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hughrawlinson

@hughrawlinson@mastodon.xyz

I do open source typescript, cycling around the outskirts of Amsterdam, playing guitars and basses, 3d printing, and worrying 🏳️‍🌈he/him and mad

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badge, to random
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Anyone want to cuddle out 3d printed prototype frogbadge.

hughrawlinson,
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@andypiper @badge Googley eyes are great!

joenash, to random
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A friend introduced me as “the Infinidash guy” and I guess the psychic damage is entirely karmic

hughrawlinson,
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@joenash so why did you leave Amazon?

Edent, to random
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Idly looking at the difference between the original 4:3 release of MASH and the new widescreen version.

The newer version looks so much better - but crops a fair bit from the top and bottom.

But the original version is missing a bunch of stuff from the sides of the images.

Now wondering if I can correct the scaling of the 16:9 version and overlay it on the 4:3 to get the maximum amount of image 😆

4:3 capture - there's more detail at the top and bottom.
Two men at a bar - the bell to the right is cut off.
Two men at a bar - the bell to the right is more visible as is a hatstand on the left. But the top and bottom of the image is missing.

hughrawlinson,
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@Edent did they shift the timing of the theme song?

hughrawlinson, to random
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TTRPG night is going very well

DM: Here are a bunch of dangerous criminals who are going to be the villains of our story
Me: I roll diplomacy, I get 23, I befriend the dangerous criminals, and we all go to ask the big bad to please not

hughrawlinson, to random
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Someone made me hear that take about "you can't convince anyone that they're wrong by talking to them so therefore instead you should

  1. Stop Talking
  2. Listen
  3. Find common ground
  4. Talk about that
  5. ...
  6. The world is better"

so now my mind is broken and you're getting a thread.

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Chinese firm invented a micro nuclear battery using isotope Nickel-63 and diamond semiconductors. The 100-μW coin-sized battery can generate electricity at 3V constantly for over 50 years.

They can operate within a temperature range of -60 to 120 degrees Celsius without any changes in performance and do not experience self-discharge.

https://slguardian.org/chinese-firm-developed-nuclear-battery-that-can-produce-power-for-50-years/

hughrawlinson,
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@yogthos @Edent relevant to your recent post?

seldo, to random
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TIL ChatGPT knows how to play "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon"

hughrawlinson,
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@seldo and it didn’t even make up any movies or incorrectly think actors were in movies they weren’t in this time!

hughrawlinson,
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@seldo I checked, it got it right!

fifilamoura, to random
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I really hate when people compare Covid to AIDS. Firstly, it's hugely inaccurate on many many levels and it's minimizing and appropriating the experiences and suffering of others. Secondly, it usually reveals their complete ignorance of what it was like, both in terms of the activism and also just how people reacted individually and also as community. One thing that people who constantly compare Covid to AIDS very clearly don't understand or know is that people responded to it very differently, both those who thought they weren't at risk and those of us who knew we were. Some people, quite a few actually, did just go "fuck it, I've got one life and I'm going to live it hard and large now." We can talk about the complexities of it all but I am here to tell you that it wasn't some Utopian time when everyone was protecting each other and being cautious, and that lots of people didn't take it seriously back then either. So please stop trying to compare Covid to AIDS for dramatic affect, it's ahistorical and it's no more scientifically accurate than someone saying "Covid is just the flu" either.

hughrawlinson,
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@kkarhan @fifilamoura not everyone recovers. Only most people recover. Many people are left with permanent disability, or symptoms that eventually kill them. The other similarity is that they both damage the immune system (to different extents, and with different treatment responses). They’re not the same at all.

hughrawlinson,
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@kkarhan @fifilamoura

> OFC they ain't the same!

Yes, I was agreeing with you both :) I think we’re on the same page :)

hughrawlinson, to Netherlands
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Weird question for , does anyone have any suggestions on where to buy dried grass for basket weaving? My searches are yielding no results.

thisismissem, to random
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And with just one pull request to complete it: Mastodon v3.5 is no longer a supported version.

If you're on a server running it, you really should upgrade to 4.0 and then subsequent versions soon! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/28574

hughrawlinson,
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@thisismissem You mean "should" right?

hughrawlinson, to random
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Snap is such horseshit, it’s stuck removing an app that’s in limbo. It won’t complete or abort the removal.

hughrawlinson, to random
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@joenash got me the best Christmas present of all - shamed into tidying my desk.

Before you ask no I did not vacuum the footrests under there.

hughrawlinson,
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@joenash that was before I put my collection back on the desk

hughrawlinson, to random
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Ryan Gosling is 43 years old, at what point do we take a long hard look at ourselves and start calling him Ryan Goose

hughrawlinson, to random
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In a society where people’s ability to pay for their basic needs were not tied to their income, employment probation periods might be reasonable. But hiring people only to fail them on probation, not for anything they did or didn’t do, but because you now think you need someone with a slightly different skill set, is inhumane. Certainly for the fired employee, also for the other employees on fixed term contracts or probation who now have ZERO idea if they will be employed next week.

hughrawlinson, to random
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I have it on good authority that @joenash's long suffering cheesemonger is distraught at the news that Joe has been utilizing the services of another cheesemonger behind his back.

hughrawlinson,
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@quixoticgeek @joenash for years I ran an account on twitter pretending to be Joe's beleaguered cheesemonger after he put some cheddar on a bolognese. It was elaborate. There were real cheeses that were delivered over the years, and some that had postal mishaps!

hughrawlinson,
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@joenash @quixoticgeek I committed to the bit

hughrawlinson, to random
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I was on a team once where two particularly long tenured staff were very invested in the idea that we shouldn’t try to make anything better because this is as good as it gets and nowhere else does anything better. Couldn’t do database backups because we had to ship (shit) product no matter what, and spend time only on feature work. I think it was their way of clinging on like barnacles to somewhere that was comfortable for them. Anyway, they both got laid off this year after ~10 years each.

hughrawlinson,
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Of course their shithead VP, who once insisted that a salary adjustment of +3% over a period where inflation was higher was not a real terms pay cut (because the number went up), is still there. At an offsite once he introduced his strategy, which was “put ML on everything” (that was unusual in 2018) and could not answer my very basic question “to do what?”.

I still fairly often wake up at 3am with nightmares about this team.

hughrawlinson, to random
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Had a colleague who was reviewing my code this week look at a PR, and then just open their own PR to do the same thing the way they liked. Don’t do that!

hughrawlinson, to random
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Seeing my former colleagues uncritically post job ads on LinkedIn for the position I was laid off from earlier this year makes me feel like solidarity is dead (and like those colleagues are assholes) tbh.

hughrawlinson, to random
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I want some more hex stickers, but am having trouble finding them. Can I suggest that we start posting our fav hex sticker store links on the hashtag? Here are some really cool ones from @joeycastillo: https://shop.oddlyspecificobjects.com/products/spring-2023-sticker-sheet

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