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n1vux

@n1vux@mastodon.radio

radio N1VUX. software (semiretired). Scotch/Cognac/Armagnac (fan/ex-pro). aka @BRicker ^Sarcasm thus^

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gbhnews, to random
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I try not to spam you guys with links, but this was wicked cute. https://youtu.be/Nx6vfZztkT4

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@gbhnews
Oh yes quite authentic, but use of a regionalism in public is still a choice.
Which for this post was a good and appropriate choice.👍❤

I did NOT expect that it would be explicitly choosing a non-MUTCD shape because it's not a warning etc. Nice and thank you all for this.❤

n1vux,
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@gbhnews
Government = Abbreviate Everything.

Over on the Blue FB, there's a
public group "there is NO way that is MUTCD-compliant" that shares non-standard signage found in the wild. Hilarity.

nyrath, to random
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Well, my smartphone just screamed at me. It informed me that at 5:00 EST the army Corp of engineers will be using explosive cutting charges to slice up the part of the collapsed Francis Key Bridge which is currently draped over the cargo ship.

They said anybody within 2,000 feet should either wear hearing protection or hide inside a house.

I will comply...

n1vux,
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@nyrath hoping no lingering effects from what could be a minor concussion?

ai6yr, to random

Ended up going to Florida and back for a graduation (with a brief stop at Epcot since we were there).

Epcot when we were kids: A taste of culture! Innovation! Live street performers! Music! Food! THE FUTURE!

Epcot today: Day Drinker's Paradise (with Official "Drinking Around The World" T-Shirts).

🤔

n1vux,
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@ai6yr also
still Eating Around the World,
and seasonally Gardening or Art Around the World in World Showcase.

(Future World is under renovation currently but has a couple big things close to ready.)

ai6yr, to climate

Climate change could virtually disappear in Florida, at least according to state law - CBS Miami
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/climate-change-could-virtually-disappear-in-florida-at-least-according-to-state-law-3/

n1vux,
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@ai6yr Miami will be relieved to know it's just inevitably sinking rather than being overwashed by illegal, preventable AGW sea rise.

ai6yr, to Software

😅BBC: North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs😭
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

n1vux,
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@ai6yr fixing the computers isn't even considered an option. sigh

skinnylatte, to random
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I learned to develop film out of necessity.

Dev and scan for 7 rolls of film is US$150 where I live.

With my Bellini chemicals, and scanning setup at Photolaundry where I get a Fuji frontier scanner by the hour, it costs $4-5 per roll (excluding my time, but I actually do this to destress)

n1vux,
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@skinnylatte
Photolaundry sounds sweet!

I should check if one of the Greater Boston makerspaces has hourly high-end scanners before I pay to upgrade.

(I'm not currently shooting film, but I have 3 lifetimes of slides to digitize.)

ai6yr, to movies

Saw "The Beekeeper" with Jason Statham. There could not be a more awesome movie!

  1. Beekeeping!
  2. Old pickup truck!
  3. Woodworking tools!
  4. Anti-crypto/NFT
  5. Plot could have come from a drunk version of my beekeeping toots about replacing a queen
  6. Cybercriminals get their just desserts
  7. Hero is a nice guy
  8. Beekeeper as the hero

(It brought tears to my eyes, truly).

n1vux,
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@ai6yr inanimate woodworking tools are equally content to work wood or (un)intentional mayhem.

⚠ Count fingers after use.
⚠ Do not put sharp edge against lifeforms.

universalhub, to boston
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This is not just some hooey: The Red Line goes kablooie


https://www.universalhub.com/2024/not-just-some-hooey-red-line-goes-kablooie

n1vux,
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@universalhub
Again with the stretchy stretch

universalhub, to boston
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It's just not fairium: Dead train at Aquarium.

https://www.universalhub.com/2024/it-just-not-fairium-dead-train-aquarium

n1vux,
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@universalhub

Stretching ...

cstross, to random
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Q: What could possibly be worse for the UK than Liz Truss as PM?

A: Liz Truss as PM with the full benefit of hindsight (but no greater capacity for insight than she demonstrated last time round)

n1vux,
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@cstross
Would Penney Dreadful Mordant be worse as PM?
(Or with less hindsight, less dangerous?)

lauren, to random
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In an era when U.S. television series still showed married couples sleeping in separate beds, typically separated by a table of some sort, the first two series to clearly break this pattern and show the couples sharing beds were the 1960's programs "Bewitched" and "The Munsters" -- both series with supernatural elements. I've always found this fascinating.

n1vux,
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@lauren

iirc, I Love Lucy (1950s; already in syndicated reruns in 1960s) was given a pass on single shared bed by the censors because both the actors and the characters were married to each other. (Provided the pajamas and on-screen (in)action were suitably chaste, naturally.)

ai6yr, to random

Good news, my NHC (National Hurricane Center) bot appears to be working!

Bad news: Atlantic hurricane season starting up

https://m.ai6yr.org/

n1vux,
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@ai6yr soon enough, the season will be 12 months

ai6yr, to random

Yeah, no need to call the Sheriff's Office folks. You might, however, hire a few science teachers for the schools.

(Newberry County, South Carolina Sheriff's Office)

n1vux,
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@ai6yr
I hear they're edible

ai6yr, (edited ) to random

Looks like there is a new "Aqua Alert" program rolling out (correction: somewhere). Appears to be something to help inform people about lost boaters, kayakers, swimmers. (lots of testing alerts out there today...)

n1vux,
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@ai6yr CT? Long Island is still NYS.

ai6yr, to startup

IEEE Spectrum: The Messy Reality Behind A Silicon Valley Unicorn. A VC-backed startup's push for growth left little time for actual engineering. https://spectrum.ieee.org/unicorn-startup

n1vux,
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@ai6yr
^Shocked, Shocked.^

Only thing more toxic that 90-day long-term planning continual growth need of publicly traded co's is VC/PE growth demands.

Casablanca movie GIF. Police Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains, in uniform) ironically tells Rick (Humphrey Bogart, in white tux) "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here" (after he'd been winning at roulette)

SergKoren, to writing
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Observed: a party of about 20 older women in red hats.

Conspiracy theories?

n1vux,
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@SergKoren @Binder

A widespread guild of Ladies who Lunch.

Binder, to random
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If I don’t eat breakfast, is it really morning?

n1vux,
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @Binder

Begins with second breakfast, of course

mappingsupport, to webdev
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Got search?

When I searched on: cell phone follow property lines
I got 4.7+ billion hits
The first hit is a PDF for my consulting service.
New personal record for number of hits where one of my things is at the top.

n1vux,
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@GreenFire @ai6yr

Yep, last time i taught, I lost money because I had to go off the clock at my consulting client to answer phone questions or correct homework. The Lecturer stipend barely paid for class contact hours only.

@AE4WX @Geojoek @kc2ihx @mappingsupport

ai6yr, to twitter

%s/twitter.com/x.com/g does not work as expected 😂

n1vux,
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@driusan @ai6yr

Sigh.
🖥Welcome to Scunthorpe. ⚽️😆😉👎

Modern extended RegExps include

\b word-boundary (Unicode aware when appropriate)

Failure to use it is just embarrassing. 😢

(Update your PCRE if you don't have \b yet.
Offer void in sed which only offers -E,-r ERE.👎
Grep now has -w (word match) and -P PCRE.👍
remains home of the most PCRE.)

nyrath, to random
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New Moon: Lutecia in orbit

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/9xLWN

n1vux,
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@sudnadja

«Understood» is doing some heavy lifting there, to leave a loophole for FTL under the rug.

But yes, the analogies from Old Earth colonial/piratical/megacorp eras' economics lift about as well into space as WW1/WW2 dog-fights & submarine vs destroyer chases (i.e. badly).

@RogerBW @michael_w_busch @nyrath

n1vux,
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@sudnadja
My late M-i-L dismissed her husband's cherished (hard) SF and the 1960s/70s TV/movies as "apparently spaceships don't have toilets".
She had a point.
I've since seen a couple women SF authors include "freshers" for functions beyond shower-replacement as plot points, but not in Golden Age novels.
(I suspect JWCampbell had an aversion to the scatological and set the tone?)

@RogerBW @michael_w_busch @nyrath

n1vux,
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@nyrath

She might have coined the term?
But AFAIK it was rather later that freshers providing nutrient-laden-excrement to the hydroponics was spelled out.
(E.g. Elizabeth Moon's Serrano Legacy / Familias Regnant braided septology )
@sudnadja @RogerBW @michael_w_busch

n1vux,
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@DenOfEarth
Do. Both the new & used book markets are more efficient and her publisher has been doing 2- or 3-in‐one volumes.
@nyrath

universalhub, to boston
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Board OKs office-to-apartments conversion on Franklin Street downtown

https://www.universalhub.com/2024/board-oks-office-apartments-conversion-franklin

n1vux,
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@universalhub

TIL: ground water protection zone!

now wondering, do we have one in back bay too,
where the pilings are endangered?

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