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mastodon 4.7.2Keith Peters.
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
IRQ jumpers on dial up modems.
I've watched disk defraggers glitter in the dark on Windows 3.0.
All those moments will be lost in time, like backups on Jazz disks.
Time to power off.
Said goodbye to Yuki, my beloved, beautiful, faithful, funny best friend and close companion of the past 13 years this morning. It's almost walk time and I don't know wtf to do. I will probably walk anyway.
I wrote something up on this app I worked on over the weekend.
me: we should not expose sensitive info to Claude
coworker: we have an enterprise account, they won't use our data for training
me: they settled a $1.5B lawsuit for illegally stealing data to train their models.
coworker: apples and oranges
me: yes, they stole apples, i don't trust them with my oranges
(I won this one. yay for small victories)
Things that have been raised in meetings recently:
2 weeks ago: our numbers of commits, PRs, tickets, show no noticeable velocity improvement that can be traced to our use of AI.
Last week: engineer survey, most engineers report a 25-200% increase in productivity with AI
This week: The one engineer who refuses to use AI verifiably outperforms every other engineer in productivity.
The question asked: how can we get engineers to use AI better to make them more productive?
sigh.
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@IsItBroke@techhub.social @Axolotl1@gaygeek.social @loucyx@mastodon.social funny, I get Good, Fast, CheALT
I focus so well when I'm in a meeting. Not on the meeting but whatever thing I'm multitasking on during the meeting. If I'm not in a meeting, I'm all over the place. I get so much done on other stuff when I'm in a meeting. Sometimes I wonder about myself.
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most of my code libraries are contained in two modules. blcairo, which is all rendering code. It's got the cairographics bindings. And bitlib, which is pretty much everything else, but knows nothing about rendering. The biggest part of that is probably geom, which has points, lines, circles, rectangles, polygons, all kinds of shapes - but only as models of shapes. blcairo knows how to render them all.
This circle packing just returns lists of circles, which makes it very flexible.
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I need to rework my zen browser install on Manjaro. Every time I update, it compiles the entire browser from source. Takes hours. I keep saying I'll change it to a precompiled binary, but this time for sure.
TIL that "footgun" is a common term for when you "shoot yourself in the foot". I thought it was just something we came up with in our company.
what do you mean? of course we make it obvious how to unsubscribe.
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@Walrus@toot.wales while we're at it, let's stop with the fake Chinese / Japanese characters
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social A coworker writes internal articles prefaced with
"2026-05-09 — vouched for by ; worthy of human consumption; co-authored with Claude (Opus 4.7)."
I disagree with the worthiness, but at least I don't waste time reading it.
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@2legged@mastodon.ie I learned recently that there's a whole instagram thing where you buy lots of books and show them off. you don't read them. just buy them and brag about them.
This reminded me of that.
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@ipsquiggle@sunny.garden I write everything in Go, as part of a couple of custom frameworks I built that use Cairographics C bindings. I think it's pretty standard circle packing. Find a random point that's not in an existing circle, what's the largest circle you can create from there that doesn't overlap another circles. With a few other constraints and parameters.
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@jalefkowit@vmst.io I listened to some minutes of a few of these episodes on the site mentioned in the article. It's like Muzak for podcasts. It offends me.
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@noneuclideandreamer@mathstodon.xyz As others said, the third one is a bit troublesome. The others, pretty good.
I think the grid lines throw it off a bit. the cubes are rendered opaque but you can see the grid through them. if you drew the cubes as full wire frames, or did it on plain paper, might improve things.
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@pikario@mastodon.gamedev.place There are a lot of configuration options. I fiddled with it a lot to get it to look and work like i wanted it to.
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@pikario@mastodon.gamedev.place Yes, just tried it on my linux desktop install of KOReader.
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@pete@masto.hypertelia.com "allegedly livestreamed"? If you livestream yourself doing something, it's not really allegedly anymore.
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@jjacobsson@mastodon.gamedev.place Seen this come up a couple of times here and I want to point out this is from (at least) 9 years ago and Go has had generics for about 4 years now. Not to devalue the craziness of the original post! Just don't want people to avoid Go because they think it doesn't have this feature and you have to do insane workarounds like this.
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@becomethewaifu@tech.lgbt @sibrosan@mastodon.social @pikario@mastodon.gamedev.place yes, very much about contrast. Agree, the yellow is not the best. I went with the colors I've seen others use. Some have done it in grayscale.
More and more I've become fixated on earlier parts of my life. It's been causing me tension for a while, but now I'm past tense.
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@madcollector@retro.pizza This is wonderful. I don't know if I could bring myself to do it in the US though.
Been working my way through the LeCarre novels and as I complete one that has a movie or TV series attached, I watch that. Just finished The Night Manager. It was very well done. They followed the book very closely for the first 2/3, and then went utterly rogue. But it worked. I think they lost a lot of LeCarre's intended message, but to be fair, the series ending was a lot more satisfying than the book.
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@anne_twain@theblower.au @mcc@mastodon.social as an American, I know that what you call a torch is a flashlight for us. But I'm laughing that the picture of you holding a flaming stick under the bedclothes.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I still don't get it, even though I'm watching it in real time.
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@pete@masto.hypertelia.com ooh, interesting. I've always had the idea for a plot where someone commits some crime but has their Garmin watch history showing they were out for a run somewhere else. Could be done by hacking (tough if it's stored on a server) or getting someone to run with your watch (involves an accomplice).
Most likely someone has actually tried it.