A very young bonnet macaque (Macaca radiata) clinging to a Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) that's considerably larger than itself.
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Abhijit Menon-Sen
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hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1Writer, programmer, and incurable tinkerer.
Lives on a farm in a small village in the Himalayas, after a career spent working mostly on open source (especially Postgres). Struggles feebly under a growing heap of off-grid DIY and woodworking projects. Tends to photograph insects and plants more often than other things.
Atheist. Feminist. Against sexism, casteism, racism, and fascism (in any order). Trans rights are human rights.
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Reposting an old favourite photograph taken in a meadow above our village, on the first sunny day after a solid week of rain. This magnificent old Toona ciliata tree was hit by lightning some years ago.
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@colinstu@birdbutt.com Your description was completely accurate in every way, but it was STILL a shock! Zow.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I installed Slackware, decided it was too much for me, did "rm -rf /" because that sounded pretty cool, and forgot that /dosc was automatically mounted. That's how I ended up switching. ;-)
This is like one of those "find the cat before it's too late" posts, but with a crocodile.
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Now joined by freshly-harvested garlic!
«I knew I was close on the server, but close wasn't good enough when dealing with source coding.»
-- Novelist, trying to sound all computer-y.
I just got into bed and now I see a firefly floating around the room in the dark.
I saw a post titled "Bat table I just finished" on reddit, and I got excited but it was baseball bats. 😑
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@robtherunt@cupoftea.social @staringatclouds@mstdn.social I posted about parakeets destroying (our own) crops earlier today without having seen this petition or knowing about this proposal to shoot them. It was just an unfortunate coincidence.
Anyway, the parakeets here (Plum-headed Parakeets, Psittacula cyanocephala) are a native species, and although I call them assholes once in a while, I don't want to shoot them.
Indeed, «Hunting lobby just like killing stuff». (P.S. They can get fucked.)
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Sorry. I didn't know that changing a label would reset the votes. Sigh.
Well, the results were already pretty indicative. Freehand sketches for the majority (77%), followed by CAD (19%), followed by nothing (5%), with 43 votes in toto.
(Yes, that adds up to more than 100%, which is also what happens when you don't draw up plans properly. ;-)
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@dianea@lgbtqia.space That's just so horrible, for them, their families, for you, just in general. Of course I know in theory that lead poisoning is a serious problem, but I never imagined someone personally knowing that many people who died from it.
(And of course it's far from the only thing people die of in industrial contexts.)
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io What's even more awful is a restaurant that claims to be Indonesian, but has a generic pan-asian menu. :-( Encountered one of those the other day, though I don't remember its name. Good thing we realised before going there.
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@daniel_bohrer@chaos.social Beautiful. The whole thing, the drawing, the box itself, the wood, the presentation, everything.
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@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks The recipe helpfully says there's no such thing as too much maple syrup flavour!
I had never heard of "wet walnuts" before. Are they still crunchy?
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@solar_chase@mastodon.green It used to really annoy me because people would create meeting events with the time _labelled_ as UTC, but they meant BST, and I (in a different timezone altogether) would show up to the meeting at the wrong time.
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@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe Like they have specially-bred hypoallergenic cats, they should also have adhesive cats who just stay in place (without claws) even if you have to move around.
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@Sheril@mastodon.social I find I often don't realise (or, at least, can't articulate) what I've learned from reading a book until much later. But it's always a good realisation, whenever it happens.
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@dillyd@turtleisland.social Lovely. Our remaining plum flowers are all gone in the rain, but there are some small fruit set in already.
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@simonmcinerney@aus.social Existence of bird-eating spider implies existence of bird-dropping spider. 😆
Lovely sighting!
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@moonrabbit@sunny.garden @suearcher@toot.wales Wow! It's lovely!
Are there more photos of all the dioramas?
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@deborahh@cosocial.ca @nev@flipping.rocks It's a mugger/marsh crocodile (Crocodylus palustris).
I notice that the kiridashi has _three_ distinct bevels on the cutting edge. The very last one must be only a quarter of a millimeter or so (but it's very even, and distinctly visible because of the way it reflects light).
Sharpening this blade will be interesting.
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@daniel_bohrer@chaos.social I tried to revise the poll to say "Technical drawing" instead of "Drafting board" (because I _meant_ technical drawing, even if it was just in a notebook), but it reset all the votes. But presumably you and I (who could not vote in my own poll, it seems) would have chosen that option. 🙂
Would love to see any of your technical drawings, if you feel like sharing. Just idle curiosity.
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@Rajiv@infosec.exchange That's interesting. I've also been looking at FreeCAD, but not sure if it'll be worth the trouble for me. I think I'll probably benefit more from improving my drafting skills (by hand). Not entirely sure, though.
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@jago@mementomori.social That is indeed a notable advantage, when drawing by hand it's tedious to precisely account for, e.g., plywood with 18.6mm thickness. Easy to make mistakes.
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@hypha@cafe.mycelium.locahlo.st @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Like how carbon is transformed into diamonds, but with the weight of a huge slobbery dog.
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@LisaMaesie@nutmeg.social And yet, somehow, their tails are in the SAME POSITIONS in both photos!
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@rachelplusplus@tech.lgbt Indeed, it always felt a step too far somehow.
I found the blog post interesting because it suggested that it's not that big a deal to use. Plus the idea of systematic segregation enforced by the system is attractive because it's not as vulnerable to lazy mistakes by me in maintaining some self-directed separation.
(But I also haven't tried to use Qubes myself, and I've also been lazy about doing any other kind of isolation. 🙈)
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@clareburgess@hachyderm.io @katemorley@hachyderm.io A striking photograph. The light-coloured reflections being just past the head somehow seems to add more depth to the forest and the clasped-hands pose is apt for looking up at the hill with its many layers of trees.
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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io I recently read some posts suggesting that it's useful to ask an LLM to review code "as if you were Linus Torvalds" or a few other people. I can't explain why this feels incredibly distasteful and disturbing to me, but I absolutely hate the thought of having to grasp at which real people to invoke an imitation of to get the results I want.
I didn't know that disposable barbecues were even a thing.
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@dianea@lgbtqia.space @glyph@mastodon.social As someone with (domestic-scale) lots of lead-acid batteries, I am honestly terrified now at having read this just before going to sleep.
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org Yikes, the shadow looks a bit like the "Alien" opening its mouth too.
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@QuietMisdreavus@squad.town Out of curiosity, were these medical laboratory analyzers you worked with the kind of thing that's used to test blood samples and generate a thyroid/lipid/etc. profile? Or something else altogether? (I don't know anything about such equipment, I'm just intrigued by your mention of writing diagnostic scripts for them.)
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@solar_chase@mastodon.green (Well, I guess your "sends me a time in UTC" is much the same thing.)
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@rachelplusplus@tech.lgbt Reminds me of the Qubes OS approach (which I vaguely knew about, but found more compelling only after someone I know tried it a year or so ago and posted on his blog about how he manages his own work… but now I can't find the post).