@goatsarah Maybe James Bond is really about the fantasy that the rich villains who control the world are interesting people who live interesting lives.
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 19:18:09 JST Ian Douglas Scott -
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 11:00:17 JST Ian Douglas Scott @goatsarah And the people who are that rich don't even have airships!
Such wasted potential.
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 09:11:58 JST Ian Douglas Scott @goatsarah The trick is to be rich enough that you can keep all the most important things in your airship, from which you may then look down with your monocle upon those fools whose lives are immovably tethered to the earth.
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 15:49:53 JST Ian Douglas Scott @foone You can also imagine this inadvertently becoming the only record of some work, in some distant future.
Alien archaeologists: "Our records show that in the late days of human civilization, before the Antimatter Wars of the 2050s, the works of a bard named 'Tolkien' were popular. But after the Great Copyright Enforcement Purge of the libraries, then the war, all we have are excerpts, ritualistic graphics called 'memes' and one language model that produces in-universe erotic literature."
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-May-2024 13:31:23 JST Ian Douglas Scott Never trust graphics cards and drivers further than you can throw a silicon foundry.
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 02:59:07 JST Ian Douglas Scott @meeper @kaia It seems like the law around trademark generalization works in the worst possible way.
(Its strong enough to force companies to be assholes about how their trademarks are used, but not enough to actually invalidate a trademark that is used so generically no one even knows it's a brand name or what the generic name would be. E.g. velcro, etc.)
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 05:20:53 JST Ian Douglas Scott @goatsarah But without the novelty of being the first Olympics to be televised.
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 01:27:21 JST Ian Douglas Scott Wait, does Morocco have more high speed rail infrastructure currently than the Americas?
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 23:38:43 JST Ian Douglas Scott @whitequark
Me, after buying an FPGA: "What project was it I even wanted this thing for?"
Intel, after buying a leading FPGA manufacturer: "What was it we wanted this company for again?" -
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 03:26:28 JST Ian Douglas Scott @zeenix @pid_eins I've not seen varlink before. Looks like it doesn't support passing file descriptors? Which many DBus interferences need.
DBus, Wayland, Pipewire and the like all implement different systems for typed messages over Unix sockets that can contain file descriptors. It would be nice if there was one standard for that, with an IDL, and possibly a better kernel API (microkernel APIs like `mach_msg` are worth comparing).
But we're kind of stuck supporting what exists.
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 15:12:52 JST Ian Douglas Scott @voxpopsicle @goatsarah That, or it's freshly minted with the very latest design issues and manufacturing defects.
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 03:53:21 JST Ian Douglas Scott @thomasfuchs I assume a "standard airline seat" was bigger then than it is now.
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 11:23:45 JST Ian Douglas Scott @sycophantic@infosec.exchan @thomasfuchs All connectors are reversible, it's just that some require significantly more newtons of force in one direction than the other.
(See also: diodes)
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 17:48:49 JST Ian Douglas Scott @jonny "New Zealand’s data had been copied from the Netherlands"
Imagine a chemistry paper where they couldn't find data on a certain property of bismuth, so (without disclosing it in the paper) they used data about beryllium. Not because that's the closest element on the periodic table, or even anywhere near it, but because they're closest in alphabetical order.
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 15:21:31 JST Ian Douglas Scott @futurebird "Will this be on the exam?"
"Oh, I hadn't thought of putting it on the exam, but that's a good idea." [scribbles a note about this on a small clay tablet]
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 17:29:18 JST Ian Douglas Scott All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough.
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jan-2024 07:01:48 JST Ian Douglas Scott @icecolbeveridge @thomasfuchs I didn't think that's how libraries conventionally work? For physical books in the US anyway. ebook loans and other countries may work differently.
The US in particular has a fairly strong "first sale doctrine" allowing modification, sale, loan, etc. of books and such as long as you don't make a copy. But that's pretty much gone away in the digital era.
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 00:34:13 JST Ian Douglas Scott @thomasfuchs Actually the 2nd amendment (like other parts of the constitution) originally only applied to the federal government. McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010) ruled it was incorporated against the states and granted a right to individuals based on... the fourteenth amendment.
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 02:26:27 JST Ian Douglas Scott @LadyDragonfly "Cis" is actually short for "Cisalpine Gaul" is in the sentence "curse those Cisalpine Gauls, sacking Rome at night with only the sacred geese to warn us of their attack".
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Ian Douglas Scott (ids1024@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 20:32:10 JST Ian Douglas Scott @goatsarah Teeth are the example I normally think of, though knees are good too. What's even going on with teeth?
The mess that is hunan knees is easy to explain evolutionary though. We spend like a couple hundred million years evolving knees optimized to walk on four legs, and just 'recently' start using them *wrong*? (Apparently using hands for tools is beneficial or something.) Maybe evolution would eventually fix that, but give it at least a few more million years.