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akosma, to random
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What noise does an electron make when it falls to the ground?

PLANCK

And what noise does it make when it burps?

BOOOHR

akosma, to random
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"Luckily we have the Wayback Machine"

Just a week after publishing this, the @internetarchive is down.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/20/webpages_vanish_decade/

santiago,
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@akosma @internetarchive seems to be back up now but this sent shivers down my spine!

This is our Library of Alexandria.

akosma, to random
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TIL The Belleville Three is not exactly the same thing as Les Triplettes de Belleville. Not at all.

akosma,
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akosma,
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akosma, to random
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sdarlington,
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@akosma The two biggest challenges I've had running workshops are people turning up unprepared (laptop not setup or capable of tasks) and a lack of engagement (their manager told them to go?).

akosma,
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@sdarlington ah well, there isn’t much to do in those cases

akosma, to random
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Just learned about the passing of Gordon Bell, computer engineer legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell

akosma, to random
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TIL that Ventoy is an open-source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO/IMG files. No need to format the disk over and over, just copy the image files to the USB drive and boot it. You can copy many image files at a time, and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them. x86 Legacy BIOS, IA32 UEFI, x86_64 UEFI, ARM64 UEFI and MIPS64EL UEFI supported. MBR and GPT partition style supported. OS supported: Win/Linux/Unix/ChromeOS/Vmware/Xen. 1200+ ISO files tested.

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

santiago,
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@akosma Au nom de domaine j’aurais juré que c’était un OnlyFans français.

juandesant, (edited )
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@akosma I used it to install Windows 10 on a machine that had no operating system installed… quite nifty, but requires some boot settings tweaking.

akosma, to random
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“One of my preferred restaurants was “Carlitos”, in the corner of Vergara and Libertador, whose owner and cook was exactly the same Carlos Ciuffardi from Villa Gesell. Once a month my mum took me to the Pumper Nic in the corner of Yrigoyen and Libertador to have a “Mobur” (a sandwich with ham and a fried egg) with “Frenys” (French fries).”

https://akos.ma/blog/thirty-years/

akosma, to random
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"Tax policy groups have been lobbying to close this loophole for years, and Congress nearly did it in 2022, but Senator Kyrsten Sinema took $2 million from the private equity industry (aka Owners) and saved their $14 billion loophole. It’s well known that our leaders are whores. What’s more surprising, and disappointing, is what cheap whores they are ($2 million for $14 billion)."

https://www.profgalloway.com/earners-vs-owners/

akosma, to random
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20 years ago, Steve Ballmer loved his iPod more than he liked to admit.

(BTW: Ruffle and the Internet Archive make a great team.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20050206093642/http://www.macboy.com/cartoons/ballmer/

akosma, to random
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there’s clearly a thread here @hisham_hm @santiago

akosma,
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Sleepless no Brazil

akosma, to random
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"Alta Fidelidad" by Mercedes Sosa and Charly García is the album I miss the most on Spotify. It's the pinnacle of music for my Argentine inner self. Thankfully it's available on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WU0e4YLXRs&list=PLUOtsU9asy6HfiroBfq7HM-EaXHg1ixIB

akosma, to random
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"Something happens when one tries to have rational conversations about downsides with people strongly advocating expansion of type-level programming capabilities (…) This happens all the time once extensive type-level programming facilities are available in a language–they immediately get misapplied in ways that makes code harder to understand, excludes beginners and fails to convince those from the outside."

Don Syme, creator of F#

https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/243#issuecomment-916079347

akosma,
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"I don't want F# to be the kind of language where the most empowered person in the discord chat is the person who knows the most category theory or abstract algebra."

akosma, to random
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OK so now my better half is asking where to buy tickets for the next year’s edition dammit

akosma, to random Italian
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OMG 🇨🇭

akosma, to random
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Giving 0 points to the UK is an unspoken tradition of the Eurovision contest

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