@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2025-03-10 15:05:48
I looked into buying a solar charged battery bank. This product category is completely dominated by no-name 3rd party sellers. 🚩
Charge time is key. No listing had even a rough estimate for solar charge time. 🚩
An example unit claims max solar power 1.13 w, with enough battery power to charge an iPhone 14 Pro twice. Working from that, you'd need ~25 hours of full sun to fully charge. I'd roughly estimate that means at least 3 days in summer. Not quite worthless, but close…
@akosma@mastodon.online2025-04-06 13:40:13
I just realized that Vanessa Kirby will play a character created by Jack Kirby.
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-03-24 09:18:22
Rant about PHP
You know a technology is declining when the most basic questions about its most bizarre quirks are left completely unanswered for years.
#PHP is like that. Every day I have many of these questions. I look for them. No one asked them before, no one wrote about them before.
I'm baffled by the lack of curiosity and proactivity of its community.
I know it sounds like me piling up on people I don't know anything about, but I used to invest a lot of time programming in PHP. I went to conferences, I made some open source libraries for it, like a PHP kernel for Jupyter Notebooks, I even made a library to work with dataframes, tensors and matrices in PHP (although I lost this one because my laptop was stolen before I released... and I didn't had it in me to rewrite it again).
Then, the ones who I admired the most in that space, like Nikita Popov, started leaving it to work in more intellectually vibrant communities... and it shows.
I'm sure Nikita Popov would be much more gracious than me when talking about it. I can only speculate about his motivations, but at least I can tell you about mine: It was precisely about that same lack of curiosity and creativity that I mentioned before, it felt unbearably grey and sad.
@dankeck@a11y.social2025-02-27 02:44:09
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to2025-03-11 19:34:03
"Many professions can be recognized through dress codes. Doctors and nurses wear aprons. Police officers wear uniforms. Tennis players in Wimbledon must dress in white. Astronauts wear space suits. Dominatrices wear black latex catsuits. The Swiss Guard in the Vatican wears the same outfit since the 16th century. Soccer players have matching kits. Wolverine fights evil in yellow spandex. Software developers wear the t-shirts they got for free at the last conference."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/tenue-correcte-exigee/
@ELLIOTTCABLE@functional.cafe2025-03-26 16:28:16
Wow, what a weird rabbit-hole I just ended up down.
So, the “Spread Mastodon" page (tutorial?) recommends a cool-sounding browser extension as an alternative to all those constantly-dead 'fedifinder' / Twitter-person-looker-upper-tools: the ‘Whosum Social Assistant' browser extension.
Sounds cool! Sounds like the correct solution to this problem!
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2025-02-28 16:29:46
True story time. ~7 years ago, onsite team meeting
New hire said when starting job, they thought "model" in job description meant we take photos, wondered where the girls were. Initially sounded like joke, but as they kept going, I realized they were serious. Next few years confirmed laziness, lack of curiosity.
How do you see "model" in #DataAnalytics job &…
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-04-15 11:53:10
Anyone noticed how the characters in the Alien movies (the ones about Rippley) got progressively dumber as new chapters were released?
Don't remember it? Try to watch them in a row, it's astonishing. It's a good "exercise" because them being part of the same series makes it much easier to make comparisons.
I'd say that's what makes a big difference between the first one and the rest, not the plot in itself, but how idiotic are the characters after the first chapter.
@sillon_fictionnel@paperbay.org2025-02-16 15:49:14
Publi Fluor - Affaires de Lettres Š Bruxelles
Le groupe de recherche Crickx a publié un travail remarquable et minutieusement documenté sur “Publi Fluor”, un magasin emblématique où Chrystel Crickx a exercé son talent pendant plus de quarante ans. Spécialisée dans le lettrage pour les devantures de magasins Š Bruxelles, elle a façonné un style unique...
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@otakus_terebi@mastodon.social2025-02-13 09:46:43
