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unlambda

@unlambda@hachyderm.io

Working on eVTOLs at Beta Technologies. Python, C, Rust.

Too many hobbies, but right now spending the most of my time learning to fly.

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didgebaba, to random
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“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."
-- William Shatner, actor

unlambda,
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@Natanox @mral @trechnex @didgebaba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GQoHIBDogU

He was clearly trying to express something profound about the experience, and Jeff Bezos is just like "Imma let you finish, but here's a fountain of champagne" and a bunch of other people in the background are cheering and spraying champagne.

unlambda,
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@Natanox @mral @trechnex @didgebaba Yeah, it's absolutely astounding how out of touch everyone involved other than Shatner is.

And I can't believe I'm saying this! It's William Shatner! He's probably the cast member I'd expect to be least thoughtful and introspective about this, and yet here we are, billionaires dousing him in champagne while he tries to express the profundity of the moment.

mekkaokereke, to random
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If every unemployed person in the USA took one of the unfilled job openings, there would still be 2 million unfilled job openings. Because the US labor pool is significantly smaller than it was before the pandemic. Because a lot of people died. We're missing >1.7 million workers.😢

https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/understanding-americas-labor-shortage

Extra cruelty:
So don't tell me about a "migrant crisis." People literally smuggle themselves from Venezuela to NYC just to work for you, and you're like "Nah! No work permit for you!"

unlambda,
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@mekkaokereke not just died, don't forget the disabled.

I have a friend who caught COVID last fall. Thought he recovered ok, then the seizures started. Now he can't drive to get to work, and can't work as a chef anymore.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Valuable lessons were learned, but not the ones that the mother thought would be learned.🤷🏿‍♂️

  • She learned that millions of Black people haven't been "making it all up" about police mistreatment
  • She learned why US Black folk almost never call the police, for any reason
  • Her son learned that his own mom is not safe. Her lack of understanding of US racism makes her dangerous
  • She's probably going to learn that this does not meet the definition of police misconduct

https://apnews.com/article/black-teen-lawsuit-excessive-force-vermont-disabilities-7b638ed26c299c7f07033968274e8f37

unlambda,
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@jshirley @mekkaokereke it's a tough question, but I don't think you're in the wrong for doing so.

Besides the cops, one thing that people may be worried about is the ambulance ride to the hospital, and the ER visit; that can be extremely expensive, and the driver may not have insurance.

mttaggart, to random

Do you think gas stoves are "better" for cooking?

Are you sure you know why you think that? www.npr.org/2023/10/17/1183551603/gas-stove-utility-tobacco

unlambda,
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@bouriquet @lkanies @Cyrus @mttaggart @mekkaokereke so besides the fact that the power grid is rapidly moving towards renewables, and in some places it already is already majority or even near 100% renewable, a large part of the impact of cooking energy source is the local respiratory irritants, not the CO2, so having them produced at a power plant vs. in your house makes a big difference. And at a power plant, it's generally easier to install scrubbers to clean those emissions.

unlambda,
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@timbray @JamesK @nosrednayduj @http_error_418 @sangster @mttaggart @mekkaokereke you can just get a dedicated induction wok and base: https://www.nuwavenow.com/products/mosaic-induction-wok

b0rk, to random
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popular git config options https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/02/16/popular-git-config-options/

unlambda,
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@b0rk Oh, hey, I was the person who suggested those submodule options. For some explanation:

status.submoduleSummary true
diff.submodule log

These make "git status" and "git diff" display some more useful information on how things differ in submodules. By default, you would only see something that indicates that they differ, giving the two commit hashes that differ between them. This causes them to list the commits that differ. Screenshots to show the difference.

Screenshot of "git status" and "git commit" with a changed submodule. Now each of them shows what has changed; they each list the commits added and removed by the change to the submodule.

unlambda, to random
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Yikes.

Coworker of mine tried to Google for subprocess (dot) run

Unfortunately, browsers these days conflate the URL and search bars. So he went to that domain, rather than searching like he was expecting. Who knew that there was now a .run TLD?

That downloaded a malicious PDF, that he didn't open, and shortly after his system was compromised, so presumably a PDF preview zero day in macOS.

byteturtle, to random
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Look what arrived today 👀 @esden @whitequark

unlambda,
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@byteturtle @esden @whitequark Woah, they're shipping? checks crowdsupply

Squee!

unlambda, to Rabbits
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Ugh, someone has come out with some kind of AI product called "Rabbit", so now the hashtag that I follow to see pictures of cute bunnies is another cesspool of AI spam.

AI and tech gadget dudebros, please don't junk up this tag with spam for some crappy disposable flash in the pan tech gewgaw.

Cute bunny pic to balance it out.

unlambda, to Weather
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Well, downtown Montpelier sure flooded. Pics from earlier this evening.

Two propane tanks floating in flood waters.
A skunk and an SUV perched on a ramp, just above flood waters. A trash can floats in the water.
A trash can and dumpster floating in a flooded parking lot beside brick buildings.

unlambda, to mastodon
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😭 Trying to post a screencast of being broken, and Mastodon refused to let me upload the video because it claims that it's 1000fps.

unlambda,
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Which actually looks like it might be an ffmpeg bug? The video plays just fine in VLC and Firefox, but ffmpeg seems to think it's 1000fps for some reason, and that seems to be causing Mastodon a problem as it uses ffmpeg for video uploads.

Ugh, anyhow, not worth sinking more time into.

unlambda,
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Actually, this might be Gnome Shell's fault not Mastodon's; tried to use ffmpeg to convert it to a different format, and it tells me that there are 1000 duplicated frames in there, in this 6 second clip.

mcc, to random
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I miss Google Cache

unlambda,
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@mcc Hmm. Two screenshots; one from a private tab, one from my logged in tab. The one from the private tab appears to be a "beta" version of this dialog. Neither of these match what @doctroid sees.

Oh, the problems of constant a/b testing, no one can actually discuss with each other how a website works because everyone has a different interface.

Screenshot of "About this result" dialog for Google search result of Wikipedia article on John Murray Spear. At the top, under a "more options" disclosure, "Feedback" and "Cached" buttons appear, along with "Share", "Save" and "Remove result" which were visible before using the disclosure.

ai6yr, to TeslaMotors

Geolocated the silly "driver getting out of a Cybertruck with Apple Vision Pro On" (which is going viral) and it's the same guys in Lehi, Utah. I think they probably made a bunch of "stupid Cybertruck/Apple Vision Pro" tricks videos for views.

unlambda,
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@ai6yr Yeah, it seemed pretty obvious that this was all a ploy to go viral with people moaning about the current state of the world.

ai6yr, to Cruise

CDC is investigating gastrointestinal sickness on luxury cruise ship Queen Victoria https://apnews.com/article/cruise-queen-victoria-outbreak-a4c08b114e3ee16534ff0c94a13c4fc7

unlambda,
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@ai6yr Could even be COVID. I've heard a number of people report this winter's strain as mostly causing gastrointestinal symptoms.

ai6yr, to aitools

BBC: Super Bowl: Uber Eats advert criticised for peanut allergy joke https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68239844

unlambda,
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@ai6yr Was a recent case where someone died of a peanut allergy when eating a cookie which didn't include peanuts on its label; they'd changed the recipe from using soy nuts to peanuts, but didn't change the label: https://abcnews.go.com/US/stew-leonards-peanut-cookies-death/story?id=106679296

ai6yr, to random

My sense of smell has gotten a lot better in the last few years (don't ask me why, but probably NOT working in an office). That said, taking a walk around the neighborhood you know how the dogs must feel.

"Ah, Amazon driver with too much cologne passed here an hour ago. PU!"

"Hmm, looks like that teenager girl with way too much perfume walked this way"

"Oh, the neighbors took a shower about 10 minutes ago"

"A baby with a dirty diaper in a stroller passed this way 30 minutes ago... Don't the parents know?!"

unlambda,
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@ai6yr I recall a science fiction story a while back, in which someone unleashed a virus that turned off the part of our brain that suppresses smells; it turns out that we have very powerful sense of smell, but our brain suppresses many of them to avoid overwhelming us (this part is true, and there have been people who had particular kinds of brain damage which enhanced their sense of smell to a remarkable degree).

ai6yr, (edited ) to earthquake

M4.7 earthquake in... New Jersey? (Update: since updated to M4.8) https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=39.01492,-76.65161&extent=42.17562,-69.87305&listOnlyShown=true

unlambda,
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@ai6yr I didn't notice it, unfortunately. But I live right by main st, and large trucks and snow plows shake my house all the time, so I may have felt it and just not registered it.

But at work, where they have instrumented a wing with strain gauges for stress testing, the earthquake apparently shows up in the data from the strain gauges; amazing how sensitive those can be.

And one of my coworkers working from home on a 4th floor mentioned enough swaying that it knocked a few things over.

unlambda, to random
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Alt text is great.

Linking to sources is great.

Putting links to sources in alt text so you need to drop into the inspector to copy out the URL is not great.

unlambda, to random
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this afternoon. The water is slowly starting to recede. The smell is something else; a mix of sewage and heating oil. Fire alarms ringing in buildings cause an eerie atmosphere.

Water engulfs an old wood building with a pub, florist, and umbrellas for outdoor dining.
Back of a hotel, with a number of cars half submerged in a flooded parking lot. A few people are standing on the fire escape. In the background, a gold dome and green forested hill.
A man in a tie-dyed shirt smokes a cigarette in front of a hardware store. On the bricks and cardboard boxed in the window you can see a high water line, 3-4 feet above the sidewalk.

unlambda, to random
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I've heard there was an Emacs chord
That Guy Steele played and it pleased the lord
But you don't really care for PL do you?

It goes like this the reset, shift,
Beta reduce, the lambda lift,
The baffled student writing all the Lua

unlambda, to random
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Oh god, I'd just gotten to terms with the fact that Microsoft has Active Directory and Azure Active Directory which are not related in any way, and now I learn that they've renamed Azure AD to "Microsoft Entra ID"?

What is up with Microsoft's branding? Why can't they do anything that makes sense and is consistent?

unlambda, to random
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That was amazing.

The sun completely eclipsed by the moon. Solar flares are visible, including a prominent one at about 6:30 which was visible to the naked eye when viewing the eclipse.

unlambda,
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And XKCD was completely right. If you have a chance to see a total eclipse, do it. There is no experience like it. A partial eclipse doesn't even come close.

https://xkcd.com/2914/

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