Emma

electric and queer | ze/zir/zirs/whatever | does things in a browser that you probably shouldn't do in a browser, particularly graphics programming

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New laptop update: Her name is Harrowhark and I love her. I would usually give it at least a week before deciding that my computer is a disaster gay and labelling it accordingly but after so many years of cursed computer problems, I have finally accepted my fate.

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@charliejane My ebook library has different tags for each scale of space civilization, because this! this exactly. You never know when you'll be struck with the desperate need to find a book where the primary mode of transit is sub-lightspeed space kayak.

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@sableRaph @PrettierCode, and the glTF format.

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Next time someone asks me if I'm Jewish this is going to be my response

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It's a testament to my love for my father that I have given him my Raspberry Pi 4 even though I really want it

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Me: I have way too many computers
Me: two work laptops, a personal laptop, a tablet, and a Raspberry Pi is more than enough, anything more than that would be excessive
Also me: /buys new laptop

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all of my existing computers are less than 3 years old.

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@MitchPommers It's in Perth! But it was too slow for my purposes. Do you want it?

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@sophaskins Also seeing my lil Pi blink away under my desk brings my joy

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@sophaskins I ran similar numbers for myself and reached the same conclusions! As much as I like using cloud platforms, I think there's a lot to be said about decentralizing the web just a little where we can rather than depending on them 100%.

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@hogesonline !!! I have always wanted to do this. Do you have any specific ideas that you want to try out? I would love to see your experiments

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I am going to attempt to cure my nails with a 4W UV flourescent tube torch labelled "RAVE". I reckon there's about a 30% chance of it working, but the ridiculous torch was calling to my soul.

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(Quote from https://t.co/Jj1CQcwq4I)

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JavaScript: "In most cases, the value of ‘this’ is determined by how a function is called (runtime binding)."
@miscoined: this is extremely dark magic
Me: yes. don’t question it, let the darkness consume you

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@busbub Which gig?

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Future essay idea: examining the parallels between mythology, Commedia dell'arte, and fanfiction. People get attached to character concepts, and they like telling and listening to stories about these familiar personas and reinterpreting them in different contexts

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@mycoliza careful or you'll summon the 80s/90s tech bros for daring to suggest that C is not systems programming God (Cod?)

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(guess the book, go)

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I am meticulously tagging my ebook library so that I can see relationships between books and quickly find suggestions for friends. And when I say meticulously, here are some of the tags:
[subgenre] magic school, [label] death magic, [mood] cursed, [label] useless lesbians

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@estrianol @conureCC I don't make the rules