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binaryphile

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:golang: :neovim: :android: :bash: :bitcoin: :ethereum: :fosstodon: :git: :ruby: :python: :signal: :ubuntu:

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There are 10 kinds of people in the world...

I follow easily but unfollow and mute just as easily. No offense

Progressive father and husband, software developer in his 50s

Avatar is the robot Bender from the animated show Futurama, on a background of ones and zeroes.

Profile splash graphic is the cover of the boardgame #ChicagoExpress, a favorite board game of mine.

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binaryphile, to random
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It's ridiculous how fast we went from "Republicans would surely impeach a self-pardon by Trump as a bridge too far." to "The third in line to the presidency is whipping the party to pass legislation to move his cases to federal court so he can pardon himself if he's elected and convicted."

binaryphile, to random
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Spent the day appreciating the shade and contemplating the configuration of the new shade sails over the back yard. Sweating doing some reconfiguration this evening but being careful not to dehydrate myself like yesterday. Wonderfully surprised to learn that my 4" steel rings from Amazon can be used as a pulley, allowing me to create a makeshift block and tackle right in the middle of one of my guy lines. The mechanical advantage meant I could safely tension the line with much less force. Cool!

binaryphile, to random
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We've reached the point where the existence of billionaires is a national security threat.

binaryphile, (edited ) to random
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Took folks to school playing #PaoloMori's #LibertaliaWindsOfGalecrest, but just literally speaking, as I was teaching the game. 😁 I did win, but just a squeaker of a couple points. Tight spread between players at the finish, which always makes for a more tense game. Chaotic, but so much fun and underrated in my book.

#BoardGames #CriticalHitGames

nafnlaus, to TeslaMotors Icelandic
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The head of six companies, including a major U.S. military communications contractor and a company that puts wires in peoples' brains, wants you to know that he considers filing fraudulent business records to be a trivial matter.

ht/flglmn.bsky.social

binaryphile,
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@nafnlaus Notice Elon doesn't waste his breath asserting that Trump is innocent. So Elon agrees Trump is guilty. Great.

anemoi, to Law
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“Gödel's Loophole is an "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit the American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship…“

#law

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_Loophole

binaryphile,
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@anemoi The simplest loophole is that everyone can decide to ignore the constitution as a collective. Yesterday proves that we're already halfway there.

binaryphile, to random
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The shine is wearing off . While it does a few nice things with summarizing threads, the UI is crowded and overwrought, at the expense of the operations users do most often, such as boosting. Three clicks to boost is a deal breaker by itself, but the thing that clinched it was the tiny controls causing me to hit the wrong setting when muting. After having such problems several times, I think I'm done.

slevelt, to HipHop
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NB I first heard Pass the Dutchie -well, a snippet of it- as sample in Public Enemy’s Revolutionary Generation. #HipHop #reggae

https://hcommons.social/@slevelt/112536702457043466

binaryphile,
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@davidhmccoy @slevelt In the islands where I grew up, their biggest competition was Menudo. :)

binaryphile, to random
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Trump finally won the popular vote!

binaryphile, to random
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Lock him up!

binaryphile, to random
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Criminal convict Donald Trump

binaryphile, to random
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I've used so far putting up a shade structure for the pool:

binaryphile,
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Anchor bend and taut-line hitch are the current bread and butter.

binaryphile,
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Add knot to the list... essential for hitching a tackle to a standing line to tension it further.

binaryphile,
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I'm observing that a round turn and two half -hitches is the only knot name that instructs you how to tie it. Possible allowance for figure eight knot as well.

binaryphile, to random
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Revisiting the mastodon web client since I've never been that crazy about any client (currently use tusky and the web interface). Phanpy has come a ways and is fairly stylish, which I don't care much about. So far the #1 feature is that posts which appear on the timeline because of subscribed hashtags are conspicuously marked with the hashtag(s) above the post title. Going to take it around the block for a spin.

binaryphile,
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Strongly dislike the three clicks required to boost.

binaryphile,
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Have to say, compressed thread viewing is outstanding with . Still unhappy about required number of clicks to boost.

iain, to boardgames
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Seas of Strife (aka Texas Showdown)

Card game where you want to avoid tricks. You must follow suit, but if someone discards another suit, you can follow that suit too. The suit with the most cards determines the winner. If you play the highest card of the suit, the suit no longer counts.

This sounds confusing, but it's straightforward and smooth in practice.

We played with 6 and it worked very well, although you'd have more control with fewer players and a larger hand.

#boardgames

binaryphile,
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@iain A favorite trick taker of mine at higher player counts. I'm partial to the original western theme, I must say.

BoardGameBeans, to boardgames

What is everyone's favorite roll-and-write games (Or flip, spin, or whatever other mechanic exists)

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/291845/three-sisters

We've just played Three Sisters and had a great time! While I didn't win, I did ended up getting that fancy tractor 🚜.

Still got Cartographers to try, and Fliptown is on its way which I'm excited for.

🎃🌽🫛

binaryphile,
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@BoardGameBeans Been playing a lot of High Season, the Grand Austria Hotel roll and write. It's a quite good simplification of it's parent. Highly recommend.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/398898/high-season-grand-hotel-roll-and-write

binaryphile,
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@BoardGameBeans Doesn't matter, in fact the roll & write is a good intro to the parent and probably makes sense to play first.

18+ preslavrachev, (edited ) to golang
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Which one is your least favorite?

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binaryphile,
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@orsinium @preslavrachev 👏 That looks like a very nice implementation, good stuff.

binaryphile, to boardgames
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Lovely game of 's this evening at (sorry no picture). Played it a few times over the years, am starting to appreciate the mechanics while not being good at them. The Impulse where each player adds actions to be taken by all players on their turns is tasty. How can I add actions which benefit me more than my opponents, while also synergizing with the existing actions. Nobody even got to start a "plan", the mechanism for private actions.

binaryphile, (edited ) to random
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Incredible game of by and tonight, involving a four-board map and 27 units on one side and 42 units on the other, under two commanders each. Mortars, tanks, armored personnel vehicles, bunkers, trenches, wire, mines, smoke, flamethrowers, artillery, the whole shebang. I played the Russians this time, and surprisingly, they were effective. 1/

binaryphile, (edited )
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While the Germans quickly took out my tanks and left me without much firepower against armor, the plethora of hidden units were able to backstop by getting proximity to the Germans as they passed unknowingly. Hop out of cover into short or close range and pop them in the flank and you could just be back in business, armor or no. I also caught a card for each commander that grants extra command points, particularly useful for the Russians, who lose troops and their associated CAP quickly.

binaryphile,
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A lucky artillery strike on the overly-clustered Germans netted a bunch of points as well. In the end, however, I think the Germans took the day after all, because I left the big cluster of control points undefended by nearby troops, providing a chewy center for the first mobile German troops that made their way past the crunchy exterior. Some really lucky tiptoeing around my mines didn't hurt either. A game worthy of the four hours we spent.

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