Mark Eichin

Onward robots!
(also @[email protected] mostly to follow and reply, at this time)

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@DJSnM Basically Freejack (1992) but for planes :)

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@DrChrisCombs Aww, man, you mean we're *not* putting mechazilla arms on 180 Greenwich Street?

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@cybergibbons Haven't seen one in the real world, it was a significant-and-tedious metaphor in some college literature class (maybe something by kafka?) I had to dig a bit at the time to learn that they weren't merely fictional, and that they were in fact still killing people...

[Mark Eichin @eichin]

@nuclearlighter since there are fewer color ones, they're probably wrong, so you need to bleach them :-)

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@freebsdfrau (I recognized it because I have a Neuton - and was just collecting the old dead gelcels for recycling. You're right, the new 40V systems are over the top - not quite to snowblower levels yet, but impressive.)

[Mark Eichin @eichin]

@shava23 I haven't seen anyone order it, but Ocho Café in Westford (basically inside 495 halfway from 2 to 3) has "top shelf guacamole - made fresh at your table" as literally the first item on their appetizer menu https://t.co/E7pO0g5DZk

[Mark Eichin @eichin]

@AndreiUreche5 @jennmueng @levelsio Workbar did, though https://t.co/YkKLPilxYR looks like they've scaled it back to just a Café (workbar might be the closest non-failed example of this sort - from one to a dozen sites in just under a decade. Probably helped to have Facebook as a customer in the 1st year :-)

[Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬 @Jente_O]

Fun #ornithology fact for the weekend. Chickadees increase the number "dee" syllables in their calls as the potential threat of a predator increases. Small predators are considered more dangerous than big ones.

Source: https://t.co/aElayt5fJS

[Mark Eichin @eichin]

@ColinTheMathmo ramming speed!

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@MIT_CSAIL @NewYorker @plsteiner @BoingBoing later in the 1990s, often circulated with the added tagline "But everyone knows what your cat looks like"

[MIT CSAIL @MIT_CSAIL]

Oh, how times have changed.

#otd in 1993 @NewYorker published what’s now its most reproduced cartoon: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” https://t.co/QRgoWx6vIY (@plsteiner & @boingboing)

[Henri Nurmi @HenriNurmi]

It may have taken a few years, but @GSGLabs #Cynthion is finally here.

[Mark Eichin @eichin]

@Mugski @DJSnM I've heard there was a deleted scene covering exactly that - not just interfacing, but that the entire computer industry was boosted by reverse-engineered alien tech...

[Mark Eichin @eichin]

@lzsthw ... mkfifo makes named pipes, which *aren't* unix domain sockets, which is why you can just open() them, instead of needing connect()... What *might* work is (while true; ffmpeg -i - ...) < /tmp/ffout.unix so a crashing ffmpeg doesn't ever close the fifo, so the writer stays up?

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

Beware of the book festivals!
(My latest @GuardianBooks cartoon)

[Mark Eichin @eichin]

@tomgauld I appreciate the refinement of the final result - but I *adore* the sketchbook page, and the amount of implied worldbuilding. (And yet it is still focused: this is "fury road bookmobiles" and at the same time it is *not* "mortal engines but only libraries" :-)

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@RueNahcMohr Love the "grin". Needs googly eyes :)

[They Might Be Giants @tmbg]

Stop what you are doing and dig the entire video to Birdhouse in Your Soul

https://t.co/gtLfFWJuF5

[James Tuttle Keane @jtuttlekeane]

Oh. My. God.

LEGO Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle coming this summer. https://t.co/9OWZRuTZ6B