Notices by Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social), page 14

@ryanc ha! Pretty sure they're stuck in the last century.

Christian Names (part 2)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/11/christian-names-part-2/

#language #nablopomo

@Gargron we'd be lucky to have you!
Hope it all goes well.

Time to check out my Direct Message Request Inbox on The Twitter.

(Kudos to the person roped both me & Hilary Clinton into a massive spam thread. She didn't reply.)

Just ran an R script which ate up 16GB of RAM and 8GB of SSD swap space in under 5 minutes.

Linux then terminated the process with extreme prejudice. Which is fair.

I might need to find a more efficient way to reproject very large GeoTIFF files.

I know I should probably spin up a cloud server but I'm always terrified that I'll misconfigure it and AWS will rip through my credit card.

It's a pity #OpenBadges never really took off. There's now a slew of proprietary ones.

For example, I'm on:
https://www.credly.com/users/edent/badges
https://www.holopin.io/@edent

Verified credentials is such a mess. They're easy to publish, but there's no sensible way of tying them to an individual.

@annika people are strange!
Mind you, some of our utility providers *refuse* to believe that couples are a thing and will only allow one name on the account.

Am I the only person who keeps updating their National Record of Achievement?

Oh! You've reached "Inbox Zero"?
That's cute. 🙂

@dansup @pixelfed nah mate - what you're doing is awesome. And PHP powers 80% of the web.
I'd love to see your talk.

I think I kind of hate lazy loading…

Yesterday I was on a train. I clicked on a link and the article loaded. Halfway through reading it, the train went into a tunnel and I lost signal.

So I couldn't see the images on the page for the rest of the journey.

I get the need to reduce bandwidth, and the associated battery savings. But I'm not sure it is worth it.

Anyone else feel that way?

Gentle reminder: no one will ever meet your standards for moral purity. Not even you.

Is there a difference between a boat and a ship?

What's a better bug-bounty reward than money? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/08/whats-a-better-reward-than-money/

I saw so many people with folding phones today that it has given me total tech envy.

My OnePlus 5T is approaching 6 years old. Has a replacement battery and flashed with Lineage in order to get modern features.

I'm fully aboard the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle train. So I'll wait until it gives up the ghost and then buy a 2nd hand fold.

Looks like only the Pixel has 3rd party ROMs. So that's another good excuse to wait.

But I *want* a new toy!

Some price noodling on phones.

In 2017, I paid £470 for a new OnePlus 5T - that's about £600 today adjusted for inflation.

The amortised cost is about £80 per year. Or about £100 today.

Would I buy a new / refurbished phone every year for £100? No 5G models at that price. Would it be a series of compromises each year?

I *could* buy a £600 folding phone. But am I confident it'd last half a decade of constant use?

@nwp let me know if you can find a new 5G device for £100. I can't.

@nwp no. I'm talking about amortised cost of ownership.
Having a £600 phone last 6 years is the equivalent of buying a new phone every year for £100.
(Or a phone every 2 years for £200 etc).

There is no website in the world which needs ONE THOUSAND cookies!
How did we get into this mess?