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gnomon

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Robertson screwdriver owner, believer in the value of personal-scale computing and skeptic of the value of computing scales any larger than that

(previously https://twitter.com/gnomon ; account de-funked)

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mcc, to random
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Incidentally I'm thankfully still not seeing any of this Google "AI results" stuff. It sounds like nearly everyone else is. I don't know if the difference is because I'm on a Canadian IP, or because my feedback when they briefly opted me into the early beta tests was so aggressively negative they put some kind of "AI Hater" flag on my account

gnomon,
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@mcc I want that flag

sachac, to random
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2024-05-27 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/05/2024-05-27-emacs-news/

gnomon,
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@sachac this series needs a theme song

gnomon, to random
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I am NOT going to watch a four hour YouTube video about a star wars hotel

gnomon,
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@Gargron I'm going to end up doing that too, amn't I? The gravitational field at this point is nearly inescapable

jacqueline, to random
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does anyone know if there's people still working at bandcamp. i think they should add opus downloads.

gnomon,
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@jacqueline they should add FLAC downloads

gnomon,
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@jacqueline 🎣

gnomon,
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@jacqueline plz take the bait it is specially chosen and very delicious

gnomon, to random
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i hab a code

gnomon,
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@ottaross hommmmk

sundogplanets, to random
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There were a whole lot of things I was supposed to do today with both farm things and space junk things. But instead, we got a new livestock guardian puppy.

She's already getting along really well with our other LGD, though all the goat mamas seem pretty convinced she is a small bear and will need some time to come to trust her...

gnomon,
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@sundogplanets #monsterdon (Son of Godzilla (1967))

https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/112510833618671619

gnomon, to random
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I am the opposite of a morning person: generally when I wake up I'm feeling the worst I do all day, and that gradually improves as a shower and have breakfast. But this morning I'm already feeling loads better than I did at every point yesterday! So that's nice.

I don't have a working theory about why, but yesterday I just felt super low energy all day - sleepy, but also physically tired as if I had worked hard all week (dear reader, I had not), aching joints, the whole nine yards.

gnomon,
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Anyhow, off to the kettle and grinder and Chemex go I

gnomon,
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Aww yiss

gnomon,
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@ottaross I uhh also use density calibrated water to control for variability in the municipal water quality

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/water-environment/tap-water-in-toronto/tap-water-quality-system-reports/

(This is an admission, not a brag)

jwz, to random
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It is with a heavy heart that I bring you the news that Twitter finally got around to renewing t dot co for another twelve months. They did this after it expired but was still in the grace period. Oh well, maybe next year.

gnomon,
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@jwz it's like Charlie Brown and the great pumpkin

gvwilson, to random
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what if?

gnomon,
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@gvwilson ah, but then again: what ifn't?

drdrang, to random
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Of all the people Altman could’ve tried to take advantage of, Scarlett Johansson seems like the worst possible choice. She sued Disney.

gnomon,
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@drdrang god I hope sama is dumb enough that after being taken to school by Scarlett Johansson he then tries to take advantage of...

danluu, (edited ) to random
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Wow, people really don't like iTerm2 adding an optional AI integration which requires you to enter your OpenAI key to use, calling it "no longer fit for purpose", etc.

Someone pointed out that this feature is optional and not only has to be enabled, but it requires you to enter a key to use. That user was, apparently, reported on gitlab and is now blocked.

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11470

It reminds me a bit of how some people don't like "algorithms", as in https://x.com/danluu/status/983466330320965632.

gnomon,
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@danluu that comparison with "algorithms" is a little disingenuous, I think.

People with strong opinions about terminal emulators have reason to dislike OpenAI and Copilot because of the open contempt their developers have displayed towards the people who created the data sets used for their training. A project building in (optional) OpenAI integration tacitly supports this contempt. The public reaction is a reasonable social consequence; it does track, it is not based on ignorance.

gnomon, to random
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The more time I spend with GitHub Actions, the more convinced I become that workflow files belong in a repo but not in the commit history graph of the default ref; maybe under a different namespace, refs/ci/* or something. There's too much value in keeping them right next to the code, but too much negative value in requiring their changes to be intermingled with codebase commits.

That said I also firmly believe that workflow files should be STRICTLY orchestration; execution logic is app code.

sachac, to random
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2024-05-20 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/05/2024-05-20-emacs-news/

gnomon,
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@sachac support minor link target fixup for this episode: https://github.com/sachac/emacs-news/pull/2

gnomon, to random
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Get your timed mute buttons ready, is about to watch The Pit and the Pendulum!

gnomon,
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omg Medusa got Elizabeth

gnomon,
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Legitimately chilling sarcophagus scene.

gnomon,
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"Are you leaving then? Will you accept the hospitality of my carriage?"

Look: do not get into ANY KIND OF BOX AS DIRECTED BY THIS DOCTOR whether or not it has horses hitched to it

gnomon,
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Real talk: Vincent Price is doing well amazing job carrying this whole section of the movie essentially solo, but let's spare a moment to appreciate the truly excellent moving camera work to keep him and his face perfectly in frame as he flutters around.

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