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... cheaper still, Im experimenting with two 3-litre plastic milk containers, filled with water. [ be sure to a) check for leakages regularly and b) do arm curls well away from ele…

Getting up and running on Mastodon went fine for me, I just signed up and tried it, with minimal hassle. Nova at hachyderm.io seems to be doing a great job managing the tsunami of …

Borland manuals were a pure delight.. as was the speed of Turbo Pascal compilation and the elegance of their text mode windowing object system. I remember scouring all the possible…

yeah.. sometimes you do need to sit under a tree, or on the beach with a paper notebook and no internet connection. But I also think we [ the species ] need a way to discuss ideas …

https://hachyderm.io/@justgord or should that be @justgord@hachyderm.io in canonical format ? I signed up today to see if M was usable [ it seems to be ] .. listened to a stream wi…

Au contraire.. I think it has been maturing slowly, quietly.. and now there is enough churn/pain on Twitter to overcome the activation energy hump of moving to a new platform. We n…

... because I think we need something like Twitter that cant be sold out from underneath the users. Perhaps an idealism that cant be justified.. and yet I think we should at least …

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My gut feel after using M web for a few hours is that its good enough. I think a lot of our systems are overly centralized.. which makes them vulnerable to the whims of rich indivi…

What is the truth of this ? I would really like to know if my x86 'linux PC', is actually running another 'hypervisor' OS that runs Linux - it seems like a recipe for security vuln…

.. and why is infra-red more useful ? Can we see through dust or something ?

indeed .. Top offenders were essentially 2048 pixel wide png photos which should have been 1024 wide jpgs at max - weighing 6MB instead of 250k for a difference the human eye proba…

oh.. I had assumed this referred to the _technical_ dark side .. Was just toying around with porting a friends very successful shopify store to another platform .. noticed the main…

As a followup .. I pushed writes to around 120/sec before I start to notice impact on performance [ latencies start to go up beyond that ] https://quantblog.wordpress.com/2022/06/2…

Would be interested in peoples thoughts on what realistic read/write pressure is a good level to test at, to feel confident in real-world performance... [ if not HN level dos'ing ]…

Your ideas could potentially be encoded in a better ranking/recommender _algorithm_ .. ie. recommenders using something akin to page-rank could/should inject some random items so a…

Could this effect also explain why a lot of seemingly truly original music came out in the 80s .. roughly coincident with a peak in wealth distribution in the middle class ? My rea…

Although mostly horrified / entertained watching a flat-earther documentary a while back with my teenage son .. I was also kind of impressed at one point when the flat earthers did…

I hope one day you will forgive us in the West, for not doing enough to support you.. while you fight our war. Slava Ukraine. Slava Heroime.

WARN : deeply disturbing and utterly compelling Im 10 pages in, taking a break because its too heavy .. Random thoughts come to mind, given recent events, such as how a whole popul…

well this is what Putin is gambling on - that he is willing to go closer to the nuclear brink and thus will win. That was true a month ago, I'm not sure its true today. Wars are no…

Surprisingly, I think the West _is_ actually willing to risk nuclear war over this. I would not be surprised if EU offers interim membership to Ukraine, and then offers air support…

The wider West is only too happy to pay the price of accommodating refugees and reducing fossil fuel dependency .. and may even be happy to risk all out nuclear war to defend our "…

indeed.. I think there is a chance Europe will offer air support in Ukraine, and get drawn into this conflict, and thus be at war with Russia. which will mean EU, USA, UK, CAN, AUS…