Notices by John Breen (jab01701mid@mastodon.social)

@matt @Gargron @forteller Great talk !
Too bad my Mastodon account login is not good enough to "like" the video ! Maybe someday soon.
(I get it - I have a different "account" on a peertube instance rankett.net, but not sure if that would work as a northbound.online login...)
Anyway, I will not use "privately owned community spaces" either !

@graydon @daz @aral I consider fascism the natural end result of lazy, ignorant, hateful people who have brains but will not use them.
Well-regulated capitalism is great, but depends on citizens who also do their part in democracy. It becomes "Democratic Socialism" most naturally. But authoritarianism and lazy minds lead easily to fascism, which we now have in the US.

@georgetakei The most powerful toddler for sure.

@SlicerDicer Nope, probably missed my chance to visit Austin, which seems like a nice island in a State that otherwise does not seem to want me, or half of its people, to be there.

@SlicerDicer You've gotta start somewhere. Any pressure necessary to help Texas overthrow their own kakistocracy is a good thing.

All sanely-governed states must deny travel to visitors from Texas, with due process for appeal, until they get their measles outbreak under control. It's just like CA inspecting my vehicle for alien plants when I came in via RT 80 a few years ago.

@dalias I worked for a guy name Amar Bose for a while who got his start designing PWM-based power amps, then speakers. I'm just a SWE, but I like to tinker with HW interfacing too. Sounds like a fun project you have.

@dalias Yes. S/PDIF is the perfect example of opto-isolated self-clocking square waves. Depending on your bandwidth needs, I'd go with whatever is in common use for S/PDIF circuits.
But I'm just a SWE...

@clive I already hear that Maine coastal rental businesses are seeing 90% of their Canadian visitors cancel summer plans, threatening the survival of their business. We all blame Trump, but many will not acknowledge it in public because of fear and shame.

@inthehands Did not realize Rupert Murdoch is on the Tesla board, just exercised and sold $13M worth of options a few days ago.

@inthehands Responsibly, I decided to add just $100.00 more of TSLZ and TSLQ to my portfolio, just to keep the scent of impending brand-death fresh...

@inthehands I'm also following a basket of the top EU and top US defense contractors, which is fascinating...

@inthehands OK, my first #TeslaTuesday
My little portfolio has appreciated 20%, including about 10% today, though it's been quite volatile over the first week.
I'm not advising that anyone invest money they can't afford to lose in this way !

@inthehands OK, here's my little $200 TSL playland. Maybe I publish a snapshot weekly. TeslaTuesday ?

@inthehands I imagine the fund is "managed" by some traders doing the actual short trades, and this fund gains any profits, suffers any losses, but you are limited to losing your investment, as opposed to the actual short-traders, who have much more downside exposure, and I assume more upside potential as a reward. I'll do it on a very small scale.
My account tools show the history of the fund, so I could look, but why...

@inthehands I don't really understand these "stocks", but I'd be willing to spend $200 to try it out, willing to lose it all. And I have an account...

@inthehands I just feel badly for Nikola.

@dangillmor @pluralistic I'm ready to join the software engineering counter-revolution. Jail-break is my middle name, and I have some rusty skills.

@Gargron This is my cat also, when saying "what the fuck is THAT ?"

@gleick FWIW, I was with a medium size tech company about 15 years ago, and we had excellent human tech support, and it was rarely needed.
One big reason, IMHO, was that the support budget came out of the sales budget.
The dynamic this setup was that sales was forced to balance "requests for new features" with "cost of supporting poorly designed or executed products".
I think that's a very rare choice these days.