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krssctt

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Software engineer working on web stuff with a previous history in electronics. I am bad at video games but that doesn’t stop me.

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nyquildotorg, (edited ) to random
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I've heard the story about how the A&W 1/3 lb burger at the same price as McDonald's Quarter Pounder failed because America is bad at fractions, but I do not believe that's the whole story.

Incredibly important factors:

  1. A&W burgers sucked.

  2. McDonalds was already an advertising juggernaut by that point. No kids have ever begged their parents to go to A&W to get a burger, which means the parents don't need to buy a bigger burger.

krssctt,
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@suetanvil @nyquildotorg came here to say the same thing. Canadian A&W (which is totally unrelated to US A&W) is top tier fast food and my kids definitely ask for it more than McDonalds.

I’m pretty sure they diverged in the 90s, which Canadians might remember as the return of the “Burger Family” era.

andycarolan, to random
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Feels a shame to throw this out, but I’ve nothing I can plug it into any more.

I probably only used it a couple of times 🤔

krssctt,
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@andycarolan I still occasionally use the USB part of one of those kits with a USB-MIDI cable to do music things with an old iPad.

nyquildotorg, to random
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Like 10-15 years ago I was making fun of how horribly named Amazon's menu of cloud computing products are.

Everything has a cutesy name that doesn't tell you what it is. For instance, they can't just call it DNS, they call it Route53 instead and you're just expected to know that.

In a post on Google+ I listed three real ones and a fake one I made up to see if anyone would notice (nobody did) however, the one I made up is real now.

I'm not taking credit or anything, and I don't know what either my fake one or the real one would even do, but its name is "LightSail."

(I'm not asking what it does; I'd prefer to remain awestruck and ignorant about the change I accidentally manifested.)

krssctt,
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@nyquildotorg I’ve got a few here I’m waiting to manifest https://mastodon.social/@krssctt/112056730716360273

krssctt, to AWS
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Me: I need Session Thingy
AWS: First you must enable Cloud Florper. It’s free!

new tab

AWS: To enable, you must setup Cloud Flurper.
Me: But I just…
AWS: No this one’s different.

new tab

AWS: To use Cloud Flurper, we highly recommend you enable Combobulator. Otherwise you won’t be able to use Identity Blarping in the future!
Me: OK fine.

new tab

AWS: Welcome to Combobulator (formerly Amazon Identity Cromulator)
Me: Please, just enable.
AWS: OK, $500/month

mbonsma, to random
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What? No, my family isn't obsessed with public transit

A Lego GO train on Lego train tracks

krssctt,
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@mbonsma ahhhhhh so good!!!

ned, (edited ) to random
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I'm curious how people score on the FM 100 Hue Test? I score a perfect 0, but I don't know how much of the norm that is: https://www.color-blind-test.com/images/huetest/Farnsworth100.html

(This is the limited online version, there is a full test available with the proper software.)

krssctt,
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@ned I got 4 on my iPhone but 0 on my desktop monitor. Im not sure how much of that is display calibration vs physical size vs plain luck.

andycarolan, to jazz
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I started to like the jazz music that plays in my favourite coffee shop, so I now listen to whatever chill jazz I can find while driving as it helps to keep me calm. I’m open to recommendations if anyone has any artists, tracks or playlists to share!

krssctt,
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@andycarolan they cover a lot of different genres but I have discovered so much great jazz (especially international artists) from the My Analog Journal YouTube channel. I can especially recommend their 70’s Japanese jazz/fusion sets, which are a goldmine for incredible music. https://www.youtube.com/@MyAnalogJournal

krssctt, to random
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Happy Year of the Dragon friends!

andycarolan, to random
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I'm baking a Chocolate Brownie for the week ahead. Really doesn't take long to make one.

Might roll out a batch of cookies later, but it depends on time 🍪

krssctt,
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@andycarolan I’ve recently started just making cookies any time I want cookies. “Making things from scratch” was way more overwhelming in my head than it actually is, once I got over that mental hurdle. It doesn’t even take that long!

Chrishallbeck, to random
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Is the definition for “anymore” drifting? It feels like I’m seeing an increase of sentences like “The burger was great! I’m gonna go there once a week anymore.” where it’s a positive indicator instead of the negative use I’m used to.

krssctt,
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@Chrishallbeck I have definitely seen this usage before and I Did Not Like It.

syntaxseed, to random
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🔥Hot take:
It's not a "free trial" if I have to pick a plan & give my credit card & get billed the second the trial ends.

This is delayed billing. I'm paying with the effort it will take to remember to reassess at the end of the trial & manually cancel if I didn't like it. I'm paying by giving you my credit card info. I'm paying with reminder burden.

This is a dark pattern.

krssctt,
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@syntaxseed aren’t there specifically laws for this kind of stuff in Quebec? I’m pretty sure that’s why free trials work differently (or are not available) there.

emelie, to random
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Who's the idiot who ordered a package to the wrong adress. This idiot. The app says delivered too. Fantastic.

krssctt,
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@emelie I did this once, one digit typo so it was just down the street. I luckily realized it before the delivery date so when the tracking said it was out I watched the window all day for the delivery truck to drive by. Then I ran over to the house, grabbed the package off their porch, and left a note in the mailbox with my name and address explaining what happened (in case they had cameras or something and spotted me).

andycarolan, to random
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Breakfast cereal is better late in the evening.

Change my mind!

krssctt,
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@andycarolan I don’t know about “better” but I’m on board with “equally good”

CM30, to webdev
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So, quick question for any folks here on Mastodon.

How often do you use new technologies in your work? Like newly added JavaScript functions and APIs, CSS features, etc?

Are you/your company on the cutting edge, or are you more conservative with your choices?

krssctt,
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@CM30 we are always using new features at my work. We use Node.js for servers and so we can always guarantee that the backend code is running on an up-to-date platform. For client stuff we are still pretty cutting-edge, but we will usually check https://caniuse.com just to make sure it’s not a browser-specific thing or cutting off too many users.

christianselig, (edited ) to random
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Weird question, but I have an old iPad that I don't use anymore, and I always see people take old laptop screens and convert them to portable HDMI monitors with eBay controllers, is there such a thing for iPads? (Not with software, I want literally just a dumb HDMI monitor.)

krssctt,
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@christianselig I swear I saw a tutorial for this on YouTube recently, using a circuit board that drives an iPad panel directly. I will try to dig up some details.

256, to random
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NeoPlanet 5.0 (1999)

krssctt,
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@256 paging @ActionRetro

syntaxseed, to marketing
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Nothing tells me more about how important communication skills are, than the emails my kids' school sends to parents.

  • They are only in French despite many parents being anglophone.

  • They provide a link to an online translator in the footer rather than just pasting in the translation for us.

  • They always lack pertinent info like dates, times, links and locations, leaving it to us recipients to all hunt for this info.

Etc

It looks & feels half-assed & uncaring.

krssctt,
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@syntaxseed (if you’re comfortable sharing) do your kids go to a French-language school vs a “French Immersion” school? My kids go to French immersion and we were worried about our own language skills before they started but it was made clear pretty quickly that it was English for the parents, (mostly) French for the kids.

mcc, to random
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What is the best song by DOMi

krssctt,
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@mcc giant nuts https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AWqH4h5CQyQ

mcc, (edited ) to random
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IT WOULD APPEAR THAT 20 MINUTES BEFORE MY STREAM, UBUNTU PUSHED AN UPDATE (edit: not true, it's even more ridiculous than that, see end of thread) THAT BROKE GDM ON THE LAPTOP I WAS GOING TO BE STREAMING FROM, EFFECTIVELY BRICKING THE LAPTOP

I AM VERY, VERY DISAPPOINTED IN MY ONE MONTH OF USING UBUNTU SO FAR

krssctt,
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@mcc wait how old is this bug? I feel like I was bit by the same thing years ago…

“Reported 2017”

I…

What are they even doing over there?

krssctt, to bluesky
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Ahaha, finally got my invite email from the waiting list. I haven’t checked that place in weeks. Already kinda over it.

krssctt,
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@andycarolan I actually can’t believe the email invites are still going out. Certainly anyone who wanted an invite already got it from someone else (and now has a ton of their own too)

mjg59, to random
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Extremely confused by people who see WSL as an attempt to compete with Linux and not an attempt to prevent developers moving to macos

krssctt,
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@mjg59 This 100% checks out for me. WSL is the only reason I am able to use Windows on my work machine. I was previously using a Mac and would probably still be if WSL didn’t exist.

shortridge, to random
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hello fedimortals, what are the most beautiful computer things to you — whether in the realm of , , , , etc.?

what pleases your aesthetic senses? what feels poetic? what fills you with awe, wonder, or excitement?

serious answers preferred 🖤

krssctt,
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@shortridge well-routed cables, both inside a PC and in a rack or other infrastructure. There is very little functional reason to do it - it’s so much easier to just plug stuff in, and the electrons don’t care. Beautiful, tidy cable installations are pure aesthetics. Art.

shortridge, to Halloween
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🎶 Cause I’m just Ken
Anywhere else I’d be admin
Is it my destiny to live and die a life of prod fragility?
I’m just Ken
Where they see blips I see a trend
What will it take for them to see the bro behind the Go
And log for me?
🎶

a photo of me standing against a brick wall wearing a costume based on the character Ken from the Barbie movie. I have my glasses pulled down under my eyes as if to say Hey world git check me out. I am absolutely feeling the Kenergy with my lightning bandana and matching lightning pants. My left hand is slung over my fanny pack, which is emblazoned with Ken in Metallica font. My black fringe leather vest is blowing in the crisp autumn breeze, but my icy blonde bangs are staying in place. A horse pendant rests on my chest because Ken is a total horse bro. I'm standing next to my chrysanthemums and a pumpkin I picked from a real pumpkin patch, along with approximately fifty bablillion other pumpkins. The overall look communicates Ken you believe how cool I am? Will anyone ever be this cool again? It belies my secret hope that Barbie checks out my chiseled abs.

krssctt,
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@shortridge Kelly this alt text deserves a standing ovation 👏

catsalad, (edited ) to random

How often do you vacuum? 📆

krssctt,
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@catsalad hardwood floors here and a roomba that does the rounds on a timer every day without me having to do anything so I think I qualify for at least three of these options.

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