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Embedded Journalist and Insecurity Researcher

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Google employee about to learn about Goodhearts law:

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

How many technologies are stuck in a local optima?

Big loudspeakers basically peaked in the 1970s.

Obviously we’ve gotten somewhat better, but it’s a lot closer to: “a couple % more accurate” than “the average person immediately notices the +50-year technological progress”

Miniaturization has improved a lot, so has digital signal processing, amplification. But take a high end setup from 50 years ago, sit in the sweet spot at the same volume…it won’t feel radically different.

I’m trying to think of other fields where the underlying principles were so mature that half a century of progress in materials/software/electronics is underwhelming.

Camera Lenses seem like a good candidate. Non-electronic instruments is another; it’s not like cellos have gotten that much better in the last ~300 years.

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@yacineMTB Bro you gotta show them the entire thing.

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@jeffdech @yacineMTB @seveibar This algorithm isn't "for many boards". There's like five people on the planet that would find this useful.

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@yacineMTB @seveibar Masterful bait, sir.

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@blind_via Great tip, now I can route my board!

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@BEBischof My real account is @ViolenceWorks

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@marcjoffe There's a burnt-out husk of a building sitting on top of an unused subway tunnel in north beach.

Figure it out.

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@supersat Huh.

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@fishPointer Engineers aren't going to go on strike because they're politically illiterate

[Troy Osinoff 🕺 @yo]

So everyone in SF is down to be polyamorous but can’t handle sharing an employee?

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I'm compiling 60 kloc of C on a Power Macintosh G3. Though to be fair, I'm not using a spinning rust hard drive, I'm using a Compact Flash card I pulled out of an old digital camera.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

In my initial run, which processed the first 60,000 rows, I did not find these awards—my hard drive overheated long before I could complete a full pass through the database. In a later run, which I referenced in another post, I did identify two such awards. That discrepancy is a matter of sampling size, not an issue with the query itself.

I’ll now attempt a full run, which should capture the awards you found.

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@techknight2 @travisgoodspeed What keycaps are you using? Awesome work.

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It wasn't him. The guy was too spry. It sure as hell looked like him though.

And that's why I'm not in jail right now. An old guy looked too spry

[Kat Scott 🐀 @kscottz]

We were rushing through DCA today and I think we saw Mitch McConnell.

By the time it registered and my partner and I shot each other a side eye he was too far gone to fire off a good, "Hey Mitch, fuck you!"

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@JeremySCook Its about time

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A screencap from a political ad:

[TrumpsTaxes (@trumpstaxes.com on bsky) @TrumpsTaxes]

Omg they did a male version of the ‘secret vote’ ad and it’s even better than the female version.

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@keysmashbandit @voooooogel 256^2048 is _huge_, but nearly all can be thrown out right away with one line of code. Pre-process with the least strict linter ever. Then it's almost possible

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@keysmashbandit @voooooogel Yeah it's computationally expensive enough to require a hydroelectric dam, but at least you don't get a game that changes.. *checks notes* ... when you look at clouds.