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Last Notes npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…gent npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake I got high and took a picture of my cat. and then I laughed for like ten minutes at his goofy face. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake listening to music with Scooby. #CatsOfMastodon npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…xwug how would you be able to tell versus the standard effects of eating Taco Bell? npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…pfuj @nprofile…xqj0 I'm a huge fan of LaTeX as well (except for typing the name on a mobile keyboard). When I got to writing documentation in industry I also expected it to be ubiquitous. Imagine my horror when I discovered MathML was the standard. Look upon this and weep https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Guides/Proving_the_Pythagorean_theorem npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Scooby sleeps in the strangest ways npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Scooby is yellin at me npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…mv7s what types of devices are you interested in deprocessing? If I dig around in my junk drawer I probably have a few old .55" DMDs. they're not FPGA expensive but they ain't cheap either. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…pfuj one thing about machine generated images is that the lighting always seems to be consistently boring. Like a Netflix movie, flat and uniform. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…cy3m @nprofile…ugpy I'm part way through her book "Too Like the Lightning" and she's quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. Thanks for this heads-up on her song. What a neat person. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…qk0k I went to get a mole checked out today since it has a fuzzy border and feels a little rough and I haven't noticed it before. So the PA pulls out a derma scan standalone device. An image recognition device that tries to interpret an image and provide a likely diagnosis. I glance over as they're trying to get it to work and it's "out of credits" so it stopped working. So they call in the physician who looks at the mole for a few seconds and is like "nah, that's fine". npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake one of my colleagues (much younger than I) was talking about finding his mom's old iPod and going through her music collection. kinda cool, maybe not as much fun as digging through old mix tapes or vinyl but still a physical artifact. folks right now won't leave a trace. Photos on servers, playlists on streaming services, movies purchased on Amazon, ebooks, everything ephemeral and owned by someone else. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…e4ry with some radiant heating underneath, that would be amazing. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…syqt @nprofile…ew48 haha, when I first started in engineering, I was working with automotive companies. I thought they'd all be super safe and thorough and reliable in their software development. Absolutely none of that seems to be true from what I've seen. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake I have a type meh personality npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake chillin' with Scooby on #caturday npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…h94j oh my. I think maybe so much effort is put into torturing numbers to get the results we want that engineers tend towards thinking that it can be applied everywhere. Want to find a mathematical relationship between the number of stripes on a zebra and the number of spots on a leopard? I bet a retired engineer will provide a solution. Also a lot of engineers for whatever reason think of themselves as generalists which also drives them to provide answers they shouldn't. I don't even like to look outside my niche within my specialty for fear of coming up with a plausible sounding "wild ass guess" npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…h94j are retired engineers as "creative" with archaeology as they are with physics and math? npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…gk57 we had a pretty good selection as a kid but I missed out on Tajin which is a blend of chili powder, salt, and citric acid that is absolutely amazing on all types of fruit (especially mango) npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…sczv @nprofile…s0s4 npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…xlhv Orville Peck is great. Saw him in Cabaret on Broadway. It's 100% nuts to think of him in a Streetfighter movie though. I'm definitely down. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Seeing these incoming cuts to necessary benefits in the US (SNAP and Medicaid) is pretty depressing. I grew up relying on Medicaid and food stamps (back when they were an actual book of coupons you traded for food). I remember how bad it was when Clinton found it politically expedient to cut benefits to millions of people and "reform" welfare on the 90s. I don't know what our budget was like but I know what it was like to wear shoes with holes in them while walking in the snow. I feel really bad for all the families and individuals that are constantly being fucked over and who are getting it yet again. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…xlhv yes, love it but I haven't seen it since it was in theaters I don't think. I didn't even notice this missing number for like the first two months of using the elevator npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake This floor number scheme fucks with my head every time. My brain knows where to expect the numbers to be but because there's no 13th floor it always takes me a second to figure out where they actually are. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake What was your first concert? Mine? Wallflowers at Saltair maybe '97? npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…xlhv I am a child, or at least I have the sensibilities of one when I'm sleepy in the morning npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Came into work to find this gem. Maybe the web tools team needs to think about rules for abbreviations. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…xlhv totally! I'm not even a committed vegetarian. Just mostly eat veggies since I feel better when I do. I cook veg meals just so I don't have to face "bbq tofu" or "fried tofu" without much else to it. But on days when I forget a lunch... Ughgh npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Every day the vegetarian option at my work cafeteria is some shitty tofu dish. I love tofu but it's not the universal replacement for meat. You have to treat it like it's its own thing. It's like I'm living in a mid 90s stereotype npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake The real shame of AI generated images is that we'll miss the incredibly janky artwork in company safety and compliance presentations. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake If somebody is watching tiktoks with the volume up in a public place, is it rude to move behind them and watch over their shoulder? npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake But I'm supposed to go clean the kitchen... npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake I don't like eating out more than once a week (which I know is a privilege). I would much rather make my own food, I eat healthier and the portion sizes are sane. We've been eating out because the kitchen is packed to move and it's starting to make me feel not so great npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…843t do they have fry sauce up there? That place was a guilty pleasure when I lived in Utah. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…args @nprofile…4ey9 lots of stuff around is high current but relatively low voltage. Your desktop PC processor could be drawing hundreds of amps but at like 1.2 volts. Some video cards recently had problems with their power connectors melting because of the current draw 😂 npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…jep3 it's more convenient than inviting you to my living room to see the prints? npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…79he Nextcloud setup with Yunohost since I didn't really want to dedicate much time to administration. I use Tuta as my backup for email since I can potentially do all the email stuff from my server/domain, but don't really want to. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…args nope, my hands know how to type. My brain doesn't. I could draw you a keyboard but I'd have to type out each letter in the air and then write down its location. This is so bad that often my fingers know a password but I don't know the combination of capitalized and uncapped letters, numbers and symbols. I'm sort of like an octopus (my tentacles have a brain of their own). npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake I received some racist right-wing spam this morning via @nprofile…8x0h I recognized it as an obvious right wing campaign and deleted/ignored it immediately. But I understand why many folks cannot do the same. I appreciate their response though to the issues https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…afth this made me hear Robert Stack's voice in my head. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Alligator hanging out at the waters edge. Lake Apopka, FL. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…args every engineer I talk with at work is considering leaving Texas. I'm already in the process. But I don't think there are very many good paths for us to leave the country though. Myself being monolingual, save for some tourist level German and Spanish, doesn't leave many options for emigration. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…d0dx such a good book. My father in law selected it for our family book club a few months ago and we all really got into it. I can't quite find the right adjective to describe how we felt about it. It's hard to say we enjoyed it since it's such a difficult read. There are so many events or scenes in the book that that are heart breaking and at the same time you know are happening in the real world right now. Highly recommend it though. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake 30 years on and it's still relevant? WTF npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @nprofile…xlhv I guess folks just don't consider or notice them really? Or maybe he just didn't get the terminology of file "extension". I've seen lots of folks not using directories for organization either. Just one big dump and then rely on search. Just weird to me since I've been on computers since DOS and still so a ton of command line work npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake The computing landscape sure has changed. Today I had a relatively young engineer ask me what a file extension was. Younger folks just don't work with files and folders in the same way I do. Lots of computing on phones and tablets npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Bringing Scooby back for #caturday and #catsofmastodon npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake #photography folks who do #darkroom printing, are you happy with your current timer setup? What are you using? npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @npub1typ…c8hh I haven't regularly worn a watch since the 90s but this one is kinda tempting npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Vegetarian lasagna for the week. I made this monstrosity for my wife and I. I have never learned how to cook for just two people. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Your regularly scheduled shaggy pic npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @npub1swy…snpj keep the fedi white is what they mean npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Reuben Radding is running a Kickstarter for his new photo book. I grabbed a preorder. Always nice to support independent photographers and always good to add another book to the coffee table or bookshelf. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake My wife got a new tattoo to celebrate that she's about to be an aunt. Needless to say thought of @npub1zdp…vqv8 npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Well Don's here in Dallas got ahold of the Pentax 17 so we pretty much had to get one. I didn't think they'd be in stock locally and wasn't excited enough about it to order online. But now I've got one and I really like it. Plus I like being able to support local film and camera stores and companies that are reinvesting in film camera production. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Shaggy is done with a hard week and welcoming the weekend. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake And a new photo book arrived in the mail today. I found out about Tavepong Pratoomwong via Framelines magazine. I love their style. Can't wait to dig in. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Trying to decide if I want to brave the 106F/41C weather for some photo walk ops at one of the smaller (hence earlier) 4th of July events. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake I experiment with different photo stocks and I'm thinking that I should focus a bit more. One thing I learned from engineering is that restrictions breed creativity. July might be strictly monochrome months and I'll see how I like it from there. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake With the loss of malls, where do you go locally to buy your pewter wizards? npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @npub12ze…hunm mostly RPGs like Witcher, BG3, Fallout. Souls likes and meteoidvanias. Kind of everything outside of most FPSs since they usually feel a little repetitive to me. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Glad the Steam summer sale is coming up. It's going to be another brutal summer, heat index well over 100°F for the foreseeable future. I guess I'll just stay inside for a few weeks, so I'll need something distracting. That's going to help my mental health 🙃 npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @npub12ze…hunm yeah, family related events (holidays?) have always been challenging. Hope it's been positive for you today. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Wasn't going to randomly post to the people that live in my phone, but, I never liked fathers day because I grew up without a dad. Then I became one and it was fun. Then my son succumbed to his genetic disorder and now all I can think of is how I lost out on both ends of the deal. So, happy Father's Day? npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Is JPEG provinces like it rhymes with leg or hedge? npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake It is important to show when things don't go well. Often online life is the perfectly curated presentation of what we want to be true. To that end, I present the worst loaf of bread I've ever made (I think). It's been a while since I made a sourdough boule. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Went to the camera store a couple weeks ago and there was an as-is Rolleiflex 6006 setup for $500. Three lenses, 50mm, 80mm and 150mm, spare film back, batteries that are completely dead, charger and case. Even if it weren't working it would be ok as a fixer upper. But I managed to get a new battery (3D printed modern replacement) and it all seems to be working great. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @npub1zdp…vqv8 looks great, love the color on the shirt collar. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @npub1zdp…vqv8 yeah, the whole thing is super sketchy. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Any #dallas #dfw #photography folks out there interested in local photo walks? Would be nice to meet some photographers in person but there doesn't seem to be much of a social scene in Dallas. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake This is another one I really like from today. I think I had like ten shots out of a few hundred where there weren't too many whispy clouds in the way. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake Absolutely the best picture of anything I've every taken in my entire life. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake This fucking weirdo. This is how he was sitting to fight with his brother. Dude won't even move to fight. He just sits there and bats back. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @npub1jeq…jglm yeah I basically block anybody who scolds, harasses, or has a stringent ideology (that also likely has no consistency or logic). Heck I try to add alt text to all my images but if I see someone scolding another person for not including alt text, that's a block. I swore off corporate social media a few years ago because of the toxicity. I'm starting to think it's not only the corporate part that is bad. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1l40…nm43 the difference is that the watch wasn't trying to overcome basic physics (optics). You will not get to a lightweight, comfortable, stylish, "glasses" type product, likely ever. There may be a very small niche for this product as a large headset, but is that enough to sustain it at a company that demands constant growth? Also as far as I know this design hasn't solved vergence-accomodation conflict so that rules it out for at least a portion of the population. npub1h4da0j9jns5flcgj8yufah8dquwewlchyaenwuwr87cgcmu0gd2s5c0c29 Jake First prints ever. Got the darkroom setup in the spare bathroom finally.
