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whitequark

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catgirl shaped object

"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."

✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support them ✧
✦ i have enemies, and my purpose is to eliminate them ✦
✶ i have a life, and my purpose is to reach heaven by violence ✶
✷ nothing else matters ✷

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gigabecquerel, to random
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Big print!
just 12 hours left to go

whitequark,
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@gigabecquerel is that chocolate... please be chocolate

whitequark, to random
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i've never really understood the "human brains are such pattern matching engines!! evolutionarily we are tuned to recognize them everywhere" in parascientific publications. like this is true in the same sense that "transistors are devices that control current with charge" is true

whitequark,
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when you are publishing a statement like that you are trying to convey something that isn't in the information you state, in the hopes that the reader has the same misunderstanding as the writer, and that both would come away feeling satisfied about this. i dislike it

whitequark,
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@froztbyte the carrots thing?

whitequark,
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@froztbyte ah.

nanographs, to random

Philips electron optics engineering at it’s finest:

  • bottom left screw is fine
  • top left screw IS ON TOP OF A TRACE so they put insulating washers under the metal ones
  • right screw is ON TOP OF A PAD so there’s a NOTCH in the washer you line up with the solder blob on the yellow wire, source alignment coils short to gnd if you don’t

Mechanical drawings show insulating washers but no notch ofc

PCB is screwed into lead x-ray shielding because 200kV electrons travel down the tube in the center

Picture of screws used to hold PCB in. Insulating washer on the bottom of the screw.
Picture showing the notched washer installed next to the yellow wire.

whitequark,
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@nanographs @funkylab i'm sorry the electron gun costs how much?

matrix, to Matrix
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Since announcing the idea of #Matrix 2.0 at #FOSDEM, we've been busy building out full real-world implementations for folks to play with, and today we're super excited to take the wraps off Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix. https://matrix.org/blog/2023/09/matrix-2-0/ 👀🎉🎊🍾👀

whitequark,
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@matrix okay but are you gonna fix any of the UI bugs in Element

flacs, to random
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kind of scary how suddenly your body goes from "in its prime" to "noticeably composite"

whitequark,
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@flacs what happen?

whitequark,
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@flacs oh I see

(want my perspective on the original toot?)

whitequark,
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@flacs this body has been hurting since forever (fibro) so for me getting old is actually getting to learn all the ways bodies work and why and suffering less

also i think i might be unmaking fibro bit by bit, which would be a fantastic achievement if it works (and i think i can make it substantively work)

whitequark, to random
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better living through sorcery

whitequark, to random
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every single thing on this page is the worst thing in existence https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Simple-Assignment.html

whitequark,
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although https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Setting.html comes close in the degree of sheer concentrated horror

whitequark,
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@peterdroberts i like cmake. it's absolutely disgusting and i like it

whitequark, to random
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committing gitmakemakegit crimes with @charlotte

this is the most reasonable way to implement this behavior btw

whitequark,
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documentation is important!

whitequark,
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fixed a few bugs in it

farcaller, to fediverse
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(1/4)

I had this prolonged discussion with @eisenhorn yesterday on the storage design. I'm poking at re-implementing in a sane way and we were chatting about KV storage vs RDBMs.

My current KV of choice is go's badger. His suggestion for a RDBM was mysql. He made a few very good points on how ActivityPub storage is relational in general and how using SQL would simplify a bunch of things straight on (lemmy uses postgres FWIW).

My reasoning was that a KV store ...

whitequark,
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@farcaller you can use json over postgres too, no? with indexing

whitequark,
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@farcaller ah I see! makes sense

whitequark, to random
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This is yuri, to me

(The two machines in the top right)

charlotte, to random

Woke up today feeling like I wanted to render my flesh from bone (++)

whitequark,
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@charlotte what if...

... u could dress me up 🥺

charlotte, to random

me: don't embed a mail filtering and handling dsl don't embed a mail filtering and handling dsl don't embed a mail filtering and handling dsl don't embed a mail filtering and handling dsl don't embed a mail filtering and handling dsl don't embed a mail filtering and handling dsl don't embed a mail filtering and handling dsl
headmate: sketches out a lisp

whitequark,
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@charlotte lmfao omg

whitequark,
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@charlotte :3 :3 :3

whitequark, to random
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hate it https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/member-spotlight-helsing/

whitequark,
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@rugk please click on the link in the original post and not on the card -__-

or on the "Member Spotlight: Helsing" link in your screenshot

whitequark,
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@rugk @rustlang @rustlang I think it might actually predate the Nix thing, considering it was published on 22 Aug 2023

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