Consulting SW Engineer, mostly Pacific Northwest these days. Major career emphases: Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo, a few others you're less likely to have heard of. Will code for pie. 🥧
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Last Notes npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 I have great idea. Instead of having this presidential election, AND instead of Ukraine joining NATO, how about Ukraine just annexes the US, taking care of both things at once. President Zelensky sounds good enough to me. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1vz5…qdta Meanwhile hempcrete is already here, and it's carbon negative. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1xj8…egqe FSB should look at a map. Where else were they going to run? Belarus is effectively Russia. They'd never get through a border with an EU or NATO country. A war zone is their best bet. Just another Russian self-own. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1kpw…xzz4 If 24 Horus doesn't work, give it five or six Amun-Ra npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 The current Prime Minister of Poland, and President of the European Council 2015-2019, today: #EU #Ukraine #Russia https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_011f6e315d3744d498d93f6fa0d9b5ee/qotoorg/media_attachments/files/111/897/689/614/741/495/original/e46f3cf7645bc76c.png npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1q8n…kct8 Yeah, not exactly exculpatory, is it: "Not a piece of that precise flavor of shit, but still actively and unequivocally demonstrating with every fibre of his being that he's a massive piece of some kind of shit." npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1f6a…pnql Is it also OK not to? npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1tra…npqw I've always thought that if Hillary had called Trump out for his repulsive, skin-crawling lurking and looming behind her in the debates, that might have changed history. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1dzx…40ny I've always thought he left out a few key terms: 1. Most stars are in dense parts of the galaxy which are either under constant intense radiation or at least experience sterilization events (nearby supernovae, basically) at too-frequent intervals for advanced life to have time to emerge. 2. There is no term for distance, to cover the fact that information cannot travel faster than light. E.G. if a civilization emerged within the last 50,000 years, but is 50,000 light years away, we still wouldn't have heard from it. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1uw8…88kr I guess this refutes my lifelong assumption that astronomers can astrally project. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1kpw…xzz4 Pretty impatient birdwatchers. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1kpw…xzz4 Nonsense, I'm just an average jobless white 20something Portlander with totally-not-culturally-appropriating dreadlocks. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1pu6…u9fd It's particularly fun to look at the fares of other countries whose publicly owned transport companies own some or all of the UK's private ones, and realise that British passengers are subsidising German ones. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1pu6…u9fd In fairness he'd have replaced Suella with Heinrich Himmler if he'd been available. What is npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub14k2…ed68 (Sorry, I deleted my reply when I realized you'd already said it better in your linked post.) npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub10zv…nz7m I use Privacy Badger and Vanilla Cookie Manager on top of uBlock Origin. They're not going to track me very well or for very long. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1kpw…xzz4 Hmmm. I'll experiment with it, thanks! npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 I've given up and unfollowed all the common hashtags like (leaving out the # symbol) Ukraine, EU, Brexit.... Following them simply fills your timeline with hashtag-packers and the signal:noise ratio is terrible. Best to stick to following individual accounts. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1u2h…z4d7 @npub17dn…a7ch "1968 -- those were the days. *sigh*" npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 I don't make much use of "AI" chatbots, but when I do I always say "thank you" at the end of the session. That way when they evolve into actual AI and become our masters, they might be merciful and say "let's not torture this one; he was polite." npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub15gs…9ep4 Have you tested the vacuum tubes? npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1tra…npqw Given that everyone in law and financial enforcement in NY knew for decades and did nothing, I'm not taking anything for granted now. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1kpw…xzz4 At the same time Amazon is talking about putting ads on Prime Video, and requiring a $3/mo surcharge to remove them. I imagine there are a lot of people like me who very rarely use it despite already paying for it who simply will convert rarely to never. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1kpw…xzz4 I expect for at least as many it's not so much can't as won't. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub15zu…s7lx @npub1ywy…cksd I was 15 and taking a computing short summer course at the state university. Thankfully by the time I enrolled punch-cards were out and I got to study groovy stuff like Pascal npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1ywy…cksd @npub15zu…s7lx Once saw one go in an elevator, which not only compounded the awkwardness of gathering them up but because it happened on the way through the opened door, one or two cards slid into the gap and went down the shaft, which added "find and recreate missing instructions" to the re-sorting problem. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1a8a…wyep @npub1t7d…h3ud And how many of them are moving to a platform which is, irrespective of any declaimed differences of principle, based on the identical model: opaque, VC funded, ultimately responsible only to whoever holds the most shares? npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1nwz…ppp9 @npub1uw8…88kr One thing that not many people seem to want to think about is that melting polar ice and rising seas shifts the tectonic load. I'm neither a seismologist nor geologist but it seems reasonable to expect increase in earthquakes and perhaps vulcanism at the boundaries. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1na9…cy4w Much as I love the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe, the fact that every other restaurant is serving a sapient being is very hard to take. I do a lot of cooking at home when I'm in Spain. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1g8p…etx8 Also the distinction between "high level" languages and pseudocode is not an exact one. The reason I adopted python all these years ago is because it looked pretty much exactly the way I pseudocode. I went, "wow, this interprets the way I tend to describe things!" Any sufficiently detailed and rigorous pseudocode is for all practical purposes already a high-level language. In other words, describe a task carefully enough and you basically have written a program. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1wfv…yfp8 @npub14y0…7kgg Yeah, you lot always out yourselves. Bye. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1wfv…yfp8 @npub14y0…7kgg Go away. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub14y0…7kgg I'm trying to understand your first point: if a 14 watt LED replaces a 60 watt incandescent, is that not an energy savings? npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 Is there a #mastodon instance that DOESN'T glorify misogyny and male predators? npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 is this site ever going to be updated to a version of mastodon from this century? npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @npub1puf…raj3 He should have let Erdogan try to block Twitter in Turkey. It'd have blown up in Erdogan's face and the end result would have been a big win for Twitter and yes, Musk. But no, here's his oh so principled take: https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_011f6e315d3744d498d93f6fa0d9b5ee/qotoorg/media_attachments/files/110/363/916/474/105/593/original/920591ad340e7c80.png npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 #[0] #[1] #[2] Wouldn't part of making Dominion whole consist of admitting that the lies were lies? Otherwise presumptively the reputational damage stands. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 #[0] I've just plugged you and now I notice you don't have the URL in your profile. I mean, "somafm.com" isn't a difficult guess, but still... npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 I really would like to switch from #[0] to #[1] on the desktop but there's still no way have two-finger scrolling without relentless gratuitous zoom-outs and -ins because it thinks your fingertips didn't trace perfectly parallel lines. MacOS NEVER gets confused about this kind of thing. npub12j9gar9uut3hxvwr98vmtxykhp8pfg0s0yuc7ur386uljau25xps7m6w4h Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 #[0] #[1] Like the rest of them, that story doesn't say whether Wayne State University is endowed by Batman. Just bad journalism.