Notices by ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social)

@whitequark @puppygirlhornypost2 yeah, and the places where I get software typically don’t have them at all.

(`apt-get send-like` would be weird)

I like the idea of making posts about things we use and how they’re useful and tagging the developers, and that might be easier for me to write than something like a thank-you note

@puppygirlhornypost2 @whitequark the thing that stops me is having to come up with specific words. When I can hit a like button, I do

@javerous @thomasfuchs @ggete almost as good as “oh look, somebody 3D-printed the save icon!”

@RowinSpeez @thomasfuchs I remember the thing about sending a text message costing more than getting data from Hubble. I had a cell phone then, but I wasn’t doing any texting - and I was still occasionally burning CDs

@whitequark makes me think of a dragon, atop a pile of gold

@ATLeagle @flexghost the Berlin Wall came down in 1989-90, I have no idea what he’s referring to 1981

@fesshole the most baffling brand name is still airmail. Wearing a shirt that says airmail makes me think you’re a fan of the post office or something

@whitequark … now I want my wallpaper to be made of pointer-tracking eyes

@bruces … so how do I set up an agent that will accept payments and just keep them?

@coreyspowell I hadn’t known that the speed of light had been known before Maxwell, so this prompted me to look up the history, and the estimates before 1800 were pretty good: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light#History

So I guess Herschel’s specific numbers were off because it turns out measuring the speed of light is a lot easier than measuring the distances to stars

@inthehands @adapalmer I’m confused that they’re doing this for Alzheimer’s and not for chronic fatigue, but it sounds like good research either way

@mcc because the Golden Delicious are more popular, and the Lady Alice are more portable. If they’d stuck with Macintosh they’d be up to like 15 by now

@bifouba @inthehands @petergleick oh no, now I’m imagining a rewrite of the original trilogy where Darth Vader is as buffoonish as Trump.

It’s a very different story

@hellomiakoda @lrt_writes as of now the ID requirements are different in different jurisdictions, and some sites that implement them do so dependent on where they track your connection to, so using a VPN to appear to be connecting from a jurisdiction that doesn’t have those requirements does bypass the verification on those sites. It might not be a long-term solution, but it’s effective for now. Or so I hear

@dalias @whitequark @NanoRaptor I don’t know how to say why exactly, but I don’t think opposing bigotry is the same as supporting conversion therapy

@dalias @whitequark @NanoRaptor the thing that jumps out to me is that if we could “fix” the worst of the wrong values then we could apply the already existing treatments and all but eliminate the most harmful infections and dramatically reduce the harm done by most other diseases, all at once. If that were an option there’s no other use of the button that would do anywhere near as much good

@fesshole new lifehack just dropped

@lanodan @foone @Truck my favorite was the laptop where the power cable could also be plugged in to the PS/2 port.

(Nothing exploded)

@r @dalias it doesn’t work correctly in [all] fixed-width terminals or editors, especially with double-width characters. I make a lot of lists using emoji as category indicators, and sometimes some of them come out double-width, or break the fixed-width rendering, or get rendered overlapping neighboring (which preserves spacing without confining each character to its cell).

I expect it will improve, like weird effects when backspace removed half an encoded character

@b0rk @endrift only if there’s a way to capture the use of the file handle and set up what amounts to an open-on-use mechanism. I think someone in another branch of the thread mentioned a hypothetical virtual file handle that would work similarly