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Nelson Minar

@nelson@tech.lgbt
mastodon 4.7.2+glitch.techlgbt
  • Open on tech.lgbt

Full stack homosexual.

1146 Followers
404 Following
50 Posts
Joined April 26, 2022
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/nelson
Weblog:
https://www.somebits.com/weblog/
Linkblog:
@somebitslinks
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 3w ago
Replying to
@robpike@cosocial.ca are you able to do complex arithmetic exactly or do you simply have good number sense? when I interviewed people at google I used to test if they could estimate scale numbers. "so a web page is 10kB, and there's 1 billion web pages. Is that a lot? How much storage do you need?" Amazed only half of candidates could figure that.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago
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@andybaio@xoxo.zone That's not how Nolan intended. The subtitles make the dialogue legible after he spent so much effort making it impossible to understand
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 4mo ago
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@anildash@me.dm you missed the other asset of the AI: forced adoption in the US government thanks to corruption.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago
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@anildash@me.dm what triggered the sale at such a low price? What happens to the employees? It sure seems like a lot are about to get laid off and their equity is worthless
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago

Been dealing with a pinched nerve for the last week since laying back in a dentist chair set it off. Mostly okay but sitting at my desk is very uncomfortable. Weird combination of numb hand and sharp pain in one muscle in my back.

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago
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This Mississippi Pot Roast came out great! It always does. Look, it's not fine cuisine, but it's very easy and very satisfying.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago

Fire any product manager who think changes like this are acceptable.

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago

One thing that's unpleasant about a Linux desktop is you often end up looking at log files. And every big app is spamming all sorts of warnings and errors to the log files all the time. Like Chrome logs an error every 2 seconds. All of this is a very bad code smell. The engineers are clearly ignoring their own error logs.

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@b0rk your question is making me nostalgic for the X11 rgb.txt which later became the basis of HTML and then CSS colors. Dates to 1985! It's not a great palette, it pre-dates all the work on perceptual color palettes.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago

Now that my email signatures are fully sorted out, I'm considering moving to p=reject as my DMARC policy. I am pretty sure none of my mail will be rejected, I send everything via Gmail with valid signatures. Any hidden gotchas I should think about?

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place @peterb@mathstodon.xyz but there's a mini-assembler built in right in the ROM!
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago

What are we doing here people? Don't make my username require a number. For that matter, don't make me pick a username at all.

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago

Ecobee is such a better product than my Nest Thermostat ever was. The web app is great. Also it actually works as a thermostat: bonus!

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago

Afroman is coming in a few weeks to my little California town. (Nevada City, CA)

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago

Chase is now requiring five factor authentication. I log in with password on the website, which prompts me to open the mobile app, which requires a thumbprint. Then the app also demands a PIN. That's three separate challenges plus two persistent devices. Every single time I open the website, even in the same browser session.

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@jmason@mastodon.ie systemd-ublock-origin
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago

Laughing out loud at a scene from Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. What a delightful film.

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago

Spam like this is eroding America democracy

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago
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@waldoj I quit reading when one of the clues he cites is that the guy he names was interested in public key cryptography, the very same algorithms used in Bitcoin. It is not a serious article.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago
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@aparrish I use Claude Code for a lot of one-offs and non-critical projects. Ie, my little thread unroller for travel postcards. The standard of quality here is a few tests to make sure data is being includedlook at the HTML output. "looks good to me!" This is not a high stakes or subtle program I'm working on! For something more complex like a Fediverse server, there's way more hidden and subtle than I'd trust to an agent. People are doing that kind of work with AI too but I don't.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 4mo ago
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@mathowie@xoxo.zone hey the AI did a good job rendering that graph!
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 4mo ago
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@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net this is hilarious
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@aparrish@friend.camp I hate seeing the GPL weaponized in this way.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@ytetic@4bear.com I love the exuberance of the third one
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@Meyerweb@mastodon.social this movie is such an underappreciated joy
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@ytetic I am speechless. Jojo and I have exchanged a few messages in recent years. He seems full of spunk as always.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@ytetic huh, I don't recall it. Seems unlikely to be John Dorrance, not his style. I would guess Jojo, Joe Francis? He write some absurd erotica of this kind.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@spara@mastodon.social decentralized bribery to leak secrets
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@ytetic@4bear.com Gemini says "Nishinari District in Osaka". I cannot verify. https://g.co/gemini/share/82818f98afe4
g.co
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@evmar I unambiguously like my unique name.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@spara@mastodon.social Alllbirds missed their chance to be sneakers on blockchain
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago
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@gnomon@mastodon.social it is worth a try. It really is low cuisine but the best of that.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 3mo ago
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@jeff@noxon.cc have you considered swapping out capacitors? A $0.10 component failure is often the cause of a failed control board and a $1000 appliance. In Mexico you'd find someone who could fix the board.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@ytetic this is a very specific fetish scene!
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago
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@aparrish I don't even look at the code the agents write, or at least not much. It works better for things that you can build good test suites for or where you care more about the output of the program than the way the program works. See also @simon's book on agentic programming.
Simon Willison’s Weblog

Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago

@phanpy@hachyderm.io on my Android tablet the toolbar at the bottom covers the new post button. It does still work but it's very hard to hit it.

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago
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@toddbuddy@4bear.com isn't being gay just the best?
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago

Coin Pusher Roguelike

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago
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@clayton_oneill@mastodon.cloud it's pretty good. the coin pushing physics are remarkably complex
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 6mo ago
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@timbray@cosocial.ca I don't love this change but I think it's pretty thoughtful. It's a one time 24 hour delay per phone. And it seems thoughtfully designed to break the spell of a scammer. I think it might help.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago

After 2 hours I got Borderlands 4 playing from my Linux box to my TV. Mostly. I still haven't tried to make HDR work and there's lots of little stutters. But at least the sound isn't delayed 2 seconds anymore.
Linux gaming mostly works but there's still rough edges.

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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago
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@timbray@cosocial.ca are the people or bots?
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago
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@timbray@cosocial.ca I want this movie to be good but I am pessimistic. However, you can be Molly. Have you played Cyberpunk 2077? It's really very good
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@ytetic cool! What's the original?
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago
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@sgillies@mastodon.social have you ever served ranch dressing to French friends and family?
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago
This weekend is Gay Day at the Yuba and little Nevada City is inundated with hundreds of gays. Sniffies is quite hilarious right now.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2w ago
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@ytetic@4bear.com it is different! you carry the joy inside you.
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 5mo ago
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@carey@mastodon.nz FWIW Gemini was able to render a simple version of this with terrible synths. The dream of MIDI is alive!
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Nelson Minar @nelson@tech.lgbt
· 2mo ago
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@toddbuddy@4bear.com I love that train museum. They're firing up the steam engine once a month these days. And now you have me curious who the volunteer was!
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