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djcapelis

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Certified heavy equipment operator at the intersection of technology and liberal arts.

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skinnylatte, to random
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My other life superpower is you can drop me in literally any country in south and Southeast Asia and I will feel right at home. I will know where things are, have friends to catch up with, delicious food to eat, many things to do. I know how to carry my body and my mind through this entire region.

That’s part of my current struggle with immigration depression in the US, I think: that I feel torn from the part of the world that is such a big part of who I am. And I have to rebuild my life.

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte we should take a trip to San Diego sometime! There’s some great food there!

skinnylatte, to BelieveInFilm
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Another film / airport update: Changi Airport terminal 4 scans bags immediately after immigration (other terminals sometimes defer that to at the boarding gate). Spoke with an officer, he said they were happy to hand check but I was in line specifically at one of the lower powered film safe scanners (had a huge sign that said film safe on it), so I just went ahead with the scan. Will share what happens when I develop the film!

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte Gate security scans are one of the very few things I don’t like about most Changi terminals, I want to be able to take my terminal scavenged milk tea on the plane.

skinnylatte, to magASEAN
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First hour of 20 hours of travel before I get to eat delicious food, enjoy tropical weather and see my loved ones.

I’ve decided my first meal when I arrive will be ‘zi char’. Zi char is 煮炒, also known as ‘dai pai dong’ in Hong Kong, the type of Chinese high heat cooking that warms the hearts of pyromaniacs.

Until then, there’s TSA, airport experiences, airplane food (thankfully not terrible on Singapore Airlines), and travel anxiety (I hate covid-era travel, obviously)

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte “apple juice no ice” is my main thing. I wouldn’t quite say only but like 95%.

ct_bergstrom, to random
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The 1990s and 2000s were a heyday for nerds. Tech was now cool and we could unabashedly embrace our enthusiasm for math, science, etc.

We've backslid.

Today's tech founders compete to be like "Fuck math. I hunt Siberian wild boar in the nude using a knife made from only my own frozen excrement."

What happened?

djcapelis,
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@ct_bergstrom Mostly: today’s tech founders aren’t tech people anymore, they are business people.

skinnylatte, to california
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As a person who grew up in a city-state, I have no concept of how large a country, or a county is.

I used to have to leave my country for any change of scene. Now I can just take the ferry and spend the day somewhere completely different, like, say, Alameda!

https://micro.popagandhi.com/2023/09/17/alameda-americana.html

(Nikonos V, Kodak 5222, self-dev in Rodinal)

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte have you taken a roadtrip through the Southwest or up around to Montana yet? Worth doing, would recommend the spring as a great time for it.

skinnylatte, to BelieveInFilm
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Ever since I started darkroom printing I’ve become so judgmental of the giant photos that my landlord has printed and put up around my apartment building. The prints are so cheaply done. I feel like learning this skill has been a blessing (I learned cool stuff, I can make things with my hands) and a curse (a lot of printed photos look terrible to me now)

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte oh, I can help with welding if you want to try that.

djcapelis, to random
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One thing everyone who goes to Burning Man knows but some people outside are less familiar with is that there's always a waitlist, each and every year, of people who want to join the resto crew to pick up trash in the desert. Yep, too many people want to pick up trash in the desert, so you gotta join the waitlist.

These are uh, their stories from this year: https://journal.burningman.org/2023/09/black-rock-city/leaving-no-trace/checking-in-on-playa-restoration/

skinnylatte, to random
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A meal that costs $30 in San Francisco is half the price on the Daly City border!

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte my neighborhood is alright, food scene is not always excellent but is solid. Some of the restaurants that closed during the pandemic were a bit heartbreaking to lose. Was excited about living near Little Yangon but it’s not coming back.

mjg59, to random
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I've been spending about half my time this summer with a 500MBit symmetric link, and the other half at about 20MBit. It's genuinely kind of surprising how little difference this has ended up making.

djcapelis,
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@mjg59 for me I think the biggest deal for me is latency, if it’s below 100ms then throughput is not super noticeable. Above and… I start to feel like things are slow.

skinnylatte, to random
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Ahahaha American urbanists and transit advocates get VERY salty when people point out that they should also look to East Asia, not just Europe, for transit inspiration

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte shit at this point I’d settle with catching up to Casablanca.

skinnylatte, to random
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God bless me with the confidence of a San Francisco person who brings El Farolito to a fight about whether SF or LA has better Mexican food (I mean, there’s no fight, and that place is pretty awful too)

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte San Diego is just sitting down there munching on great food watching everyone else fight.

briankrebs, to random

Turned on the Apple TV box last night and something wouldn't let me see the landing page w/ all the shows. It kept taking me to a page that said I should enter my iCloud password with the remote, but it clearly stated that the password would be sent in the clear. Should have taken a screenshot, but I was like nuh-uh, nope, definitely not going to do that.

After clicking the back button, it kept bringing me back to this password prompt. Finally, after about 10 times of backing out of the prompt, it loaded Apple TV normally. I'm guessing some component of the relatively new the "smart" TV was trying to request it? Never seen that before.

djcapelis,
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@briankrebs If you get a screenshot of that dialog in the future I’d be curious to see it. I don’t think any system flow would/should result in your password being sent in the clear.

djcapelis,
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@briankrebs Reasonable! If it has lost its authentication state for real I suspect you may uh, encounter this prompt again in the future and you can decide if you’re up to it then. :)

You can probably provoke it in settings if you go check iCloud there. If the account shows up there without prompts or any weirdness then it’s authenticated at a system level and whatever was up may indeed be transient from something else.

skinnylatte, to magASEAN
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So people love or hate durians, but I think most people haven't been introduced to durians properly. There's many different types, with different textures / flavors, even smell. I don't love durian the way people from home do, but I can appreciate an excellent one from time to time. My favorite type is 'Red Prawn'. You can't get it outside of Malaysia/ SG. Many growers have farm to table cafes for durians and it's great & they even run durian classes

https://www.99oldtrees.com/durian-masterclass

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte Hmm, durian season and mango season are significantly collocated. I was seeing it everywhere in the market yesterday so I would have expected it to still be going on? Sounds like it is at the tail end.

skinnylatte, to random
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New Tom Bihn bag. It’s a high upfront cost, but I’ve had my Tom Bihn bags for 10 years and they still look and work the same and haven’t needed any repairs. I’ve also been able to go on months-long trips with no check in bags largely because of how excellent they are.

Not rolling a silly suitcase around is a plus. The aesthetics aren’t for everyone, but personally they are very much my vibe

https://www.tombihn.com/products/trinity

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte Good looking bag right there.

skinnylatte, to BelieveInFilm
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Five film photos from Camp Mather, a summer camp run by the City of San Francisco for both residents and non-residents alike. Also some photos of Yosemite (Yosemite is a few miles away)

https://micro.popagandhi.com/2023/09/08/five-frames-in.html

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte oh you went! Lovely!

mjg59, to random
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The 101 billboards are now overwhelmingly "AI" and not crypto and I have no way to make a value judgement on this

djcapelis,
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@mjg59 ah so you had this reaction too. The moment I saw this I mumbled aloud to myself that I still needed another decade to process that node.js is a thing and I wasn’t ready to think about anything beyond that yet.

skinnylatte, to random
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It might be easier for me to go to Oakland to get Asian food than to the west side of the city and, it is a no brainer (Asian, and all other restaurants are much better in Oakland)

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte yes some great spots over there!

skinnylatte, to random
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Also why I still don’t know how to drive a car:

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte They can be dangerous and I’m not sure I’m recommending it… but have you ever considered a motorcycle? I think it may provide some of the things you love with less of what you do not. They are also a bit of a pain though!

mattblaze, (edited ) to random
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Annual reminder: Mass emailing professors with an unsolicited copy of your CV, transcript, etc is not an effective (or polite) way to apply to graduate school. There's an application process for a reason, and you need to follow it to be considered.

If you have specific questions for a specific professor, by all means contact them, but the mass email we all get (peaking this time of year), mostly from abroad, just wastes everyone's time and risks giving you a bad reputation.

djcapelis,
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@mattblaze I always found this “funny” when they also sent them to grad students.

skinnylatte, to SanFrancisco
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An old friend of mine who’d never been in SF visited, he said he was expecting to hate it based on all the doom loop stories. Instead, he ended up taking photos almost every time we turned a corner, saying ‘you live here? It’s gorgeous. Do you still think it’s beautiful after all this time?’

I even brought him to my neighborhood, the TL. He was like ‘well some neighborhoods where I live are worse but w/o great food’. Anyway, he had fun and I got to be a tourist

djcapelis,
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@skinnylatte @christa @jmeowmeow Well that fits pretty spot on with how the NYT likes to cover this area. 😒

djcapelis, to random
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The leadership of the US House of Representatives is so in thrall of vindictive tiny handed cowards that they have created not just an earmark, but the opposite of one picking a specific project to ban from any potential federal funding designed to go to expanding trains in the country.

So that’s… weird.

djcapelis, to random
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Sometimes I read the replies to other people’s posts on here and I’m grateful to be here with all of you instead of whoever the hell these other people have as their followers. Some truly unhinged people out there makes me glad my work is known to a smaller set of people.

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    djcapelis,
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    @lzg I mean it’s obvious really. There’s no rules on when you can rent one and for what type of ocassion so the clear answer is “yes”

    b0rk, to random
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    if you use Linux on your personal computer: what do you like about it?

    I used to be super into customizing my window manager, but now I mostly like that it's so easy to install software, and that the environment is the same as on a Linux server

    (please no arguing about whether people "should" use Linux on their personal computers, I'm just curious about why you personally like it)

    djcapelis,
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    @b0rk I haven’t used Linux on the desktop in awhile but when I did package management was far and away one of my favorite things about it.

    Also… the PDF and postscript workflows. Just tons of straightforward utilities to manipulate and convert things.

    Also also also the easy ability to hook up shell scripts to do almost anything I wanted to cron, and a really solid virtual desktop system in kwin.

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