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waltman

@waltman@hachyderm.io

I'm a recovering recovering ivory tower computer scientist. I work in Columbia’s Radiology Dept. looking for better imaging biomarkers for breast and lung cancer.

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grammargirl, to random
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I'm thinking about how we use word that describe hitting for good food:

That pie hits the spot.
That pie bangs.
That pie was larruping.
That pie lashes. (in Trinidad, I'm told)

Can you think of any other "hitting" words we used to describe food?

waltman,
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@grammargirl Does "Cracking good cheese, Gromit!" count?

LinuxAndYarn, to random
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In November 2022 I bought an BR1100 netbook on closeout at and the battery has died. So I went out to get a replacement and then opened up the computer.

For some reason, the battery was in a little opaque shrinkwrap package glued below the motherboard. So I cut open the edges and -- of all the things on the planet -- the battery is SOLDERED to the connection wires. Who the fuck does this?? (Rhetorical question, because obviously ASUS does this.)

waltman,
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@LinuxAndYarn WTAF?

waltman,
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@LinuxAndYarn @LabSpokane Well, if you've soured on Asus, Micro Center still has those Evolve netbooks on sale for $80. I'm not sure I can recommend them for anything other than field work, but they seem to work OK.

waltman,
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@LinuxAndYarn @LabSpokane See, if you had the Evolve craptop you could sneakernet the files on micro sd!

waltman, to random
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I’d like to meet the sadist who decided that this opinion should be checked by default.

waltman, to Battlemaps
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Good morning from the University of Pennsylvania campus, where it's currently snowing quite heavily!

waltman,
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@mjgardner Good timing, since today's snowstorm only lasted half an hour and it's already all melted away! (Granted, it's still cold out.)

film_girl, to random
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So I’m doing something insane to save $500 on a new MacBook Pro 14” b/c of Seattle sales tax. I’m taking the train to fucking Portland. Because it’s $70 on the nice train plus maybe $20 in Ubers vs $552 in extra tax. Usually, I let the sales tax thing go but $550 was where I learned the line was for me to instead spend all day on a train.

waltman,
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@flargh @film_girl And Wilmington, DE to Philly.

waltman,
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@flargh @mjgardner @film_girl Look, I'm not going to argue that all of Camden is great, but the waterfront is nice, and the Battleship New Jersey is worth a visit.

But I thought we were talking about tax free shopping, which is I mentioned Wilmington. (Actually the Apple Store is down the road a piece in Christiana.)

waltman, to random
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On this week's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, one of the limericks rhymed "doll" with "haul". I think I speak for all Philadelphians when I say a) I don't have an accent and b) those words don't rhyme.

bynkii, to random
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Thinking about it, if mail in macOS worked as well as mail on i(Pad)OS, that would be a massive improvement

waltman,
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@bynkii As someone forced to use Outlook at work all day, I can't bring myself to hate on Mail.app on macOS. :)

waltman,
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@bynkii Interesting! I mostly use it on Windows, where it's a hot mess. Mostly, as an old Unix guy, I just want to run mutt everywhere, but I can't get it to work with our 2FA system.

waltman,
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@bynkii That's fair. But to most of us end users, it is just our basic email program, and we don't know what other features it has. I'm sure I'm only using about 10% of what it can do. That said, Outlook's integration with Teams is pretty sweet.

futurebird, to random
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One of the small delights of a big city is encountering people selling things who just have more customers than they can handle so they become progressively more rude and obscure about how they render the service.

Economists would say they ought to raise the price... but they don't. Raising prices changes expectations, brings different more annoying customers.

Instead you get the best chicken tenders on earth DO NOT ask if you can buy them without the fries. Fries are mandatory.

waltman,
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@futurebird Chicken tenders without fries? In this economy?

jamesthomson, to random
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Today's age crisis is brought to you by finding out that Christopher Lloyd was only 46 when he filmed Back to the Future.

waltman,
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@jamesthomson wait until you find out about Wilford Brimley!

jamesthomson, to random
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We have Apple Park at home!

The Apple Park at home:

waltman,
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@jamesthomson It sure looks less spooky in the daylight!

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Apple's really trying hard this time round to convince Intel Mac owners to make the switch to Apple Silicon. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if Sonoma is the last version of macOS that runs on Intel. Apple is beyond done and ready to move on

waltman,
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@stroughtonsmith That was the impression I was getting too. Thing is, my 2020 Intel MBP is still a perfectly cromulent machine that does everything I need it to do!

mattblaze, to photography
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House of the Temple, Washington, DC, 2023.

The local Masonic temple, library, museum, and, I presume, gift shop.

Composite of two shifted images with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 (+/- 12mm horizontal).

Enough pixels to reveal all secrets at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53288608886

waltman,
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@mattblaze I only know about the one in Alexandria. Is there one in DC, too?

grammargirl, to random
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There's a line in the show I'm working on that would 100% benefit from some harsh swearing.

I totally can't do it because Grammar Girl's brand is family friendly — people listen in their cars with their kids, and it's used in schools — but I'm laughing at the thought of making it the "directors cut" on YouTube.

waltman,
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@grammargirl If you bleeped it out would people still be able to get the gist of it?

waltman,
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@grammargirl Good point, I can just imagine the conversations in the minivan: “Mom, why did Grammar Girl bleep that word?”

waltman, to HashtagGames
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Baby Got Bat 🦇


nixCraft, to linux
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can you guess which distro this person is using?

waltman,
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@nixCraft It's got to be Arch.

waltman, to HashtagGames
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Three Men and Rosemary's Baby


futurebird, to random
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Listen I know we need a lot of variables in math. A single alphabet won’t due. So capital and lower case letters can be different variables. I can even roll with the idea that letters of the same case in different typefaces can be distinct— but, I still find the abusive use of C in Hoggs Mathematical Statistics a little extreme… we couldn’t get more distinct typefaces? How many students have cried because you did this, Hogg? (i otherwise love this textbook it’s so much fun) /math rant

waltman,
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@futurebird Maybe I'm misreading it, but I think there are only three distinct C’s in that snippet — one lowercase and two uppercase in different fonts. But of course the fact that this is even a question proves your point!

I read an information theory paper in grad school that used a super fancy script font, kind of the opposite extreme of the one used here. It was so fancy that I found it impossible to tell the I, J, and K apart without a key!

gregeganSF, to random
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Me: Now I just have to spend ~$300 to get light fittings in my new ceiling so I don’t have to keep illuminating 3 rooms with one desk lamp.

Electrician: Your fuse box predates Tutankhamun and no one can touch your wiring until everything is upgraded, that will be $3000 thanks.

waltman,
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@gregeganSF You know, you can buy a lot of desk lamps for $3k!

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