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Adam Fields
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mastodon 4.7.3Chief Engineer for Scaling & Infrastructure http://graphika.com Follow me for posts about tolerance and kindness, pithy and sometimes insightful tech commentary, blistering puns, a lot of reposts of interesting things I find, and nearly but not quite daily photos of food I'm making. I delight in random weirdness. I fix stuff & mail marshmallows. I upgraded my Apple IIgs with a 20MB hard drive. he/him
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Joined November 14, 2022
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I loved Project Hail Mary (both the movie and the book), but have we noticed the overwhelming similarities to Arrival?
Lone scientist deciphers alien language to save Earth from future destruction ✅
Glass barriers ✅
Whiteboards are essential ✅
Odd number of legs ✅
Time has no meaning ✅
Project Hail Mary was a delight
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@SwiftOnSecurity I hate it, but the right term for this is probably “quacksalver syndrome”.
https://wordsmith.org/words/quacksalver.html
did you know that Zohran Mamdani is an anagram for Damn I Am Zohran
I am so sick and tired and disgusted with “it’s not X, it’s Y” and all of its variations.
Getting ready #nokings
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@markloundy@mastodon.online @digitalbits@universeodon.com @petersterne@mastodon.social Through a timeline or app that's relatively easy. But if you get a permalink to a post, and you're not logged into the instance it's on, and you try to interact with it in any way, you get these cumbersome popups. Copying and pasting the url of the post or user into your own server is not a low friction pathway. I think there are chrome extensions that will make this simpler, but that's not a widespread solution.
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@digitalbits@universeodon.com @petersterne@mastodon.social it’s a really big problem that it’s so difficult to follow someone or interact with a post when you’re viewing it on their server that you’re not logged into. That’s a huge barrier to adoption of incorporating posts into other articles.
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@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social @superglaze@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social ironic that this article is paywalled.
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@klillington@mastodon.ie I wrote an intro guide with some of the common pitfalls I’ve found: https://fields.medium.com/a-brief-introduction-to-mastodon-587f36b6ba20
Ok, but I am still laughing about bird blindness
Time to root that old TiVo
doors and corners store
As it turns out, the actions of the President can affect prices of things.
I want a robot assistant that can do reliable math and set timers. This feels non-negotiable.
Presidential Lie Bury
How do we mobilize outreach groups to do voter registration for people stuck in super long TSA lines?
meetaverse, a virtual reality community where you can get together with other people and recite poetry
cloudy with a chance of meet balls
Thinking about it some more, Project Hail Mary in many ways feels more like a Ron Howard movie instead of a Lord & Miller movie, and now I wonder if they did that intentionally.
By Grabthar’s Hammer, what a savings.
I have never understood why people don’t like this movie. All of this was evident the first time I saw this, and it also has the single funniest line gag in the entire MCU.