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gilesdring

@gilesdring@mastodon.me.uk

Works: dringtech (making IT work for small businesses) and Open Innovations (putting data on the web). Code #javascript #typescript #python #html #css

Home: playing #guitar and tinkering with #audioEngineering.

Live: #HebdenBridge

“Moderately well assembled human”

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tomcoates, to random
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I keep telling people my age with the hope they’ll go, “oh really? Wow! I’d never have guessed! You look way younger than that!”

Doesn’t happen as often as you’d think! (If you thought it happened maybe once that is.)

gilesdring,
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@tomcoates I once told someone my age (while in my late 20s/early 30s) to be informed that, in their opinion, I must have “had a hard paper-round”

gilesdring,
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@tomcoates This phrasing has haunted me for the intervening 20 years.

Not quite (but nearly) on a par with an ex-colleague who began a presentation with the immortal words “I haven’t given this talk for a while, so I’m interested to hear what I have to say.”

ldodds, to random
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Space is cool

gilesdring, (edited )
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@ldodds Amen. We were up at Kielder Observatory last week and had our heads baked by how extraordinarily large it (space, not the observatory) is. Their feed is awesome! https://www.youtube.com/live/Nsc2OSYQsOU?si=UX_8aX7zjMO1bn9H

andypiper, to random
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Incredibly, the other (well, another) Andy Piper appears to also be on the same program.

gilesdring,
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@pikesley @andypiper It’s time to… slay the piper…

(Extremely WWF title sequence plays…)

Floppy, (edited ) to random
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Anyone know a standard encoding scheme for binary data to alphabetical strings using only lowercase consonants?

I want to generate non-numeric IDs but avoid making real words, so cutting out the vowels seems the the best approach.

I could just make something up like convert it to hex, and then make b=0, c=1, d=2, f=3, g=4 etc, but is there anything standard?

EDIT: We have a winner, @pbarker pointed me at https://sqids.org which will do the job nicely!

gilesdring,
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@Floppy but remember… the fly pygmy lynx in the crypt has syzygy rhythm

gilesdring,
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@Floppy tsktsk… hmm… cwtch!

gilesdring,
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@Floppy https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Ys_cover.jpg

ldodds, to random
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We go live now to our correspondent outside the Bauhaus who has some saddening news to report about Bela Lugosi

gilesdring,
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@Floppy @pikesley @ldodds this is a riff off Ken Dodds Dad’s Dog’s Dead, surely….

gilesdring,
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@ldodds @Floppy @pikesley So true. I’ve been searching for Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics mentioning Bela Lugosi. Closest I got was “With Goth On Our Side”

gilesdring, to random
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Must come up with a better stand for Alice Coltrane. This essential oil bottle is a bit undignified.

gilesdring,
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https://youtu.be/TQtEFdyhgdE?si=s_OYk92PGMHvIxCM

pikesley, to random
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Margaret Atwood calling me out once again

gilesdring,
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@pikesley F***ing Margaret Atwood. On the money, again.

danhon, to random
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"You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could shoehorn generative AI features into your product you LITERALLY DIDN'T STOP TO THINK IF YOU SHOULD"

gilesdring,
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@danhon “TAKE YOUR STINKING VECTORS OFF ME, YOU DAMN DIRTY AI!”

gilesdring, to random
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I’m off work next week and planning to read some Ursula K Le Guin, whose works I’ve unconscionably omitted from my reading until being obliquely recommended “Vaster Than Empires And More Slow” recently. Having done that, where should I start?

gilesdring,
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@danhon OK. That is a strong recommendation. Was one I had my eye on…

gilesdring, (edited )
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@danhon Well that was excellent. I’m off to form a Syndicate.

gilesdring,
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@pikesley @danhon I’ll add The Left Hand Of Darkness to this list…

gilesdring, to 3DPrinting
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Been meaning to do this for a few years. Finally learned enough of FreeCAD to be useful

A 3D printer on a countertop.
Some incomplete and failed 3D prints in white PLA.

gilesdring,
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And it’s done. A replacement bracket for a Muji CD1 player. Fits like the original, though the print quality could be a bit better - it was a draft to check sizing, but looks like it’ll actually do the job.

A 3D printed part is attached to the back of a consumer electronics device.

gilesdring, to random
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Ugh https://select2.org

gilesdring,
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@jamesjefferies I mean, it looks lovely. Someone is using it to replace the default behaviour of a select element so it “looks nice”. This then stops the original component from working. 🤦🏻‍♂️

gilesdring,
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@jamesjefferies it’s basically because jQuery starts meddling around with a component that was originally written in Svelte… they’ve each got their opinions about who is in control.

gilesdring,
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@jamesjefferies Luckily, Svelte (which compiles down to plain JS) exposes a really nice $set() method from its proxy. This can be used to poke state updates in from the outside. Even though jQuery has hijacked the select control and (seemingly) broken event propagation, it’s still working via a somewhat circuitous route.

gilesdring,
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@jamesjefferies Apologies for using you as an unwitting rubber duck here! It has actually been really helpful!!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

Edent, to random
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The thing I like best about is that there are no power-ups.

I don't have to waste time managing an inventory, collecting coins, buying power-ups, or crafting.

That's what I hated about Nintendo's - I felt like I spent more time making decisions than exercising. It also felt like I could "cheat" by buying magic potions etc.

BeatSaber is just you. Nothing else. No unlockable extras. No end-boss. No faffing around.

gilesdring,
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@Edent I’m increasingly feeling this about many things. Recent example: Duolingo. The streak is the thing for me. The additional guff about being promoted to the Obsidian league or whatever I could do without. At times, it is more likely to make me cancel my subscription given the extra stress of progressing. I can only assume that this is not their intent. At least enable me to opt out…

xahteiwi, (edited ) to random
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Which are you going to adopt?

gilesdring,
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@xahteiwi Default config to be referred to as Vanillais

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