astrid

astrid, 1 year ago to random

I had a dream last night that I was teaching someone how to solder and they kept trying to hold the iron by the metal parts

astrid, 3 months ago to random

sheet music is so fucken hard to read

astrid, 11 months ago to random

let's see, so we need a name for the firewall itself, a VM, and a name for its host machine...

astrid, 1 year ago to random

OH: "is sadomasochism permissible under Kant?"

astrid, 6 months ago to random

so wait... if a pasta is an unleavened dough formed into shapes and boiled to be edible, and raviolis are also a pasta, does that make chinese dumplings a pasta?

astrid, 3 months ago to random

would you rather fight a horse sized knife or 100 knife sized horses

astrid, 3 months ago to random

i would be great in the antimemetics division because I can already barely remember anything and am great at bluffing my way out of situations I forgot I was going to enter

astrid, 1 year ago to random

I actually do not know how windows-specific development works

Since I began programming, I've always been trained on unix-y workflows, even when I was using Windows, and in college, everything I wrote targeted Linux, and at my job, everything I write runs on Linux

astrid, 3 months ago to random

most normal build system

astrid, 3 months ago to random

great news, the pixel 5a is now fully rooted and running lineage

astrid, 5 months ago to random

NASA missions are like an extremely well-choreographed ballet with margins within a few kilograms of fuel.

KSP missions are like a production of Hamlet because everyone dies

astrid, 1 year ago to random

I feel like I'm good enough at DIYing stuff to be like "yeah I could totally do that thing," but not good enough to actually do that thing, so at some point I'll probably end up stuck in something way over my head

astrid, 1 year ago to random

man, doms have it so easy, they just say a few words and they turn subs into a puddle

astrid, 4 months ago to random

"the FDA and DEA won't let you cultivate this organism, possess this molecule, or sell this molecule or its precursors because it is supposedly harmful to society" -statements dreamt up by the utterly Deranged

astrid, 1 year ago to random

I am so tempted to nuke this machine and reimage it

ZFS does NOT like surface pros

astrid, 24 days ago to random

astrid, 1 year ago to random

me when i see other people's dicks (mine is small

RE: https://fedi.astrid.tech/objects/736f8f07-6c03-4cde-a71b-feef01bf9854

astrid, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

Palo Alto cyberpunk (as opposed to Tokyo cyberpunk): The aesthetic where we get all the shitty elements of Tokyo cyberpunk (ads, monetized everything, everything as a service) but none of the neat parts (cyborgs, walkable mixed use urbanism). Like the picture of the homeless guy with a VR headset, or tech billboards over suburban sprawl, or the movie Sorry To Bother You

astrid, 6 months ago to random

oh yeah this thing I didn’t post, we got it at Costco for $15 and it actually holds a ton of batteries, but best of all, it is literally called battery daddy

astrid, 4 months ago to random

y'know, these questions are questions that i ask too

astrid, 4 months ago to random

do cybertrucks actually exist? i have seen them irl, but they seem so ludicrous that i have to wonder if those were just mirages, like cryptid sightings

astrid, 3 months ago to random

Nix Package Manager (npm)

astrid, 22 days ago to random

html dying standard

astrid, 1 year ago to random

FFI? WYSIWYG? I18N? HTML? Sorry I don't speak bottom

astrid, 3 months ago to random

it's drama if you don't care for it, meta if you do, and discourse if it never ends