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mhoye

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Envoy, arbiter, sysadmin, messenger. Ludonarrative dissident, liminal space mercenary, lapsed pragmatist.

Hobbies include weaponized semiotics, operational hauntology, ambient symmetrism.

He, him. Co-chair, department of last resort.

Protect the person behind you.

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mhoye, to random
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I'm idly waiting for the iPad Mini refresh that's probably not coming, the same way I was waiting for the iPod Touch refresh that never came and the iPod refresh that never came, as is my habit.

The iPad Mini, neglected black sheep of the lineup, is the purest and most honest expression of what an iPad is and what it's for: a small, incredibly portable computer for doing one thing at a time, where rough edges of computation are polished smooth and the interface falls away and disappears.

mhoye, to random
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I don't know why you'd need to sign some strange petition about recognizing animal sentience when women recognize bears as friends and orcas recognize the rich as enemies.

mhoye, to random
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It's a bit like smoke machines. Anything can be a nosql DB if you use it wrong enough.

mhoye, to random
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Ed Zitron learns more about the Rabbit.AI - that orange gadget - founder, and it's grim reading. https://www.wheresyoured.at/rabbit-holed/

gvwilson, to random
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Reviews are coming in: https://third-bit.com/2024/05/12/sdxpy-reviews/

mhoye,
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@gvwilson Lot of powerhouse names on that list, gotta admit.

mhoye, to random
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Cars don’t mind cutting you off at all, but you give a car in the bike lane a little love tap as you bike by and drivers lose their damn minds.

grimalkina, to random
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"When people are treated unfairly, for example, when they are not allowed to have input into decisions that will affect them, or when they are not given good explanations of why certain decisions were made, the symbolic message may be that the organization does not think highly enough of them (to provide input or to be given good explanations)."

mhoye, (edited )
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@grimalkina not gonna lie, it hurts to talk about this stuff. Software has been so totally committed to its own exceptionality for so long that the whole notion of psychological self-awareness and its systemic impacts is an identity threat to the field, even though the inside of our heads is where the raw material of our work comes from. It’s so terrible and we’re so far behind as a field.

mhoye, to random
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Whenever Americans talk about "fighting for freedoms" I remember that one time some dude who got thwarted by his own flopsweat tried to blow up his shoes and twenty years later anyone who goes through an American airport has to shuffle around in their socks hoping their pants don't fall down while they get millimeter-radared for a security pageant and the whole country just rolled over and decided that's totally reasonable.

simon, to random
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Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it

"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page

mhoye,
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@simon https://www.anildash.com/2019/12/10/link-in-bio-is-how-they-tried-to-kill-the-web/

@anildash called this in the air years ago.

mhoye, to random
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I just sent a message to Hyundai Canada asking for child safety locks. Not on the rear doors, though. Everyone has that.

I need them on the performance features of the car. I'm going to be teaching two kids how to drive in this thing, and even with the performance options dialed all the way down it will take off like a startled rabbit.

With performance options turned all the way up, this car is just far, far too much car for any novice driver. Damn near every EV is.

mhoye,
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Haha, I just looked it up and the new Hyundai Ionic 5N maxes out with more horsepower than the 1994 Maclaren F1. My boring old regular Ioniq 5 is already faster than a Lamborghini Diablo and within a fifth of a second of matching the track speed of a '97 Dodge Viper.

Teenager Me would have wound up a goddamn grease spot.

mhoye, to random
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I'm on here looking for text indexers and everything is 'lightning fast exoscale terafloops that scales to enterprise quantawarbles with polytopplic performanations' and it would be great if this industry could breathe into a bag until it remembers that one person with one computer is a constituency that matters.

mhoye,
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If your “open source software” requires a datacenter-scale strata and is optimized for, or maybe only meaningful to, datacenter-scale problems, is not open source in any way that matters. “Free as in corporate risk management” and “free as in labor arbitrage” are not aspirations.

mhoye, to random
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TIL: 'zerofree' finds the unallocated, blocks with non-zero value content in an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem [...] and fills them with zeros.

mhoye, to random
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Anyone else seeing automated scans in their logs full of ${${env:NaN:-j}ndi${env:NaN:-:}${env:NaN:-l}dap${env:NaN:-:} stuff and referencing Tomcat, or do I have something new here?

mhoye, to random
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It’s weird to think that anyone would care what Dorsey thinks after his time at Twitter was defined entirely by his visionless absentee leadership.

True story, Zuckerberg stole that line about their driving a clown car into a gold mine from me.

garbados, to random
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if you think The Revolution TM will "go badly" and that's why it's important to vote for biden, i would invite you to get your head out of your ass and read more because even your idea of revolution is imperial propaganda

mhoye,
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@garbados a country that celebrates Independence Day explaining why the revolution would be bad

mhoye, to random
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Both incredible and 100% unsurprising that StackOverflow would choose to burn down their community in favor of AI-generated slurry, when their community was the only path and the only tool they had to differentiate themselves from any goddamn site made of AI-generated slurry.

mhoye, to random
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I’ve mentioned Atkinson Hyperlegible before - it’s certainly a personal favourite - but today I’ve discovered Andika, a teaching font designed to ease learning, and Inclusive Sans, designed for accessibility.

https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

https://software.sil.org/andika/

https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans

As always, I strongly recommend setting Firefox to use only the fonts you’ve chosen, in the heights you prefer. The combination of only using your chosen fonts and an adblocker is a huge improvement.

danluu, (edited ) to random
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This exchange reminds me of the debate I had with Jeff Atwood on whether or not servers should use ECC memory a decade ago. Jeff said no and I disagreed and said yes in https://danluu.com/why-ecc/.

At the time, there was one argument that could've, theoretically, been overturned by progress: Jeff argued that commodity non-ECC memory was becoming more reliable and was highly reliable. This was not true at the time, and it turns out this still isn't true a decade later.

mhoye, (edited )
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@danluu one of the biggest things server hardware enjoys is clean power and controlled operating conditions. You’re certainly not wrong about ECC mattering, but consumer-grade hardware running on server-room power in temperature and humidity-controlled rooms runs far more reliably far longer than you’d ever expect, and most house voltage in North America is hardware-stressing noise by comparison.

mcc, to random
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I love Nine Inch Nails, and I love the Revolting Cocks, but I've never listened to, like, any Ministry. I wonder if I should. One problem is it's hard to know where to get started, there is a lot of it

mhoye,
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@mcc Just One Fix is a good entrypoint.

jwz, to random
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Dear Lazyweb: what is the most recent model of Mac mini capable of running macOS 10.13 High Sierra? That is: the last OS capable of running 32-bit Intel applications.

mhoye,
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@jwz @awb I think it is - https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/05/mojave-is-apples-last-version-of-macos-to-support-32-bit-apps - which means late-2018 Minis.

mhoye, to random
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Does… does something bad happen now? Or has it already happened.

mhoye, to random
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Well, this seems very bad.

https://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/tunnelvision

mhoye, to random
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People talking about ML model parameter numbers like doctor evil talking about money. “One hundred (looking around nervously) billion? Parameters?”

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