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quantization machine inputs artisan. he/him. being wrong on the internet practitioner. 50.3° N, 119.3° W (approx.) 68kΩ (Rɪᴅ_ʙ) pull-down. ε_𝑣 in Twitch chat. Boosts are sometimes followed by relevant snark

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This is the one that did it. This is the one that made me say yeah, I'm not waiting for those bozos to figure it out anymore, and change my default search engine even in Chrome.

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LB: ' As the WSJ Magazine reports: “Benioff and Weiss, who have been friends since grad school, weren’t crazy about HBO’s then-owners, AT&T, whose executives once asked whether ‘Game of Thrones’ could be shot vertically so it would fit on your phone. '

... I don't even know what to say, that is breathtakingly stupid.

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LB: with apologies to really epic posters who know who they are, this one is a real thing https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1191463

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Okay, let's think about a different question: What's the most torment-nexus-flavoured sw dev opportunity available?

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So I have a question for people who know cursed old libtool stuff: When using libtool modules, are you supposed to be able to just pass the modules with -dlopen when linking the final program with libtool and have it work?

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LB: This is the thing with the sort of campaigning-against-Trudeau the Conservatives are doing, sure the government sucks, and Trudeau is quintessentially a kind of boring happy medium looks good in the uniform percentage-maximizing undistinguished leader pick, but to run against them on the basis of that you have to provide an alternative platform that is NOT TOTALLY PANTS WETTINGLY BATSHIT INSANE

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LB: ngl, I use the Best Buy website as a kind of "what would the world's least competent retail website developers do" quick reference

rakslice,
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alol, the Klingon moon that blows up at the beginning of Star Trek VI is called Praxis, which is 👌

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LB: utter lack of ui 101 level traditional ui affordances and ui guidelines stuff is so commonplace now. Look at the print dialog in Chrome if you want to see what "programmer ui" means in 2024

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You would be forgiven for thinking that whatever ui has hot water bottle and dentists' chair there is trying to be inscrutable on purpose like OG snapchat

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It's like a corollary of "when you're an exec, reasons don't matter" -- like as the customer, legalese doesn't matter, I'm not awarding points for technical correctness -- when a company ditches the feature I'm using without warning, or the site just bans me for no reason, it puts the ball in my court to take the next step, and I have to make a decision about choosing a replacement and I'm gonna take the obvious factors into account,

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LB: My last dealing with an American carmaker was a very strange runaround where their maintenance folks refused to do some work without an insurance evaluation, so I got one, then refused to do the work because they didn't like the insurance quote, then after I had had the work done elsewhere they immediately proposed redoing part of it, without any apparent awareness I had originally brought it to them to do in the first place, weeks before by that point.

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Looking at ancient svr3.x Esix (which means the network stack is going to be some kind of glued together thing you need to be a bsd & vendors genealogy expert to understand the provenance of), how do you set a default route?

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LB: I still remember the warning from whatever assignment in a first course in whatever language with a preprocessor along the lines of "please don't use macros to turn the language into <intro programming course language>" -- it's funny, but it's also the only way they're going to communicate that they're effectively only teaching a specific subset of the thing

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oop, there's the lede: "The DOJ hasn't further specified how the US military purchased counterfeit Cisco gear [...] Online marketplaces like Amazon and eBay are known to have suspicious tech listings, so it would be alarming if government entities, especially military ones, were acquiring gear purchased by these means." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/counterfeit-cisco-gear-ended-up-in-us-military-bases-used-in-combat-operations/

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Reflecting on notation and programming, I do have a certain conceptualization of the free software outlook as a kind of malicious compliance with the approach of literate programming, like making the information accessible in theory, but not in practice to the regular users, only to a certain kind of weird specialist

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In any case, the question I was getting to is: which is the effect and which is the cause? is the cause of better exposition held up by bad languages? or are languages bad at this because being better at it is not what programmers want to do?

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Programming languages in the modern era all seem resigned to some amount of write-only-code-encouraging inscrutable punctuation marks

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Re Parkland: I can never keep the Edmonton-area towns/cities starting with 'S' straight; Stony Plain is the one on the far left

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LB: oh wow... somehow i thought he passed years ago

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LB: real kid rolls up to the red light and their beater loses a hubcap and it keeps on rolling clear across the intersection energy

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Anybody know what the situation is with usb gadget drivers with the rise of type-c? I have an mt81xx device where I'm trying to figure out how you would convince the mtu3 to provide udc (or is that even relevant in type-c land?)

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I'm at the point where I have the devicetree stuff to get it to try to init what would lead to the gadget mode udc appearing but there's some kind of clock check failing which prevents it from getting to that

https://github.com/hexdump0815/imagebuilder/issues/188

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The irony of even Japan's toy machine architecture for academic courses being some kind of national standard b/c MITI https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/02/cap-x-and-comp-x-how-tandy-pocket.html

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The revolution will be communicated through this kind of glitch, but you're not in the matrix, it's just society being consumed by terminal phoning-it-in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcPy2ODqIgg

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