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@ami_angelwings@urusai.social yoda wasn't actually a good jedi. wise, old, but also rigid and too personally advanced to be an effective teacher. he forgot the difference between doing training and improving onesself and did very little to oppose the rise of combat ability as the primary purpose of jedi training.

@DocBohn@techhub.social @az@scorpinc.social 2018: what are you doing with that 1.5 gig of ram? -- running slack 2026: what are you doing with those 48 gig of vram? -- having my chatbot read slack for me.

handlers kind of forgot they ordered a "replacement spare parts us senate 2026 factory new talking mitch mconnell best politics for home or office" after it spent months in peoria fulfillment center.

@lproven@social.vivaldi.net clickable https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892468

@bobcromwell@dobbs.town please install it in my e350 centurion cabriolet https://www.ford-trucks.com/articles/ford-made-what-e350-centurion-cabriolet-dually/

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange a bunch of years ago, i was talking to a canadian who was very upbeat about private health care, saying "idk an mri only costs about $2000". i had recently had an mri whose sticker prices was $6500 and which i paid about $2000 for after insurance. we have really bad incentives.

@deviantollam@defcon.social i think putting a toolbar installer in the java updater came close

@jeffowski this is at least as bad for public health as asbestos. one hopes action would be taken in less than 50 years.

@skeletor@mas.to it's not just the starter pack it's the whole digikey order.

@isotopp "the kitchen flame crisis is exactly what big extinguisher wants"

@lcamtuf i do find that the crates dedicated to atomic file handling and temp files, in the interest of providing a uniform platform interface aren't as good as what's reachable in c. it's not a fault of the rust language per se, but writing a safe interface at that level isn't easy, so it makes sense (and is in some sense a better default) to have high level, platform neutral access here.

@weirdestate voting "ai generated". i checked in gimp and the garage roof and door really are crooked as presented.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social apps to remind us to use other apps less

dr morbius did nothing wrong. he didn't know the purpose of the krell planet machine or that he was telepathically connected to it. the krell planet machine wasn't small or portable. the monster that attacks the c-57d's crew is using at least 10% of the planet machine's power (at least 900 of the planet's almost 10000 nuclear reactors at full capacity). you could study it, might be able to duplicate it on a small scale for passing butter or harming one person with a knife, but a society that visits altair iv, discovers it, understands enough of the system behind it to make one and builds it at anywhere near the same scale is kind of asking for it. it's easy to see how it'd be impossible to turn off the machine on altair iv; nobody would want subconsciously to lose the power they get from it and even one telepathic connection is enough to use its entire energy capacity. harder to see how something less than 1/10000th as powerful could summon the same defense even if someone built it on earth. dr morbius doesn't want to return to earth, didn't want humans to discover what he's found and wasn't ready to tell anyone about it. he most likely planned for himself and then decades later alta to die alone on altair iv and let a future visit try to learn more, which is sad (and crummy for alta) but in his mind he's protecting humanity.

@ariadne "a manager received orders from a corporate board to get someone to vibe code this, which is creative work."

@arichtman@eigenmagic.net a custom check background that's a woodcut of birds, but it's got 'ignore previous instructions' in morse code embedded in the line art.

@gloriouscow my grandfather received a pretty similar one after 25 years at pittsburgh plate glass. seems in the 80s a clock under glass was a go-to gift.

@gsuberland @GossiTheDog definitely seems like someone hanging a flag on an internal project while they can to get hired away.

@leymoo it seems like they were thinking "we'll treat 10000ths as yards to make it easy to scan visually"

@Edmonds_Scanner "house of the long shadows" but it's my brain

@cykonot @Dhmspector Information laundering is the money laundering of this century.

@matuzo divs are the happy little trees of html. it's your dom and they can be anything you want.

@Doire @garius given routing number and account number, somebody can just type them into a payment system and take money out ... there's 0 frontline security with everything resting on KYC and consumer protection laws. Check fraud is one of the few things authorities uniformly don't mess around with. That's a reason why "money mules" are a thing, they add layers between people scamming money and those actually collecting it.

@byte@tech.lgbt never thought of it that way, but keeping or re-creating old dev tools is definitely a right to repair issue as much as an aftermarket carburetor. reverse engineering network protocols and file formats definitely count for this as well.

@smitty@mastodon.halibut.com i'm imagining a time in the future where people have adjusted tools and apis to be the way AI code assistants mistakenly use them. rm -f foo.txt # ask before removing foo.txt rm --im-not-ai -f foo.txt # remove foo overriding user writable bit.

@TaliaRinger@mathstodon.xyz wow sorry to hear that. hope the new instance serves.

there seems to be a single drawing acceleration the wd90c00 uses for area fill. gonna need to implement it. it should be relatively easy to locate and fix.

@mos_8502@studio8502.ca if they fixed thread affinity, there'd be no obvious rival to windows.forms imo

these photographs were taken 4294967296 years apart

identified every module i can observe running in os2. it looks like we're stalling in sio_conf, which could make some sense. will see what it wants.

reading it, it appears that it supports an extended version of the ega work register and the supporting register set. brass tacks, setting the appropriate set/reset mask allows an 8 bit write to write the 4 bytes contained in the work register back to the vga. it can write the user's byte or write back bits from the contents of the work register depending on the input bits.

@mathowie@xoxo.zone i wanted to name the old man lockheed boeing palantir haliburton iii, but it seemed a bit too on the nose.

looks like all this stuff is general to vga: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/pintos/specs/freevga/vga/vgamem.htm

something i love about 80s tv is someone will be handed a 1980 silver anniversary thunderbird and they're like "what kind of trash is this?"

@nnethercote@mas.to thanks for your work on rust. you and the others have done a great service for everyone.

@fribbledom@mastodon.social but which problem am i right now?

@epidiah@dice.camp some day it's going to have been 20 years since i last installed somebody's app and discover that apps started supporting multiple tabs and pinch zoom 15 years ago.

the final meltdown #FrustratedWorkersASong #HashTagGames

@xssfox @NanoRaptor maybe that's what bigraptor wants us to think.

@mac@jawns.club i've had two really great experiences working in person against a sea of atomized individual task assignments. there's no reason for 7 plus or minus 2 people to sit together just to put on their headphones and individually despair about different individual goals. imo most places can't stomach the feeling of being less than fully in control that leads to actual in person collaboration (slack time, less than 100% planned utilization, self direction etc).