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railmeat

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Software Epistemologist, aspiring star traveler, perpetual beginner. Wallowing in accidental complexity. Stumbling towards recovery. Twitter says I am a midwit.

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lauren, to twitter
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Elon says he also plans to get rid of the brand entirely. It's difficult to imagine a more ham-fisted move, but he's a master at them.

railmeat,
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@lauren
Please don’t challenge him, we don’t know what he is really capable of.

paul, to random
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$80 for a full speed bus powered Thunderbolt enclosure is the lowest price I've seen. No experience with this brand but they're probably all using the same design and for sure the same Intel chipset. Worth a shot I think.

https://www.amazon.com/ANYOYO-40Gbps-Enclosure-Aluminum-Compatible/dp/B0BP9B9T9K

railmeat,
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@paul
I just followed the link and it was $99. I wonder if I am in bucket, or if the price went up?

zachleat, to random
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I have four invites to make your own web site, if anyone wants one.

railmeat,
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@zachleat
I heard those were hard to get. There is no one ask for permission.

chrisg, to random
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[...] a massively decentralized Internet, consisting of a huge number of small communities, requires database management systems that are built from the ground up for the purpose.

The systems available today are built to support massive, centralized, owned datasets, at immense complexity and cost, with intentions that go against the principles of a free and open Internet.

railmeat,
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@aral
Why couldn’t you use SQLite? It seems to be a simple, free, reliable database.

@chrisg @mike805 @laura

railmeat,
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@aral
Aral, I think your goal is great. I have been following you and Laura for a while.

I usually prefer software that is already in production. Writing or re-writing everything yourself is a lot of work and create an ongoing maintenance burden.

@chrisg @mike805 @laura

evacide, to random
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Pour one out for the dozen remaining Twitter engineers, chained to their H1-B visas, forced to spend their 4-day weekend implementing and then correcting for all of Elon's dumbest ideas.

railmeat,
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@evacide
Fixing Elon's dumb Twitter ideas is reliable lifetime employment. A steady job, if you can stand it.

seachanger, to random
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you guys ever think about all the things we don’t know about the universe

railmeat,
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@seachanger
I think about things we don’t know, but it is hard to know what we don’t know.

danielpunkass, to random
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There's a tab-separated-values data file from the World Cubing Association that shows all the scrambles for all the competitions ever conducted. It's 1.6M lines long (200MB). Today I learned that Numbers.app tables can only be 1M rows or less. BBEdit opened the file fine, though...

railmeat,
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@danielpunkass
I have never heard of the World Cubing Association, but anyone who uses tab-separated-values is fine by me!

oliphant, to random

Like have none of you been on Facebook lately, because go look.

railmeat,
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@oliphant
Ignorance is bliss.

trabern, to random
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    railmeat,
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    @trabern
    The Coast Guard did list interference from large sea mammals as a possible source of problems.

    doctormo, to random

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    railmeat,
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    @doctormo Sounds just about like the actual debates to me. Maybe that's why I don't listen to them.

    aral, to fediverse
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    Some fediverse instance admins: “How cool, Meta invited us to the adult table.”

    Yes, they did.

    Because you’re what’s for dinner.

    railmeat,
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    @aral
    Some people will do anything for attention from the aristocracy.

    fraying, to random
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    I'm so in love with our clover cover crop this year. It fixes nitrogen, shades the soil, chokes out weeds, helps retain moisture, smells delicious, feeds the bees, and just looks right purdy.

    railmeat,
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    @fraying
    I worked in a factory that made biodegradable plastic. It was plastic that had a lot of corn starch in it. That would make it fall apart pretty quickly. It was popular with farmers as a ground cover or for tunnels. They did not have the labor of removing it. It just made a big mess.

    It was still plastic, so it polluted in the same way. It eventually broke up into pieces that were to small to see. Less pollution, but still pollution.

    railmeat, to random
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    This site might be helpful f you are looking for alternatives to reddit:
    https://redditmigration.com/

    evan, to random
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    Who's the epic Python hacker who's going to fork the Jaiku codebase and put it on the Fediverse?

    https://code.google.com/archive/p/jaikuengine/

    railmeat,
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    @evan
    Never heard of it. Was it ever used? What’s good about it?

    mattblaze, to photography
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    Red Rock Canyon, NV. 2011.

    More pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/5766414314/

    Note: Not a 16:9 image, so you may need to click on the preview to see the whole thing.

    railmeat,
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    @mattblaze
    That looks like a tree that has had a hard life.

    simon, to random
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    OK, who can recommend a domain name registrar that:

    • Is boring and dependable and has a rock solid track record
    • Has a really good UI, including on mobile
    • Supports as many TLDs as possible
    • Isn't likely to get acquired by someone else
    • Ideally supports multiple payment methods as insurance against accidental card expiry

    I'd settled on Google Domains... but they just sold themselves to Squarespace! https://9to5google.com/2023/06/15/google-domains-squarespace/

    railmeat,
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    @simon

    I would like to know that too. I have a few domains with Google. I also use Namecheap and porkbun. They seem to work. I don't really know who will last and be reliable.

    coreyspowell, to science
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    Humans have pumped so much groundwater that we have measurably shifted Earth's axis.

    It's the kind of news that's not shocking and yet is totally shocking at the same time.

    https://news.agu.org/press-release/weve-pumped-so-much-groundwater-that-weve-nudged-the-earths-spin

    railmeat,
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    @coreyspowell
    We are powerful.

    We don’t know our own strength. Good thing we are starting to learn.

    mattblaze, to random
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    One thing that strikes me about the Trump documents case is that it's almost entirely a sequence of unforced errors that yielded almost no obvious benefit to him. It's just narcissistic recklessness, lies, doubling down, obstruction, conspiracy, rinse and repeat.

    He could have simply returned the documents he knew about and cooperated in the recovery of the others. But he can't help himself.

    railmeat,
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    @lauren @mattblaze
    They continue to fail the same intelligence test.

    paul, to random
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    Where did that Reddit AMA go?

    Bill Hader Popcorn GIF by Saturday Night Live

    railmeat,
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    @paul
    I don’t really get the thinking. Doesn’t Reddit just distribute content other people give them? What am I missing?

    I don’t see how this can be a for profit business at all.

    shantini, to random
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    Love living through the climate apocalypse

    railmeat,
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    @shantini
    May you live in interesting times. No, sorry the opposite, may you live in boring times.

    Well I don't know, we don't really get much choice in that. We can just try to leave things better than we found it.

    nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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    Who here remembers this one? linux and Unix got a few options tho https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/linux-based-disk-cloning-imaging-software/

    railmeat,
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    @nixCraft
    I used it to setup a QA lab before it was Norton.

    aral, to random
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    Just updated Fedora Silverblue before the trip to Paris. There’s something about literally running today’s operating system* that never gets old.

    • version 38.20230524.0

    railmeat,
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    @aral
    I don’t understand Silverblue.

    stevesilberman, to random
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    Texas is torturing women whose pregnancies fail. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/opinion/abortion-law-texas-lawsuit.html

    railmeat,
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    @stevesilberman
    Those states are exploring new frontiers in performative cruelty.

    timbray, (edited ) to random
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    Mac Dock:

    railmeat,
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    @timbray
    Left. Why do you ask?

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