Greg Whitehead

@mike_bowler@hachyderm.io Never has there been a better argument for shorter meetings. I mean, better ventilation too, but I’d prioritize shorter meetings ;-)

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @mattblaze@federate.social @jf_718@mas.to @VATVSLPR@c.im Oh man, we charred chilis for mole inside on the gas stove without an adequate vent once, and ONLY once, it was like chemical warfare!

@overholt@glammr.us "The bubble has not popped. Its value has migrated into the ether." Can't happen soon enough

@inthehands@hachyderm.io Yes! It's so easy to screw this up when you are deep in the mines and lack the perspective of the bigger picture that your work fits into

@th@social.v.st No, no there is not. Even the most irredeemable thing is made better by some measure

@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz What’s going on at Springer Nature, didn’t they also just lay off the editorial staff at Scientific American?

@gedeonm@mastodon.social when I was in grad school AI was considered a hard problem... who knew that the big breakthrough would just be lowering our standards ;-)

@inthehands@hachyderm.io Yes, creativity is a thought process. So called creative tools may help you express your ideas, but they don’t give them to you.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange We need ASCAP for LLMs ;-)

@inthehands @iangreenleaf Oh man, what an awesome (non-AI) lineup! I’ve gotta say “SOL LEWITT, COMBINATORIAL ENUMERATION, AND ROGUE” has me seriously considering looking at flights ;-)

@jerry maybe just more selective about the shots you *keep*… if you don’t take it you can’t keep it

@evacide I have deleted more replies than I’ve posted in the last 24 hours, by a wide margin, and I’m definitely happier for it

@lindsey@recurse.social on the plus side, future grad students will be spared having them as an advisor

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social if "recently" means when you started talking about it, then that's my answer

@djl@mastodon.mit.edu @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz Ok, it looks like the layoffs are planned by the new owners, but the circumstances are fishy https://www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scientific-american-union-statement-on-springer-natures-sale-and-layoffs/ And, yeah, I haven’t followed them since I was a kid, but I have fond memories

@tubetime@mastodon.social us army signal core, they used those in the field for artillery communications, my dad worked on them

@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org I remember Softalk https://archive.org/details/softalkapple Looks like there was also Apple Orchard, which I don't remember https://archive.org/details/appleorchardmagazine Here's everything archive.org has, including later mac stuff https://archive.org/details/applemagazines

@markgritter Fun! Love Sol LeWitt's work and have fond memories of Rogue, but had never made the procedural art connection. I assume you've seen the 3Blue1Brown video on Sol LeWitt's Cubes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BrFKp-U8GI

@mattblaze@federate.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org on the subject of USB-C negotiation, I recently saw this clever bench supply https://www.crowdsupply.com/centylab/pocketpd

@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place Yes! I actively use multiple languages, selecting the one with the best “impedance match” to the particular problem I’m trying to solve, and knowing what’s going on under the covers is a huge part of that analysis. I’m also a hybrid EE/CS and there is no doubt that understanding hardware architecture has helped me in my software career.

@joshmillard@mastodon.social I just go for the turkey legs

@inthehands@hachyderm.io I can tell you that, as someone who was a electronics / software hobbyist before I became a professional, I have rediscovered the joy of making for fun in retirement (I just didn't have the energy for it when I was working). The hardest part is having the discipline to finish things when there are no external drivers. Getting involved in communities of like-minded folks has been helpful there

@christianp @futurebird +1 for unnecessary use of color to convey information in questions

@mattblaze@federate.social @tknarr@mstdn.social the most secure system is one with no outputs ;-)

@csk Hah, just noticed that, if you click on the p5js link, it’s interactive! Awesome

@gedeonm@mastodon.social my favorite part!

@mhoye@cosocial.ca @neauoire@merveilles.town @Kehvarl@furry.engineer @cstross@wandering.shop The great thing about standards is that we have so many of them! ~~ Andrew Tanenbaum

@inthehands I have a soft spot for the original since I saw it in the theater when it came out, at a very formative age, but I'd still put Rogue One and Andor ahead it and all the others

@baabbaash@mathstodon.xyz it looks like there’s a nice 6x6 pattern in the interior that could be tiled

@mwichary Hah, I have an old model 33 teletype in the garage, and fond memories of war dialing them when I was a kid ;-)

@jwz@mastodon.social Well shit… I don’t watch trailers, so haven’t seen this, but was hoping for the same quality as The Peripheral. Neuromancer has been optioned for so long I guess I can at least be happy Gibson is finally getting a payday.

@a https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102646704/?media=96417

@nicksherman @justvanrossum Related, there's also a lot of information in major/minor version numbers! Customers learn that, at least for some vendors, dot zero releases (eg 3.0) are effectively beta quality and should only be installed on test machines, waiting for the dot one release (eg 3.1) before deploying into production

@csk Ok, I had to look this up. The “square” refers to the aspect ratio of the rendered character https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_Compatibility