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mikej

@mikej@mastodon.online

Mike J 👹🐀 🤘🏻
emmeyekayeee on twitter

(Demon rats, fuck yeah.)

Mots pressés, Mots sensés Mots qui disent la verité Mots maudits, Mots mentis Mots qui manquent le fruit d'esprit

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kboyd, to random
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90% of being a developer is resisting the urge to completely rewrite a thousand-line function, that delivers critical business value, whenever a small tweak is needed.

mikej,
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@jmichaelward @kboyd I was going to say that the phrase "1000 line function" drives you into a blind rage.

codinghorror, to random

And people say American health care needs work.. I say working as designed!

mikej,
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@codinghorror Double blind studies have placebos to be effective even when the users know they're getting placebos.

In addition to brain power, they can help with running up that hill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-mYX0qKkB8

glennf, to random
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I don’t know. Every single article I have read about him in the last two days has pointed out that statement and provided context about his hard-right-and-beyond views. https://digipres.club/@lolcat/111212013692864778

mikej,
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@glennf The ironic thing is he's never going to be speaker and it's the hard right extremists that are going to stop him

jerry, to random

There must be some scientific explanation for why the time it takes a dog to find their spot to do their business is directly proportional to how hard it is raining.

mikej,
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@jerry I was told it's because of the city's onerous business license requirements.

drahardja, to random
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This is so cool! The engineers at MIT discovered that cement and carbon black (paracrystalline carbon) can be mixed to create a supercapacitor that still behaves like cement. That means you can build cement structures that store energy. They estimate that 45 m³ of this material is enough to store 10 kWh (about a day’s worth of energy for a home).

“New Breakthrough in Energy Storage – MIT Engineers Create Supercapacitor out of Ancient Materials”

https://scitechdaily.com/new-breakthrough-in-energy-storage-mit-engineers-create-supercapacitor-out-of-ancient-materials/

mikej,
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@drahardja Time to bring back brutalism.

pbump, to random
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Not surprising that Scalise and Jordan would be squishy on 2020 given that more than half their (current!) caucus voted to reject electors.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/11/house-speaker-2020-election-trump/

mikej,
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@pbump One man's squishy is another man's traitorous.

grammargirl, to random
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I was feeling on the spot as a customer service rep asked me to spell my name after getting it wrong a few times, and I started coming up with the weirdest words. It started fine:

M as in Mary.

I as in ... ... ice?

G as in generous.
N as in Neanderthal.
O as in orangutang (since I was looking at that word earlier).

I wonder how often something like that happens. Maybe I've been playing too many word games.

mikej,
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@grammargirl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF3NIcGLqfw

briankrebs, to random

Well, points for honesty about what looks like a lapse in judgment/ethics. I can't say I've ever before received a newsletter that asked me to unsubscribe in the subject line.

mikej,
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@briankrebs Is "double opt-in" the same as "I get to spam you once?"

TechConnectify, (edited ) to random
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Yesterday's toots about serial/parallel hybrid cars vs. trains are really pushing me to make a video about hybrid car tech.

Here's the thing lots of people don't seem to know: the most efficient hybrid powertrains also do the trick of keeping the engine at optimum RPM/efficiency but the engine can still contribute directly to the spinning of the wheels

It's the technique that makes diesel-electric efficient but even more so because it largely skips conversion losses.

mikej,
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@TechConnectify Next time you're in Seattle you can talk about hybrid ferries.

https://wsdot.wa.gov/about/news/2023/washington-state-ferries-awards-contract-convert-largest-vessels-hybrid-electric-power

kboyd, to random
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It's a cool fall evening, gentle wind, bit of rain ... and I find myself wanting a real rager of a winter storm.

mikej,
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@kboyd Small craft advisory for Puget Sound:

https://marine.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=PZZ135&warncounty=marine&firewxzone=&local_place1=5NM%20NW%20Seattle%20WA&product1=Small+Craft+Advisory&lat=47.688&lon=-122.4275

Alice, (edited ) to random
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Thank you for your service.

mikej,
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@Alice I was in the browser wars. Some call it the forgotten war. I couldn't walk the streets of San Francisco without someone spitting on me. So not a lot has changed.

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    @Teri_Kanefield @pbump Musk wants to padlock the fire exits.

    stux, to random
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    Trump reportedly shared nuclear sub secrets.. :nkoFacepalm2:

    Russian spy much?

    mikej,
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    @stux Not smart enough to be a spy. Just a braggart with access to too much information.

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    mikej,
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    @Teri_Kanefield I keep asking people if they believe the VP is legally allowed to reject any slate of electors she doesn't like.

    It's amazing to see the circles they run around in after a change of pronouns.

    By the same token, does Trump believe that Biden has the right to do the things of which he (Trump) is accused?

    Gargron, to random
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    Personally I'm quite pleased with the design of link cards in Mastodon 4.2, they finally feel on par with other types of media attachments. Links make the web go round!

    mikej,
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    @Gargron I just wish that if it was a link to another toot, it showed the whole toot without my having to click instead of the current behavior.

    kboyd, to random
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    "Influencers complain of unflattering iPhone 15 selfie camera"

    ...

    How certain are they that the camera is to blame?

    mikej,
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    @kboyd When my iphone 5 was brand new I looked great in my pictures! And much thinner!

    GossiTheDog, to random
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    mikej,
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    @GossiTheDog In a bid tostay up to the minute, a year from now they'll release their NFT avatar.

    briankrebs, (edited ) to random

    If you're in the US and your phone starts squawking loudly this afternoon, don't worry, it's only a test.

    https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integrated-public-alert-warning-system/national-test-2023

    If you have an important meeting or video call going on at 2:20pm ET today, you might want to turn off the emergency alerts, or just leave your phone in another room.

    On an iPhone, this setting is under notifications, but you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom, after all the individual apps.

    Here's something I hadn't considered previously:

    Edit: I'm being told by way smarter people that even turning these notification settings off probably won't stop this test on your phone. But turning it off will.

    mikej,
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    @briankrebs My android made no noise, but the text pop up came up. I had previously disabled all the amber alerts etc.

    grammargirl, (edited ) to random
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    Removing McCarthy is historic.

    The U.S. House of Representatives has never successfully voted to remove the speaker before.

    If you're writing about it, don't confuse "historic" and "historical." Historic things are important. Historical things simply happened in the past.

    https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/historic-versus-historical/

    mikej,
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    @grammargirl Can I be histrionic?

    arstechnica, to random
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    Netflix raising ad-free prices in “a few months”

    Higher monthly fees for no ads to start in US, Canada, WSJ reports.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/netflix-raising-ad-free-prices-in-a-few-months/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    mikej,
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    @arstechnica Everyone talked a big game when they cracked down on password sharing, but their subs and profits both went up.

    TechDesk, to tech
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    If you’re a regular visitor to Apple’s App Store, you may likely soon notice an enhanced experience. According to The Verge, the company is bringing its powerful internal search engine to the App Store and other apps. Will it also use generative AI tools? https://flip.it/Oowjoh

    mikej,
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    @TechDesk When hearing the phrase, "they're adding AI to it", do you say

    mikej, to sailing
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    Running the dock today. Catalina 27 practicing mooring ball approaches, one rs vision practicing rudderless, 3 others just out for a sail.

    jerry, to random

    Surely I’m not the only one

    mikej,
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    @jerry I voted to write the charges on a cinderblock before dropping them on him.

    grammargirl, to Etymology
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    As we head into the spooky season, do you ever wonder what to call the grave markers that show up as yard decorations? Tombstones? Gravestones? Headstones?

    They're often used interchangeably today, but they do have different histories.

    https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/articles/tombstone-gravestone-or-headstone-whats-the-difference/

    mikej,
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    @grammargirl Cenotaph if there's no body buried there.

    Alice, to random
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    If you’re backing into a parking space, you better be about to rob a bank because that’s the only valid reason to be doing annoying stuff like that.

    mikej,
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    @Alice A-fucking-men.

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