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wiredog

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wiredog, to random
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I could easily come to hate Cmake with a burning passion.

jimgon, to random
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Something that bothers me.

Men’s suit styles have basically not changed in 100 years. We had 1900 years of changes every few decades and for the last 100 years we’re stuck with a portable noose around our necks. I guess it is fitting in some ways.

wiredog,
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@ucblockhead @jimgon @gedvondur

Weddings I went to in Utah I never wore a suit, weddings in Virginia I always wear a suit.

That said, I haven’t worn a suit in a year or so.

ucblockhead, to random
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A true fact about me that I am going to drop without here without any explanation:

I was once arrested at gunpoint with Tom Anderson of "My Space" fame.

wiredog,
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@jsundman @ucblockhead

He could at least put it in the Hole at the CowSite.

carnage4life, to random
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Stack Overflow being eclipsed by AI tools like Github Copilot is an example of how suddenly seemingly established areas of knowledge work will be changed by generative AI.

I’m just happy the Stack Overflow founders got an exit in 2021 before this happened. They deserve the reward for the years of immense value they gave to software developers before Copilot & ChatGPT showed up.

wiredog,
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@carnage4life

I’ve rarely contributed to Stack Overflow because when I’ve come across something odd and thought “I bet no one’s seen this before” they have, and there are several good posts with lots of good comments besides.

carnage4life, to random
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AI artists

wiredog,
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@carnage4life

Over on Bluesky someone noted that the AI “industry” is likely to be visited by the Ghost of Napster.

obvioustroll, to random
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@wiredog - what was your final total for the year? Someone on Strava was bragging about hitting 10,000 kilometers and I realized that you were really close to hitting that as well.

wiredog,
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@obvioustroll

6250ish.

jimgon, to random
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This year I averaged 4.2 miles per day walking. 1,500 miles more or less.

wiredog,
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@jimgon I averaged 3.5, but, I don’t take the iPhone to work. And I have done over 6200 miles on the bike.

Weigh exactly what I did last year, which is 25 pounds over my Army weight, but 60 below my peak of 250.

carnage4life, to random
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Python is too slow, they say.

wiredog,
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@carnage4life

Where I’ve used Python network latencies have been more of an issue than code speed. C++ is great if you’re cpu bound, but Python is fine when you’re I/O bound.

rook, to random

Unreal
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378297/

wiredog,
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@rook

Ah, the disclosure section may be of interest.

Not sure if this is peer reviewed.

junebug, to random
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Tiny Tim, who did NOT die,

wiredog,
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@junebug @gzt

ever, and he wanders the Earth to this day.

robpegoraro, to random
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It's lovely to see so many of you sharing the Earthrise photo the crew of took 55 years ago and their message to people watching back home--a reading from the book of Genesis, followed by this hopeful signoff near the end of a horrible year: "good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth.”

wiredog,
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@robpegoraro

Got a framed print of that, from Apollo Remastered, on my wall.

jsundman, to random
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Christmas movies:
Die Hard: Never liked it; now hate it.
Wonderful Life: Same
Christmas Story: First 19 times were enough.
Home Alone: Blech.
'Modern' Santa Claus movies: Worse.
Hallmark 'very special Christmas' movies: Go to hell.
"Christian" nativity movies: The absolute worst.

Happy Christmas!

wiredog,
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@jsundman

“Try That in a Small Town Christmas “

wiredog, to random
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/business/substack-nazis-content-moderation.html?mwgrp=a-mbar&unlocked_article_code=1.IE0.NSKU.vjI7onZS0Ik9&smid=url-share

carnage4life, to random
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As @Popehat points out, every content moderation policy is a choice. Substack choosing to ban porn but not Nazis is a choice. It’s a choice based on their business goals because at the end of the day, they are a business.

There’s a lot rhetoric about “free speech” from many corners online but almost all of its proponents are very clear that its only a subset of speech they care about being free. Often bigoted speech.

Substack is no different.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/substack-has-a-nazi-opportunity

wiredog,
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@alexbunardzic @carnage4life

Porn gets you cut off the credit card system.

wiredog, to random
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Substack has a Nazi problem. So does Mastodon. In both cases you usually have to go looking for it, which is miles better than Facebook or Twitter.

Any place that doesn’t have heavy moderation is going to have a Nazi problem. And an Islamophobia problem. And an antisemitism problem.

Haven’t seen too many Nazis on Bluesky yet, but it’s going to open up soon…. And have to find a way to monetize the users if it’s going to stay in business.

robpegoraro, to usenet
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Google announcing that it will drop support from Google Groups gave me a reason to write a short version of the Usenet eulogy I've had in the back of my mind for the last couple of decades.

(Yes, I am not only old enough to remember Usenet but to have written about the Green Card Lawyers early on in my time at the Post. They did not appreciate the coverage, and one of them--Martha Siegel, if I recall--vaguely threatened me with a lawsuit before doing nothing.)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-support

wiredog,
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@robpegoraro

Man, I remember using Usenet in the 90’s.

And in the mid-80’s on milnet. Glad none of those old posts got archived…

wiredog, to random
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@briankrebs

Heard about this one yet?

https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-a-library/

wiredog,
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@obvioustroll @briankrebs

My first experience backing up, and restoring from backup, was hanging tapes on the Vax about 30 years ago.

Thought of that a week or so ago when that reporter was freaking out because Google was about to delete the ¼ petabytes that he thought he wouldn’t have to pay for storing and for which he had no backup.

My current system is Time Machine, plus two SSDs in a fire safe that I back up to regularly.

briankrebs, to random

I've spent a lot of time these past few weeks looking back at KrebsOnSecurity stories that are 10 years old or more. I'm blown away by how many stories back then didn't defang some non-malicious but otherwise very bad URLs that probably did not help the site's SEO or reachability. I'm wondering if I should even bother going back and trying to do it now.

wiredog,
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@briankrebs @TheIdOfAlan

@scalzi already does that though.

clock, to random

So I'm the asshole for keeping my TicTacs in a safe?

Seriously?

wiredog,
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@clock Well that’s not the only reason.

ucblockhead, to random
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It probably says something that the only two phone numbers I still have memorized are my own and one from an eighties era one-hit wonder.

And yes, I can still also name the original five MTV VJs from memory. Thanks, brain, for keeping that in memory. I'm sure it will come in handy someday.

wiredog,
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@jimgon @ucblockhead

Phone numbers of girls I dated back in high school make excellent PINs on various systems.

rook, to random

Oops. I nearly got hit by a car too.

wiredog,
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@rook

I was on the bike trail after work today, the light for us had just turned, and a red light runner missed my front tire by about a foot.

Stacky, to random
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So it was announced the US wants 2/3 of all car sales to be EV by 2032 or some such. I don’t see that as workable as things stand now. Cars will become so expensive, people won’t be able to afford them. Without MASSIVE investment in public transportation, we’re going to have a problem

wiredog,
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@Stacky @ucblockhead

I’m the perfect use case for an EV. Round trip to work is under 10 miles, maybe another 20 to 25 a day driving to AA meetings. But there’s no place I can plug in to charge, and no where to put a charger.

At least my car gets 30MPG.

wiredog,
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@ucblockhead @Stacky I don’t have an outlet close to where I can park.

ucblockhead, to random
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Trying to do some C++ after a decade of Python. Apparently every line has to have a semicolon at the end. Who knew?

wiredog,
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@ucblockhead

I’ve had the other problem going to Python.

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