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swelljoe

@swelljoe@mas.to

Born tired. Likes bikes and hikes. Sometimes I work on Open Source software. Other times I work on robots. I remember when computers were good. He/him.

Did you alt text your image? It'd be a lot cooler if you did.

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swelljoe, to random
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Maggie's first house (the one that burned down) is for sale in Roslyn, WA. It is, of course, wildly overpriced. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/107-W-Washington-Ave-Roslyn-WA-98941/61116213_zpid/

swelljoe, to random
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Farewell wagon. Matthew's back in the game.

swelljoe, to random
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I wonder if there was already a geodesic dome near the usual filming locations that they used, or if they had to go somewhere special for it. It's the pacific northwest, seems like there's gotta be a dome.

bagder, to random
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"Subject: When will there be a patch for the console version of Hammerwatch 2?!"

I'm not entirely sure I'm the right person to respond.

#inbox

swelljoe,
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@bagder I get this kind of thing all the time, because software I work on has a "website disabled" and default web page before the user uploads something. Somehow, no matter how clearly the page says that we're not the host or the owner of the site, we get people yelling at us about the thing they want to see/use/buy not being where they expected. Someone got so mad once they found us on facebook and sent a picture of their dick. There's a vast sea of people who have no idea how anything works.

MLE_online, to random
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Too many TV shows now make the mistake of having every character be extremely attractive, but that's bad because extremely attractive people aren't particularly distinctive.

You can only have so many hot people in a big cast of characters before it starts getting hard to remember who is who.

swelljoe,
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@MLE_online also, weird hot is often hotter than regular hot.

swelljoe, to neovim
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Fourth time's the charm? Been trying to switch to #Neovim for a couple months. First tried writing my own config from scratch, got frustrated, tried a couple of distributions, found that even more frustrating (they do too much and changed old vim defaults, which is intolerable, so I had to undo a lot). Blew it all away today and started again with the "kickstart" (https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim), which is immediately more palatable to my old vim soul. No weird keymaps (Lazyvim changes s|S!?).

swelljoe,
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@regis I mostly like it, but it turns out it also squats on s, which is infuriating. I use s all the time. It seems to be coming from the mini.surround plugin. So, I guess I'm disabling that one unless/until I commit to getting comfortable with what it does or I figure out how to remap the keys it uses to something I don't use all the time. I'm surprised everyone considers s a disposable key in vim. I guess they all use cl or some c variant? I dunno. At least S still works.

swelljoe, to random
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I feel like Procol Harum somehow references The Big Chill, but I don't remember the film well enough to know how. I think there was maybe a dead old friend in that, too?

franciscawrites, to bookstodon
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In 1963, in a bid to settle a conflict with his English teacher, a 16yo student from San Diego sent a 4-question survey to 150 well-known authors or commercial, literary and science fiction.

"Did they consciously plant symbols in their work?" he asked.

Here are many of their wonderful answers, very much worth the read

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/12/05/document-the-symbolism-survey/

#writingcommunity #author #writerscoffeeclub @bookstodon #amwriting

swelljoe,
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@franciscawrites @bookstodon Ayn Rand, for all her faults, would have been a natural poster. Savagely dunking on a teenager in the comments.

TechConnectify, to random

A thought stirred by a jaded commenter:

One of the many half-truths that gets perpetuated is that new cars have many more issues than old cars and that they're only designed to make it past the warranty period before they crumble apart.

The average age of cars on the road keeps going up. That could not be possible if recently-made cars were in fact less reliable or repairable.

I would submit that the actual problem here? It's mechanics who don't keep up with the times.

swelljoe,
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@TechConnectify my only complaint with new cars is how much is locked to dealer-only service. Manufacturers (maybe not all of them, I don't know, but my newest car is a Dodge and it has a lot of stuff that requires the dealer). If dealers were reasonably priced and easy to deal with and didn't take a long time to get an appointment with, that'd be fine, but they're not, so, I'm mad about it. But, sure, cars from the 2000s onward are more reliable than ever.

swelljoe,
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@TechConnectify sorry. The anger just pours out. I just wanna wrench on my own car now and then.

MLE_online, to random
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I thought I was seeing a bald eagle right here in the city, but it was a crow carrying a big wad of white paper

swelljoe,
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@MLE_online I think that's just as good. It would be surprising to see the eagle, but the crow has a story.

alissaazar, (edited ) to random

Surprising absolutely no one, Twitter allowed and hosted a 3 hour strategy meeting for nazis 🤢

swelljoe,
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@alissaazar at first I thought the name was Thomas Sowell, which made the title of the talk quite surprising.

MLE_online, (edited ) to random
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I finally finished my DIY drill battery project.

It was mostly done a few weeks ago, but the BMS that I had ordered had too low of a current cutoff level. That meant that they were conditions in which the BMS mistook the load from the drill as a short and turned itself off as a protective measure.

I ordered a different BMS of the same form factor but with a higher current cutoff level (for a grand total of $1.64) and swapped it in today.

swelljoe,
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@MLE_online watch out, the battery mafia is not gonna like you cutting in on their lucrative $100 drill battery business.

swelljoe, to random
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Roslyn is named Roslyn because they shot the show in a town called Roslyn, Washington, and there was a mural with "Roslyn Cafe" on it (which got an apostrophe s added). http://www.roslynmuseum.com/northern-exposure.html

swelljoe,
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@nyquildotorg I thought it was temporary for the show? I assumed it'd been removed ages ago.

swelljoe, to guitar
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So, three really cool things about this video. Chet Atkins is playing a fretless nylon string #guitar. That's pretty unusual, and very striking here. Jerry Reed is maybe the most underrated guitarist ever. He could share a stage with the best guitarists in the world, and an honest listener would be hard-pressed to choose who's the better player (probably Jerry). These cats were in their 60s/70s (Jerry/Chet), I'd guess, when this was recorded...still doing new things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3N6Jv8HCqM

mattwilcox, to random
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The fact that people would use TailWind when you can do this in modern CSS baffles me.

swelljoe,
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@mattwilcox never have I noped out of any new tech thing faster than Tailwind. Absolutely horrified by the markup.

swelljoe,
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@mattwilcox I'm just exhausted. Developing for the web is so stupidly complicated in pursuit of hiding the innate complexity of the problem...but, in the end, the things trying to hide the complexity are even more complicated than the web standards they seek to replace, more verbose to code, and often wierdly idiosyncratic. You just have to bend your brain to the shape of the dev who made it. At least the web has a standards body and a handful of weirdos had to agree on each new thing.

swelljoe, to random
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Lady hollering in the middle of the street carrying a folding chair. I can't understand what she's talking about and don't see anyone she could be talking to.

swelljoe, to random
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Whenever I curse loudly in the kitchen, the dogs come running to see what kind of food I dropped on the floor.

molly0xfff, to random
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so infuriating. open source maintainers have a hard enough time without random people shitting up their repos trying to score crypto tokens.

https://hachyderm.io/@web3isgreat@indieweb.social/112003997836479406

swelljoe,
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@molly0xfff I knew that guy was up to no good. (I'm in the minority in really hating Homebrew. As package managers go, it's the worst one in common use.)

swelljoe,
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@argv_minus_one well, I use Linux almost exclusively, so I have good package managers as part of the OS (Fedora with dnf on my personal systems, apt for the work systems). Today, I'd probably try nix first. But, maybe MacPorts or pkgsrc. MacPorts has the biggest community of Mac users after Homebrew, but nix is technically more interesting (but, that probably equates to more difficult to start). When I had to port something to Mac in the past, I used MacPorts. Not perfect, but not Homebrew.

swelljoe, to random
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Wizardry. A typeface that renders charts. https://www.vectrotype.com/chartwell

carnage4life, to random
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After thinking more about AI making programming obsolete.

swelljoe,
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@carnage4life LLM is like a junior developer that lies all the time and can't learn from mistakes. They may get better with improvements to the model but they don't know how to make them stop lying or how to make them learn from mistakes. So, I may not contain the entirety of Github and StackOverflow in my memory, but I very rarely lie and I can learn from mistakes, sometimes. So I am currently not at all worried about being replaced. I am worried about having to fix other's LLM code, though.

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