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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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Scmbradley, to random
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What percentage of steam purchases have zero minutes played? I'm guessing over 30%. I'm going to investigate my own library.

Daojoan, to random
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Morning routine:

Journaling thoughts.
Finding inspiration.
Reading a chapter of a book.
Exercising the body.
Quiet meditation.
Plotting via carrier pigeon, morse code and flag signals to overthrow the system in a bloodless coup.
Nourishing breakfast.

Routines create stability. Find yours and use it to ground your mindset for the day.

Scmbradley,
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@Daojoan make caring for carrier pigeons a bonding activity with you and your kids. Try harder, lazy parents.

seldo, to random
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Not messed up by the daylight savings time change because I was already messed up by flying across country twice.

Scmbradley,
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@seldo not messed up by daylight saving time because my 3 year old wakes up whenever he god damn pleases.

Scmbradley, to random
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Feel like I've seen fewer people wearing poppies this year? Have others noticed?

Scmbradley, to random
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I just gave blood and, if you can, you should too!

Well done Leeds headrow donor centre for all the Halloween costumea and decorations.

Daojoan, to random
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Starting a corporate rock cover band called LinkedIn Park.

Who’s in.

Scmbradley,
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@Daojoan
CRINGEING AT MY SCREEN
THESE POSTS, THEY ARE UNREAL

Scmbradley, to random
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@gamingonlinux do you have any tips for debugging or diagnosing games crashing when run on proton? Which logs are useful and where do they live, that sort of thing?

Scmbradley,
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@gamingonlinux thanks that's a useful page. Do you have anything about how to have a go at fixing issues on the basis of the logs? On a pc, rather than steam deck.

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D&D IDEA: A Necromancer bounty hunter is seeking revenge for being denied a large bounty because bringing back the target as a zombie is technically neither “dead or alive”

Scmbradley,
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@JonBaker Zombie outbreak causes all ongoing murder trials to grind to a halt, as the prosecution tries to figure out what the defendant is actually still guilty of, if the victim comes back as a zombie...

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"Randomized controlled trial"

Scmbradley,
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@Aaron_DeVries @cstross have you seen this classic on a similar theme? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC61047/

Scmbradley, to random
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Trying to decide what language to do (the first couple weeks or so of) in this year. JavaScript would be useful for work. Java likewise. Python would be easy. But I kind of want to try something else. Considering Haskell, OCaml, Scheme, some other lisp...

What should I do?

Scmbradley,
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I've decided I want to use a functional language for this year. Help me pick which. Initial candidates: Haskell, Elixir, OCaml.

What other functional languages should I consider and why?

I'm going to do a poll once I've decided on a set of candidates.

Scmbradley,
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@RogerBW oh yeah, maybe scheme. Or racket. Hm.

I don't know anything about scala so I'll have a look at that. Thanks.

Scmbradley,
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Last chance to suggest functional programming languages for me to try out. I'll do a poll in a few hours, spend November learning whichever language wins the poll, and then do with that language.

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    Scmbradley,
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    @Tattooed_mummy Since we're talking about mechanical clocks, I can't not point you to one of the best best explainers out there. https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ Send this to clock guy. he'd lose his mind

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    I'm being mansplained to on Facebook and it's the funniest thing ever. a guy is telling me how watches can't work without electricity, it's not possible even if they're wind up, that power needs to be stored in a battery. I'm trying to explain to him about springs, but he doesn't understand I'm dying 😂.

    Scmbradley,
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    @Tattooed_mummy This is amazing. It would take like one minute to google history of clocks and see that we've had clocks a lot lot longer than we've had electricity.

    I think you should go all in on pretending you think sundials also need electricity.

    gvwilson, to random
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    A couple of people have asked why https://third-bit.com/sdxpy/ is built using a static site generator rather than with Jupyter or Quarto. I think the more interesting question is, why isn't it a package? Why is there still not a CLAN (Comprehensive Lesson Archive Network) repository and why can't I (for example) clan install sdxpy to get a local copy of lesson materials with structured metadata in a cross-language way? https://third-bit.com/2018/11/30/lesson-installation/

    Scmbradley,
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    @gvwilson exercism.io has a cli tool that does some of this for their coding lessons. It's interesting to see the comments on the site and on their GitHub repo about how and why the tool is constrained (being cross platform and cross language means you have to make very few assumptions).

    kennwhite, to random

    Prepping final details for a crypto talk tomorrow and came across this old gem. "What is an unauthenticated signature?" you might ask. Great question.

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    @kennwhite I had a friend growing up who did this all the time. But he had a bit of a weird sense of humour, so he'd write things like "aubergines, 12" on the shopping list. And sometimes his mum would have to figure out what to cook with random stuff he'd made his dad buy.

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    Scmbradley,
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    @ifixcoinops shotwell can do this.

    mcc, to random
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    If you went back to say 2010 and said that by 2023 I would be regularly opening a packge labeled "assay buffer" to perform western blot protein detection tests in my own home, I would have been very excited. I would not have asked the important question.

    Scmbradley,
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    @mcc did you know the name "western blot" is a joke? Like, it's a riff on another imaging technique called a southern blot.i love this fact.

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    Scmbradley,
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    @LeviKornelsen peat bogs? rivers? The Severn bore seems like something a big ol' spirit would be causing.

    mcc, to random
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    I have just found, on Amazon, a USB peripheral which is a gearshift for a manual transmission car

    Challenge: What is the funniest way you could utilize this peripheral in software

    https://www.amazon.ca/Thrustmaster-Shifter-8-Gear-Compatible-Playstation/dp/B0C2JCX1TD

    Scmbradley,
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    @mcc have you seen @foone 's gearshift keyboard?

    Scmbradley,
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    @mcc hmm, yeah. a hardware switcher for swapping to different screens in i3 would actually pretty rad.

    mcc, (edited ) to random
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    Here is a question about DIGITAL VIDEO

    My wife has a monitor with Thunderbolt 3 input only. That's the "USB-C shaped" Thunderbolt.

    She wants to plug a device with HDMI output into it.

    She has, already, a card that can convert Mini Displayport to USB-C. But to use this we must convert HDMI to Mini Displayport. We have many Mini Displayport to HDMI cables, but not the other way around.

    Cheapest HDMI to Mini Displayport cable we're finding is $60.

    Is this surprising? How should we do this?

    Scmbradley,
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    @mcc I think this was in the ballpark of what my father in law ended up paying when he was looking for that sort of cable.

    Edent, to webdev
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    If HTML5 Were British

    https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/11/if-html5-were-british/

    Scmbradley,
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    @Edent one offhand remark an old teacher of mine made has stuck with me. He was in some respects a stuffy traditionalist Brit (albeit an eccentric one). He said that he had reconciled himself to the use of "program" (rather than "programme") by just treating it as a different word which could be spelled differently. So you watch a TV programme, but you write a computer program. I think I can do the same with "dialog".

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