twovests
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Reply to comment by emma in you are funnier and more interesting than you think! by hollyhoppet
yeah! excited for the 2023 post
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Reply to there he is. the flamboy by twovests
this was unrelated to the bill clinton kid? no idea what that was even about
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Reply to Raspberry pi hired a cop 😔 by flabberghaster
Me, learning about this for the first time: "Maybe it was a mistake? Maybe they didn't know they hired a cop?"
Their Twitter:
We hired a policeman and it's going really great. Meet our Maker in Residence, @TobyRobertsPi.
Oh no! They don't seem to see the problem. Worse, per the comments, @Raspberry_Pi has been blocking detractors too.
But hey, all cops are bastards, but maybe this person is a reformed officer? Nope, turns out he had a proud 15 years of using Raspberry Pis as a surveillance officer:
“I was a Technical Surveillance Officer for 15 years, so I built stuff to hide video, audio, and other covert gear. You really don’t want your sensitive police equipment discovered, so I’d disguise it as something else, like a piece of street furniture or a household item. The variety of tools and equipment I used then really shaped what I do today.”
I have used Raspberry Pi a lot in various police tactics over the years. They were dependable, low-cost, portable, and supported by such an awesome community.
And then, whoever runs the official Raspberry Pi Mastodon seems to have the maturity of a literal child.
Even with the most generous interpretation to Raspberry Pi, with all the goodwill they built over the years, this definitely burns them for me. Hiring an ex cop who used RPis for covert surveillance
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Reply to comment by twovests in league is the kind of game where u can play a match and tell someone “i feel sorry for you” but actually mean it because of how angry they get about the game by twovests
typing this out, i realize i am hitting the “pity threshhold” where the closest thing i can think of to compare angerey people on League of Legends to are particularly childish children from my childhood
maybe i should not play league
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Reply to league is the kind of game where u can play a match and tell someone “i feel sorry for you” but actually mean it because of how angry they get about the game by twovests
it’s like one time i got the last strawberry milk in elementary school (i don’t know why, i liked chocolate or normal milk) and then a minute later on in the line a kid started sobbing and asked “does anyone have a strawberry milk? please?”
it was kind of a scene and i just took my tray and walked to a table where my friends. thinking back on this, i wish i wasn’t too shy to trade milk with that kid
like, did that kid have so much going on that strawberry milk was the last straw? if so that’s sad
or maybe the most important thing to that kid was strawberry milk? like it’s enough to break the sob threshhold? that’s sad too
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in Rust has an incredibly steep learning curve but it's a neat language. by flabberghaster
When learning new languages, I throw assert
s all over the place. Learning to unit-test usually requires knowing more of the language than I already know, but assert
s provide 90% of that value by forcing the code to crash if my mental-model of the code does not match reality.
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I also share these feelings!
It has that same magical "power" that functional languages have. I can put expressions in places that shouldn't be possible.
Working on a toy language, I threw an expression in curly braces, i.e. for x in {...}
, which returned a different iterator depending on a condition. It really helped me cut down on code re-use (which was really good for my dev experience). That "clicked" in an extremely satisfying way.
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I haven't used an Instapot, but I have the Aroma rice cooker / steamer. It certainly cookers my rice. I got it because it was cheaper, I don't know if it's better.
I've heard good things about the Zojirushi rice cooker, and I can attest that their thermos is very good. I'd consider Zojirushi if I were in your shoes.
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in If light is just electromagnetic waves, and color is just different frequencies of light, and we can make radio waves at arbitrary frequencies, why can't we create visible light of arbitrary pure colors? by flabberghaster
I don't know a lot about lasers and orientation!
But yeah, tunable lasers cost a lot of money. Like, price-not-listed-call-us-for-a-quote prices. As I understand, argon ion lasers could emit most of the frequency spectrum.
Definitely going to revisit this thread if I happen to run into someone who knows more lol
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Reply to If light is just electromagnetic waves, and color is just different frequencies of light, and we can make radio waves at arbitrary frequencies, why can't we create visible light of arbitrary pure colors? by flabberghaster
This is what a laser does, through "stimulated emission" (i am not joking, that is what it's called) of electromagnetic radiation!
Also look into "masers" or "spasers".
But other than that, no idea. I speculate it's really difficult to do that within the ~500 terahertz frequency (visible light?) Wifi radiation is at ~5 gigahertz and radios are at ~kilohertz.
All the light emitters I know of use fixed-frequency emitters. Phoshpors, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunable_laser It seems there are some "tunable lasers", and reading on these shows me some (new!) research into tunable phosphors: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/dt/c8dt01991f
The abstract cites displays as an example!
I like this question!
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in fun fact! submission titles can be 300 characters long. that is more than a tweet. even better? you don't need to waste those characters on a URL. and you get body text. that's pretty good siri send post by twovests
yeah!
This value is too long. It should have 300 characters or less.
u get this error if u try. i have! :D
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POSTS FROM THE FUTURE:
JSTPST WINS "BEST PLACE TO POST OF ALL TIME" AWARD
STILL REMAINS SMALL AND TIGHT KNIT
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Reply to say what you will about elon musk, he did the impossible: get people to use Mastodon by twovests
Update: I am now seeing people posting on smaller, tinier, sillier social medias for advice, because they'll get TOO many replies on Mastodon. Amazing
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Reply to thinking about the name golgi apparatus by ellynu
i think about the medulla oblangata regularly
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in say what you will about elon musk, he did the impossible: get people to use Mastodon by twovests
i literally think ive only seen this on the g*biverse
u should check it out again!
EDIT: nevermind i just went on the federated timeline and saw someone saying basically this
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Reply to comment by voxpoplar in i hope the fbi agent watching this site thinks our posts are funny by twovests
haiiiiiii x3333
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Reply to new trend where breadtube videos are 3 minutes long and not 3 hours? sign me up! by bunnies
thank fucking god
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Reply to How many postmills exist? by flabberghaster
Oh!! I used to keep track of these. Here's a list using the same methods I used prior:
Postmills:
- Raddle, of course
- The one with neo-nazis (r****e dot pw).
- A Chinese frontend dev who uses a Postmill instance to post a GitHub instance.
- https://cyber.report/, an invite-only Cybersecurity news site, similar to the above.
- A Portuguese language TTRPG forum
- A few smaller ones that seem to have no posts or members (kini)
- jstpst!! just post is the very best place, the very best place to post, just post is the very best place, the very best place to post
- jstpst is the very best place
- the very best place to post
Ones which went down
- Babble (no idea what it was tbh)
- gamergrounds
Secret deployments:
- eye2p
- "dntpst", which nobody can access, not even the admin.)
I haven't checked any Postmill mirrors on the Gits to see if they point to existing instances.
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Reply to comment by oolong in what is your fav iced tea? by oolong
i also buy oolong tea more than i used to, and i credit 1. you and 2. oolong tea being tasty
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Reply to They should make a grimdark Zelda game by Moonside
god you are so right
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Reply to comment by cute_spider_ni_srsly in fans of most nintendo games: "The remake better not change ANYTHING." meanwhile, fans of Super Mario Sunshine: "Please change or remove this part, this part, this part, this part, and this part. This part especially." by twovests
oh that would kick ass though. kind of like ALBW as a remake of ALttP, with the 'dark zone' gimmick being the ice zone
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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in watching twitter implode is pretty fun tbh by hollyhoppet
I agree on the high-profile hack/outage being plausible, and I'd argue that would be the most likely thing to kill Twitter.
Twitter is definitely full of entangled arcane hacks that keep it running. There's definitely people working there who relied on shifting knowledge that was never written down anywhere.
"Twitter just stops working forever" is a very plausible outcome! I'm so excited!
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in i'm so happy i grew up in the real golden age of gaming by twovests
this is how i felt when i turned the age of 10 (legally an adult and able to go on all variety of young-adult adventures, complete with profitable tie-in merchandise)
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in anybody else here who's trans who really hates astrology? by twovests
This is true, but I think there's a huge amount of value-to-effort for astrological signs.
That said, I don't think that's the worst thing about astrology! Just the most tangibly scary thing