ratkins

ratkins, 8 hours ago to random

Fucking ouch

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-90s-rock-band-says-about-the-type-of-bored-suburban-dad-you-are-today

alper, 10 hours ago to random

Trying to give stuff away for free on Kleinanzeigen is such a nightmare.

I’m going to set a €5 base price just to get rid of the flakiest people on the planet.

finestructure, 1 day ago to swift

“With the increased limit of the acceptance queue, and a patched version of wrk, we can now conclude that swift is a good competitor speed-wise as a web application server.

Memory wise it blows all the other technologies away, using only 2.5% of the amount of memory that the java implementation needs, and 10% of node-js.”

https://tech.phlux.us/Juice-Sucking-Servers-Part-Trois/

#swift #swiftlang

ratkins, 18 hours ago to random

Related, there’s a local courier company here in Berlin called “Kangaroo Transport”, I see their vans on my morning bike rides.

They didn’t really think that one through…
https://glasgow.social/@Nachtflug/112501036513826337

eieio, 4 days ago to gamedev

prototyping 'webcam pacman.' Chomp to move, look to turn

#gamedev #indiedev

'pacman' played via webcam. The user's webcam is visible but transparent in the background; on top of it is a yellow circle that contains the user's face. As the user opens their mouth, the yellow circle's mouth opens as pacman's does. The circle's orientation changes based on the direction of the user's face. The circle moves in the direction it's facing as the user closes and opens their mouth.

whitequark, 2 days ago to random

thermostat controlling the boiler for heating here over RF: broke a week or two ago

flipper zero that i've been using to manually enable the boiler instead: also broke somehow

me: freezing to hell and beyond due to it being 5°C outside and not having anything warm

my headmate: spends four hours putting together this incredibly normal setup using her beaglebone and a radio carrier module she designed a year ago. she even got the RF modulation parameters right on the first try, wtf

cstross, 2 days ago to random

Dinosaurs, being closely related to birds, were almost certainly cloacal (soft tissues don't fossilize well) and used the ZW sex-determinant chromosome system, not XY.

Someone needs to tell the incels that T. Rex was 100% into teh buttsex and didn't have a cock.
https://beige.party/@Lana/112497133538964868

esthermenhard, 2 days ago to random German

Einfach per Webcam den Personalausweis präsentieren – das #Videoident-Verfahren soll Zeit sparen, lässt sich aber austricksen, wie der #ccc 2022 demonstrierte. In Wiesbaden kann man seit einem halben Jahr per Videoident den neuen Wohnsitz an- und ummelden. Fachleute warnen vor den Gefahren. @netzpolitik_feed
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/wiesbaden-und-koeln-bedenkliches-videoident-verfahren-soll-gang-aufs-amt-sparen/

jacqueline, 2 days ago to random

finally someone has nailed it!!! https://www.crowdsupply.com/sitron-labs/solder-ninja-pen

glyph, 4 days ago to random

New Blog: A Grand Unified Theory of the AI Hype Cycle https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/grand-unified-ai-hype.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Edent, 2 days ago to random

How do so many people still have DECT phones for #EMFcamp?

I've searched through all my junk drawers, in the loft, and in the Big Crates Of Useful Things - but I can only find old GSM phones.

I don't even think I have anything with a BS 6312 431A plug 😮‍💨

Edent, 3 days ago to politics

🆕 blog! “Gell-Mann Amnesia and Purdah”

This is a retropost. Written contemporaneously, but published long after the events. At the time, I was a Civil Servant in Cabinet Office. Now I am not. But as we're heading for another General Election, I thought I'd share this post. It's the evening of the 2019 General Election. I am plagued by two thoughts. […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/gell-mann-amnesia-and-purdah/
⸻
#election #GE2024 #politics #retropost

jef, 4 days ago to random

This is fine.

ratkins, 5 days ago to random

Even before the latest shenanigans, I still haven’t found a reason to use anything but the built-in macOS Terminal.app.

tastapod, 3 days ago to random

Hooray! Healthy conference snacks at #kotlinconf.

#thisistheway

ratkins, 3 days ago to random

Always stop and smell the roses. But make sure they’re not occupied first.

ratkins, 3 days ago to random

More LLM prompts should end “… in the style of Chuck Tingle”
https://awscommunity.social/@Quinnypig/112487446321275191

hungry_joe, 4 days ago to random

a new app exactly like tik tok but for porn called CLICK, BATE

hungry_joe, 4 days ago to random

THERE ARE TOO MANY FONTS there i said it

ratkins, 5 days ago to random

What’s the best of the “I want to go somewhere for a holiday, I’m not sure where, give me options” sites?

simonbs, 6 days ago to random

Today, I’ve been using ChatGPT a lot to create SQLite queries. I provide it with the schema for all my tables in SQL and ask it to create queries based on specific needs that require reasoning about relationships across 5-6 tables. It works surprisingly well! ChatGPT takes advantage of features in SQLite that I had no idea existed to ensure that the result rows match my needs in great detail.