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kechpaja

@kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com

Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music

Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial.

I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username.

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BradRubenstein, to languagelovers

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    kechpaja,
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    @BradRubenstein @languagelovers @linguistics This is one of the things I still haven't fully figured out in Finnish. My ability to communicate has grown immensely and continues to grow, but I still sometimes find myself unable to grab the conversational turn without doing something rude.

    kechpaja,
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    @BradRubenstein @languagelovers @linguistics I'm not familiar with ASL norms at all, but I'm going to assume that that's a bit like slapping your hand over someone's mouth to get them to shut up.

    Thankfully for me, it's mostly just a matter of feeling like I'm interrupting. I can't say if I actually am, though (if I could I wouldn't have the problem, at least not as much).

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    Obviously.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    kechpaja,
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    @lowqualityfacts That is actually consistent with what the song tells us, if you think about it: "a chicken when it's pippin', it has no bone!"

    futurebird, to random
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    It's really interesting to me how these magic anti-radiation stickers, look a little like a wireless charging coil... And are even placed like one on a phone... using a real technology to add realism to the fake. They also look like the maze of the Minotaur. (I have a thing for things that blend old and new graphic forms like this... and I'm fascinated by scam products. )

    I guess the radiation gets lost in the maze.

    kechpaja,
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    @futurebird Now you know why so many people like the idea of running off into the woods. They can't manipulate you if they can't find you.

    (Of course, deliberately stoking those concerns is something a scammer might do, to get the people who might see through scams to remove themselves from greater society.)

    markmccaughrean, to Astronomy
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    Morning.

    Here it is, several thousand years in the making: the protostellar jet HH212 as seen in the infrared by .

    We discovered this jet in 1993, glowing in the light of shocked molecular hydrogen at 2.12 microns, as gas emerges symmetrically at about 100 km/s from the two poles of a young protostar not far from the Horsehead Nebula in Orion.

    Our new JWST image spans six wavelengths & is ten times sharper than any previous infrared image.

    1/

    kechpaja,
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    @markmccaughrean That looks way more like a Klingon Bird of Prey than it has any right to.

    (That, or an electric guitar. Did SPG's Space Giant leave his guitar made out of the cosmos lying around?)

    nixCraft, to random
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    the hardest pill to swallow is that frontend is actually harder than backend

    kechpaja,
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    @nixCraft Frontend is harder than backend because, for some reason, we've decided to treat the browser as if it were an operating system. Not just a frontend, not a framework like Qt, and not even a window manager — no, those things you have to reimplement entirely from scratch. React and similar frameworks get you part of the way, true, but you still end up re-doing so many things that should be completely solved problems by now.

    Grr, rant over.

    evan, (edited ) to random
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    How many Raspberry Pis are in your home right now?

    kechpaja,
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    @evan One, but I haven't gotten around to setting it up for anything yet (it's been sitting on a shelf for multiple years, since before covid at least). At this point, I might just get a newer one if/when I have an appropriate project.

    kechpaja, to climate
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    There was (and possibly still is?) an orange juice shortage in Finland. Has there been an orange juice shortage anywhere else?

    I'm not sure I've seen any discussion of this in English.

    kechpaja,
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    @PTM Hmm, that makes sense given how global everything is (and it's not like we're growing oranges here).

    There were oranges (the whole fruit) in the store the last time I was there, but I didn't look for juice. I'll try and remember to check that shelf the next time I'm grocery shopping.

    RollingStone, to random

    Surprising absolutely no one, Elon Musk has confirmed that the social media platform formerly known as Twitter and now known as X is now worth less than half of the $44 billion he paid for it last year. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-value-twitter-19-billion-1234866167/

    kechpaja,
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    @RollingStone And if we all do our best at getting people to leave, we can deal with the other half in even less time!

    kechpaja, to random
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    "So how do you feel about George Bush Jr. now, 15 years later?"

    "Well, I've started writing dubya as dubia..."

    (@futurebird)

    futurebird, to random
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    Via tumblr(https://www.tumblr.com/senysti/732515185868308480?source=share)

    kechpaja,
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    @futurebird Isn't that a bit like how fallen enemies drop loot in video games?

    (Does that make all video game protagonists scavengers?)

    futurebird, to random
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    I remember when I was a kid doing stage crew I spent an embarrassing amount of time thinking & planning what music I’d play when it was my big chance to select a song on the paint splattered shop tape player. I’d preplay the songs while jogging all week whittling it down to a short list which I’d carefully cue up the night before. (The shop master didn’t tolerate fast forwarding.) I’d always have a few options ready— in case someone wanted to hear another from the same composer. (they never did)

    kechpaja,
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    @futurebird What's wrong with classical music? What did Mozart ever do to anyone?

    Alon, to random
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    The IDF ground assault may be starting.

    Meanwhile, Haaretz reports that Qatar told the US it's willing to consider kicking out Hamas leaders from its territory.

    kechpaja,
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    @Alon What about kicking them straight into the Hague?

    foxandcity, to random
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    So, doing some work on @eta_ny's upcoming commuter rail modernization report (join us next week for the launch!) and I got an idea.

    It turns out, AI image generation was not quite up to the task.

    image/jpeg

    kechpaja,
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    @Alon @foxandcity @eta_ny And Nhshinknokton sounds just like something a non-East Coaster would come up with to make fun of East Coast placenames.

    (I may have to steal that for a conlang at some point, actually.)

    kechpaja, to random
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    "Have you joined Bluesky?"

    "Dude, I live in Finland, and it's fall going into winter. The sky hasn't been blue in weeks, and it's not going to be blue again for longer than I care to think about right now. If there's ever a Greysky, I might consider it, but for now I think I'll just stick with Mastodon."

    jsq, to random
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    kechpaja,
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    @jsq I've said this numerous times before, but: every time I consider getting a "real" password manager, I keep running into reasons — like this — to just stick with the plain old encrypted file I've been using.

    kechpaja, to random
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    Is it just me, or is LinkedIn just awful these days? Not even the content, but the site itself — slow and unresponsive, combined with a general sense of brittleness and glitchiness.

    sjvn, to random
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    Yes, please.

    kechpaja,
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    @sjvn I've never actually seen these in the real world, but a coworker once mentioned having seen (or knowing about) a deck of "cost cards" that you could use at a meeting to estimate the cost (usually in days of developer time) of each new feature — to discourage bias, each employee would be asked to estimate the cost of the feature silently, and then everyone would put down the card with their guess (1 day, .5 days, 1.5 days, etc) at the same time. Apparently, these decks usually also included a "coffee card", and if everyone put that down at once, you were supposed to take a coffee break.

    liztai, to books
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    Am at Kinokuniya KLCC. I have only one ask of my brain.

    DO NOT BUY BOOKS

    kechpaja,
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    @liztai What's wrong with buying books?

    kechpaja,
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    @Loukas @liztai Books are for being going to read.

    futurebird, to random
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    Ants are the strange members of the hymenopterans. What defines a "bee" or a "wasp" ?

    Flying! Stinging! Ovipositing! Bright warning colors!

    Ants looked at the main advantages of being hymenopteran and said... nah. I guess stinging is OK... (Though most ants don't sting.) ... but most of this is nothing compared to going eusocial.

    Personally I think eusociality is such a huge advantage this makes sense.

    But then why aren't the bees who do both more successful? Are they too specialized?

    kechpaja,
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    @futurebird @michaelgemar @davidr

    > Electronics repair

    Are we sure that uplifting ants to the level of intelligence needed for this would be a good idea? That might end badly.

    computersandblues, to random
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    eu: usb-c should be the universal charger for electronic devices, no matter the manufacturer.

    people: nice.

    eu: you should also get replacement parts for your devices for a long time and at a reasonable cost.

    people: cool! keep 'em coming!

    eu: and we want to scan all of your private messages.

    people:

    kechpaja,
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    @computersandblues I still hold out hope that we'll manage to kill chat control. But it definitely can't be ignored.

    kechpaja, to climate
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    I guess what scares me most about is how enthusiastic some people are about accepting the end of the world, rather than trying to do something about it.

    How did we overcome this defeatism in past crises? Did we, or were there just enough people willing to do something to ensure that something got done?

    wonderofscience, to random
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    Timelapse of a sea cucumber feeding. Sea cucumbers feed using "oral tentacles", appendages arrayed around their mouths to capture plankton and other particles from the water.

    Video credit: BBC/Blue Planet II
    Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09gl670/blue-planet-ii-series-1-5-green-seas
    Further reading: https://nerdist.com/article/sea-cucumbers-eating-looks-like-an-alien-weird-ocean-creatures/

    video/mp4

    kechpaja,
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    @wonderofscience When you try to hard-boil an egg that has a crack in it.

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