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Science has been spending decades trying to answer one simple question:
where the fuck did my evening go?
Upon powerup, the CPU begins to execute code.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Have you ever wondered why Defence Intelligence uses terms like “unlikely” or “realistic possibility” when we assess Russia’s war in Ukraine?Ministry of Defence (GOV.UK)
@PupGhost I think the choice of terms when the chances fall between two buckets also depends on whether the event is desirable or undesirable.
You might not want to get people's hope up and say a 36% occurance of a victory is "a realistic possibility", for example.
#UFO50 is one of the best games i've purchased and is absolutely a steal at only $30 $25 for 50 actually good games that emulate an NES fantasy console perfectly
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/
#Gaming #RetroGaming #NES
UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs.store.steampowered.com
A 'My Little Pony' convention held in Nottingham, England. 5th and 6th October, 2024.Flickr
Advertising ought to be on demand, really. So you might say "I want to do x, what are my options?" and then you'd receive a bunch of relevant ads.
Having it pushed at you all the time regardless of what you intend to do just puts you off doing anything at all except tell everyone to piss off and leave you alone.
I should just be able to say "I want to eat a Dundee biscuit" and receive a range of offers of delicious Dundee biscuits.
But no, constant chaos and NO DUNDEE BISCUITS AT ALL.
🐂💨
Sometime I think I am SERIOUSLY LUCKY that some things I want/would like "don't exist" or "I can't really get them" .. because who knows what/where I could be/who I could be now IF I had the chance to get to them ?
Would I die eating myself to death if I end up in a cakes factory ? Better don't ask such types of questions 😅
A conservative says,
“If it hasn't happened to me, I don't care."
A liberal says,
"This should never happen to anyone, and that's why I care."
In the future, digital archaeologists will comb ancient storage media for remnants of information that has survived the ages.
They'll take scraps of HTML, with frames, some ASP code and fragments of an Access database, and give them to descendants of the Kennis brothers who will ponder what they know of similar data architectures of the time, and then flesh out what they think a likely web page from that code might have looked like.
Articles will be written, documentaries produced, and schoolchildren will gawk at the rendering on museum field trips.
wiki finds
The print version of the Encyclopaedia Britanica is another common data volume metric. It contains approximately 300 million characters, so two copies would fit onto a CD-ROM and still have 50 megabytes (or about 11 bibles) left over.
Another shot from Wild North for #FursuitFriday, with me standing ready to protect the gentle cows of Featherstone Castle. YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
(I mean, that gate looks kind of awkward to negotiate and I'm not sure how it opens. For my part you can just ask politely)
📷,⚔️ Evelyn
@lanodan https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32002R0733
https://www.icann.org/resources/unthemed-pages/liikanen-letter-2000-07-06-en
https://www.icann.org/resources/unthemed-pages/roberts-letter-to-liikanen-2000-08-10-en
Regulation (EC) No 733/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 April 2002 on the implementation of the .eu Top Level Domain (Text with EEA relevance)eur-lex.europa.eu
Computing is full of acronyms, and often the same one has two meanings – sometimes close enough in subject area to confuse.
My usual example is in compilers: DFA and CFG mean "Deterministic Finite Automaton" and "Context-Free Grammar" at the lexing/parsing end, but "Data Flow Analysis" and "Control Flow Graph" in optimisation and code generation.
One I just learned today: DMA doesn't always mean "Direct Memory Access" by peripherals. Sometimes it means "Dynamic Memory Allocation", i.e. malloc!
It's even nicer when you are doing computing embedded into some industry. In a previous work-place doing things for wind-turbines, we had:
IPC - Industrial PC
IPC - Inter-Process Communication
IPC - Individual Pitch Control (where the blades of a wind turbine are not all pitched the same)
IPC - Instructions per Cycle
Dis my BESTEST friend!!!
Jencen with his fecking GIANT Toothless plushie for #FursuitFriday
Photo by @bearskunk
omg so big, I love it!
meanwhile I have smol derpy toothless. (Makeship stitched his nose crooked but they shipped a fixed one)
Saberman&IndieRetroNews.com present: Q.B.FoxAuthor: Martin SimecekQ.B.Fox is a platformer game where you control an animated fox. Yourmission is to get to th...YouTube
Last weekend I was at Wild North and it was such a wonderful time. A small con with a huge heart and a strong cosy community vibe. I made a lot of friends, and it felt restorative in a way that larger hotel-based cons don't usually tend to. Massive thanks to everyone who made it possible. ❤
📷 Me, @azakir x3
@anthracite
It was! The convention was about 60 people, and the location is a castle/manor house made to look like a castle. And rather than just being like a hotel con, they just gave us free run of the kitchen and event rooms so everybody attending kind of pitches in to make the thing work. Really helps build a neat sense of community around the whole thing.
They announced at the closing ceremony that next year they're moving to a new venue, also a restored castle but this one is a four star hotel, so while the conditions will be less rustic it may change the feel of the whole thing a bit. I'm still hopeful for it being a really fun time, but does feel like it will mark a change and I'm really glad I got to the con this year before it did change.
I should probably post my bread. Maybe if I use hashtags something interesting will happen.
#breadPost #baking #bread #breadmaking #bakersOfMastodon #breadiverse #breadstodon
We are still using up these little packets of jam that my parents bought a catering pack of many years ago for their self-catering rental house (back when they started they used to leave a full cooked meal ready for guests when they arrived, later on it was just milk, bread, butter, and some cereals and jams).
They are now quite a few years out of date and thus getting a bit rubbery, but my dad won't throw them away. But every time I look at them I remember the old "Fly Fishing by J R Hartley" Yellow Pages TV advert (which I see they have since updated and remade).
Can anyone confirm what this is? It's attached inside the fitting for a 6-foot fluourescent light tube in my garage. I thought it was the starter at first, but all the starters I've been able to find are much much smaller and have a bayonet fitting at the end. The marking saying "8·4 µF" leads me to think it may just be a *very* chunky capacitor, and the ballast (which is very identifiable because it says "S.R.S. ballast for 1x 6ft. 85 watt tube" on its label) might be a type that doesn't need a separate starter, perhaps.
Not that it really matters now; I've since decided, rather than trying to replace the starter (which doesn't seem to exist) I'm going to replace both whole light fittings and their delicate and malfunctioning fluourescent tubes with four LED light fixtures. Going to add another light switch next to the garage's side door too, because when it's dark it's annoying to have to stumble through the whole garage to/from the only switch which is next to the front doors.
Several days ago my sister sent me a text suggesting I look outside and north to see the aurora in action. She said she's barely been able to see it, but a photo made it quite visible. I wasn't able to get much at all, just a vaguely redish or greenish tinge to the sky. In the end I had more fun doing long exposure photos of the road to get those "streaky" car light trails! (Pics 4, 5 and 6 below.)
I did get a fairly decent picture of ursa major though (pics 2 and 3 below) without much camera shake, even.
If he gets copyright protections then everyone Midjourney ripped off should too. It's only fair.
Famous AI Artist Says He’s Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work
The guy who used Midjourney to create an award-winning piece of AI art demands copyright protections.
We're ONE MONTH AWAY from Extra Life 2024!!!
Seattle: Furs For Life is planning a 24+ hour marathon of gaming goodness, goofs, and surprises, all to support the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals!
✨❤️Nov 2-3❤️✨
Save the date, and save our page+stream to support!
https://www.extra-life.org/participant/FFLSeattle
I'm raising funds with #EXTRALIFE for kids treated at my local member hospital of Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! I need YOUR help to reach my fundraising goal, will you make a donation to support me?Extra Life
Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Amanita Muscaria?
Having a fun Raccoon Appreciation Day in the forest!
There is no quest so relentless as collecting things you don't even know you need until you see them, and you know you need more somehow even if you don't know what it is.
Let's appreciate our raccoon friends on this International Raccoon Appreciation Day!!
Acrylics over a curated an important cardboard from a very cheap pizza place in New York City. It traveled two countries to be painted!
And it's coming back to the country of its origin if I exhibit it at the MFF's Art Show.
You can see some pictures of the process of this piece on the first comment of my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
Official Art Channel 🇲🇽 Clean cute artist. Full-Time Panda. Here to paint some smiles. https://linktr.ee/panda_paco Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco Ko-Fi Shop: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco/shop Stickers channel: @pacostickersTelegram
It's the first of the month.
The Orange Site will be posting an assload of job openings.
There are tools in the "whoishiring" OP to filter all the "hybrid" and onsite jobs.
Even if you're ultimately not interested or even qualified, it'd be funny if a lot of people told them "yeah onsite/hybrid isn't an option for me, are you open to remote?"
Because, let's be real, recruiters hear back from very few people that aren't interested, so they're going to collect data on that. And if they hear 10 or so people say "remote only or bust" (regardless of your actual qualifications or interest), that will get circulated up to HR.
Which means they'll have to make the case for allowing remote employees.
And if they succeed, then the barrier to entry to the tech industry gets lowered for folks living outside of a big tech city.
So, I'm not saying we should do a little trolling.
I'm not saying that.
But if your conscience is? We'll, I don't blame it.
![medieval peasant: "we should improve technology somewhat"
smiling guy in a well: "[the xkcd 'proliferation of standards' comig], I am very intelligent"](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/592725 "medieval peasant: \"we should improve technology somewhat\"
smiling guy in a well: \"[the xkcd 'proliferation of standards' comig], I am very intelligent\"")