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Scmbradley

@Scmbradley@mathstodon.xyz

Boring tech guy. Former professional philosopher.

Unremarkable cis-het middle-class able-bodied white guy. He/Him.

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thomasfuchs, to random
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I need an outside compost thingy for food scraps and dog poop and I live in the desert (up to 115F in summer). Looking for recommendations. Not too big and must be able to contain smell.

Please only reply if you have direct composting experience, thank you.

Scmbradley,
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@thomasfuchs I presume you know this, but you shouldn't use compost that contains dog poop too grow food.

Scmbradley, to random
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I cooked a tasty dinner, therefore I have just eaten a tasty dinner.

gamingonlinux, to slaythespire
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Slay the Spire 2 announced by Mega Crit for 2025 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/slay-the-spire-2-announced-by-mega-crit-for-2025/

Scmbradley,
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@gamingonlinux Etsy? Are... Are you ok?

Scmbradley, to random
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We didn't have the eclipse here, so I've been following it vicariously through posts on the fediverse. A tootal eclipse.

Scmbradley, to random
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Hey get a load of this

The bottoms of some thin trees, covered with a furry moss.

hazelweakly, to random
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I swear, so much complexity of my life right now comes from me wanting to be able to graphically draw out an interconnected hypergraph but also have a convenient textual representation of said hypergraph

I'm sure this makes zero sense to people. But ugh. It's so frustrating to have the ideas in your brain and just not be able to really tease them out in a useful way for others

Signed,
trying to figure out how to map "do the platform engineering thing more better" into strategy and architecture

Scmbradley,
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@hazelweakly ugh yea. Ive explored a few text based ways of generating graphs or similar (mermaid.live, plantUML,tikz...), and they are all kind of terrible. I think part of the problem is that representing the relations between the items is one thing, and saying how you want to display those things is another, and it's apparently really hard to do both well.

Scmbradley, to random
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A friend of mine, someone my age, is now a judge. That feels mad. Judges are all like a million years old surely.

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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I know I'm prone to the occasional bit of hyperbole, but I have made a frankly miraculous recovery and I now think I might be some kind of super human? It's the only logical conclusion. Or maybe some kind of jesus?

Scmbradley,
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@TheBreadmonkey good time of year for miraculous recoveries, it seems.

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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Say what you like about Madonna

Scmbradley,
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@TheBreadmonkey did you know that the beastie boys were the support act for a Madonna tour.

Beastie boys are sat on a piano. One of them is pouring something, I'm hoping it's a bottle of chateauneuf du pape, into Madonna's mouth as she's trying to play the piano.

Edent, to random
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Idle thought. What's the maximum number of ligatures you can have in a font?

ASCII is 128 characters. 33 of them are for control, 1 for space.
That leaves 95 printable characters.
95^2 = 9,025 combinations of pairs of characters.

Most pixel fonts seem to use a fixed width per character.

Is there a which could use ligatures to make an even smaller display area?

Scmbradley,
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@Edent you can have ligatures that involve more than two characters: ffi for example.

dgar, to random
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At his death bed, Achilles realized that they were going to lose the war and uttered his last words, “Defeet hurts.”

Scmbradley,
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@dgar Achilles had it all backwards. Most people wait for their wounds to heal...

Scmbradley, to random
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There's a story about how Elon Musk crashed his McLaren F1 with Peter Thiel in his passenger seat and damn, just think how close we were to a better world.

Scmbradley, to random
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Ok what about this?
Do you think it maybe sounds a bit like perineum?
Nah it'll be fine

amin, to random
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I want to title my debut book "A Novel" to see if the publishers would put "A Novel: A Novel" on the cover.

(why do they always put "A Novel" on?)

Scmbradley,
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@amin make it the first in the "a novel" series, so they call it "a novel: a 'a novel' novel"

Scmbradley, to random
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We are over one Liz Truss through 2024 already.

Scmbradley,
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By contrast I am almost two Robert Walpoles old.

Scmbradley, to random
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What is a normal size for a node_modules directory to be for a reasonably complex web app?

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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My BiL asked me tonight if I want to go and watch a double bill of Dune1&2. I said yes. He suggested next Thursday. I said sounds good what time. He said starts at 2030. I said that can't be right as both films with a break would be 6 hours and it wouldn't finish until half 2 in the morning. He said he's already bought the tickets. I check and it is 2030 finishing at half past 2 in the morning. What have I done?

Scmbradley,
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@TheBreadmonkey I did this when the third matrix movie came out. They showed all three back to back ending at silly o'clock. It was not a good experience apart from the first couple of hours watching the first film.

AlSweigart, to random
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    Scmbradley,
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    @AlSweigart don't tell JavaScript that. new Date(2024, 01, 30) just comes out as march 1. (Months are zero indexed.)

    Edent, (edited ) to random
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    Hello friends! I'm still testing out my personal ActivityPub server - and I need your help 🙂

    If you click this link → @example ←

    Do you see the user's account or a page of JSON code?

    If you do see the code, could you please let me know which platform / app you're using?

    THANKS GANG!

    Scmbradley,
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    @Edent @example here's what you look like on tusky

    simontatham, to random
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    The best kind of typo is the one that invents a new and appropriate word.

    I was just writing something about ranges of integers, and my fingers unexpectedly produced the word 'integerval', which is exactly what one of those is!

    On a previous occasion I was trying to disprove a claim that some kind of thing always gave rise to a countable set, and I found I'd accidentally written about an 'uncounterexampable'.

    Scmbradley,
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    @simontatham not a typo, but an apt portmanteau in a similar vein: if you're doing interval arithmetic, where an interval is not thought of as a range but as a value in and of itself, call it an intervalue.

    Scmbradley, to random
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    We have opt in organ donation and opt out federation with Bluesky, and honestly that feels the wrong way round.

    jenniferplusplus, to random
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    always a fun time to do non-discrimination training that just assumes everyone doing the training is an abled cishet white dude who needs to be reminded that other people are also people

    How do I report the microagressions made by the microagressions training module?

    Scmbradley,
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    @jenniferplusplus the one I did a few years ago started by getting you to match up the minority group to the stereotype associated with them.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    It has been a minute since I've done a music question, and it seems like a fun day for it, so:

    What is your Pump Yourself Up Kickass Song?

    Here's one of my favorites:

    https://youtu.be/3CGxxJeQ6Tk?si=1cVMNoZWQzNOSpOA

    Scmbradley,
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    @RickiTarr DJ Format - Still Hungry

    mhoye, to random
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    Lazyweb, I have a video game history question that I haven't found a compiled list of answers for anywhere, but let me ask for your participation in creating it.

    What games introduced the various video game mechanics of the world, and where did that mechanic best shine?

    As an example, I'm thinking "dune 2 introduced RTS unit management that was eventually refined into Warcraft/Starcraft" or "Narbacular Drop introduced the portal gun system that was eventually the backbone of Portal 1 & 2."

    Scmbradley,
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    @mhoye max Payne introduced bullet time. That sort of thing?

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