Andrew "2022's complement" Denyes

BBQ, doughnuts, the demoscene, machine perception, digital media/arts, and cats. I made lots of public mistakes on the early social internet.

[Andrew "2022's complement" Denyes @andr00]

Today's software engineering word is "farpotshket." This is a Yiddish word meaning, "broken, because someone tried to fix it."

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@zannah Yes! I put it in my twitter profile URL like what this thing is supposed to find, but only two people I follow did that. I’m @[email protected]

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I made a thing to scan friends for mastodon URLS. This was less useful than I expected.

https://t.co/Bafzepdkj3
But I was thinking it would work better if it also looked at tweets.

[Andrew "2022's complement" Denyes @andr00]

Today is as good a day as any to see if your friends are on Mastodon, which is like twitter but you can hide your friends list. @[email protected]

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@rygorous Nah, that can't be a homestuck reference

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Fridays:
"Anyone got any big plans for the weekend?"
...
"I'm going to go through my socks and get rid of any that don't make sense."

[Andrew "2022's complement" Denyes @andr00]

I accidentally tried to login to dorpbox dot com and I guess i probably belong there

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@jerrykuch geez everyone’s wardrobe has gotten extremely casual during the pandemic okay

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Looks weird, devoid of context. If this is literally someone's employment history, then it's a data point.

Realistic? It depends on what you were doing before the timeline, what the company's like, and what you are spending your time doing. This is about titles not aptitudes.

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Brisket cleanse

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@tom_forsyth @pervognsen @nothings This is the way. But now I know some gross other ways!

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Put that in the list of low value hills I will die on, right after "begging the question," which I inherited from dad.

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Who is this "Hanning" person and why does their function look just like a von Hann window?

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I wonder what the PayPal guy is up to these days

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In retrospect, this was harmful. The BBS was run by some guy just like me, but more organized and with intention to provide value to his community.

The credit system was intended to regulate access to the limited resources of the BBS.

So yeah, I shoulda been banned but wasn't.

[Andrew "2022's complement" Denyes @andr00]

A MajorBBS I was on in the 90s gave forum managers the ability to charge other users "credits" for use of their forum. The credits don't go into the forum owner's account, though.

So of course I made my forum charge people negative credits.

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Ohhh. That was Carrie-Anne Moss. Good casting.

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I presume the Rosenbrock Banana Function got its name this way.

Oh, we also played "the word game" in late shift ISP tech support. Ed got "penguin" at some point, and so he advised his next caller that "we'll make your connection as smooth as a penguin going down an ice-slide."

[depths of wikipedia! @depthsofwiki]

please stop what you’re doing and read about how physicist John Ellis coined the term “penguin diagram”

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"CP is kind of an overloaded acronym to change it to. What did it used to be called?"

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@capnrojos That is crazyyyyyy!!! Oh gosh. Well thank goodness you’re all in one piece, and here’s hoping you get dug out soon!

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Look, slightly younger adults. The reason my generation has battery anxiety is because our first charged devices took 24 hours to charge and 2 hours to empty. They were made of nickel, cadmium, and ass. If you didn't have two battery packs, you had none.