K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
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Edited 3 months ago
My first two hypes collided. It was around early 2000 and I was crammed into a tiny office with my then-boss, a cranky guy with lots of firmly held opinions about late-90s technology. We were going to watch the Transmeta Crusoe unveiling and he was convinced that it was going to be a dedicated Java-native processor. I still remember when he said "what the f is VLIW? Who the f cares about that!" and turned it off just as Linus was getting to play a port of Doom... Or Quake? Don't recall.
Anyway, that was my first inoculation against tech hype.
Anyway, that was my first inoculation against tech hype.
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K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁
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@ydroneaud Or, as I liked to call them, "your computer makes lots of noise, followed by a sad grey square" technology.
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@jmorris Yeah, this is a woefully incomplete list, but we IT people have been busy over the past 30 years.
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My first revolutionary IT hype was:
24%
VRML for everything
24%
ActiveX for everything
25%
XML for everything
11%
Semantic Web for everything
12%
blockchains for everything
0%
AI for everything
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@musicmatze oh, it can probably be made work via some kind of status_format setting in .muttrc, but mine already looks like line noise, so I'm not going to touch it. :)
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I need to change neomutt so that instead of showing the actual number of messages in my inbox, it shows "Fuuuuuuuu" with more and more "u"s being added for every 20 new messages.
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@jpab Are you allowed to fork it and make changes? Because I think we'd all like that.
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@musicmatze THIS. IS. CANADAAA.
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@musicmatze THIS. IS. CANADAAA.
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Just came back last night from winter camping with a bunch of scouts. We ran the usual challenge of building snow shelters and sleeping in them, which was particularly tough as it was -25°C overnight. Out of 14 scouts who went out to sleep in the cold, only 4 came in to the heated cabin and 10 others stayed out till morning, which was a new high number. When it was similarly cold two years ago, only 3 scouts out of 15 stayed the night. I like to think it's due to better preparedness and better guidance from us scouters and not just due to better gear. 💪
#scouts
#scouts
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@jerry and if you're not doing it, your manager wants to have a "quick meeting."
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inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me
for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment
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@arstechnica Thank god, these are awful in winter. The number of times I had to bang on the door to get that exact handle unstuck! Teslas were obviously designed in California.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116007427102518234
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116007427102518234
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My inbox is a disaster. Sorry! I'll try to answer all waiting requests tomorrow.
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Charlie Stross
cstross@wandering.shopBecause a LOT of people are missing the point:
No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope".
But SpaceX is expected to go public this year.
Elon is talking up his company's future prospects in front of gullible investors because he needs a growth narrative beyond Starlink, which is already priced in. Something to justify the Starship proram beyond NASA's lunar ambitions.
So it's salesman's bullshit, lies for fools.
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@renata (sorry! Somehow, Lambada was a hit in USSR when I was growing up.)
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