Kadin @kadin@mastodon.sdf.org
SDF user Kadin, Metafilter user Kadin2048
http://kadin.sdf-us.org/
While flying Royal Air Maroc through Casablanca en route to Europe to save a few hundred bucks (over literally every other airline) isn’t the *worst* idea I’ve ever had, it’s turning out to be perhaps the worst that didn’t involve catching something on fire or going to the ER. Ugh.
Spooky.
According to #GitHub I can bend the laws of space and time. I should probably do something more useful with this ability.
Definitely bought the Sean Spicer-sized pack of gum. #noshame #jokesfrom2017
In which I suddenly regret not bringing the cellular hotspot with me on this trip:
15 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 33.3% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 165.603/435.415/1020.071/305.743 ms
Too soon, Facebook. Way, WAY too soon.
Reading articles where the author has just discovered "AI" [1] reminds me of what it felt like to discover that my TI calculator could solve algebraic equations in 8th grade. It seemed like magic. But only until you realize that it can't solve anything unless you know how to ask it. It just makes you faster, not smarter.
[1]https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/henry-kissinger-ai-could-mean-the-end-of-human-history/559124/
#politics #AI #kissinger #theatlantic
Reddit was collectively unimpressed, but I was pretty pleased to discover yesterday that you can remove the crummy pan/tilt head from an old Quantaray tripod and reuse the (decent) legs with a cheap ball head. I never realized that those cheap 90s tripods had removable heads.
To think I've probably thrown out or passed over a dozen of them and they would have made perfectly good lightstands.
#photography #dumpsterdiving
They killed federation and disallowed third party clients. If they didn't want to reduce their userbase they have a funny way of expressing that.
Trying to decide if it's time to switch off of Google Project Fi and back to a regular carrier. Kinda sad, but because of what Project Fi could have been but never really was. Since getting an iPhone all I can do is keep cursing Google every time I use iMessage—that's what Hangouts could have been if you hadn't f—ed it all up!
But now nobody I know uses Hangouts much anymore, because Google basically told them not to. Infuriating company.
Today I learned that dioxin poisoning is treatable using Fat-Free Pringles [1]… and that Fat-Free Pringles have been discontinued [2]. COINCIDENCE?
[1] https://journals.lww.com/em-news/Fulltext/2005/02000/Yushchenko,_Victim_of_Dioxin_Poisoning,_Faces.22.aspx
[2] https://twitter.com/pringles/status/638732581710757888
@kadin Manager starts deleting search history due to thinking that the Dev can read minds
Manager: "Hey, I need you to do this thing."
Developer: "Yep, actually I did that an hour ago."
Manager: "Damn—I'm so good, I can make people finish their tasks *in the past*"
(Though I have a few nits to pick with the "Of Flying Cars…" article; factual inaccuracies that the author could have corrected via a simple Wikipedia search. But the thesis is still interesting food for thought.)
I don't know how I've not run across this essay before, but it's really good: "Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit"
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit
"Is everything okay, Brennen? Take 10% Off Your Next Order!"
first few milliseconds of reading this email subject: "well now that you mention it i've been having kind of a hard time..."
remainder of experience: "oh, fuck you."
Today’s very much #firstWorldNerdProblem: Being tempted to stop exercising and just end your workout when you realize you’re not wearing your Fitbit. I MEAN WHY EVEN BOTHER.
If you're sad today, please enjoy looking at these Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits, from the Oregon Zoo's conservation program.
NatGeo’s Blue Planet has music by Hans Zimmer? Whaaaaa—how did I not know this? MAN THE KETTLEDRUMS! IT’S TIME TO GET PUMPED UP FOR SOME NATURE.
Mastodon - the place where people show you their projects that you have apparently been subconsciously looking for for years.
