← Feed

Posts

• View post

  My wife obtained this bracelet recently. It is NOT 'steampunk' fashion; this is the real deal from the 1880's. What would this style have been called? It pre-dates Art Nouveau and Art Deco. #steampunk #victoriana #jewelry #vintage

• View post

  @EricFielding@mastodon.social JPL did a study with Qualcomm after Mars Helicopter where they radiation tested a particular Snapdragon processor and mapped out all the questionable sections. Then they designed a board with two Snapdragons and an FPGA that compares the results of the two CPUs to ensure nothing is going awry. I wouldn't be surprised if the design is open source. I doubt that JPL itself will ever use it. I was PI on a NASA proposal at JPL, prototyping an instrument using this t...

• View post

  @slava I spent considerable time trying to think of how to 'fix' this, before I realized that the command should fail exactly as it does now.

• View post

  Disaster Monkeys https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/meme-girls/earth-chan-the-moon/viewer?title_no=304446&episode_no=395

• View post

  @christianp I wish Peertube were a solution, but is Peertube economically sustainable? 🤔 Of course not. Even Mastodon is not economically sustainable. I make one post here and immediately get 1,000 automated hits on my home page from Mastodon servers.

• View post

  @christianp Printing is a black art. Use black filament?

• View post

  @AmenZwa Science offers no rebuttal because flat earth theories and the like are faith based. Science only applies to falsifiable claims.

• View post

  @AmenZwa Coming soon: Arnold Schwarzenegger comes back in time to kill Sarah Connor and be governor of California again. I've always hated the term "data science". DS is many things, but science isn't one of them.

• View post

  @AmenZwa I love the idea of fountain pens. However, you can always tell if I've use a soldering station recently because there are new burn holes all over; my brain just won't track the tip if I'm not actively thinking about it. If I've got a fountain pen in hand, I am rapidly drenched in ink. So, it's gel rollers for me.

• View post

  @dalfen Leaving us with President Vance. Uh-huh.

• View post

  For any of you sad sacks of shite sorry enough to live in California or New Jersey, doing taxes, and have an HSA... Pretty sure no HSA companies track capital gains and losses, since they are not needed for federal. Since the HSA company isn't choosing specific shares to sell, you have to cost average. So, tot up all the hard-earned petrodollars you spent buying whatever mutual fund you are using and the number of shares you have. That's your cost basis, which you need when you...

• View post

  Happy Destroy Persian Civilization Day for those who celebrate. (Or is this only an American holiday?)

• View post

  Rumor is that Linux version 7.1 will be dropping support for the abacus.

• View post

  I've been tinkering with SVG animation, ancient Chinese instruments, and harmonics. What are those weird dots? Why not mash these three subjects all up together into a pile of blog? https://www.skewray.com/articles/animated-guqin-harmonics #mathematics #music #guqin #animation #svg

• View post

  Cloudflare: "The software had a built-in limit of 200 bot detection features." Clowns