Dmitry Brant

Lead engineer (Android) @Wikimedia, also the #DiskDigger guy. Opinions my own. I block algorithmically. Please close your browser window now.

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One of the things I'm loving about getting older is how little I care what you think.

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@SarahTheHaider I still think it's just attention-seeking taken ad absurdum. All that's needed to make her go away is just to resist the urge to share everything she says.

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@Kasparov63 I continue to be baffled by how exactly Lex is able to get these kinds of guests. He's got the personality of a bag of gravel, and his questions may as well be generated by a chatbot.

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Finished restoring a vintage Macintosh PowerBook 100, and now test-running some classic games. @princeofpersia @jmechner

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Now I'm playing with some ultra-cheap ESP32 dev boards. This one, the size of a postage stamp, and under $2, can do WiFi, bluetooth, I2C, SPI, all with MicroPython.

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Tape backups from a 1980s supercomputer 🤯 They're all still readable.

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Another beautifully restored Compaq LTE Lite 4/25, from circa 1992. #retrogaming

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What an interesting timeline.

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Great and productive time in Estonia 🇪🇪

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@HistoryBoomer 31/36 -- I might not be autistic after all

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@Sara_Imari It made me genuinely emotional - what a way to open up, how inspiring, and how true.

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@SarahTheHaider Yeah, charging for no-shows is something they should do, but don't, probably for fear of negative reviews.
My only other idea is an app that shows real-time wait times before you arrive; but that could be a double-edged sword and cause people to arrive even later.

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@SarahTheHaider My wife is a physician, and at her office, double-booking is very much the norm, because of how often people simply fail to show up without notice. So, on a rare day when everyone who's scheduled actually shows up, that's when wait-times start to add up.

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@SarahTheHaider Many of my friends are perplexed that I'm a Russian person who doesn't like chess. I guess the idea is that it's supposed to train you to "think x moves ahead", and somehow that will translate to other areas of life... but surely there are less boring ways of doing that.

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@emmma_camp_ But why does it have a basin for catching urine?

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Busting out my trusty #Kryoflux to read some tricky 800KB floppies from an old Macintosh

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@depthsofwiki Is this the mobile app, or mobile site in your browser? What model of mobile device is this? Which articles are the screenshots from?

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@JenaFriedman Based on the other comments here, you can raise *unlimited* money using Crypto! I really think this platform is truly past any kind of usefulness, and should be Old Yellered.

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@Hebro_Steele She is a bottom-tier "intellectual" whose only MO seems to be self-promotion. Everyone engaging with her nonsense is exactly what she wants. We just have to stop engaging.

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Taking the famed shuttle. (cc @Wikipedia)

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@StopAntisemites A fine message for aspiring terrorist groups: brand yourself as a liberation movement, and win the support of braindead American college kids who were taught only those keywords.