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bonked 10 Oct 2025 18:06 +0000
original: catsalad@infosec.exchange
A map of Europe drawn from memory...
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Cosmopolitan. Brooklyn-based indie game developer best known for Semantle.
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bonked 10 Oct 2025 18:06 +0000
original: catsalad@infosec.exchange
A map of Europe drawn from memory...
It is interesting to think of the "tech bros should study liberal arts" meme, today, as liberal arts schools like Columbia knuckle under to the Trump administration while MIT refuses to do so. I say this not to attack the liberal arts, but to note that the theory that a certain sort of education improves one's moral judgment seems to be having a hard time these days.
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in reply to: https://mastodon.online/users/sarahtaber/statuses/115346128783033410
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bonked 09 Oct 2025 13:28 +0000
original: bob@feed.hella.cheap
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bonked 06 Oct 2025 16:06 +0000
original: dank@jorts.horse
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honked back 01 Oct 2025 13:56 +0000
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@jmac @emma At W4th St, there are dozens of these, every one of them corrected with notes like "AI is not your friend". Also some notes mentioned data center water usage. I saw a MTA maintenance guy ripping one down this morning; I don't know whether they're going to give up on the whole campaign, or if the notes on that one were just particularly awesome.
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bonked 01 Oct 2025 13:41 +0000
original: jonathankoren@sfba.social
Someone was wearing this shirt at work today, and it’s just excellent http://www.blacksheepcomics.com/shop/mewni-t-shirt-black
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honked back 22 Sep 2025 17:45 +0000
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@jmac Went to a kid's birthday party at a bowling alley yesterday. 90dB per my phone, which is exactly the OSHA limit for requiring ear protection if you work in it for 8 hours. Apparently some of the other parents got that same alert. I, too, wore ear protection (but don't have a watch to pester me about it).
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honked back 19 Sep 2025 22:34 +0000
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@jmac I think "we work at Amazon" is a weird way to say "we deliver packages for Amazon, but we work for an Amazon subcontractor so it's harder for us to unionize". (Or maybe I'm the weird one -- that does happen). Anyway, they can definitely ring a doorbell if they have a delivery.
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honked back 18 Sep 2025 17:04 +0000
in reply to: https://mathstodon.xyz/users/mjd/statuses/115222099202993412
@mjd @robinhouston I would argue that Fibonacci was important for introducing the place-value system to the West.
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honked back 16 Sep 2025 16:11 +0000
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@mjd From the "long future career" perspective, 2014 was an epic fail. Maybe they should add "not currently dying of cancer" to the list of qualifications. (Sorry, I recognize that this is extremely dark humor and probably I should not post it, but for some reason humor is often my response to tragedy).
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honked back 16 Sep 2025 15:46 +0000
in reply to: https://mathstodon.xyz/users/mjd/statuses/115208811444212906
@mjd @yourautisticlife I would not describe him as a big deal, but I would say he's an author I love, and Worth The Candle is probably my favorite of his.
CDs are digital. Laserdiscs are analog.
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honked back 09 Sep 2025 15:41 +0000
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honked back 09 Sep 2025 15:03 +0000
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@mjd Your intuition might also be off because most commonly-used metals (other than aluminum) are so much denser than rock, even though we just think of both as "heavy".
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honked back 08 Sep 2025 13:56 +0000
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@mjd @ology I actually think this is a more reasonable question than it maybe seems. It would be totally valid for said generator to work by generating a thousand songs and picking the "best" one (by some criterion). That's how the puzzle generator for my game Deco Deck works. Of course, a computer cannot tell what music you personally will like, but it could certainly apply some quality filters.
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honked back 07 Sep 2025 01:42 +0000
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@jmac I don't think that's quite right. The idea is to give the strongest version of the argument, so that the attacks hit the right surface. Because folks have a tendency to attack the weak form of an opposing argument.
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honked back 02 Sep 2025 21:08 +0000
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@mjd @yourautisticlife "I heard it from a phonograph playing in the middle of nowhere on a loop, recorded by a dead man who had heard it from others who were also dead," -Alexander Wales, Worth The Candle.
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bonked 28 Aug 2025 13:24 +0000
original: Gargron@mastodon.social
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bonked 27 Aug 2025 00:55 +0000
original: mjd@mathstodon.xyz
@artnacrea @b0rk I've veen trying for forty years to tell the difference between a process that has been niced and one that hasn't, and I have never yet been able to do it.
I went to CityMD recently, and the offered a bizarre choice of languages. Despite being in absolute agony, it was very hard for me to resist choosing Old English. The only word I know is "hwaet", but it was still hard to resist. Unrelatedly, if you are considering going to CityMD, and you don't have a great need to practice your Old English, don't go. Take a vicodin and find a real doctor the next day.
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honked back 25 Aug 2025 22:59 +0000
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@jmac Just take it out at a 115 internal temperature (for farm-raised salmon), and it'll be perfectly rare.
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honked back 13 Aug 2025 19:45 +0000
in reply to: https://social.jvns.ca/users/b0rk/statuses/115022562711914955
@b0rk The staging area is where you build up the commit you're about to make (if you use the no-file-args
git commit
). Git add tells git that a file you've modified or just created should be part of that next commit.
Would Ronan and I be on the same side of the bit war?
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bonked 08 Aug 2025 16:57 +0000
original: jmac@masto.nyc
’Twas this: a very lovely animation for a very catchy song. https://jmac.org/notes/2025-08-08-doodles-rose-betts-and-its-ok-koy.html
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in reply to: https://bitbang.social/users/NanoRaptor/statuses/114958246035056403
How long after the disappearance of Metrocards will the Metrocard-swiping gesture, meaning "please swipe me in", persist?
Consider the following sentence: Some editor at the New York Times let this cursed sentence through. Imagine describing blood orange as "citrus-adjacent" (yes, it's adjacent to the original lemon, but you just can't use words that way). Imagine having to add the adjective "fruity" in front of "raspberry", as though to distinguish from a meaty raspberry. Why?
"Use another sorbet flavor, such as a citrus-adjacent blood orange or grapefruit or a fruity raspberry or strawberry."
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honked back 31 Jul 2025 14:20 +0000
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@dave I've bought small bananas before at a Chinatown produce stand in NYC, but it was a very long time ago. Not sure if they were Thai, but definitely not Cavendish.
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honked back 30 Jul 2025 19:10 +0000
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@mjd I sometimes just end a file to CraftCloud and get a model in the mail in a few weeks, if I need nicer finishes than my (probably poorly-calibrated; I got it for free) printer. If you don't like the surface feel and don't want to spend 100 years with sandpaper, I recommend a two-part epoxy called XTC-3D.
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honked back 28 Jul 2025 22:08 +0000
in reply to: https://fedi.copyleft.org/users/bkuhn/statuses/114933087782130362
re: Discussion of personal appearance
@bkuhn I am not an expert on clothing (you know how I dress), but that's what makes sense to me.re: Discussion of personal appearance
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honked back 28 Jul 2025 20:44 +0000
in reply to: https://fedi.copyleft.org/users/bkuhn/statuses/114932675844815028
re: Discussion of personal appearance
@bkuhn I can envision you in suspenders, and I think they will be perfect. Belts are great if your waist is bigger than your hips, but not everyone has that build.re: Discussion of personal appearance
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honked back 27 Jul 2025 19:13 +0000
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@bkuhn If you can't decide, you can borrow mine! It's "Maxwell", after Max in "Where The Wild Things Are".
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honked back 24 Jul 2025 18:08 +0000
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@attoparsec I have to disagree. I don't like vanilla-flavored water. I don't like lime-flavored water. I do like vanilla-lime (which I make myself).
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honked back 22 Jul 2025 17:16 +0000
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Half a loaf is better than none, but half a phone is e-waste. But the last three fifths of a phone is a whole.
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bonked 21 Jul 2025 21:34 +0000
original: luis_in_brief@social.coop
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re: west slope skunks, best slope skunks
@ranjit Park slope skunks, spraying drunks, to wash away the pain....re: west slope skunks, best slope skunks
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bonked 05 Jul 2025 00:56 +0000
original: mhoye@mastodon.social
"America has been vaccinating people for fifty years. If vaccines caused autism, America would have trains, okay? We would have so many trains." - Jon Allen
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@SuperDicq I heard it, myself, from the person to whom it happened. I have to admit that I forget who I heard it from, but I remember where it was (a book release party for a fantasy novel, in NYC, in either 2006 or 2007). I was either working for, or had recently quit working for, the FSF.