Notices by Dan Lyke (danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host)

At North Bay Python listening to @skinnylatte talk about Fintech to fin tech, and the comparison of the current Silicon Valley environment to the the sardine over-fishing of the Monterey Bay gives me hope. #NBPy

@skinnylatte I am *so* booked for that weekend this year, but Charlene and I would likely plan a weekend down there around volunteering if you get the news out early for next year.

(I am definitely *not* doing one of the things I've been booked for this year next year.)

Is your relationship entirely too smooth? Need to bring up those resentments but don't have the opportunity? Have you considered a tandem bicycle, the ultimate relationship accelerator? We bought this one back in the naughts, it's served us well, but with the quadricycle it's time to sell it and get the garage space back.

And this is the easiest way to get the picture over to my computer from my phone... https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2025-03-08Tandem.jpg

Drivers stop for pedestrians in crosswalks challenge: cause damn some of y'all could use some skill improvement and we need to start with the little things.

@skinnylatte I mean, are you throwing it away after one fry? If not, hope are you filtering it for storage and reuse?

(Should have said reuse rather than recycle)

@skinnylatte as someone who loves deep fried food, but doesn't do it nearly as much as my love would indicate: how do you deal with the oil quantities?

I generally try to recycle it, but even that, when I'm cooking for me (Charlene isn't into it) ends up feeling super wasteful.

@ariadne I mean, isn't that kinda like any language?

I like the mantra of the Scary Devil Monastery: All computing sucks. Some of it sucks less, for particular purposes, but it all sucks in one way or another.

@lednaBM every generation has to reinvent Project Orion for itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

@randulo I don't think the colors are as important as... Why is the basketball important to the "I can't do this any more" message? What is the story conveyed by the picture that goes beyond the words? Is she exhausted? Exhiberant? Defeated? Triumphant?

What does her presence add?

@ryanhoulihan I mean, Taylor, although they're really doing different things.

@ryanhoulihan There is a certain prominent lefty publication that I will never forgive for off-handedly dismissing Madonna as a product of "her handlers".

And, of course, we generally only see this sort of dismissal when referring to women...

Alexandra Petri nails it in the Washington Post: GOP baffled that ‘We Don’t Care if You Die’ is not a winning slogan

#GiftArticle https://wapo.st/48nX1rT

Quoted for truth: "If it won’t damage a car, it won’t protect a bike lane."

https://mastodon.social/@docpop/111264021857924542

@silverwizard Yeah, for personal use I'm cavalier enough that wound safe sounds good enough to me, the standards for food safe are amazingly high, but I'm also getting to the "at some point the long term risk factors become less concerning" age...

Are the platinum cure silicones clear? Because that might work for a chip.

@silverwizard Cyanoacrylate? It's hard to wade through the AI generated link spam on Google for info on food safety (this one claims Krazy Glue is, Krazy Glue's site is less positive https://tbbonding.com/is-tech-bond-food-safe/ ), but I know there are wound contact formulations...

@davew it seems like RSS and a few other things could provide almost all of what we seek out in Mastodon, except for how quickly the messages propagate.

So I guess we need reader which understands threading and references to other posts, and convince people to blog on their own domains again.

And I need to fix my RSS feeds to be more usable in a modern world.

@b0rk hey, just a note to tell you I appreciate these cool trips down memory lane. It's fun to have all of these reminders about what I used to find so compelling about computing.

@b0rk I thought I saw this addressed earlier, and my head is fuzzy from allergies or a cold, so apologies if this reply is redundant, but something like 10 bits means that to, say, find the 13th bit you actually have to divide by 10. Dividing by 8 you can do with an AND (for the remainder) and an SHR for the divide.

And in hardware, those operations map to transistors and circuit complexity.

1/n

@b0rk Place where this got super expensive: The Apple ][ used 7 bit words in its hi-res framebuffer (even one color, odd another, high bit chose palette for those pixels). The hoops we jumped through to try to divide by 7, or build sprite animations around 7 or 14 pixel cycles, were legendary. Pretty much everybody did it as a lookup table, and that's 280 bytes.

2/fin

@chrisdemarco uh. In the Bay Area we relegate the poor to suburbs far outside the job centers, and build extra freeway lanes rather than closer in housing.

The history of humanity has been economic growth in the urban cores. The only variation from that came with three extreme subsided of automobiles and suburbs in the later half of the 20th C., And we can't afford that any more.