@dankeck@a11y.social2024-12-31 13:47:43
@dankeck@a11y.social2024-12-31 13:47:43
@@Gigi@kolektiva.social2025-01-15 06:20:40
Related:
I wish I could remember one of the terms for a white guy they hire in Asia (it actually happens enough to merit a term) to pretend to be the boss just because he looks the part.
I'm going to have to look one up so I can throw it out there every time someone uses the term "diversity hire".
@n8foo@macaw.social2024-11-23 20:50:37
Finally finished building this prototyping station, for designing synthesizer circuits from scratch. Super excited to start using it! #diysynth #electronics
@samir@functional.computer2024-12-20 23:01:21
@… I was allowed a beer afterwards. This one, specifically: https://untappd.com/b/bad-seed-brewing-sleigher/5581774
@KraftTea@mastodon.social2024-12-17 22:44:28
One obvious reason this could be the case, despite the stimulus impact of the war, is that a lot of dotcoms / tech companies are highly sensitive to the stock market, VC funding, etc.
IOW, revenue from the stock market & VC funding suddenly disappeared, leaving them at the mercy of high rate loans, due to the historically high Russian central bank key rate.
And so, huge swathes of high tech are at risk of debt spirals and ever-increasing rates on loans.
@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz2024-11-20 22:50:46
"Tiling with Three Polygons is Undecidable"
Erik D. Demaine; Stefan Langerman 17 Sep 2024
Abstract
We prove that the following problem is co-RE-complete and thus undecidable: given three simple polygons, is there a tiling of the plane where every tile is an isometry of one of the three polygons (either allowing or forbidding reflections)? This result improves on the best previous construction which requires five polygons.
...
It remains open whether tiling …
@mszll@datasci.social2024-11-15 07:27:37
Our mastodon server #datascience
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2024-12-11 10:50:14
@dpl@muenchen.social2024-12-21 12:44:37
Since my answer went up from 1 to 2 these days after giving in to a sales offer: Do you have a #MechanicalKeyboard at hand for use? If yes, how many #MechanicalKeyboards are available to you (bought or shared)?
Definitely one of my favorite categories of luxury tech gadg…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2024-11-24 11:34:15
Sonnet 008 - VIII
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to …
@loleg@fosstodon.org2024-11-12 13:24:23
One week to go with last places up for grabs! Join us at DINAcon 2024 next week in Bern to hear about:
💠 AI in Parliament: A Roadmap for the Parliamentary Library { Jacqueline Kucera }
🌸 How can large language models be used for sustainable procurement? { Marcel Gygli, Luca Rolshoven }
🌿 Source code sovereignty: local alternatives for an independent digital future { Tobias Brunner }
🧑⚖️ My workshop on open source contracts with Simon Schlauri
🌃
@dankeck@a11y.social2024-11-22 18:05:44
AI chatbots are like that one uncle you see at Thanksgiving. Over his life he became a true expert in something, say, ice sculptures, and can speak with authority on it. But he's convinced he should speak with authority on any subject at all — medicine, law, business, how rainy it will be next spring — stating with 100% certainty things he heard or made up.
Many things he says are right, many are wrong, and you can't judge which is which from his words alone.
@luana@wetdry.world2024-12-12 02:13:04
Of course the person who makes cool videos about popcorn mode (my new microwave seems to have the bad one btw ;-; idk why they don’t have this on the spec sheet), pinball machines, dishwashers and stuff would be on fedi, idk how that didn’t occur to me before
@ChinafakeWiki@mastodon.social2024-11-28 10:44:09
turn of the century chinafakes are something else
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-12 07:07:35
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: They couldn't. Which means that that one has been fitted with a new form of main drive unit.
ORAC: Which also means that the photonic space drive has been finally perfected by Dr. Plaxton.
@samir@functional.computer2024-12-20 20:41:09
@… Very cool!
I agree. This isn’t the 1980s any more, and we’re past the point that one person can build an operating system. And this is a large chunk of an operating system.
This is why I’m not even trying. But if people were willing to try with me, and I trusted them, I might change my mind.
(Unrelated: I am working on another pair of “…
@KraftTea@mastodon.social2024-12-18 02:49:52
Sure, it might look like Air Force One, but I'm pretty sure it's an alien invasion mothership...
Better safe than sorry!
@mszll@datasci.social2024-11-15 21:42:56
Is "decentralizedwashing" a term yet? See recent #bluesky discussions like: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113487613965056474
@@Gigi@kolektiva.social2025-01-15 06:22:14
Oooooo yeah okay.
I am definitely not comfortable with this one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_monkey
@BugWarp@wikis.world2024-12-09 02:40:31
But in better news today I also finished #Frieren and holy cow that was amazing, can't wait for season 2.
My full review: https://boxd.it/80sUvz
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-09 17:52:16
Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
DAYNA: Whh, he's just one less to deal with, do we care why? [pause] But why leave him sitting there?
AVON: To delay discovery and give the murderer a chance to get away.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/286 B7B4
@KraftTea@mastodon.social2024-12-18 01:04:52
Useful #shakespeare quote to squirrel away and use over the next four years...
*"What cracker is this same that deafs our ears with this abundance of superfluous breath?"*
The Life & Death of King John, Act 2, scene one.
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2024-11-20 11:34:07
Sonnet 033 - XXXIII
Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
With all triumphant splendour on my …
@@Gigi@kolektiva.social2025-01-15 06:24:23
"White guy window dressing" is a little better. I just wish it was one word.
I bet, if they weren't white, the Germans would have a word for this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1w0fs0/til_chinese_companies_rent_white_people_to_look/?rdt=52577
@ChinafakeWiki@mastodon.social2024-11-26 09:38:27
Welcome! You've reached the official Fediverse (or Bluesky) account of the Chinafake Wiki at https://chinafake.wiki! We specialize in creating a database of bootleg and generic toys from China. (ever been to one of those small dollar stores that isn't part of a chain?) Visit us at
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-10 13:47:32
Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
JENNA: It all happened so quickly. One minute he was crying with pain, then he went beserk.
VILA: I'm glad he's a friend. Could get very painful if he really didn't like you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/10 B7B3
@dankeck@a11y.social2025-01-06 00:03:54
One reason why I love using Fedilab for Mastodon: the option to display a translate button on every post. I follow people who write in various languages, and I can get an English translation with a single tap. @… #Android
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-10 10:27:24
Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
BLAKE: Well, I doubt whether we'd understand the manuals, so go ahead and try one. Go on.
JENNA: Well, don't blame me if it's self-destruct.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/50 B7B2
@dankeck@a11y.social2024-11-05 12:22:43
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-11 17:31:25
Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
DAYNA: It had a sort of claw.
AVON: Designed to tear things apart. Space craft, for example.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/219 B7B4
@isewvinyl@sunny.garden2024-12-18 20:19:36
Restocked my @nakatsubyjna booth @bluegenieartbazaar with more zippie pouches (all 3 sizes!), card cases (a few lenticular ones left!), star pins, and snap cuff bracelets. Open 10am-10pm at 6100 Airport Blvd every day through December 23, and 10-6 December 24. 200 local artists in one place! #nakatsubyjna #vinylbags #handmade #bagmaker #localart #bluegenieartbazaar
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-11 07:09:15
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 08 - Games
TARRANT: Well not exactly. These things chuck the lot at you. Flying the real thing's nothing after one of these.
GAMBIT: Countdown eight minutes, still running.
https://blake…
@dankeck@a11y.social2025-01-05 23:53:47
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-07 20:49:22
Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
SERVALAN: [V.O.] Message received. Battle fleet, withhold action.
[Two troopers enter, one carrying Orac.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/435 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-08 17:28:00
Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
AVON: Blake, there's a mass of ionized particles, vector three nine. If we can fly into it it could confuse their scanners for just long enough.
BLAKE: Avon might be right. Tangent one eight. Go for it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/38 B…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-08 21:09:18
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: They don't.
GUARD: You. [Signals to Selma] Come with me.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/475 B7B5
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-07 17:29:19
C08 - Rumours of Death
[Avon and Tarrant break into Servalan's empty office, and leave. They then break into Surveillance. Avon shakes Grenlee in his chair.]
AVON: Hey! Wake up! [Grenlee groans throughout.] Where is Servalan? Where is Servalan!?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/477…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-09 14:32:10
Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
MORI: [V.O.] If you come in that approach, you will find no detectors to pick you up, and no opposition.
SERVALAN: Excellent. We will regroup immediately and approach on that bearing.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/565 B7B3
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-07 10:28:00
Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
TRAVIS: And the slave pits?
SERVALAN: When you're of no further use to me, Travis.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/68 B7B2
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-06 07:20:31
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
CALLY: What sort of answer's that?
ORAC: A succinct one. - To elaborate, the Sardoans avoid any form of social contact which might lead to genetic change. Their decision to avoid the normal evolutionary process followed exhaustive computer projections into their future.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2024-11-06 21:44:40
Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
AVON: [Completes his dash with Gan catching him. Places his hand on Blake's arm.] Thank you.
BLAKE: [To Vila] How long?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/449 B7B5
@isewvinyl@sunny.garden2024-12-07 21:44:29
Busy weekend @bluegenieartbazaar
everyday 10am-10pm through December 23, 10-6 December 24th. 200 artists in one location 6100 Airport Blvd. Sewing like the wind! @nakatsubyjna #handmade #vinylbags #bagmaker #localart #austintexas #austintx #atx
