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"no politics" is a political statement. It's the statement that says "I'm comfortable with the current political landscape and I don't feel like getting it changed".
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Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru
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mastodon 4.7.3I'm JBQ / Djaybee, Husband, Immigrant, Veteran, Highly Sensitive Person #HSP. He/Him. I write about tech and other things. I'm fluent in French and English, I live in Greece, previously France, UK, USA.
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#skiing, #hiking, #biking, #games, #photography, visual #astronomy, #RetroComputing, #DemoScene, #PixelArt, #painting, #knitting, #weaving, #crochet, #BeadWeaving, #CrossStitch and #BlackWork embroidery.
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EV charging is not confusing at all. There are types, levels, and modes.
I used to have cables for type 1 level 1 mode 2, type 1 level 2 mode 2, type 1 level 2 mode 3. I will need cables for type 2 level 1 mode 2, type 2 level 2 mode 2, and type 2 level 2 mode 3.
Level can be 1, 2, 3.
Mode can be 2, 3, 4.
Type can be 1, 2, J1772-2001, CHAdeMO, CCS1, CCS2, NACS.
Not confusing at all.
Initial development isn't the most expensive part of software engineering. Maintenance is. Cutting corners in initial development results in a larger increase in maintenance cost.
Writing code isn't the most expensive part of initial development. Refining the requirements, designing, documenting, writing tests, and reviewing are more expensive that writing code. Cutting corners in those results in a larger increase in initial development and maintenance costs.
This is a post about vibe coding.
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Insider trading as a service. And some extra erosion of what little trust people might still have in the USA.
Ski (the mostly white cat in the back) has a hard time with other cats. She likes her alone quiet time. When Mandalena died, Ski was devastated, since Mandalena knew to respect Ski's space.
Now, after two months with only the two of them in the house (down from a peak of 8), Ski and Buffy are getting along well, playing together, grooming each other, sleeping together. We're happy for them.
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@cstross@wandering.shop Soon you'll need to get your age verified before you can use an age-verification service.
Paul Dukas used agentic AI to write code in the late 19th century, had to get a senior engineer to clean up after a massive incident, and his most popular composition "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is a cautionary tale against unleashing technology that you don't master.
(Not quite microfiction, but very loosely inspired by the genre)
RE: @workchronicles@mastodon.social
A 4-panel comic, with a manager in a suit and an engineer sitting at a desk with a laptop on the desk.
1) M: "I asked another engineer for his estimate of the effort"
2) M: "His estimate was one week less than yours"
3) E: "Then why don't you get him to do the project?"
4) M: "He never completes anything on time"
I've been in a job like that, yeah.
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Oh yeah, I should have mentioned: NO SOURCE DEBUGGER.
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@rysiek@mstdn.social I like how the French constitution frames freedom as the right to do things that do not hurt others. That implies that there's no such thing as an absolute freedom.
Achievement unlocked: ordered something online in Greece and had it delivered without having to speak on the phone.
Trump's announcements are as reliable as a computer's progress bar.
RE: @eugenialoli@mastodon.social
The cat distribution system put Noonie in our path (or us in hers). She was in such a bad shape that the vet couldn't believe that she was alive at all, and gave her at most hours to live.
We took care of her, and she got to live another 4 1/2 months.
That was as big a miracle as we could hope for. Late last week, she stopped eating and drinking, and it was clear to everyone that she was on a path with no way back and that she was in tremendous pain. Her body is buried in the back of our yard.
-Fork a major Open Source project for a narrow purpose
-Upstream doesn't accept your contributions because they want to support the broad case, not just your narrow one.
-Don't keep your fork updated with upstream.
-The project you forked depends on python
-Python breaks compatibility with the version you forked.
-Now your fork doesn't build.
2022: we buy a house that has potential for a large art studio.
2024: we move into that house.
2026: we start construction on the actual art studio (literally 2 days ago).
There's a good chance we'll have it completed by the end of the year, I'm crossing fingers that we reach a specific milestone by mid-summer.
Yeah, it's easy to shit on Amazon when you have plenty of alternatives. But, when you don't, Amazon is a godsend. I know, because I now have neither Amazon nor alternatives and it fucking sucks.
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@MLE_online Its French nickname is "monnaie du pape", which means "the Pope's currency" or "the Pope's change" (the latter still in the sense of currency).
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@iftas @Karen5Lund I now maintain mastodon accounts on 4 different servers, so that I can immediately start a migration when the server for my primary account is about get blackholed. I've learned the hard way when fosstodon was about to disappear.
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@AaronDavid@beige.party "Why don't presidents fight the war? / Why do they always send the poor?"
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@Kroc The ST hardware is documented more than enough that you can shut the OS up and do everything yourself. That's especially true now that there's been a lot of work to make emulators behave like the real thing, which requires a lot of precise reverse-engineering.
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@Kroc Here I am wondering if I should be coding for the Atari 7800 or stay safely with my beloved Atari ST.
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@christianp exactly what I was thinking about!!!
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@annaecook Tied to machines that make me be. Cut this life off from me.
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@ashleygjovik My impression of Apple is that it's not a great engineering company, but it's a company that has great engineers. The difference being, in my perception, that the company doesn't manage to get consistently great engineers in all areas of its products.
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space The one thing you can't get wrong is the frequency of the color burst and color subcarrier. 315/88 MHz. There's some flexibility over the rest, most TVs will readily accept lines between 226 and 229 subcarrier periods, and frames don't need to have the exact line count at all.
I can't put my hands on it right now, there's a list somewhere of the number of lines in different Atari 2600 games (where it's controlled in pure software), it varies quite wildly.
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10 minutes on the 5090 uses as much transistor time as a lifetime on the 7800. That's wall time, I'm not even scaling for the difference in clock speed.
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@zackwhittaker this is the new "banned in 17 countries"
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@sellathechemist Graham's hierarchy of disagreement is perfect for cases like that: any level that you use, you implicitly acknowledge that your can't use and higher level. It's almost an event when Trump lifts himself to the second lowest level.
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@timixretroplays@digipres.club The business district in La Défense will likely run out of air conditioning tomorrow for lack of capacity (they have ice storage to even out the peaks, but that's not enough for this continued heat wave).
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@kristen_d Big hug to you. Our MiniMe had been with us less than 6 months when she died hit by a car, and the house was deafeningly empty after she was gone. These two stay indoors, we also have 3 outdoors cats that have their shelters on one of our balconies.
I'm giving myself one last week to clear up the space where we will be building our arts and crafts studio. In a week, if there are still a few things left in there that get covered in construction dust, it'll be on me to clean things up.
(spoiler alert: most of what's left in there is either reasonably dust-proof or still covered in construction dust from the previous phase).
We need to get everything ready by mid-August at the very latest. It's a tight schedule.
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@AnarchoCatgirlism Reminds me of the way you need to include "Please" in your Intercal programs. Too few or too many and the program doesn't work, it's got to be just right.
Intercal was meant as a joke, at least,
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@syphist@zoner.work Most people creating such systems are having a hard enough time getting something that works at all for the intended use case that they don't have the mental capacity to investigate what happens when their system doesn't work. For better or worse, the world of software is a deades ahead, but putting software into everything doesn't make everyone an experienced software engineer.
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@anon_opin@mastodon.social I love the idea, and I wish it were practical.