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KevinMarks

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KevinMarks, to random
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“As tech gets more complex, things seem to get more intuitive locally, but overall the arbitrariness keeps going up. The number of YouTube videos explaining arbitrary shit keeps going up.” https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/05/14/arbitrariness-costs/

baldur, to random
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“The wrong way to do Web Components | Go Make Things” https://gomakethings.com/the-wrong-way-to-do-web-components/

KevinMarks,
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@baldur The sad part is that Shoelace 1.0 was a great classless CSS library that you could add classes to adjust layout. It gave very good default looks and I still use it for some projects. If Shoelace 3 could adopt the html component model where the components wrap HTML elements and augment them it would be a real winner. cc @cferdinandi

mekkaokereke, to random
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If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

KevinMarks,
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@mekkaokereke the real disruptive innovation in vehicles is cargo ebikes. They fit Christensen's criteria perfectly

KevinMarks, to random
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The aurora moved south enough that I could see it looking away from Middlesbrough

green/orange/magenta aurora with a star in the middle and tree branches in the foreground
green//magenta aurora with a stars sprinkled through it
diagonal magenta aurora with trees in the foreground, some city light and a small crescent moon near the horizon

KevinMarks, to random
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Can everyone in Middlesbrough turn the lights and street lights off so I can see the aurora please?

skinnylatte, to VideoGames
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it's weird how much of LA I feel I know just coz I played a lot of GTA V..

KevinMarks,
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@skinnylatte my sons had that, but with Florence and Assassins Creed

ben, to random
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I'm really excited about these updates to ShareOpenly, my tool that lets you add a "share to social media" button to your website that understands the fediverse, Bluesky, and more: https://werd.io/2024/some-shareopenly-updates

KevinMarks,
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@ben you might want to grab the canonical version of the current page if it has one, so you don't accidentally share a fragment or tracking link.

markmccaughrean, to random
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You have people at your house for an evening & are eating when the phone rings. It’s your daughter who asks “what’s up?”

Answering:

“We have friends over & we are having fish for dinner”

would be fine, as both parts can be used to describe the present, but:

“We are having friends over & we have fish for dinner”

would be wrong, because both parts sound like they describe the future.

The English language is quite often idiotic 🙄

KevinMarks,
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@markmccaughrean have is being an auxiliary verb - "having friends over" means "having friends to visit" "have friends over" means "have friends visiting" so there is a hidden infinitive vs present continuous there.
The fish clause is not an auxiliary verb, so if you use eating it is clearer. Try this @lingthusiasm episode https://lingthusiasm.com/post/720244621612138496/lingthusiasm-81-the-verbs-had-been-being-helped

liaizon, to random
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working on a tool thing to make labels for all our spices, cause I wanted an easy way to put text in a circle

KevinMarks,
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@liaizon are you using SVG?

KevinMarks, to random
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This is brilliant in its own right, and also works as meta-commentary, as no LLM could get the scansion that tight and the rhymes that enjoyable: "well, actually"/polydactyly and plagiarise/Hbomberguys are markers of humanity https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/112380073199982452

evacide, to random
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Important fashion update: my silver bias-cut "space royalty" gown and silver star Hedy Lamarr headdress were a great success. On theme. Would wear again.

KevinMarks,
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@evacide were you serving Servalan?

KevinMarks, to random
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maybe inefficient sites like this can suggest people share archive links? https://archive.is/20240501123358/https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/

kissane, (edited ) to random
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Sliding back in to ask—do you know without looking it up what "context collapse" is and where/how it entered the conversation about online sociability?

Many thanks, and boosts are welcome <3

KevinMarks,
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@kissane @cour13r5 well, that's splendid as danah's work on this needs telling to a new generation with your usual thoughtful clarity

KevinMarks, to random
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@danhon re UPnP glitches in https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s18e07-do-not-reply-stickers-computers-were-a-bad/ reasons why UPnP tends to suck from ZeroConf http://www.zeroconf.org/ZeroconfAndUPnP.html (approx 18 years old, still true)

KevinMarks, to random
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-millennial-captcha

StillIRise1963, to random
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The attorney should have asked SCOTUS if it would be okay if the Executive had them murdered.

KevinMarks,
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@StillIRise1963 here's the hypothetical: they rule for presidential immunity. Next time Biden has a colonoscopy, Harris orders the immediate assassination of Trump, the conservative supreme court judges and the speaker of the house. Is Harris immune? Is Biden?

mcc, to random
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Can mp3s (technically, never mind whether they ever actually do this) change their sample rate or number of channels partway through a file?

KevinMarks,
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@mcc that's about right - the underlying MPEG stream is defined at the bit level and assumes concatenation and resync of blocks because it was designed for broadcasters who send continuous streams (this is how shoutcast etc can work), but a given player app may not fully implement this, and make assumptions of uniformity.

impactology, (edited ) to random
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Does anyone have experience with creating PechaKucha style presentations?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PechaKucha

PechaKucha is a storytelling format in which a presenter shows 20 slides for 20 seconds of commentary each. At a PechaKucha Night, individuals gather at a venue to share personal presentations about their work.

KevinMarks,
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@impactology I've done Ignite, which is similar (5 minutes, 20 slides, auto advance every 15 seconds) - it works really well

KevinMarks,
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@impactology it's a bit like a 20 note thread. I tend to do it by writing the story and getting an image or graph per slide to remind me of that point, then practice a bit, and when you do it the images cue you to flow. I can dig out some examples (my son did one when he was 14 too)

KevinMarks, to random
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This is really worrying https://www.bbc.com/news/resources/idt-61d57e25-d458-4785-8a37-3ef119a504c7

darius, to random
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A little piece of personal internet history. I found an old blog post from a friend in Dec 2009 about how bloggers are moving to Twitter.

> It seems that change is in the air at the moment, as a huge number of people are reassessing their relationships with their blogs this winter. [...] In some respects, a lively blog might be [...] a five year mission, at most. However, I also suspect that it is Twitter which is causing a lot of the reconsideration right now"

https://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2009/12/man-bytes-blog-closes.html

KevinMarks,
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@fraying @darius Yeah. I wrote a positive piece about ti in 2008 as the blogging reflex becoming pervasive, but twitter definitely curdled it https://epeus.blogspot.com/2008/11/bloggings-not-dead-its-becoming-like.html

CatherineFlick, to random
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I was critical of the Cass Report earlier, talking about how discounting studies that weren't double blinded RCTs was bad form. Apparently Dr Cass has responded, saying that '"obviously" young people could not be blinded as to whether or not they were on puberty blockers or hormones because "it rapidly becomes obvious to them [...] But that of itself is not an issue because there are many other areas where that would apply"' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68863594

KevinMarks,
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@CatherineFlick the podcast is a lot clearer. They interviewed the York professor who reviewed the studies and ranked them high, medium and low quality, and included the high and medium, and the BMJ editor who published the 2 out of 103 stat were high that implied the rest were ignored. Cass blamed the tweeters reposting that rather than the BMJ bloke who published the misleading numbers and didn't apologise.

jonny, to random
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all jonny knows is charge they phone, mythic humanoids wiki category, eat hot chip & lie

KevinMarks,
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@jonny I do wonder how these are connected to Homo floresiensis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis

jensimmons, to random
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Are you interested in Masonry layout?? Graphic design on the web?

We just published a 4,000 word blog post investigating the current stage of the Grid Level 3 specification and all the amazing things you can do with it: https://webkit.org/blog/15269/help-us-invent-masonry-layouts-for-css-grid-level-3/

If you design or build websites, please read and chime in with your thoughts.

KevinMarks,
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@jensimmons the thing that is always a bit odd about masonry layouts is the choice of column for a given content block is unpredictably dependent on the aspect ratios of previously flowed blocks. The zooming when clicked on example illustrates this with a very confusing animation of pieces shuffling around, and the variable column width examples without span do too, as its wholly arbitrary how wide a given block is. The spanning examples are a good mitigation of this.

KevinMarks,
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@jensimmons there is a related issue that is hard to solve with existing grid, which is illustrated by the Tufte layout, https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ where you have associated content - footnotes, sidenotes, illustrations, other marginalia, that you want to be vertically aligned with the text, but with the possibility of spanning more columns.
Masonry is doing a different thing, without keeping this alignment; float was a way to approximate this; is there a good way to express this in grid?

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