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emilvolk

@emilvolk@furry.engineer

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electrical engineer, mathematician, musician, artist, writer, mathematician, plaintext and open web enthusiast, the “+” in LGBTIQ+ 🏳️‍🌈, 30+

follow approval will at minimum need a filled bio and/or intro post, but is also subject to ‘vibe check’ as necessary

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niko, to random
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I just realized ill have to actually write words and sentences to document my language and release a standard.. ughh so much work and this feels harder than making the whole thing

emilvolk,
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@niko now you know how K+R must have felt…

niko, to random
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I'm tempted to push my problems into malloc() for now and let programmers much smarter than me at fragmentation avoidance handle it

emilvolk,
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@niko what about jemalloc?

mcc, to random
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Exactly what affine transformation is the raw function

(x,y) = (x+y, x-y)

Equivalent to? Like if I wanted to express that transformation in terms of translations and rotations.

emilvolk,
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@mcc maybe I’ve misunderstood the notational convention, but this looks like a transformation into the null vector?

emilvolk,
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@mcc ironically enough I know rust better than python. In any case, y = 0, and 2y = x, so you still get a null vector. This makes sense because the vectors are linearly dependent.

niko, to random
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Thinkpad experts, I ask of you: Which thinkpad do you recommend ? I'm mostly looking for good battery life and "decent" parts but nothing related to "gaming" or the likes

emilvolk,
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@niko used or new?

emilvolk, to random
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Alternate history: instead of Wolfram and Maple, it’s Coyote and Cactus.

philpem, to random
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Seeing as nobody's selling an Aston Green like @renbymon's, I've sprung for something similarly interesting: a Chyron Analog Lantern 64MB digital character generator and graphics card. Goes in a PC and overlays text and animations onto a TV signal. I can't wait to play with it!

emilvolk,
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@philpem I feel like that’s the sound of institutional memory having been shoved out the door during a layoff.

emilvolk, to random
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Oh goody, some nice light horror to read at bedtime (another classic from Wiley):

philpem, to random
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I've had the CCTV system fully installed for a week (and partly installed for about a year), and it's had one noticeable effect: the local rogue-traders don't knock on my door any more.
That and I always win the "where did they hide the parcel" game with the local parcel delivery guys :D

emilvolk,
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@philpem it got noticed, so the advertisement technically did its job…

talon, to random
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Not gonna lie this iOS PWA thing is pissing me right the hell off. So now I have to choose between not being able to use PWA's or not being able to type properly. This is what it's like as a disabled smartphone user in 2024. I hate it. So much. Burn it all down.

emilvolk,
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@talon My question about all of these changes is whether this applies to users in the EU, or people using the EU App Store. If it’s the second, then a workaround is to use the US App Store instead, but that’s cumbersome for a variety of reasons.

emilvolk, to random
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A reminder that Librewolf exists as a browser alternative

emilvolk, to random
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For whatever reason the absolutely amazing “Faith of Our Fathers” by Philip K. Dick is available to read on Genius:

https://genius.com/Philip-k-dick-faith-of-our-fathers-annotated

emilvolk, to random
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I don’t know if anybody else here like classical music, but I’ve been enjoying a lot of piano music recently I’d like to share (1/ 🧵)

emilvolk,
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@melvian I can share more if you’d like, there’s a whole universe of music after all!

philpem, (edited ) to random
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Reverse engineer an aircraft CDU display? Sure, why not?
Display is a Global GNS-X CDU. I've found a test mode in the ROM... wish I knew how to trigger it!

emilvolk,
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@DeltaWye @philpem reverse engineering is the best engineering

emilvolk, to random
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@ivory the default post behavior on “follower approval” accounts seems to be “followers only”, with no obvious way to change. Is this intentional behavior?

RickiTarr, to random
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I think any time someone gives us unsolicited advice, we should get to ask them for money to fund it.

You'd look better if you wore makeup

Okay, you have to give me $500 to buy makeup.

You should talk to a therapist.

Cool, $300 a week, please!

emilvolk,
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@RickiTarr This makes sense, as it’s useful to question what somebody gains from you acting on that advice

emilvolk, to accessibility
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Let’s say it’s possible to implement a standard for alt-text/image description metadata that’s embedded within an image file, and a toolset exists for converting between that and the img tag in HTML. Would this be something people would be interested in seeing?
(original idea by @revk )

emilvolk,
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@Edent You bring up a fair point. The question seems to be whether IPTC tags (as they exist now) ought to be fixed or floating descriptions. I’m honestly unsure what the professional convention is (any professional out there who can comment with authority?), my intuition leans towards it being fixed, as it’s principally a library tool.

emilvolk, to random
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Is there a sensible way of implementing alt-text on profile pics on mastodon? Right now I have a field for it in my bio, but I feel like there ought to be a better way

emilvolk,
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@revk I personally appreciate the flexibility of it existing in the img tag in plain text, as then it doesn’t require special beyond a code editor (heck, I even used notepad back in the day).

One of the better uses for it ‘back in the day’ was in low bandwidth environments (e.g. everywhere you had the web except at a university or large corporation), where websites that had a lot of images took aaaages to load, and needed a description just in case loading hadn’t finished.

emilvolk,
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@revk but yes, in an ideal world we’d have maybe both a tag and an attribute (and some kind of annoying control logic to decide which one had priority 😵‍💫)

emilvolk,
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@revk Looking briefly through thr technical standards, it’s definitely possible to implement within XMP. Just a standardization question I suppose.

emilvolk,
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@revk y’know what? I might just bang together something myself, and see what happens. XMP looks pretty straightforward.

emilvolk, to Furry
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Hi, Emil here. I'm a lvl 30+ Tundra Wolf roaming the European Continent. 🇪🇺 🐺 🏳️‍🌈

Formerly a musician, my main trade is electrical engineering (power engineering, energy systems) as well as mathematics, and I've been known to make and post artworks and write from time to time. (I'll probably make an art account at some point).

I'm passionate about (and more generally and adult education), as I've witnessed first-hand how many doors mathematical fluency opens.

Things I like:

Fuck Nazis. Be excellent to each other.

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