-05-21-disabling-composer-timeout-with-nested-scripts

kboyd, to random
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How does one back up a folder from icloud drive? A simple copy doesn't seem to be simple at all.

yaypie,
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@kboyd I use Arq. It has an option to ensure that any “dataless” files are materialized before being backed up.

bigzaphod, to random
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Tonight's movie night movie will be, "The Core (2003)." None of us have seen this one before, but it fits right in with our "turn of the century disaster movie" kick that we've been on. Can't wait to see how deep the plot goes!

(Yes, I said "turn of the century." It's technically true! No, I don't like this fact either!)

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