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castironflower

@castironflower@hachyderm.io

San Francisco Digital Services Director of Engineering, ex-PivotBio, CfA, MoJo. Opinions are my own. Too gay, Gunpla and barebow hobbiest,wife+mother. I used to do science.

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hrefna, to random
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I see the grifters who continue to lie about Nivenly and hachyderm will take any excuse to do more lying.

They've been corrected, they don't care.

castironflower,
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@hrefna i hear ppl referencing this stuff but no one actually saying anything

castironflower, to random
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@skinnylatte was today ur richmond food excursion?

ninavizz, to random
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Why did humanity choose to standardize around the Philips head for fasteners (screws), and not the far-superior star, torx, or allen head inputs?

castironflower,
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@ninavizz ease of manufacturing?

mcc, to random
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Just opened my ThinkPad and for the second time in three days the act of closing the laptop to sleep it, then opening it again had caused Ubuntu to hardlock. This time I got a very brief small printout about "amd ring 0 error", then it went back to a black screen and I had to hold down the power button again.

I thought getting a ThinkPad, getting AMD cpu/gpu and picking the Linux distro Lenovo lists as supported would mean I got a minimally functioning computer but I guess not.

castironflower,
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@mcc mips cameras

castironflower,
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@mcc extremely and its most new laptop cameras

castironflower,
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@mcc saga: https://sfba.social/@glassresistor/111970667833379287

nyquildotorg, to random
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Yesterday YouTube Music suggested a collab between MGK and Trippie Red, called "genre:sadboy," and I was like well, I'm kinda sad so sure.

I really really enjoyed it, but it was rad to hear one of the songs built around Imogen Heap's song, Let Go. They way they did it is interesting: they sample (and screw) the vocals from Imogen's chorus, not the music.

Typically artists just use an instrumental and rap over it, but in this case they build an entirely new song that just contains elements of what was sampled.

castironflower,
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@nyquildotorg i blame you and mgk for tricking me into liking MACHINE GUN KELLY. dude should not be allowed to hide his name

skinnylatte, to SanFrancisco
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Maybe you only have 5 guests a day at your restaurant because you’re doing $100 dinners in the Tenderloin, not because you’re in the TL

https://sfstandard.com/2024/03/30/tenderloin-marketing-campaign-azalinas/

castironflower,
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@skinnylatte @keith im not like cultured or a city person but that article is just seething

and you can(or could) get michelin star food in the city for less than that

mcc, to random
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So I stagger sleepily into the kitchen to make breakfast, and I break an egg open, and it's a double yolk! And I'm like ha ha, rolled an S rank egg. And then I break a second egg, and it's ALSO a double yolk. And I'm like ha… ha but I'm getting a little nervous. And then I break my THIRD egg and it's ALSO a double yolk and I'm just like what the fuck?? Triple double yolk???

castironflower,
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@mcc every time i get a double the rest of the carton is. and it seems to happen to one chicken of ours

so i wonder if somewhere theres size consistency grouping or eggs in carton have generally the same chicken

hazelweakly, (edited ) to random
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Something that I find missing in almost every software company is this thing that I'm not sure I've seen explicitly called out anywhere, but I'm going to call it an Engineering Language.

https://hazelweakly.me/blog/engineering-language/

castironflower,
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@hazelweakly this is really good and i think im going to include it as part of platform eng, soa governance, and product thinking workshop im doing but frankly
"I prefer to think of it internally as an interface and externally as a protocol" is going to really help explain some stuff

mcc, to random
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Hm somebody posted a YouTube video about the crank conspiracy theory I actually believe

castironflower,
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@mcc so i was really mad about this one because in high school i intuited that idea, wrote it down, and then in college went to one of his talks(small group actually got to talk to him) and he presented this theory and it sounded(with more math) just like the thing i had written

TodePond, to random
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hope this helps

castironflower,
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@TodePond so is the blue like consumers getting wild on graphics cards and the red like is big tech doing the same?
so is the red line Expert Systems, ML, LLM, Mesh Intelligence, …

castironflower, to random
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me in person vs. me on slack

A holographic sticker of a wizard in a yellow robe with a tall staff and pointy hat with the text "I will never elaborate because I have no idea what I just said."

kitoconnell, to tech
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Why do I have such an urge to own a Flipper Zero despite having literally no need for one?

castironflower,
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@kitoconnell because its so shiny

castironflower,
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@kitoconnell luckily one of the partners, who has less reason than i, got one

haven't decided how ill make it useful but antics is right there

skinnylatte, to magASEAN
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I think I’m using LinkedIn wrong

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adriannatan_stay-stand-up-for-what-you-believe-in-activity-7159405231716392960-wA6i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

castironflower,
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@skinnylatte wow this basically reads like what i heard while getting and staying out of my home state

skinnylatte, to SanFrancisco
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Throwback to Sept 2020: one of the weirdest days I'd ever lived through

https://popagandhi.com/posts/2020-09-09-the-day-the-sky-turned-orange/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Skies_Day

castironflower,
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@skinnylatte 2nd time ever being in the city i went there after failing to get to a concert demo in a half built highrise condo about a 1/4mile away

inquiline, (edited ) to random
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May the "logic" that Zoom/remote is ok for extra, special meetings that get scheduled for your whole Friday with no notice, but not ok for "regular" meetings burn in a fiery hell

castironflower,
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@inquiline is irl or teams the "regular" meetings option?

josh, to random
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    castironflower,
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    @josh isnt that just irc?

    nyquildotorg, to random
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    The "if buying doesn't mean owning, piracy isn't stealing" take drives me nuts.

    IP licensing is, has been and always will be gross, but you can't just use your misunderstanding of what you get with your purchase to link those two completely disparate ideas together. Yes, you own the paper that book is printed on, the plastic that DVD is made from or that MP4 file, but you do not "own" the contents of those things.

    You can say that IP licensing shouldn't be a thing, or that all information should be free, whatever, but you can't just decide for yourself the terms of a purchase.

    castironflower,
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    @nyquildotorg i think its not owning in terms of "owning the ip" but more like "owning as in I now own this book until it falls apart and can backup my cd collection"

    maybe its more clear to say owning the media vs. requesting a stream or downloading content via drmed player which might be abandoned when the service is EOLed

    castironflower,
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    @nyquildotorg its really not, books last centuries, do you think amazon is going to still serve that movie you bought from them and have no legal way to back it up? the nintendo eshop had less than 20years before closing and people still have functional games from the year it first came out

    physical and preferrably lacking any phone home style drm has proven time and time again one of the only practical and generally legal ways to resell or keep through out your lifetime

    castironflower,
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    @nyquildotorg but my point is that its the relative life of the medium that drm threatens and again no one here really means owns as in ip

    Doctorow, the original quotation, was saying it relative to enshittification and services you paid for losing features

    the issue isnt about black and white good or bad, simply industry wide decreases in value per $ that drm and mainly relevant laws have allowed to take place

    castironflower, to random
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    saw this guy in a cyber truck

    look at that face, im sure that guys hauling a serious load

    skinnylatte, to LGBT
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    Sometimes I think straight people speak for us when they say there's no homophobia or transphobia in the SF Bay Area, when in fact, queer folks know there's no such thing as no homophobia or transphobia, including in the SF Bay Area

    https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/lgbtq-hotline-threat-18458157.php

    castironflower,
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    @kitoconnell @skinnylatte i stopped doing sf regular pride b/c too much harrasment from straight men in drag

    brianokken, to random
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    I'm working on a pytest plugin to provide setup/teardown to go around the parametrization set.

    I was thinking of naming it pytest-param-setup

    Any better ideas?

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    @brianokken ah gotcha awesome

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