@quicksquiz Looking them up... (https://t.co/ls5IdURI1X) These are apparently very high precision, and quite expensive ๐ณ. That fits right along with what my dad would've bought.
@Ihnatko@quicksquiz@donttrythis@testedcom I remembered hearing you talk about them when I found a set (in a hardback latching case?!) among my dad's stuff. I have no use for them, and thought about giving them to my sister (the mechanical engineer), but they're so cool!
@RobotTaylor I thought I was going to be a filmmaker in HS. Couple of years of filmmaking courses in college, I accidentally became a software engineer. Finally got my degree when I turned 40.
@scalzi Have you ever seen @belatedmedia 's take on The Prequels? They're really excellent. They're my personal-accepted prequel canon. (https://t.co/AnBPrgSG01)
A running theme of the US Senators opening statements at the Zuck hearings is that clicking OK on terms of service pages is not sufficient. Can we get a bill for that?
Chatting with a Frontier Rep about why my internet service cost went up, and his response was that the cost of the internet service went up. So basically, it's more expensive because the price is higher?
@Spacekatgal We do vote-by-mail here in Oregon. It enables citizens to inform themselves, gives them time to choose, and freedom from long lines, harassment, and other means of preventing people from voting.
@bessbell@NewYorker These were delightful to read. Genuinely made me laugh out loud, which I really needed. Thank you. FWIW, "I told you to give the mayor a pizza" is my vote for a book title.
I was looking at Eeros today on their website, and used the Chat bot. The bot responded with my name, and couldn't figure out how it knew who I was. Then, a person responded later via Facebook chat. I'm still a little hazy on access to my info without explicit permission...
@countingcook Thank you! I found the MKV to be useful because you could just add the audio to the container. As a heads up, I've since run into audio sync issues. It starts out in sync, but slowly gets out of sync. I believe it's caused by a framerate/audio thing. Still investigating.
@goldbuick@wilw Can you qualify that? Virtually every company complies (and should) with legal warrants, and are obligated to respond to FISA/NSL requests for data. Or are you saying Cloudflare hands over all it's data?
@verso Presumably yes, but it also renders the whole of the census useless. The census depends on survey participants answering honestly. If we can't reliably measure of the questions, it throws the rest of the survey into question (no pun intended)