At work, we are merely days away from someone opening GitHub PR #42069. Nice.
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M. Verdone
@sixohsix@icosahedron.website
mastodon 4.6.8I make music when I can. I own too many synthesizers. I program C++ for money, but it's usually reasonably fun.
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I own a designer hoodie. Not a famous brand, but made by a rather pretentious German designer. The hoodie seemed overly expensive, but it looked good on me and the fabric was good quality. That convinced me to buy it.
The designer was so hyped about his invention of an additional pocket in the back of the hoodie. It seemed ridiculous. I thought it might also be unreliable. But honestly I've been shoving my phone in there all day and I absolutely love it.
My phone is as powerful as like thousands of Apollo computers that brought astronauts to the moon but I can't set more than one egg timer at a time because of something called User Experience.
Guy on the train drinking coffee. From a regular ceramic coffee cup. No thermos. What?
Why does my neighborhood smell like roast beef?
Somebody told me that the US government renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America, and I didn't believe it because it's the most stupid, insensitive, and meaningless thing you could do. But it's real. And Google is happy to just capitulate and plop it in there.
I mostly hear European people saying "Canada is going to join the EU!" No, they were offered to join as a limited member, and I kind of expect Carney will decline today. While Canada seeks much more international cooperation and trade, their rhetoric against the US focuses a lot on independence, and tying Canada too closely to the EU doesn't quite fit that narrative. The EU is great, but the USA was great too, and it turned bad so quickly that Canada is too traumatized to date other countries so quickly.
I could be wrong, but don't get overly invested is all I'm saying.
Deutschland hat mehrere Rechtschreibungsreformen gehabt, um die Regeln von ß zu einfachen. Erklär mir dann...
Warum schreibt man "ich schließe ... ab" aber auch "ich schloss ... ab"?
I have a backpack I really like but the straps keep slipping down. I think the sliding buckle thing is just not appropriate material. It's metal.
How can I fix this? I can't replace the buckle because of the backpack's construction and my lack of skill. How can I hold the strap in place?
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@Fiona@blahaj.zone ah yes, that's very sensible. In Germany, all drugs that do anything are behind the counter, and you have to ask specifically. If you buy something from the regular part of the store, or ask the pharmacist without a specific drug in mind, you get botanical extracts or homeopathic trash. It's annoying.
How does the energy share of a typical person's use of an AI datacenter compare against the energy use of melting down the glass bottles filled with 3 euro wine that they drank to produce more glass bottles to fill with 3 euro wine?
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ah, Chinese technological superiority is finally explained. It's the education system.
Just saw some Bored Apes for sale on a T-shirt for kids. Different brand name now. Extremely fungible.
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@balcanquhal @cwebber so we're agreeing that this chart is misleading and meaningless but in different ways...?
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@cwebber with the exception of some railroads, all of those were government run programs. So yeah, private industry can deploy far more private capital than the US government can deploy taxed income. Not surprising.
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu then why can't I buy good Canadian beer in Germany? Fix the real problem!
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@iduction@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I just gagged a little. I remember the heartburn from that one.
To the folks suddenly being followed by a Nazi troll (which seems to be everyone), please report it to your mod, block the account, and if you're a mod yourself please block the instance.
Please REFRAIN from posting screenshots containing swastikas and Hitler salutes on my timeline thx.
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@princesalde@mstdn.social he's busy so I'll help.
NFTs sure as hell aren't supported here.
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@erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net it's valid in Canada, where the generic pills say ASA. In the US aspirin is generic. Rest of the world, I don't know.
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@cmw@mastodon.social @janl@chaos.social it ain't just John, it's your mods and the mods if the instance where the accounts are, who are right embarrassed by this Russian cyberattack.
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@Nico@meinungsschubla.de I was going to respond but then I discovered my name was so unique you can still search it and find terrible junk I wrote 26 years ago. That should stay buried.