mdhughes

@mdhughes@appdot.net

Sex, Drugs, & Unix™.
Try democracy, not tyranny!
Be the STFU you wish to see in the world.
Block all Nazis, Republicans (same thing), crypto, NFT grifts.
"I have come to tell you that you are free." —Eris

Lemmy: https://lemmy.ml/u/mdhughes

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binaryphile, to random
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I'm brushing up on common lisp after a very long time, and I have to say, who thought of naming four functions that all do different things "=', "equal", "eq", and "eql"?

mdhughes,

@binaryphile I kind of prefer the Scheme naming of
eq? (identical)
eqv? (identical, or = numbers)
equal? (sorta comparably equal)
=, string=?, etc. for specific types

But it really should just be = (equal?) and == (eq?)

Oh no am I about to praise Arc for getting one thing right?

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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mdhughes,

@SmudgeTheInsultCat
DO NOT BREAK WINDOW
KILLER HAS WATER, AC ON,
AND HIS FAVORITE MUSIC ON RADIO
(IT'S RED RIGHT HAND)

kzimmermann, to random
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The state of usability of absolutely baffles me.

Like, holy shit, you can't even transfer a bunch of files from the device to another computer without running into 15 different hurdles preventing it.

Meanwhile, every other computer out there: FTP, HTTP and a zillion other ways to do this trivial thing, doable since the 90s.

"but the cloud" - oh. Right. That's why.

mdhughes,

@kzimmermann You mean Android "smart" phones.

On iOS it's pretty decent, most things can use Airdrop, Files/iCloud, DropBox, move them into Readdle Documents or GoodReader and start the local web server, etc., there's a bunch of good SFTP tools, and the UI supports them on all action sheets.

You chose the wrong devices. Aren't all the "foss" types about writing your own solutions? So why don't they do it?

mdhughes,

@kzimmermann If it's so centralized, then it should be profitable to write good software on it. And yet that doesn't happen, either.

neil, (edited ) to random

Have you been to a LAN party?

mdhughes,

@neil Yeah, I miss those, been 20 years now. Don't really miss lugging the tower, the laptop was better when someone had CRTs already (can't game on a ghosty LCD).

chockenberry, to random
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DOES MY CLOUD COMPUTER HAVE THIS UP GRADE

mdhughes,

@chucker @chockenberry @vmstan SNOBOL's pretty neat, like BASIC & AWK (from the future) had a baby and it only did text processing.

ianRobinson, to random
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When did “song of the summer” become the goto phrase when promoting a song you like. It’s been everywhere for the last while.

Let’s not even grace the term “banger” with any discussion 😬

mdhughes,

@ianRobinson Well the Kids Today™ don't have 40 good songs for a top 40. One a year is the best they can do.

tewha, to random

There are a few DC characters I care enough to watch a movie about…

No particular order:
Wonderwoman (oops)
Batman (oops)
Superman (oops)
The Flash (oops)
Dick Grayson & the Titans (oops)
The Martian Manhunter
Miss Martian

I mean, there are probably others. But not on the list? Blue Beetle.

mdhughes,

@tewha I really loved the Ted Kord Blue Beetle comics, Booster Gold crossovers, and he showed up in a lot of fun stuff. He'd be in my top 20.

But ever since Infinite Crisis, they killed him off and the re-creations and resurrections aren't as good, quit reading those.

thegibson, to random

I intensely dislike it when a metal band tries to cater to conservatives...

Metal is an inherently anti-authoritarian artform.

If you are gonna play it... you better be ready to take up the message for the disenfranchised and the powerless, center it, and use that thunder to punch up.

No, I will not be taking questions at this time.

mdhughes,

@thegibson But some metal bands are non-christian conservatives. Fucking Varg Vikernes. Which makes me nervous when I crank up some angry Viking music and then have to check if the band's shit or not.

tewha, (edited ) to random

I’m collecting videos of my car failing to charge off DC chargers. So far I have three unique chargers.

Service is scheduled for August 4, might as well collect videos in the meantime. So when they say “it’s fine“ I can say “bullshit.“

mdhughes,

@tewha You know how car controllers handle errors? They mostly just reboot in place. Hope you don't need to do anything while that's happening.

mdhughes,

@tewha Almost certainly. There's supposed to be some fallback electro-mech system, so you'd probably still have powered steering?

My early-2000s car is much less computerized, and I dunno how I'm gonna feel safe replacing it.

mdhughes, to random

Oh no, Tiny Dog has yet again reduced a ball to a furry tail she can whip around and throw in any direction.

Just got a speedball to the back of my chair.

tewha, to random

macOS: I want to right click an application on a dmg and choose "Copy to Applications."

mdhughes,

@tewha What's a right click?

Anyway, Applications is probably on your Dock, and if not you did that.

mdhughes,

@joshua @tewha I do like apps that offer to move themselves if you run from dmg, but I haven't ever done that.

thegibson, (edited ) to random

I love an incredibly bad takes by people considered to be thought leadership.

mdhughes,

@thegibson We need Shingy to digital prophet us out of the desert.

gregeganSF, to random
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The idea that you can take an LLM — trained on an undisclosed dataset of all kinds of text, and tweaked by human feedback for various messy goals — and then use its responses for social science “research” rather than using real people, is beyond stupid.

https://www.science.org/content/article/can-ai-chatbots-replace-human-subjects-behavioral-experiments

mdhughes,

@gregeganSF "I named a bunch of Minecraft villagers after employees, and then evaluated their job performance to decide who to fire. Walter kept walking into the cactus farm and died, so we put the real one in a straightjacket for safety."

mdhughes, to reddit

I keep typing old. and then erasing it and typing lem

Otherwise not much has changed.

mdhughes,

@brandonscript It's kind of ugly, and search to find communities is awful, but I've adapted fine. There's a few native clients now.

mdhughes,

@brandonscript Oh, there is
https://mlem.group
in beta, which seems nicer than Memmy or the SPA one I tried, but I've not joined the testflight.

bigzaphod, to random
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While we've been reading "A Princess of Mars" we've noticed quite a few scenes that feel like they could have come straight out of Star Wars.

One specifically sticks in mind where the princess was tied by a chain to a giant slobby bulbous green alien chieftain dude who was threatening to have his way with her and then throw her in a dungeon. The whole thing was very "Jabba the Hut."

There are also several characters that end arguments by saying, "I have spoken."

mdhughes,

@tewha @bigzaphod Massive part of my yout' and of course they defined spacey adventure stories for the century.

All his other series are good fun, Pellucidar's my favorite.

Tarzan is much better than a few dumb movies would have you think, but it veers between "black people are awesome but need a white superhero" and typically racist stuff of the time, he does treat Africans like people he just didn't know much and did fuck-all research.

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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Stop whatever you're doing & appreciate that when the iPhone 3G came out, a website loading in only 20 seconds was considered a remarkable achievement.

mdhughes,

@BasicAppleGuy Now it takes 60 seconds to load, and plays a few video ads to keep you busy. Progress!

thegibson, to random

I have no idea what a homestuck is and now I 'm too afraid to ask...

mdhughes,

@thegibson It's a very long webcomic (3000+ pages, dozens of them flash games). About kids playing a town construction/planning videogame that destroys the Earth [minor spoiler for first 100s of pages], then [major spoilers].

It's eventually very interesting, but whether it's worth doing depends on your patience.

thegibson, to random

Full power outage, and this shows up...

Welp.

mdhughes,

@thegibson NO DISASSEMBLE

daniel, to random
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Hey developer friends, with the large shifts the social media landscape is undergoing, where do you hang out with other devs these days? For me it's mostly mastodon and iMessage groups, but I'm craving more!

mdhughes,

@daniel It isn't busy yet, but Lemmy & kbin are getting there. Look around on
http://lemmyverse.net
and sub to a few groups from your lemmy instance of choice.

nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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mdhughes,

@joshua @nocontexttrek What is the nature of the Universe?

The Universe is a single repository that works on my machine.

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